reality declared null and void in copenhagen

in rock-solid post-modernist fashion the politicians, bureaucrats, and policy wonks at the climate change conference have slipped into denial and habitual cant as they "take note" of an agreement by the big five polluters that might set some sort of framework for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions sometime soon maybe if we all just get off their backs and let them figure out how to pass the costs on to the rest of us...the default setting is extiction and that is where the late empire nihilists seem to want to go...a stalinist response would be appropriate , if unethical, as patience with the greed heads wears thin....but who wants to sink to their level? we are obviously on our own as we try to figure this out...the system is so wrapped up in the need to generate wealth that it cannot escape the parameters of its thought long enough to see the danger or even recognize that the situation is beyond a mere problem with a soultuion waiting for ingenuity to find it....the choices will be hard and they will change the way we view things....elites will no longer be elites, and that is the problem....substantive action on the dilemmas facing us will alter societies structure fundamentally...the things that brought the elite wealth and power will be recognized as one of the major sources of our ills and they will lose ststus...expect them to stall, equivocate, lie, cheat, steal...whatever it takes to defend their prerogatives... i am disinclined to cut them any slack...meanwhile we will hear empty promises and bullshit plattitudes about the "next" conference....the time for talking is passed...if they're going to procrastinate rather than lead then it's time we led ourselves...politics and conferences will do nothing...it is time for us to act as individuals in our own best interests...go out and talk to your neighbors...it's time to save ourselves.