"Kim Stanley Robinson - Sixty Days and Counting" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robinson Kim Stanley)

initiate a series of federal actions and changes designed to meet the problem of
global climate change head-on. We will deal with it as a society working together,
and working with the rest of the world. ItтАЩs a global project, and so I will go to the
United Nations and tell them that the United States is ready to join the international
effort. We will also help the under-developed world to develop using clean
technology, so that all the good aspects of development will not be drowned in its
bad side effectsтАФoften literally drowned. In our own country, meanwhile, we will do
all it takes to shift to clean technologies as quickly as possible.тАЭ
Phil paused to survey the crowd. тАЬMy, itтАЩs cold out here today! You can feel right
now, right down to the bone, that what I am saying is true. WeтАЩre out in the cold,
and we need to change the way we do things. And itтАЩs not just a technological
problem, having to do with our machinery alone. The devastation of the biosphere is
also a result of there being too many human beings for the planet to support over the
long haul. If the human population continues to increase as it has risen in the past, all
progress we might make will be overwhelmed.
тАЬBut what is very striking to observe is that everywhere on this Earth where good
standards of justice prevail, the rate of reproduction is about at the replacement rate.
While wherever justice, and the full array of rights as described in the UN
Declaration of Human Rights, is somehow denied to some portion of the population,
especially to women and children, the rate of reproduction either balloons to
unsustainably rapid growth rates, or crashes outright. Now you can argue all you
want about why this correlation exists, but the correlation itself is striking and
undeniable. So this is one of those situations in which what we do for good in one
area, helps us again in another. It is a positive feedback loop with the most profound
implications. Consider: for the sake of climate stabilization, there must be population
stabilization; and for there to be population stabilization, justice must prevail. Every
person on the planet must live with the full array of human rights that all nations have
already ascribed to when signing the UN Charter. When we achieve that, at that
point, and at that point only, we will begin to reproduce at a sustainable rate.
тАЬTo help that to happen, I intend to make sure that the United States joins the global
justice project fully, unequivocally, and without any double standards. This means
accepting the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and the jurisdiction of
the World Court in the Hague. It means abiding by all the clauses of the UN Charter
and the Geneva Conventions, which after all we have already signed. It means
supporting UN peacekeeping forces, and supporting the general concept of the UN
as the body through which international conflicts get resolved. It means supporting
the World Health Organization in all its reproductive rights and population reduction
efforts. It means supporting womenтАЩs education and womenтАЩs rights everywhere,
even in cultures where menтАЩs tyrannies are claimed to be some sort of tradition. All
these commitments on our part will be crucial if we are serious about building a
sustainable world. There are three legs to this effort, folks: technology, environment,
and social justice. None of the three can be neglected.
тАЬSo, some of what we do may look a little unconventional at first. And it may look
more than a little threatening to those few who have been trying, in effect, to buy our
government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and use it to line their
own pockets while the world goes smash. But you know what? Those people need
to change too. TheyтАЩre out in the cold the same as the rest of us. So we will
proceed, and hope those opposed come to see the good in it.
тАЬUltimately we will be exploring all peaceful means to initiate positive changes in our
systems, in order to hand on to the generations to come a world that is as beautiful