Copenhagen. A blogger despairs.

By Charlie • December 18, 2009 • 10 comments

Hopenhagen? How about NoHopenhagen? NoHopenhagen fades? Hopelesshagen? ‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter NoHopenhagen.’ ‘NoHopenhagen, withering, fled - and Mercy sighed farewell’. ‘Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up. Unless you’re at Hopelesshagen…’. ‘He that lives upon NoHopenhagen will die fasting’. ‘To travel hopefully to Copenhagen is a better thing than to arrive (so it turns out)’ . ‘And Copenhagen enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair, turned around and stuck two fingers up to the rest of the world’ etc etc etc…Ladies and gentlemen of COP15, you’re disgraceful.

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Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

10 Responses to “Copenhagen. A blogger despairs.”

Nate Dec 18th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

I don’t know what’s more frustrating, that modern political leaders think that fancy rhetoric, photo ops and the ultimate appeal to the status quo are enough to accomplish anything at all, or that we expected anything different from them this time.
jason Dec 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

What Nate said…
Corey Dec 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Hey, on the plus side, all of us in low-lying coastal areas will eventually have good reason to know this song by heart.
Moe Dec 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am

And….why were people optimistic this time around? You have a bunch of people (including our President) who have no history of actually doing anything major on the environment. They give us some vague platitudes in some speeches, and all of a sudden everyone thinks we’re going to solve all the problems at Copenhagen?

Pfft. As a usually optimistic / glass half-full kinda guy, even I knew nothing would get done. Thus, I can hardly say I am disappointed. It’s what I expected.
Moe Dec 19th, 2009 at 11:05 am

I mean, at what point will we stop getting all pumped up by “speeches” from inexperienced people with no history of doing what they say they will do?
NicoleB Egypt Dec 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

Did anyone really have any hope that they would come up with something great?
Come on guys…..
Charlie Dec 20th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

At some point you have to hope that delegates to these things will realise that they live on the same damn planet as the rest of us and are in just as much danger, so yes, I think I thought something might be achieved. To find that after all that money spent, miles travelled, and talking - er, talked, we ended up with absolutely nothing is VERY annoying indeed…
NicoleB Egypt Dec 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

I honestly didn’t even follow the whole thing. But hearing the news act like the US will change something IN the whole party out there, only because the have Jesus, uh, Obama for President now… I mean come on, the US is still one of the top polluters, no?

Then the windmill fight about “is it Global warming” or is it “Climate change”… does anyone still talk about that big ol’ hole in the sky that gets bigger by the day? Guess THAT has happened a million years ago too and it’s not our fault,…

Sorry for ranting, but we are currently running against walls over here in the Siani.
They dump truck loads of trash into the desert and big holes / dumps right at the coastline every day and freakin’ nobody cares.

Probably why I didn’t have any hope that higher up they would make any great decisions…
Nate Dec 20th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

I, for one, had hope that at least we could get the acknowledgment that we’re up against some serious stuff and that we needed to think differently about this problem. But even that incredibly low bar was apparently too high.

I hate to end up cynical about this stuff, but I’m often left with no choice.
guild-rez Dec 21st, 2009 at 3:54 pm

Copenhagen??
There was no hope for any agreements from the start.
But we can do is keep our environment and coastal areas clean.
You can help too…
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is a year-round program designed to keep our ocean and waterways free from trash and safer for people and wildlife. Our flagship event held on the third Saturday of every September is the largest single-day volunteer effort of its kind. The number of participating countries jumped by more than 30 percent in 2008 over 2007 - to 104 countries and locations - a powerful demonstration that concern about the marine debris problem is surging around the globe.
I wish you a Merry Christmas,
Gisela
I love to visit your blog and admire your beautiful pictures!!
- Cheers from Canada.