Thu, Dec 13, 2007
What A Load Of Hot Air!
Climate change needs to be curbed...
but not, apparently, at the risk of personal inconvenience. That
mixed message came this week not from a self-proclaimed activist
rock star, Hollywood actor or even former Vice-President Al Gore...
but from Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations.
Here's what happened. Ki-moon gave a fiery speech Wednesday
before the Climate Change Conference now underway in Bali,
Indonesia, calling on world leaders to act immediately on climate
change -- the gradual warming of the Earth, that many scientists
and environmental activists believe is caused by carbon
emissions.
Critics say the South Korean's message would carry added
impetus, were it not for the fact Ki-moon is scheduled to leave
Sunday on a jet-setting excursion to East Timor, Japan, and then
New York to attend a concert, dubbed "Around The World In Eighty
Minutes," where he will be the guest of honor.
The Daily Mail reports the flight from Tokyo to New York adds
4,300 extra miles to his trip -- "the wrong way," the paper adds,
flying east-to-west -- and will generate tonnes of extra carbon
emissions.
Which makes Ki-moon's call for the UN to mandate carbon offset
programs all the more hypocritical -- or, timely. After all, his
flight provides the perfect opportunity for Ki-moon to practice
what he's preaching, by contributing to an environmentally-friendly
project to offset his trip's perceived negative impact.
So far, no word on if that's actually happened.
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