In Japan more diapers are being sold for senior adults than for babies.
What is the greater clear & present danger? Global warming or the social & economic impact of an aging population … world-wide? This is uncharted territory in human history. Is there any real effort to explore the extent of the problem by government & attempt to address it – even to half the extent of the climate change issue? …or is the demographic winter destiny the liberal-devised-retribution for following Genesis 1:28?
The following command will not be invalidated, superseded or proven wrong until the end of the age. People will make their own demographic, environmental & political plans – supposedly to improve life on earth, but they are not capable to interpolate, over a mere 50 years, the effects of changes to social norms & policies brought about by conditioning by social influence systems; including TV, movies & government.
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.” (Genesis 1:28 NLT)
Brief audio discussion below.
AlbertMohler.com – The Briefing – The Briefing 10-01-13. Listen to full audio here.
Note how they pretend something praise-worthy was done & how it should be celebrated. Nothing was done. The discussion was postponed. Key players don’t want to play at all. It’s a mess and a farce (see also “the meltdown of the climate campaign“), but hey, let’s celebrate it anyway, right??!
A new global climate [?]deal has been struck[?] after being brought back from the brink of disaster by three powerful women politicians in a 20-minute “huddle to save the planet”. A major crisis had been provoked after 3am on Sunday morning when the EU clashed furiously with China and India over the legal form of a potential new treaty. The EU plan to bind all countries to cuts was close to collapse after India inserted the words “legal outcome” at the last minute into the negotiating text. EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard, backed by UK energy secretary Chris Huhne, said it would have made the EU plan legally meaningless and would have forced the EU to walk away, effectively collapsing the negotiations. With ministers exhausted after nearly six days and three nights of intense discussions, Hedegaard told the 194 countries in Durban: “We need clarity. We need to commit. The EU has shown patience for many years. We are almost ready to be alone in a second commitment period [to the Kyoto protocol]. “We don’t ask too much of the world that after this second period all countries will be legally bound. Let’s try and have a protocol by 2018.” The Indian environment minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, responded fiercely that developing countries were being asked to sign up to the deal before they knew what was in the proposed treaty, and whether it would be fair to poor nations. “Am I to write a blank cheque and sign away the livelihoods and sustainability of 1.2 billion Indians, without even knowing what the EU roadmap contains? “I wonder if this is an agenda to shift the blame on to countries who are not responsible [for climate change]. I am told that India will be blamed. Please don’t hold us hostage. We will give up the principle of equity.” China’s chief negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, lambasted the EU in a passionate speech, saying: “Who gives you the right to tell us what to do?” With tempers rising and the talks minutes from being abandoned, the chair, South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, ordered China, India, the US, Britain, France, Sweden, Gambia, Brazil and Poland to meet in a small group or “huddle”. Surrounded by a crowd of nearly 100 delegates on the floor of the hall, they talked quietly among themselves to try to reach a new form of words acceptable to all. But it was Brazil’s chief negotiator, lawyer Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, who came up with the compromise, proposing to substitute “an agreed outcome with legal force” for “legal outcome”. This, said an EU lawyer, was much stronger, effectively meaning “a legally binding agreement”. “Yes, yes,” cheered the crowd of onlookers around the politicians, and the talks were back on track. Two hours later the 16-day talks were effectively over, with a commitment by all countries to accept binding emission cuts by 2020. As part of the package of measures agreed, a new climate fund will be set up, carbon markets will be expanded and countries will be able to earn money by protecting forests. Chris Huhne hailed the conclusion of the talks as “a triumph of European co-operation”.
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