The Copenhagen agreement is a long-term disaster that will resonate until we adopt a new economic model for the world – but it will probably be too late.

Indeed, it is the political leaders and their masters, the great business/industrial powers, who will not change the status quo due to their self-interest and, basically, national greed.

Unless we have political and industrial leaders who understand clearly that our economic model is what is wrong, the world will continue towards a level where economic livelihoods and sustainable outcomes become irreversible.

Indeed, it will also be their mutual destruction that will come to pass. Then, the human race will be in the years of global wars to survive and to acquire ‘scarce’ natural minerals and resources for their nations’ preservation.

Then the penny might drop but it will be far too late by then to reverse events.

The Copenhagen agreement should have brought about a total reduction in temperatures over the long-term and found a balance in the inequalities between developed and developing nations through the gradual ordering of financial costs.

The costs for not having done so will inevitably be far, far greater. We have lost a golden chance to stop the critical decline in the human experience, but our political leaders and industrialists are presently blind to what is really upon the horizon for humankind in this very century, the defining century with regard to whether humanity as a species will live on or die.

Dr David Hill

World Innovation Foundation Charity

Bern, Switzerland