tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396571161962287942.post8235281502589219580..comments2024-03-22T08:37:16.132-07:00Comments on Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life: Second straw poll for the New UN Secretary GeneralFelix Doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674368107771895857noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396571161962287942.post-71343798477296223862016-08-06T18:42:44.360-07:002016-08-06T18:42:44.360-07:00Some years ago, Mr Guterres showed interest in a s...Some years ago, Mr Guterres showed interest in a scheme linking climate action with poverty elimination, but then suddenly dropped the idea. I was disappointed because unless there is a UN Climate Action Program to restore reflectivity and shading, and properly pay the poorest people to do most of the work, there is no chance of preventing further temperature rises because loss of reflectivity already accounts for about half warming and, unless mitigated separately, will account for a lot more of it. Also, there is little chance of immediately eliminating poverty because, with exception of that idea, there is insufficient incentive to organize and pay for it.<br /><br />Following on, and last year, the idea of transforming long term refugee camps into eco enclaves and using the human waste to regenerate the soil in their hinterlands and then plant trees and shrubs, was also ignored.<br /><br />The idea of paying for would be refugees to stay in protected eco enclaves in their own countries or in adjacent countries was also ignored. <br /><br />It is as if the people in charge of the UN departments are not capable of creating strategies, and are incapable of recognising them when they arise for consideration.<br /><br />Ms Figueres has not solved the climate problem during her tenure at the UNFCCC most probably because she was advised by establishment scientists who cannot grasp secondary causality, and also because the UN has never run a jumble sale.<br /><br />People who run jumble sales know it is essential to advertise the sale in as simple language as possible, and as wide an area as possible, because that way more people join in.<br /><br />Extraordinarily, the UN does not use the media outlets of banks and post offices worldwide for advertisement, and calls its departments and projects by letters, most people do not understand. REDD is another example. <br /><br />Equally alarming is the fact that non-affiliated inventors are barred from submitting inventions to the UNFCCC technology arm - UNEPCTCN. <br /><br />So much for preventing glacial lake outbursts and coral reef bleaching or for establishing next generation electricity transmission pylons functioning as climate action hubs.<br /><br />So we hope that the next secretary general is a scientific humanist rather than a lawyer politician, and one who has not already been shown to be lacking in public office.We need someone who is capable of encouraging everyone to contribute to what will be the greatest internationally cooperative event ever, preventing further climate change extremes. Further details of the proposed UN program from rosjonesenvedu@hotmail.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13460311016161291408noreply@blogger.com