'If we vanish, we vanish together'

Climate talks were ongoing in Paris for two weeks, but somehow our media was not very interested in them.
We'd rather monitor the developments on the chaos in the Middle East, where greed, power and ambition play quite a role.

Of course we would be interested in them because people either die or are dislocated. But what we do not see is that unless immediate and thorough action is taken, in a not-so-distant future, people will maybe die from climate change, not wars.

There are two poles in the climate change issue. One side does not care at all actually. While companies are trying to flex their carbon-reduction targets, certain counties are fine with that. 

While the U.S. hammered Kyoto, now Obama is engaged in a role at the Paris conference in an attempt to look good. 

The U.S., Norway and Saudi Arabia oppose certain aspects regarding human rights. 

Turkey's position is pathetic. While Turkey's solar and wind energy targets are much lower and while it is making energy plans based on coal-fuelled thermic power plants multiple times more than renewable energy, Morocco has set a 14 percent share target both in solar and wind energy for 2020. While Morocco is allocating 9 percent for costs to harmonize with climate change, Turkey is continuing to invest in concrete and asphalt-based projects. 

Turkey, from the beginning, based its climate policies on the argument that it should not be compared with developed countries. Maybe it was right but even if we are compared with Morocco, if the picture is like that, then, as Önder Algedik said, this is more of a political stance regardless of economic development status. 

I just arrived in Paris and could only catch the end of the talks. While I was following the...

Continue reading on: