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what policy fail exactly? I
Personally, I think the G20 is largely a policy "fail"? why?
because the G20 still leaves 2.5 billion of the world's people unrepresented in the "new order". These 2.5 billion people are the world's poorest. While the G20 is aiming at "getting the economy going" so we can buy more cars and iPods and shit people are starving to death. The G20 has effectively said to these people "hold on till we fix a problem with our banks that we created in the first by doing exactly the same thing we are doing to 'fix' the situation". Boosting the IMF is a shitty idea because it has been a massive failure in so many areas.
Another reason why I think it's a failure is because they managed to squeeze out the climate change issue by pushing it onto the COP15 meeting in December. While COP15 is really important and a big step (i'm involved on the sideline in the running up to it) it needed a stronger mandate from the G20. It is still a fundamental misunderstanding or the horizontal nature of climate change.
plus loads of other shit.
- // As long as that 2.5b people don't have internet they don't exist as far as I'm concerned.tommyo