Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-24-Speech-2-047"
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"Madam President, there is a new film on climate change called
. It is set in 2055 and focuses on a lone survivor of climate catastrophe. I am haunted by some words from that film, where the actor, looking back to 2009 – looking back to now – says ‘Why, knowing what they knew then, didn’t they act when there was still time?’
In other words, why have we failed to galvanise sufficient political will? Partly it is because we do not talk enough about the benefits of shifting to a post-carbon world – the millions of jobs in green energy, the better-insulated homes, the improved public transport. That is the message the EU must champion.
Yet even the most ambitious target the EU is currently proposing – a 30% cut by 2020 – will give us only a 50/50 chance of avoiding the worst of climate change. If you were told that a plane that you were about to get on had a 50/50 chance of crashing, you probably would not get on. And yet the stakes we are playing for in Copenhagen are a lot higher than that. So my message to you is: please, be more ambitious. Do not let the epitaph for Copenhagen be that this was the Age of Stupid."@en1
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"The Age of Stupid"1
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