Psst! Hey Buddy, can you spare $45 Trillion bucks...?

... that's the estimated cost of a new plan endorsed by the G-8 ministers in Japan. Let me spell that out for you: $45,000,000,000,000! By my reckoning, as one of the six billion occupants of this planet, my share of that cost would be $7,500! And so it would be for every other human being, from London to Darfur, from Tokyo to Peking.... Whether his gross annual income is $50K a year or $120 dollars! Hmmmmm


$45 trillion needed to combat warming
By JOSEPH COLEMAN, Associated Press

The world needs to invest $45 trillion
in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.
The report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency envisions a "energy revolution" that would greatly reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining steady economic growth.
"Meeting this target of 50 percent cut in emissions represents a formidable challenge, and we would require immediate policy action and technological transition on an unprecedented scale," IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said.
A U.N.-network of scientists concluded last year that emissions have to be cut by at least half by 2050 to avoid an increase in world temperatures of between 3.6 and 4.2 degrees above pre-18th century levels.
Scientists say temperature increases beyond that could trigger devastating effects, such as widespread loss of species, famines and droughts, and swamping of heavily populated coastal areas by rising oceans.
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized countries and Russia backed the 50 percent target in a meeting in Japan last month and called for it to be officially endorsed at the G-8 summit in July.


Every time I read such insanities, and try to fathom the purpose for it all, I return to the words of 'Deep Throat' in the Sixties....... "Follow the money'! I see $45 Trillion worth of 'brother-in-law' and sweetheart contracts and a whole lotta money changing hands. Your money and my money... By the way - need any jewelry to prove your concern?


If the Iraq 'Oil for Food' scandal in the U.N. is any example of international integrity in government ministers, I reckon I'd pass on this bunch!