U.N. Climate Change Summit Wrap Up
I think between the comments and the posts I've said about all my ignorant ass is going to manage about climate change today, but I wanted to take the time to thank everyone from the United Nations Foundation for inviting us in today and making us feel welcome. While the event itself was maybe a bit slim on useful information, I found the entire process fascinating and ended up meeting more people doing interesting things in one day than I have perhaps ever have. That's huge; I appreciate it.
For you readers, I'll be back on my regular blog horse tomorrow. I appreciate your patience with me blogging about this stuff today and the conversation some of us were able to have. Much of what I learned—or started to learn—today will help inform much of the discussion about gadgetry from here on out.
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I thought it was cool, not only from an environmental perspective, but from the blogger-as-journalist, and how that role develops and matures in the news culture. I hope you get to go to the big conference in Bali and do more of this kind of thing. Naysayers can eat it.
Interesting stuff, however posting it in BoingBoing Gadgets sort of dilutes the brand. Of course we like to see a personal touch and an honest editorial commitment, but the off brand posts make a greater diversion at this early stage in BBGadgets than they would at a later date.
This is very exciting Joel. Because as traditional news press junkets, you might have to been covering stories about house fires, and cat rescues before you were ever assigned to such an important assignment. I think your youth perhaps gives you a fresh perspective that is needed for approaching such a topic.
There is another connection between gadgets and your UN experience, I think, that's worth noting.
In the past, Cory has noted how the U.S. has been a bit of a bully when it comes to intellectual property and treaties. More than once the U.S. has used admission into the WTO as a means to beat nations with the IP stick to get them to change something or kill something that U.S.-based film studios, record companies, etc don't like. Killing AllofMP3.com was a requirement for Russia to get into the WTO, for instance.
How then do we grok rigid absolute requirements for WTO status on one hand but push for 'voluntary', 'consensus', and 'sovereignty' when it comes to climate change? The simple (and cynical) answer is that we do whatever is in our own (or the administration's) best interest at the moment. Here's hoping there is more to it than just that.
Icky2000, that is a very excellent point. Despite what even some of the U.N. folks said, everyone knows that Bush's unwillingness to participate is because he doesn't actually believe climate change is a big deal. Or he does and he's just trying to squeeze out a few more years of profit before everything goes to shit. Or both!
I thoroughly enjoyed all these posts, even with the misbranding. I thought some of the comments were rather rude; we have bloggers sitting in at the UN and people are complaining? Jesus Christ.
People should remember that this is gadgets AT BOINGBOING; we should expect it to have a different flavor than hardocp, eh? (Preferably with a little less rudeness...lol)
I thoroughly enjoyed all these posts, even with the misbranding. I thought some of the comments were rather rude; we have bloggers sitting in at the UN and people are complaining? Jesus Christ.
People should remember that this is gadgets AT BOINGBOING; we should expect it to have a different flavor than hardocp, eh? (Preferably with a little less rudeness...lol)