Stockholm – 50 years on

5 – 16 June 1972: United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

Is there a perverse irony in the top bureaucrats presiding over the global platform for prevarication on planetary survival for 20 of the 50 years since the Stockholm UN Conference on the Human Environment, to call for world leaders to deliver on their climate change promises.

“We need to see leaders delivering on their climate change promises, in the interests of people, prosperity and the planet.”

Christiana Figueres, Yvo de Boer and Michael Zammit Cutajar
The Guardian, Thu 2 Jun 2022 09.00 BST

So say the top bureaucratic leaders that kept the insanity of failure to embrace reality going.
There were 20 years before them and 10 years since them, with identical failure.

The war on nature, the war on reality, is an insane and unwinnable war, with only losers. The only choice in this war is how bad a looser you want to be. Stop gaming nature and be playful & joyful for a change.

“But as three former UN climate chiefs, let us be clear: as the world’s first major environment summit – the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment – recognised, the crises in security, health, development and the environment are linked. They are loading stress upon stress, especially in the most fragile and conflict-torn parts of the world. The myriad reports of extreme weather we have witnessed in 2022 suggest there is no time to waste.”

Which, as is now the case, turns out to be EVERYWHERE on the planet.

“The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and planetary health,” reads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. “Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.’”

Oddly enough, that ship sailed irreversibly, formally and publicly in broad daylight in June 1972 with the UN Conference on the HUMAN Environment, appropriating the subject as a political issue and self-appointed mandate.

What political and corporate agencies should have done, is immediately reinstate individual people’s agency, terminating their holy trinity of violence monopolies, bureaucracies and competitive politics.

We might have had a chance to turn the tide then, 50 years ago (1972). 30 years ago(1992) there was a last call and then all doors and windows collapsed, and the ships sailed, the trains left the station, and Elvis left the building – definitively.

“The leaders of today – not 2030, not 2050 – must make this choice.”

Barbados prime minister, Mia Mottley’s words at Cop26

Each and every one of us makes their own choices.
Choose to follow or choose to live. There are only choices and consequences.

This is the time for empathetic, sensible and compassionate choices.
This is the time to CHANGE YOUR MIND!