CLIMATE TALKS END WITH RICH-POOR RIFT WIDE OPEN

UN CLIMATE TALKS END IN BANGKOK WITH
LITTLE SIGN OF CONSENSUS ABOUT CRUCIAL ISSUES

BANGKOK (AFP) - While the surprise news of the Nobel Peace Prize to the US President Barack Obama for his extraordinary effort spread across the world, developing countries, one after the other, stood up at the concluding session of the Bangkok climate talks to blame the US, along with other developed countries, for attempting to derail the negotiations. Two weeks of crucial UN climate talks concluded Friday after exposing huge rifts between rich and poor nations, just weeks ahead of the deadline for sealing a planet-saving global deal.

Only five negotiating days remain, in November, before 192 nations converge for a critical December showdown in Copenhagen, where they have pledged to conclude a treaty to tackle global warming. Without rapid action, scientists say, the world faces catastrophe in the form of drought, flooding, famine and forced migration. Green groups lamented the lack of progress in Bangkok, and called on rich-nation leaders not to wait until the eleventh hour to act. China, India, Brazil and other developing countries lined up with environment and development groups to condemn both the US and EU for demanding a brand-new climate agreement rather than staying within the Kyoto protocol framework.

The picture shows Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change, during the closing session of the UN climate change talks in Bangkok.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said:

"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind."

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is : 15.7.

Individually, communally, socially, nationally, or universally, it is not possible to become independent. When we come to realize that we are dependent, we will have attained knowledge. Today so many people are striving for peace in the world, but they do not know how to implement that peace formula. The United Nations has been striving for peace for so many years, but still war is going on.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"On the Way to Krishna - Chapter 3: Seeing Krishna Everywhere and Always"