John Doyle - Climate 'catastrophe-check' for UN Aid Agencies

John is a long time EU staffer stationed in Brussels with over 2 decades of responsibility in the environmental policy arena. He is about as frustrated and disillusioned with what he has experienced as one can get. After all the time and effort he's spent trying to strengthen environmental laws, policies and practices in the EU and among its trading partners, he see's weak, disingenuous responses, and too often no response or even counter-productive responses.

Stuart Scott was asked to make a 'reality-check' presentation to UN aid agencies with responsibility climate change in May 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. With a recent cancer diagnosis, Stuart was unable to travel, and John provided a highly qualified alternative speaker. Here is John's 'catastrophe-check' to the UN aid agencies attending.

The presentation was said to have been passed on up to UN HQ in New York, and when screened there for senior staff, it raised considerable concern.

Diplomacy is the art and science of posturing, distortion and fabrication about underlying false and ideological mental positions about reality. We are operating under a global political network of self-delusional agencies and individuals who seem to believe that if they just keep repeating a false narrative about Reality it will become true and real.

Parties to the climate talks need to stop talking so much and start acting. But for this to happen, the world's citizens need to take them to account. The Student Strikes and other forms of civil disobedience are what's needed, but much more of it. One day a week of student striking is an inadequate response for a future being stolen for a full seven-days a week forever.

Stuart is hoping to heal enough from his cancer by treatment at the Mayo Clinic that he will be able to attend COP-25 to produce ScientistsWarning.TV programs daily again live from the climate talks. If you wish to contribute to the Fund for Stuart's Healing here's the link.
http://bit.ly/2kiQz2T

The parallels between the cancer Stuart has contracted and the cancer that human civilization has contracted are so strong that he is aching for the chance to make the case live.