Let them make the promises, this will allow us to keep them accountable if they are not met. Of course it is absurd to target a 60% reduction by 2050, without a strategy to reach it and without intermediate checkpoints - and making them take legal obligations for this should be the main thing we should focus our efforts on.

How, exactly, will you keep them accountable? So what if "they" agree a strategy with checkpoints. So what if they are bound by “legal” “obligations?” Really, so what?

Do you think you, or whoever, will be able to force these legal obligations to be achieved? Even if that does happen, who cares? After entering the legal process to “force” “them” to do what they said they were going to do, another three years or another five years have passed and climate change has only grown more acute. Do you really mean to say the menace doesn’t know how to manipulate the legal process?

Perhaps we’ll have passed some point wherein the forcings and the feedbacks cannot be ameliorated. So, what good are those legal obligations? What, you’ll fine them? Or confiscate their assets? Or send the executive management team to prison? Maybe you’ll round up the “stakeholders” and send them to prison as well? Wow, I’m totally impressed by this approach. If this is the best we’re going to come up with, I’ll stick to the party and concert methodology. As nothing more is going to be achieved than the “legally binding” crapola, at least I’ll be able to get down and get funky right along with all the other poor ignorant saps dancing next to me.

The problem will not be resolved using the very means that have created the problem in the first place. Climate Change has been co-opted by the very same menace that is busy diluting and denying Peak Oil, and every other crisis facing the biosphere. How can we legislate and litigate our way out of this problem? Frankly, I just don’t see it. Maybe you need to discard your junior high school civics romanticism with something more firmly grounded today’s realities. The menace controls the “legal” process. Not justice, but justice isn’t part of today’s reality.

I wish you all the best in your endeavours, as doomed as they are to failure. The political process as practiced in the west is pretty much just an exercise in theatre. A chance for you to feel like you making a difference and really count. And, it’s all a lie. When a concert designed to raise awareness about climate change is being “sponsored” by General Motors, the game is over. You can turn out the lights. Strike the set. The show’s over.