Campaign shmampagne, what about COP11?!?!
So it looks like come Tuesday we're going into a campaign thanks to Steve-o, Jackie, and D-dawg. Needless to say, I'm not all that excited, but my reasoning goes deeper than the fact I prefer to spend my holidays being stoned and watching "It's A Wonderful Life," rather than door-knocking. In truth, I'm mostly disappointed that we're going into an election right now because it will take away attention from the most important global conference of the year that will be hosted by Canada at the end of this month and into December: COP 11.
Below is a recent feature I wrote for the McGill Daily talking about the politics and history of the organization. It's over 3500 words, so I've just posted the intro and the link to the rest. Enjoy =)
Good COP / Bad COP
Thousands of delegates, hundreds of countries, 14 days, two viewpoints, and one Earth. Denise Brunsdon delves past the complexity of UN bureaucracy to unmask the underlying political dynamics of the globe’s most prominent environmental conference, and explores whether this environmental body is the most powerful or simply the most disappointing.
By Denise Brunsdon
The McGill Daily
I’ve always thought environmentalism was sexy. Maybe too sexy. After all, I was the only kid in my high school with a crush on Environment Minister David Anderson. Sure he was a little old – I was in grade nine, he was pushing 65 – but I just couldn’t help myself. I could listen to him talk for hours about the Endangered Species Act, oil tanker regulation, or the Kyoto Protocol.
I remember thinking that Kyoto was one of the United Nation’s greatest accomplishments. To me, it symbolized universal recognition of the hazards of climate change and a conscious commitment to curbing it.
But as with all childhood obsessions, the shine of the Kyoto Protocol faded and its weaknesses emerged. Canada might not only fall short of its targets, I realized, but those targets weren’t even close to adequate given the deterioration of the world’s ecosystem.
So it’s with great hopefulness, but wary expectations, that I – and the rest of the world – look to the UN’s 11th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP), hosted by Montreal at the end of this month. For everyone who watched Kyoto change from a potential panacea to a futile political prop, this convention marks the last chance I give the world’s governments before I give up on them.
It’s now or never.
Continued at http://www.mcgilldaily.com/
view.php?aid=4544.
Background side-bars and "Fueling the Future" book review at http://www.mcgilldaily.com/
view.php?aid=4563
Below is a recent feature I wrote for the McGill Daily talking about the politics and history of the organization. It's over 3500 words, so I've just posted the intro and the link to the rest. Enjoy =)
Good COP / Bad COP
Thousands of delegates, hundreds of countries, 14 days, two viewpoints, and one Earth. Denise Brunsdon delves past the complexity of UN bureaucracy to unmask the underlying political dynamics of the globe’s most prominent environmental conference, and explores whether this environmental body is the most powerful or simply the most disappointing.
By Denise Brunsdon
The McGill Daily
I’ve always thought environmentalism was sexy. Maybe too sexy. After all, I was the only kid in my high school with a crush on Environment Minister David Anderson. Sure he was a little old – I was in grade nine, he was pushing 65 – but I just couldn’t help myself. I could listen to him talk for hours about the Endangered Species Act, oil tanker regulation, or the Kyoto Protocol.
I remember thinking that Kyoto was one of the United Nation’s greatest accomplishments. To me, it symbolized universal recognition of the hazards of climate change and a conscious commitment to curbing it.
But as with all childhood obsessions, the shine of the Kyoto Protocol faded and its weaknesses emerged. Canada might not only fall short of its targets, I realized, but those targets weren’t even close to adequate given the deterioration of the world’s ecosystem.
So it’s with great hopefulness, but wary expectations, that I – and the rest of the world – look to the UN’s 11th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP), hosted by Montreal at the end of this month. For everyone who watched Kyoto change from a potential panacea to a futile political prop, this convention marks the last chance I give the world’s governments before I give up on them.
It’s now or never.
Continued at http://www.mcgilldaily.com/
view.php?aid=4544.
Background side-bars and "Fueling the Future" book review at http://www.mcgilldaily.com/
view.php?aid=4563
par / by Anonymous à / at 7:44 p.m.
3 Commentaires:
Je suis d'avis que la nature n'est pas uniquement un épiphénomène dont les données assailleraient le regard en unités immédiates. La nature sous-entend, subrepticement et inéluctablement, une représentation ordonnatrice qui se situe aux antipodes de la forme paradoxale de l'indéfini.
De façon impérieuse et lancinante, je soutiens que la nature comporte une épaisseur nécessairement sous-jacente qui marque une irréductible antériorité, dont les filigranes, quoique impercebtibles d'un abord initial, préexistent, même s'ils requiert une attention spécifiquement catégorielle qui se défie des juxtapositions locutrices.
J'émets toutefois quelques réserves lacunaires à un constat aussi auto-implicatoire. La nature présuppose une problématique épistémologique aggravante. De là, il nous faut déterminer un processus d'analyse stratificationnelle qui élude la distinction née d'une rationalité par trop intempestive. Faisons donc fi de la trivialité intrinsèque à un tel processus, et bradissons l'étendart d'une spatio-temporalité qui rejaillisse sur la scène discursive, de sorte que la nature soit hissée au rang d'un prolégomène qui séduit la pensée ontologique, celle-ci étant loin d'être vétilleuse ou énonciative.
Bravo pour vos beaux textes en page principale de votre site. Vous démontrez vraiment quelle importance vous accordez à la langue française.
Je vais vous donner un petit truc :
' : Ceci est une apostrophe
Bonne chance les "colons anglicisés".
Le propos de Monsieur ou Madame anoynymous me semble faire preuve d'une composante marquée par une exogénéité transactionnelle qui délimite les contours d'un subjectivisme atrophiant.
Devant quoi, je pose la question: faudrait-il souscrire à des corrélations empreintes d'une simultanéité aussi foudroyante? En guise de réponse à cette épineuse interrogation, je penche, non sans quelque vacillement, pour une herméneutique transformative qui, à travers des paramètres proto-linguistiques apurés, pourront, de manière éventuelle quoique hasardeuse, défier l'usage impromptu et inopiné d'une hyper-accumulation d'éléments figuratifs.
Monsieur ou Madame Anonymous, dans son propos, procède à l'exposition d'une perceptibilité multidimensionnelle qui éblouit le lecteur avide de véracité. Sa démarche peut comporter une forme subtile d'homologie avec une détermination non-linéaire qui bouscule les insistances didactiques qui furent imposées lors d'époques qui, bien que révolues, appellaient à une praxéologie transformatoire des sujets inaccoutumés à une discontinuité et à une interconnexité qui éblouissent la connaissance axiologique.
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