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To: energyplay who wrote (59088)	12/17/2009 5:49:36 PM
From: dybdahl	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217883

I know that the German police helps by patrolling the border to Denmark, on the German side - which is basically like regaining border control temporarily - but it makes sense because there are only few roads crossing the border. But there is no foreign police force on the street in Denmark. However, it is obvious that the police forces exchange information. Besides that, the swedes offered to assist the Danes on Danish ground, but the offer was not taken, because it was not needed. The Danish police is not huge - Denmark is a country where it's really rare to see a policeman or a police car, but it's big enough for this kind of stuff. It may confuse some media, that they're seeing foreign police vehicles. But that's because the Danes borrow vehicles from other countries. Many of these vehicles are specialized and no police force needs such vehicles in these amounts under normal circumstances. I think most Danes regard climate change as more important than national interests, and even if we would have invited foreign police forces to Denmark, I don't think it would have made a political impact until after COP15. Copenhagen is a very international place these days - you can easily go to a restaurant and find that your waiter only speaks Swedish or English but not Danish, and if you go to a fair, there many be many people who speak Polish or Russian, but not Danish nor English. The newspaper guys rarely speak Danish or English, so when I introduced my daughter to Copenhagen for the first time, she actually thought that Copenhagen was a place where they didn't speak Danish. And regarding Germans in the WW2 context, I think Scandinavia is the place where Germans can relax most. German military officers were cooperating when we managed to get all Jews out of the country when we heard that the Germans would arrest them, and we know Germany as a very peaceful, environment-friendly, culturally rich neighbor, that recently experienced a reunion that made a big impact on young people. I think Germany is now associated more to having the Wall broken down than to WW2. Let's hope that we get some results. It seems that China, India and USA are the main players in this, and of these three, 2 of them lack transparency and maybe ability to act. I wonder if China is able to implement anything seriously without introducing more free press and democracy - and if China is not doing anything, will that mean that EU will start taxing Chinese products in order to avoid unfair competition? Until now, the western world has been rich because we have something that the others want but we don't want their products equally much. Now, we really, really want them to reduce emissions. In other words, they can deliver something that we really, really want them to deliver. This changes the power game in negotiations. Or does it? And why isn't anybody talking about population growth control? I think that climate change provides challenges to almost any kind of international cooperation. Environmental issues have been globalized.