What brings out the best in people? Is it Christmas, or the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference?

There were certainly some around this morning - I had a job keeping up. Pushing Kiki in the pram with one hand and camera in the other I was amazed by the sheer number of people on the streets of Copenhagen this morning. A blend of Danes and foreigners from all over roaming across the city where there were numerous events and displays stating slogans, visions and one-liners that will keep the communications agencies in champagne and coke throughout 2010. A classic has to be IBM's "Let's build a smarter planet" campaign. Smarter? Does that mean we will all be better dressed in the future :-)

For Copenhagen, and judging by the controlled media coverage (where was Climategate in the Danish press?) it appears to me this is all about earnings for big business and egos. Whether the content of the conference is correct should not be questioned. Big corporations, politicians, the media (pretty much funded by the same invisible hands apparently) etc., are all jumping on this band wagon.

Never thought I would agree with Nick Griffin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OWOf9geNI&feature=player_em...

Call me a sceptic.

Taken on: December 5, 2009

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