Waterloo of the Environmental Battle

In a classic wicked display of apathy towards the Mother Earth, the advanced countries have demonstrated little or no interest to clean up the fast deteriorating global climate. They choose to subvert ad infinitum the efforts for any affirmative action towards the climate change. All protests and the efforts by the less fortunate nations to drive sense into the heads of the advanced nations fall on their deaf ears, apprehending the astronomical cost and the sacrifices involved in meeting the binding targets and the pledges made ad nauseum to fight the environmental degradation. To put it bluntly, the rich nations are not seriously prepared to make any cuts in their per-capita consumption of obnoxious gas-emitting modern gadgets as this would mean sacrificing the cosy life styles. At the same time, they find it unpalatable to meet the deadlines and emission reduction targets. The word compensation packages sounds old-fashioned and avoidable to them. They know fully well that the non-rich countries make a lot of din and are a divided house as island nations, developing countries, un- developed countries etc. The non-rich countries miserably fail to extract any promises from the rich countries, which are the biggest polluters, and allow them to derail the Kyoto Protocol unabashedly. The distinction between the liability of the worst polluters and the right of the least developed to development has been blurring since Kyoto Protocol thanks to the successful diplomatic back-door machinations and manipulations by the Worst Polluting Nations. They have always dangled the carrots before the non-rich nations and bought them out on piece-meal basis. If the outcome of the Summit is not encouraging to meet the daunting task of protecting the fast deteriorating global climate, the Copenhagen Climate Summit will mercilessly be recorded by the history as the Waterloo of the Environmental Battle.