Depends what you mean by success
Re: Why Paris Summit Was A Success, Dec. 14. The success at getting signatures on a toothless document, thankfully, was the result of the choreography of a government- funded trip to gay Paris not only of political leaders but also of large numbers of non- governmental members indoctrinated to join the movement to save the planet. Most nations at the United Nations are the developing ones, and they signed on for the promise of money on the Marxist plank of climate justice.
The leaders of the developed world: Barack Obama, François Hollande, Angela Merkel, David Cameron, Justin Trudeau and others, support the idea of a socialist totalitarian New World Order run by a UN bureaucratic elite to distract from the growing disorder in their own states. But, this will only be a shortterm event because the importance of using fossil fuels to maintain or improve the standard of living cannot be denied, and ultimately i ndividual f reedom trumps state control.
Jiti Khanna, Vancouver. The objective of the Paris summit is to limit global temperature increases from pre-industrial levels to no more than 1.5 C. Of course, the achievement of this goal cannot be determined for decades or even centuries, so I read the article with great interest to see how the summit could be declared a success now, in December 2015.
I discovered there were at least eight reasons: 1. Country compliance to reducing greenhouse gases is voluntary. In other words, each country committed to saying it will try. 2. The meeting had been prepared well. They had lots of pre- meetings before the big meeting. 3. The large emitters went along with everyone else and said they would also try and reduce greenhouse gases. 4. The nation’s leaders talked at the beginning of the meeting, rather than at the end. 5. The negotiators were hospitably entertained. 6. Claudia Salerno, who complained about the Copenhagen summit, liked the Paris summit. 7. Everyone was told about what was discussed at the meeting. 8. Businesses were allowed to advertise how “green” they were.
Alex MacMillan, Kingston, Ont.