The Meaning of Copenhagen

truthout.org — Whether the Copenhagen meeting concludes in "failure" or "success" is a rather secondary question. For this dramatic moment is no finale, but the moment when the powerful forces moving below the surface of the news, when the long pulsations of the human adventure emerge. What is it all about, really? It's the dramatization of the contradiction which has been forged throughout the entire industrial revolution between economic rationale and ecological limits.

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