On April 17 2007, the United Kingdom Government managed to get climate change onto the agenda of the United Nations Security Council. I haven’t bothered to check, but this probably didn’t particularly please the George W. Bush administration. Bush by then, thought was a lame duck, and had been really, ever since the utterly ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina had crashed his credibility.
Stepping back, it’s hilarious (if you are mordant enough) that the global body designated as being about concerned about security, should not talk about climate change until 2007, 20 years after the issue broke through into the world stage. But then, really the United Nations Security Council is nothing more than a Polaroid of the world in 1945 And would need a serious overhaul, but that’s not gonna happen.
Why this matters.
The question of climate change, forever in the too-hard basket, is routinely kept away from the agenda, if it possibly can be. The (shit)show must go on, eh? Anyone who has any faith in our Lords and Masters has either not been paying any attention, is as thick as mince, or is doing some motivated reasoning. These are not mutually exclusive categories…
What happened next?
Nothing, except more carbon dioxide.