The run up to Copenhagen
November 10, 2009
The Green Thing have produced an amusing little film that expresses a key sentiment that I think bears repeating.
There is a lot riding on Copenhagen and it is very possible that nothing significant happens there because people are looking for elegant solutions and frankly speaking most things that work do not start out elegant.
You see most complex things that are built that work are at first made out of lots of different little things that worked already that have been cobbled together and this is often messy and inelegant and difficult to understand and not necessarily good for a satisfactory political sound bite.
Yet if it works at all then its much better than doing nothing so lets not sacrifice our whole planet for the sake of the missing political sound bites and make everyone who attends the summit do whatever it takes to cobble something together that works.
Lets also single out for special attention all the countries and people who do not attend and who should attended. Because the only reason they probably have for not to putting everything into Copenhagen is they they feel they will look better if they are not there so lets make them feel that being there is much better than not being there.
Contact the people in your world who should be there and let them know how you'll feel if they are a no show!
There is a lot riding on Copenhagen and it is very possible that nothing significant happens there because people are looking for elegant solutions and frankly speaking most things that work do not start out elegant.
You see most complex things that are built that work are at first made out of lots of different little things that worked already that have been cobbled together and this is often messy and inelegant and difficult to understand and not necessarily good for a satisfactory political sound bite.
Yet if it works at all then its much better than doing nothing so lets not sacrifice our whole planet for the sake of the missing political sound bites and make everyone who attends the summit do whatever it takes to cobble something together that works.
Lets also single out for special attention all the countries and people who do not attend and who should attended. Because the only reason they probably have for not to putting everything into Copenhagen is they they feel they will look better if they are not there so lets make them feel that being there is much better than not being there.
Contact the people in your world who should be there and let them know how you'll feel if they are a no show!
Posted by Bill Liao
