Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Brexit is distracting appointed EU officials from dictating climate policy to democratically elected nation state governments.
Brexit Is Delaying Global Action To Fight Climate Change
Dave Keating
Oct 20, 2019, 08:24amIn June, European prime ministers meeting in Brussels were unable to agree on an EU proposal to completely decarbonize by 2050.
Poland, with the backing of a few other Eastern European countries, said they could not support a plan they believe will inhibit their economic growth.
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Getting Poland on board will take time. But campaigners say it’s essential for this to be done before the next annual summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is meeting in Santiago, Chile in early December.
Thanks to Brexit, there is no chance of that happening.
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“Everything is being overshadowed by Brexit,” noted one diplomat from an Eastern European country. That is the reason the climate discussion is being delayed until the next EU summit in December, he said.
“It feels like we can’t make any progress on climate change until Brexit is resolved one way or the other – it’s an infuriating distraction,” grumbled another EU official.
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Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/10/20/brexit-is-delaying-action-to-fight-climate-change/#4c31726a9153
The British Brexit parliamentary deadlock shows no sign of resolution, unless the EU finally tires of the game, rejects the British PM’s hilarious faux extension request, and ejects Britain as planned on October 31st.
Despite the delicious spectacle of global climate action held up by Brexit chaos, I hope for their sake Britain leaves on October 31st.
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Get a clue, Brussels has a target on your back. But I guess you knew that with the country-wide referendum that continues to be resisted
“UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)”
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Definitely correction needed there;
UNFCCC) = UN Fascistic Congress on Climate Change. (Fascistic, Fascist open to choice)
There corrected.
cheers
How does that work, exactly?
European Union government isn’t big enough?
Or does it mean that workers are too busy chatting each other up while saying nasty things about England?
Perhaps it means that no other country is buying the falsehoods EU is feeding them about currency, greater good and how the unelected bureaucracy cares one iota about what member states think?
This isn’t about EU refusing to allow England to govern it’s own affairs. This about every other less dominant country wanting out of the bad deal and horrendous government EU dictates to their vassal countries.
Britain is now with Brexit doing what the 13 colonies did to them, obtaining independence.
3 nasties.
People have short memories, the shape of things to come…
1/ Europe’s new framework for resolving banks includes a ‘bail-in’ mechanism that aims to ensure that banks’ shareholders and creditors pay their share of costs, and which was first used to resolve the 2013 banking crisis in Cyprus (All other deposits exceeding €100.000 remained in the ‘bad’ Laiki Bank).
Ie. the big banks get paid, the small shareholder gets robbed.
Which came from this wonderful idea. Remember how the Irish had to vote twice?
2/ The post-2008 Irish banking crisis was the situation whereby, due to the Great Recession, a number of Irish financial institutions faced almost imminent collapse due to insolvency. In response, the Irish government instigated a €64 billion bank bailout..impoverished Ireland, and led to massive debt deflation..
Ie. the big banks get paid, the state/taxpayer gets robbed.
Which was practice for:-
3/ Greece
To avoid default, the EU loaned Greece enough to continue making payments.
Since the debt crisis began in 2010, the various European authorities and private investors have loaned Greece nearly 320 billion euros.
It was the biggest financial rescue of a bankrupt country in history.
As of January 2019, Greece has only repaid 41.6 billion euros. It has scheduled debt payments beyond 2060.
In return for the loan, the EU required Greece to adopt austerity measures (which sparked massive debt deflation), -impoverished & mortgaged the future of the entire population for the next 40 years..
3a/ As part of the same policy following the Baltic overheating and the collapse of their housing price crisis, Lithuania & Latvia were forced down a similar debt deflation route post 2009, with the result a good sized part of the productive young population moved elsewhere…leaving unproductive retired people to live on a diminishing wealth post soviet crock economy, with price inflation to match.
The Eurocrappers also forced Lithuania to close their only (successful) nuclear power plant, forcing electricity prices through the roof, while forcing them to import energy from nearby Belarus, and are pursuing Estonia to stop using Oil shale, while forcing them to install unreliable wind farms.
And there are those on here that suggest the UK should remain part of all this?
A failed and miserable band of Eurocrats, with their proven failed low growth or plain dumb austerity, population-impoverishing strategies & their carbon zero crap to euthanase the old.
We should continue to reward them for failure?
Very good post. Australia is heading down the path of “bail-in” measures when the big crash happens. That means anyone with savings, such as superannuation, will lose it all to the banks. There is also talk of implementing MMT. The “T” stands for theory!! When the crash comes, it will make 1929 and 2008 look like a walks in the park.
Very good points.
But, as I remarked above, Britain has its very own homegrown Liverpool Life Pathway. Now BoJo did mention the NHS, but that is not enough. It looks like Obama’s behaviorists Orszag and “Easy kill” Emanuel based Obamacare on the NHS.
Eric Worrall,
Among your misunderstandings in your above article, you comment on what you say is, “the delicious spectacle of global climate action held up by Brexit chaos”, and several comments beneath your article accept that assumption.
I write to suggest you are mistaking an excuse as being a cause.
Each EU Member has a right to veto any such “climate action”, several EU Members would oppose any “climate action”, and Brexit has no affect on EU deliberations about “climate action”.
Richard
Not quite true. Ursula van der Leyen mentions, as does Blair (echo each other), removing the veto option, calling it something vague.
This is the aim of the European Defense Union, which apparently Brexit does not touch at all.
Just imagine, Brexit goes through, and British forces are called to intervene in Africa by a Brussels chain of command?
That makes CO2 look like a joke.
bonbon,
Your disinformation cannot be permitted to stand.
All 28 EU Member states (27 after Brexit) must agree for any change to EU rule or law to be enacted.
What some people may want does not alter the reality.
Richard
Using a flag intended to represent the brexiters vision of an “EUSSR” flag is insulting and shows disrespect to the millions of people who suffered in the gulags of the USSR. My grandfather was forced to build a runway with his bare hands in Murmansk because he had served in the Polish Army. he was lucky to survive, millions did not. The EU may have its faults, but it does not have show trials, political exile, gulags or executions. Comparing the EU with the USSR is abhorrent.
Errr R-J.
You clearly don’t live in modern Russia.
I do.
It’s an authoritarian quasi crony capitalist mafia construct relying on central planning and monopolising every single media to crush dissent.
It evolved out of the SAME KGB guys that ran East Germany for decades.
Control freaks all of them.
The BBC is very little different these to show just ONE.
There is no dissenting opinion possible, while state sanctioned media gets the green light..
They are also a band of control freaks, run by lawyers.
FFS extinction reb get police protection, while those that disagree get taken to court for defending people’s rights to go about their legit business.
Your Grand-dad would have been sent to work just after the 2nd world war (in this part of the world the German POW often had to build houses for the new sovietisation of the Baltic states).
If memory serves me right your grand-dad would have been sent to forced labour during the STALIN period, which came to an end at the end of the 50s.
This has not been repeated despite the Arms race and Brezhnev stagnation that followed.
That was the mark of the USSR, while subsidising industries that were bound to fail.
The similarities with the EU could not be more striking.
If I remember right, all those who had sympathies with 30s Germany, during the war years were interned in the UK. Right or wrong it’s not so democratic.
March forward 70+ years, and I recall the ones suffering in homeless Germany, are native Germans, not Syrian refugees who are immediately housed and given work to do.
What is the difference shivering to death under a railway bridge in Germany or building a runway in Murmansk? They all DIE.
The EU then allows this obvious disconnect to exist and sponsors 1000s working for poverty pay in Germany at 1 euro per hour.
Please don’t tell me it’s not so!
The USSR Stalin period was then followed by the “thaw” of the Kruschev years, who was kicked out because the Soviet grain harvest repeatedly failed.
This was due to fooling with nature, as well as diverting rivers and other stupid human experiments which only the EU is now capable of rivalling. (The same arrogance is on abundant display, claiming that humans change the climate, and alternative mega-unreliable systems must be put in their place).
Follow the EU dialogue and your own harvests will fail, because they can’t even get the weather right for 2019, never mind forecast if it snows this winter or not!
(It’s unseasonally cold right now in Scandinavia, and the late spring frosts were said CAN NEVER HAPPEN, cos climate change means it’s hotter init!)
The EU is subsidising farming through the CAP for decades.
It generates vast waste.
That alone is a threat to sustainability, but they daren’t admit it.
It also subsidises all kinds of energy schemes and crony capitalism of all shapes ESPECIALLY banking.
It provides central planning of the same disastrous mono industry scale as the USSR did, and it also generates unemployment as well as sanctions against states and even people they don’t like (Anyone see the elected governments of Italy and Hungary being publically vilified?).
The EU also creates zombie banks and forces whole generations into mass unemployment.
(as has just happened-the lost youth decade).
If you don’t get the parallels with the USSR as being clear and obvious, including the socialism inherent in taxing rich states into the ground (hey how about Germany again!) while giving gigantic sums of money to failed ones that have nothing, processed by the banking cronies, you ain’t understood the first principles of communism.
The EUSSR is a construct, as a quasi religious cult, very much like the Politburo was in the USSR, and their vassal states of the 80s.
Hi all,
Just some thoughts from the Netherlands on this.
It’s all a big scam, those proposed actions on climate change.
The good thing is the Britts have nothing to do with it, neither are we as a world population.
Thanks for that.
The worse thing is that those proposed action on climat change and CO2 reduction are not voluntary in the European Union. They are manadatory and will be become much severe when the new head of the EU commision Ursula von der Leyen presents her new green deal for Europe. Let’s hope it goes the same way as in the US.
So the Britts are good to leave the EU and go about their own business.
And the EU bureaucrats got a new excuse for the delay in executing their policy.
The whole thing has nothing to do with climate, emissions or fossli fuels. It’s all about making money.
Brexit isn’t holding up the climate change agenda the way some kooks say ?
No afraid not .
The truth is Trump has cut off the money supply and given other leaders some courage .
The fraud has been revealed and the globalist objectives unwinding .
What people see is under a globalist agenda your vote isn’t worth shit .
The UK is very compromised already or this would have been done .
The new “progressive ” agenda is vote as we tell you or you are the enemy .
Up till now the bully’s have gotten away with it but they are now going to be taking incoming .
One comment from Poland the culprit…
Poland has its power system based on coal, 80%. We obviously can’t decarbonize just like that. To make matters worse, Poland has relatively poor renewable energy resources – mostly cloudy winters, less wind even than in Germany, zero tides and big waves in the Baltic (waves are notoriously choppy but that doesn’t make them easily converted to electrical power), not much precipitation and thus poor prospects for hydropower. However, we are rich in coal, some huge deposits have never been mined. Poland could pursue nuclear, but then you have all this outcry that this is suicide etc. Germany wants to get rid of their nuclear power – how are they going to react if we build a few plants over the border? I have no idea how the EU wants to square all that.