There has been no time in recent history when co-ordinated agreement from the great powers was more urgent.
The triple crises of energy, economy and climate change are no longer theoretical risks but clear and present dangers that have to be addressed.
The G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, last week showed that these problems could no longer be ignored.
Even the fact that the G8 produced a clear statement saying that human activity is provoking dangerous climate change is a massive step forward. This is a long way from the Bush era of denial and obstructionism.
Of the 40 pages of official statements, the bulk of them were around climate change.
This compares favourably with previous conferences where the issue was kept off the agenda entirely.
However, while we should recognise this advance, it is vital to distinguish between fine press releases and genuine commitments to addressing the problem.
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March 13, 2010It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive hope that a better world is, and should be, possible.
It is a known fact that the homo sapiens has existed for about 200 thousand years, which is no more than a tiny span of the time passed since the emergence of the first basic forms of life on our planet approximately three billion years ago.
The answers to the unfathomable mysteries of life and nature have fundamentally been religious. It would be senseless to pretend otherwise and I am convinced that it will forever be this way. The deeper science delves into the explanation of universe, space, time, matter and energy; the infinite galaxies and the theories of the origin of the constellations and the stars; the atoms and the fractions of them that made possible life and its briefness; the more questions man will have in search of ever more complex and difficult rationalizations.
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