This speaks volumes : “The reality of the situation is that $1.3 trillion pales in the face of the $7 trillion that is spent annually on fossil fuel subsidies,". The world humans have created is so backwards. I feel so enraged and heartbroken when I take all of this in.
Why no mention of another elephant in the room - that 95% of the attendees got there via airplane? And how much of the money given to airline companies end up in the bank accounts of fossil fuel related corporations ... who give some of that money to hire "lobbyists"? "Lobbyists" don't work for free. How about a conference via zoom - so clean-air activists (and everybody) can stop donating money to organizations which should be defunded? Why not at least speak out about this?!?
"Other environmentalists think that COPs should be scrapped altogether, because they focus too much on corporate and national interests, while doing too little to address the existential crisis."
Well, when the bribery specialists ("lobbyists") outnumber the alleged diplomats, and "corporate and national interests" are exactly opposite the alleged interests of the conference, i.e., reversing the increase in global temperatures, the outcome becomes quite clear. Good God, it took how many of these conferences to even include the terms "phasing out" and "fossil fuels"?
Nah. More Kabuki Theater than any genuine effort to solve problems. You want to solve problems? Tell the bribery specialists to stay home.
What’s stopping the true activists and policymakers from holding an alternative COP with actual integrity? Now that the corrupt bullies have taken over, maybe it’s time to build a new one. Focus that energy on moving forward rather than fighting? (Channeling my inner Bucky Fuller here.)
"But this year’s conference has been roiled by drama, as talks grind to a halt amidst the fumes from nearby refineries driving planetary heating." -- That's great writing, along with the great reporting.
I'm not a young person at 42, but also feel abandoned in this fight. Its too bad the fight for action and solutions is getting harder at face value and we don't have any time left for the two steps forward (I'm being generous with that) one step back we keep running into. My person well of optimism has not gotten close to running dry, at the least. 💪
This speaks volumes : “The reality of the situation is that $1.3 trillion pales in the face of the $7 trillion that is spent annually on fossil fuel subsidies,". The world humans have created is so backwards. I feel so enraged and heartbroken when I take all of this in.
Why no mention of another elephant in the room - that 95% of the attendees got there via airplane? And how much of the money given to airline companies end up in the bank accounts of fossil fuel related corporations ... who give some of that money to hire "lobbyists"? "Lobbyists" don't work for free. How about a conference via zoom - so clean-air activists (and everybody) can stop donating money to organizations which should be defunded? Why not at least speak out about this?!?
"Other environmentalists think that COPs should be scrapped altogether, because they focus too much on corporate and national interests, while doing too little to address the existential crisis."
Well, when the bribery specialists ("lobbyists") outnumber the alleged diplomats, and "corporate and national interests" are exactly opposite the alleged interests of the conference, i.e., reversing the increase in global temperatures, the outcome becomes quite clear. Good God, it took how many of these conferences to even include the terms "phasing out" and "fossil fuels"?
Nah. More Kabuki Theater than any genuine effort to solve problems. You want to solve problems? Tell the bribery specialists to stay home.
What’s stopping the true activists and policymakers from holding an alternative COP with actual integrity? Now that the corrupt bullies have taken over, maybe it’s time to build a new one. Focus that energy on moving forward rather than fighting? (Channeling my inner Bucky Fuller here.)
"But this year’s conference has been roiled by drama, as talks grind to a halt amidst the fumes from nearby refineries driving planetary heating." -- That's great writing, along with the great reporting.
I'm not a young person at 42, but also feel abandoned in this fight. Its too bad the fight for action and solutions is getting harder at face value and we don't have any time left for the two steps forward (I'm being generous with that) one step back we keep running into. My person well of optimism has not gotten close to running dry, at the least. 💪