With the 2011 international climate change negotiations beginning in Durban, South Africa, the warm-up rhetoric and mud is being flung around. Some of it is very sticky, and many of the characters unsavory. Let this years bullying and intimidation games begin.

Murray Worthy, of the World Development Movement, said: “The US, UK and EU are using the same strong-arm tactics to bribe developing countries that we saw at Copenhagen. Abandoning their previous commitments to provide finance to help developing countries deal with climate change, they are now saying finance will only be available to countries that agree to a new deal that effectively abandons the Kyoto treaty.”

The report accuses countries such as America and Britain of using “unfair, undemocratic and even deceitful means to skew the climate change negotiations in their favour”. Ditto Australia.

At Copenhagen, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was reported to have treated leaders of small island states as “naughty school children”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/rich-nations-accused-of-climatechange-bullying-6268679.html

Of course that is easy to do if you are also running a world spanning empire, spending $700 billion a year costs of wars. Also at stake is the revenue of many large corporations. ExxonMobile, Shell and BP together get over a trillion dollars of revenue each year. All oil companies together probably more than 2 trillion per year. Walmart heads the wikipedia list with 420 billion per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue

Of course this is revenue and not profit. With the cutting of worker benefits to the bone, the top positions and shareholders of largest corporate beneficeries can cream off and accumulate meaninglessly high dividends, salaries and options. Even the military costs bring a large flow of money back to the pockets of the wealthy, the weapons industry being a large investor in on-going war. The ongoing empire wars are bringing synergistic benefits and more profit to an energy corporation near you.

Sadly whatever these huge sums represent, in terms of total human wealth dividing into total purchasable reality, they are not being invested back in sustainable and environment security, but rather most of it represents what was stolen directly from the sustainable environment, and what is it worth to us.  In that sense, our world currencies are rapidly devalued everyday, as are the resource share markets. The amount of purchasable, sustainable environment security remaining is rapidly depleting, to the extent, that the foremost trillionaire on the this planet will soon lose climate, clean water and a healthy ecosystem, because no one can buy and hold what is going out of existance. The amount of nutrition and energy, food and water, that Gaia can throughput to all humans each year is declining. Quite a lot of it is embodied energy from fossil fuels, that we use to flog our soils, and distribute the goods. Since this is leading to global warming and ocean acidification, our destiny appears to be both cooked and dissolved.

Gaia cannot be owned, because she is an intricate process, of which humans were once only a smallish part. The most we actually need, is the air, food and water, for the energy processes of our bodies, as directed by our genetic inheritance. The rest we have invented by accumulation of cultural knowledge and practices. Human ownership and exploitation can only ruin Gaia. Some of our best practices arise when we defend Gaia from ourselves, such as marine sanctuaries.

All wars are about the ownership of some part of Gaia, for the purpose of its exploitation and ultimate destruction. The size of our economic numbers indicate the speed of rape, that is the rapidity, not the crowning success of economic growth and military power. The GFC, peak oil and global warming indicate that in the yearly extraction, it seems that peak Gaia has been passed, so that even the rate of killing her cannot be increased, and is declining, so close to collapse is she.

After the collapse of Gaia, and the inability of human kind to extract more of her vitals from her, comes the collapse of human civilisation. Given our violent psychoses, and predictable desperation, the use of nuclear weapons is very likely by the end, a Hitler style suicide by the drugged and psychotic governments that have created them. The trillionaires will die along with our world.

The rapist nations, being the most developed, do prefer to use threats and force, as they continue to steal from the poorer nations, and steal the future all future human generations. Bribes offered are usually small amounts in proportion to the vast profits expected by extraction. The actual amounts of development funds and aid have always been miniscule in proportion. The inverse proportion rule to greed strictly applies. And so any bribe offers will customarily insulting, and may amount in practice to even less than before, given real currency depreciation.

There exists a subtle and inverse dependency of power, which is not being exploited. If the raped nations ganged together and refused to comply, the flow of resources to developed nations, and their economies would be threatened with imminent collapse, and would perhaps do so within a few weeks, before military expeditions could reconquer the rest of the planet. Developing nations, by contrast, might be more likely to be able to fend for themselves. With such plain examples of craven dependency and greed, it is probable that only outright refusal is sufficient to lead to respectful behavior.  And so if Gaia suddenly refused our advances, and refused to let us rob more of her fertility, then our so called civilisation will collapse to a much more sustainable, and possibly much more civilised level.

Its about time the developing world realized their combined power. A global resources supply strike would show where real power lies.