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It’s heartbreaking to think of the hardships you describe being suffered by so many brave souls on Bali. UN diplomats hoofing it to and from meetings. It’s just not right. Perhaps, with a look into the not too distant past, we can find relief for the sad plight of these marooned and downtrodden UN grandees. A UN diplo without his limo and not a biofuel station in sight……what’s the world coming to…..

Once upon a time, mean old Joe Stalin had a little disagreement with his erstwhile WWII allies about the future of Germany. To demonstrate his displeasure, he cut off all supply lines to Berlin which lay within the Soviet sector of Germany though the city itself was divvied up between the allies. The US response was the Berlin airlift, or Operation Vittles, as we called it (the Brits did their bit too, though less appetizingly, with Operation Plain Fare). We just flew everything into Berlin.

There’s our answer. We need a Bali airlift. No biofuel on Bali, but Java, only 500 miles away has the crucial supplies. All those private jets clogging the parking spaces at the Bali airport with nothing to do…. We will arrange a conga line of private jets going to and from Java to pick up however many barrels of biofuel each one can hold and then fly their precious cargo back to Bali. Back and forth, like that, for the duration of the conference. We’ll call it Operation Gucci. (Those loafers can be excruciating if you have to walk more than a few dozen yards.) Then our brave UN titans of the melting globe can get back to………..oh, look a ratufa! (Balinese squirrel)……..wait….. ah, champagne…… No worries. Let the good times roll.

Those poor change masters. If it were not so serious for our future generation’s future, I would laugh. Unfortunately it is not and deadly serious when one considers that climate change is just one of many major problems that our children will all have to face together.

For over the next 20-years the world will begin to see and realize the growing emergence of major indicators that humankind will very likely not exist at the end of this century. Panic will definitely set in. That is the consensus of the World Innovation Foundation that represents the independent voice of the world’s scientific community incorporating over 3,500 of the finest scientific, engineering and technological minds on the planet.
Governments and large global corporations just do not understand the immense ramifications for them and humankind. Indeed, they appear to think that they will be immune to the forces of nature and the sheer unparalleled devastation that is on the horizon for humankind, but where this thinking will be totally misplaced as always. You see, there will be no hiding place even if you are the richest person on earth or the largest corporate. This is the terrible truth of what is on the horizon for humankind. In this respect there is an accelerating state of building up on all fronts that will literally destroy many parts of human existence from nuclear disasters, food crop failures bringing high famine and deaths throughout the world, acute water depletion from which we depend upon for life, the financial collapse of much of the banking system and with it wealth as we know it, oil disruption brought about by a series of events from terrorism to irrational wars, a disintegration of total energy supply to the overdue pandemic that will come as night follows day. The only hope that we have at our disposal for any meaningful response to this growing and terrifying future ordeal that humankind will face is to build the immense global ORE-STEM complex with its more than 1,000 satellite research incubator centres through the world. This mechanism thought out by some of humankind’s foremost minds in the 20th century of harnessing global solutions through total human collaboration is our only answer. The problem is though that we are literally running out of time itself to implement this only solution to preserve human life on this planet, as it will take 25 years to implement. Therefore by 2032 when humankind realises this, it will be too late. Therefore the reasoning that the human experience is now predestined not to survive further than this present century. Presently what one can call the world’s most important maxim.

Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation
Bern, Switzerland

Once again, the U.N. proves itself to be among the biggest batch of hypocrites on the planet. Why hold a conference in Bali, of all places? I’m sure rates are cheap now that Westerners avoid the place out of fear of another suicide bombing, but there’s no reason they couldn’t have had their conference in New York City, at U.N. Headquarters. I’m sure a two-block ride on the subway emits far less carbon into the atmosphere than flying to Bali. Even better, they could have done the whole thing by videoconferencing over the Internet without leaving their own homes.

As for you, Dr. Hill: B.S. I can’t decide which word describes your blatant panic-mongering better: disgusting, or pathetic. Anyone willing to give you money for that nonsense deserves to lose it.

I’ll worry about the environment when I see the high priesthood of the Green movement practice what they preach.

It appears one of the UN alarmist kooks that they usually keep locked in the basement of Turtle Bay (only to be brought out when needing experts to write papers on AIDS or Climate Change )got loose–quick, put Dr. Hill back in his UN padded cell!