This seems relevant for our analysis of Great’s tone when addressing governments, international gatherings, and companies --- Their actual behaviour for decades could imply a lack of real acknowledgment of climate advocates and granting them only formal acknowledgement. Despite the urgency of such a trascendental issue small actions have been instrumented despite the fact international debate on the need to act on climate change began more than three decades ago with poor results up to these date (I remember when taking a negotiation course at Harvard in 1993 the whole class was divided to take the role of governments with different degrees of CO2 emissions to negotiate the setting of international commitments of targets for its future emissions and the price of sale/purchase polluting bonus available at the global market under the exercise). That lack of acknowledgement radicalizes some advocates speeches and actions.

Source author: Eric Suzán Reed esuzan@sre.gob.mx