Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:10:43 PM
With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.
That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting certain developments, changing farming practices and ultimately moving people, plants and animals out of harm's way.
Adapting to rising seas and higher temperatures is expected to be a big topic at the U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen next week, along with the projected cost — hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it going to countries that cannot afford it.
Adapt or die? And by giving money to poor countries that is going to do what exactly besides make some countries crooked leader wealthy? I have a better idea. Let's take those billions of dollars and invest in snow making machines. Okay, maybe not. But seriously, it would probably end up being a better investment than giving it to a bunch of countries that will certainly not use it for its intended purpose. And besides, how much of that money would get to those countries anyway? Certainly a large percentage of that money would line several pockets in the U.N. We have seen it before in the Oil For Food Scandal. The last thing I would do is give large sums of money to the U.N. to distribute. That would be akin to giving your teenage son $50,000 in cash but he is not to spend it. It's not going to happen.
As I have mentioned before, this is nothing but a transfer of wealth, plain and simple.