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Obama: Get Ye to Copenhagen and Earn Your Nobel
The Times of London today reports it's unlikely Obama will attend Copenhagen climate talks and may use his Nobel acceptance speech to set US environmental goals instead.
I was off the grid in remote rural India when Obama won the Nobel. Didn't hear about it for a few days. When I did, my Indian hosts were scratching their heads wondering what this likeable man had done to deserve it.
Since then their own prime minister has followed the pessimistic US lead when he said that India will not sacrifice its economic development for a new climate change deal.
But imagine for a moment that Obama really did attend Copenhagen and brought all his theoretical mediator skills to bear on the proceedings.
Rather than using a Nobel he doesn't yet deserve to set US environmental goals, Obama could actually set those environmental goals in the midst of the most monumental environmental meeting ever held (read Bill McKibben on this in the latest MoJo).
It might actually change the world. And that would justify his Nobel.
Can't you try, Barack Obama?
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Obama: Copenhagen and Nobel....
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Well, he has the prize, now let's see him do something to earn it. In any event, I have had little regard for the Peace Prize for years..The prestige of the Nobel Prize just ended with the award to U.S. President Obama.
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List of Peace Prize winners continues to baffle....
Take a list of the peace prize winners the past 20 years and one must ask on more than one occassion "what were they thinking?" I would be embarrassed to be selected by these people.
How interesting that in the last several years a man with a traveling powerpoint presentation and a politician barely two months in office (the vote was taken in March) got a "peace prize" for preaching a controversial and divisive theory on climate change.
I guess this irony follows with the prize's origin: money made from the invention of a stable dynamite that was used to by the world's military industrial complex to blow up half of Europe and support conquests around the world.