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[<fdnokes@hotmail.com>]

I'm going to put my cards on the table in order to foster discussion towards 
a less polarized world.

I am not at all comfortable with the way that the push is on for the 
Copenhagen Treaty.
People want to do something about the state of the earth. I am not in the 
least convinced that this it the solution that will satisfy them.
In fact, it has every appearance of being the measure that will make their 
lot, for the most part, worse.
We have to look at three aspects: social, economic, environmental.
Firstly, the environment in which the science is being weighed is highly 
politicized and polarized. We have not really got all the cards on the 
table.
There are many who stand to gain from proposed environmental measures, and 
evidence of tampering with scientific information is being highly censored 
rather than investigated through the press. This 'climate' does not, to me, 
seem like a conducive one in which to come up with environmental strategies.
Secondly, the measures proposed could cause enormous hardship for those who 
are already struggling to make ends meet and whose busyness already takes 
them away from participating in our democracy.
Thirdly, the means provided in the legislation have the look and sound of 
another Post 9/11 'war measures' act. They take away our rights and 
freedoms, replacing national sovereignty with global inspectors. Who is at 
the helm here? And who are they answerable to? They are faceless, and they 
are non-representational. Most likely, the Copenhagen Treaty, were it 
passed, would be viewed in retrospect as a scuttling away of our right to 
elected representatives in the matters of government.

That's my .02

Looking forward to hearing yours (given that you've read mine first!)

Frances