£130 million well spent?

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£130 million well spent?
CaptainFlashheart
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So, Copenhagen ends with an "accord",

£130m, 15,000 people.

Money well spent? Imagine what else could have been achieved with that money!

Posted 14 years ago

bassspine
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without that income the limousine industry in Copenhagen would be having a very poor christmas…

Posted 14 years ago

deadlydarcy
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Well, without the money being spent in the first place nothing would have happened at all. How do you think they should do it Flash? By Blackberry?

I feel very let down by the world's leaders though – someone mentioned the phrase "doomed to success" – very apt in this case. The world watched and waited for them to come up with a solution and all we got was a glorified tinkers' horse fair with a load of unhappy customers at the end of it.

Posted 14 years ago

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johnners
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That money could have been used to give a dozen or so bankers a decent Christmas, instead of being wasted on a bunch of nonentities from poor countries nobody's even heard of. It makes my blood boil.

Posted 14 years ago

tootin
Full Member

Sh*t loads of wind turbines that's for sure!

Posted 14 years ago

Philby
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LOL at johnners.

£130 million is peanuts compared with the billions saving the banks and other industries and that's just in the UK.

Surely the future of the planet is priceless!

Posted 14 years ago

singletrackhor
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if the climate was a bank, it would have already been saved

Posted 14 years ago

luked2
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Well, according to Wikipedia, an insecticide-treated mosquito net costs around $6.

For every 1000 children supplied with these, about 5.5 lives per year can be saved.

So that $130M would seem to be able to save about 100,000 lives.

Posted 14 years ago

Coyote
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It would be interesting to know the catering arrangements for the summit. Did they use locally sourced produce and local cuisine or did they fly vast quantities of food and staff many times round the world to make sure that our glorious leaders' every whim was catered for. Sorry but I view these "gatherings" as pointless posturing. The member countries are not interested in the globe as a whole, merely their part of it.

Posted 14 years ago

jon1973
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Well, without the money being spent in the first place nothing would have happened at all.

Nothing really did happen.

How do you think they should do it Flash? By Blackberry?

Video conferencing?

Ironic that a climate conference that achieved nothing had a bigger carbon footprint than a small African country.

Posted 14 years ago

namastebuzz
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Who cares?

Money rules the world.

Commercial interest does not equal saving the planet.

We're all ****ed.

Posted 14 years ago

project
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FREE JUNKET,it was and always will be seen as such by people who didnt get an invite,

got an invite and its a very worthwhile experience,lots of contacts made,and information gleamed.

YOU DECIDE.

Me its a JUNKET.

Posted 14 years ago

AndyRT
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There was something on BBC news today going on about Canadian Tar sand extraction, and how the COOP has created £10M budget to campaign for greener ethical investment marketing.!!!!!

I am gobsmacked at the ineptitude of this. Heres a simple idea, if you want to stop (apparently anthropogenic) global warming in regards to fossil fuels, support the research into alternatives.

Don't just spend money on words no-one listens to apart from the COOP shareholders!

AARRGGHhhhhhhhh!

Posted 14 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

It would have been worth spending a hundred times more if anything had come of it. But it turned out to be a load of cock, to the immense surprise of absolutely nobody.

Still, looks like some people in this thread think that they actually achieved something, so maybe it did work.

Posted 14 years ago