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G8 Failure Means Climate Genocide
For Developing World

By Dr Gideon Polya

11 July, 2009
Countercurrents.org

The G8 First World countries meeting at L’Aquila, Italy (Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and the US) were
occasionally joined at the summit by leaders or representatives from
the G5 group of emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and
South Africa) .

The leaders of the G8 leading industrial countries have agreed to try
to limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels
by 2050; that G8 nations are to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050;
and that World carbon emissions should be cut by 50% by 2050 (see BBC
report, “G8 set new climate targets”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8141514.stm ).

This outcome has been trenchantly criticized by the UN Secretary
General Ban-ki Moon as insufficient and inconsistent with urgent
scientific advice (see BBC report “Ban criticized G8 climate efforts”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143059.stm ).

The grossly inadequate response of the G8 nations is effectively a
statement of climate racism and a declaration of prospective climate
genocide. Top UK climate scientist Dr James Lovelock FRS has estimated
that fewer than 1 billion people will survive global warming this
century due to unaddressed, man-made climate change, this constituting
a prospective climate genocide that will kill 10 billion non-Europeans
including 6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims, 2 billion Indians and
0.3 billion Bangladeshis (see “Climate Disruption, Climate Emergency,
Climate Genocide & Penultimate Bengali Holocaust through Sea Level
Rise “:
http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/
climate-disruption-climate-emergency-climate-genocide-
penultimate-bengali-holocaust-through-sea-level-rise ).

Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter and a world leading
greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter. Thus Australia’s domestic and exported
“annual per capita GHG pollution” is 54 tonnes CO2-equivalent per
person per year – 2 times that of the US, 10 times that of China, 25
times that of India and 60 times that of Bangladesh (see “Australia’s
“5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020” endangers Australia, Humanity and
the Biosphere “: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalley
climateactiongroup/australia-s-5-off-2000-ghg-pollution-by-2020-endangers-austra\
lia-humanity-and-biosphere
).

The must-read Synthesis Report of the March 2009 Copenhagen Climate
Change Conference concluded “inaction is inexcusable” (see “Summary of
the Synthesis Report from the March 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change
Conference “ :
http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/
synthesis-report-of-the-2009-copenhagen-
climate-change-conference ) - yet pro-coal Rudd Labor policy means
that Australia will INCREASE its domestic and exported GHG pollution
to 80% above the 2000 level by 2050.

The position of the major Developing countries was put forward by the
PM of India, Manmohan Singh as summarized by the The Hindu (see N.
Ravi, “A strong political message on climate change: India”:
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/10
/stories/2009071060261000.htm ): “On the principle of “polluter pays,”
the major responsibility lay with the industrial nations, and this was
a responsibility that they had acknowledged and undertaken under the
UNFCCC. The developing countries wanted the industrial nations to
commit themselves to sharp and significant reductions in emissions by
40 per cent below the 1990 (the date of the Kyoto protocol) levels by
2020. This could form the basis for a more ambitious target over the
longer term. The developing nations were faced with the problem of
adaptation to climate change and India itself was spending 2 to 2.5
per cent of its Gross Domestic Product on adaptation, including to
extreme climatic events and disasters and the impact on agriculture.
Even if emissions were reduced to zero, the accumulated emissions
would continue to impose a long term burden on the developing
countries. Based on this perspective, the developing countries have
been emphasising the two pillars of financing mitigation and
adaptation actions and the transfer of technology.”

According to the leading Australian newspaper, the Sydney Morning
Herald “The most tangible target Singh has offered is to pledge that
his country's per capita CO2 emissions will never exceed the average
of developing countries.” - well below that of developed countries and
accordingly this was an extraordinarily generous offer considering the
actualities of comparative greenhouse gas pollution.

Thus, as of 2008, “annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution”
in units of “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008
data) is 2.2 (India), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 27
(the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2
pollution is included) (see Wikipedia, “List of countries by
greenhouse gas emissions per capita”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_
by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita and “Australia’s “5% off 2000
GHG pollution by 2020” endangers Australia, Humanity and the Biosphere
“: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/
australia-s-5-off-2000-ghg-pollution-by-2020-endangers-
australia-humanity-and-biosphere ).

An 80% reduction of present levels of GHG pollution by 2050 as
specified by the G8 (and assuming, for the purposes of simplicity,
Zero Population Growth or ZPG) would mean, by 2050, 5.4 tonnes
CO2-equivalent per person per year for the US - as compared to 1.0 for
India.

However, based on ZPG and an 80% reduction on the 2000 value by 2050
for Australian Domestic GHG pollution would mean 68 tonnes per person
per year of Domestic and Exported GHG pollution by Australia in 2050 -
nearly 70 times that of India.

This makes for a novel re-valuation of Asians by racist, Apartheid
Australia (see Apartheid Australia Backs Racist Zionist Run Apartheid
Israel”: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290609.htm ).

In 1901, the first PM of newly-independent Australia declared “The
doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the
equality of an Englishman and the Chinaman.”(Australia’s first Prime
Minister Edmund Barton debating the Commonwealth Immigration
Restriction Bill (1901), commonly known as the “White Australia
Policy”; Barton (1901) speech to Federal Parliament concerning the
Commonwealth Immigration Restriction Act 1901, quoted in Buggy and
Cates (1985), p145 in Buggy, T. and Cates, J. (1985), Race Relations
in Colonial Australia (Nelson, Melbourne)).

In 1947, the racist (they were all racists) Australian Labor
Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell made the following notorious
declaration of racial inequality in the Australian Federal Parliament:
“There are many Wongs in the Chinese community, but I have to say -
and I am sure that the honourable member for Balaclava [T.W. White,
Liberal] will not mind me for doing so - that “two Wongs do not make a
White.” [“Aussie joke”: 2 wrongs don’t make a right i.e. 2 Chinese
don’t equal a White man] (see Calwell speech to Parliament (1948),
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, 2 December 1947, vol. 194, p2948;
quoted in Murray-Smith (1984), p36; quoted and discussed in Kiernan
(1978), chapter 5, pp114-135; Murray-Smith, S. (1984) (editor), The
Dictionary of Australian Quotations (Heinemann, Melbourne); Kiernan,
C. (1978), Calwell. A Personal and Political Biography (Nelson,
Melbourne)).

Now in 2009, racist White Australia, Apartheid Australia, is in effect
saying that 70 Indians equate to 1 White Australian when it comes to
greenhouse gas pollution and dealing with climate change.

If Indian students want to come to Australia, to pay huge rip-off fees
to be taught Indian holocaust-denying, anti-Indian lies by Australian
history lecturers (see “Western Holocaust Ignoring 1. BBC TV’s “The
Story of India” ignores horrendous British atrocities in India”:
http://gideon.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/06/western-
holocaust-ignoring-1-bbc-tv-s-the-story.htm ) and then get bashed and
robbed by anti-Indian, racist thugs into the bargain – well, all I can
say is that it’s their call.

Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific
career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
"Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor &
Francis, New York & London, 2003: http://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-
Targets-Plant-Bioactive-Compounds/dp/0415308291 ). He has recently
published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M.
Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and
http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ) and an updated 2008 version of his
1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History, Colonial
rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological
sustainability” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2008:
http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ). In 2009 he has been teaching
Biochemistry theory and practical courses to second year university
agricultural science students at a very good Australian university.






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