The United Nations 30th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) talks in Brazil ended Saturday night. The takeaway is that there is nothing going to be stopping our addiction to fossil fuels. In fact, the dealers of this addictive drug are now running the UN Climate show.
The solution they come up with is to continue to not talk about the additive drug, nor how to get off it. They will simply send money to the victims of the crime.
Are you an island nation that has been around for millennia and find yourself sinking out of sight? No worries, we’ll send you billions to move your butts to some other place where you are simply refugees.
Are you an industrial nation choking in your car and coal pollution? We don’t really care. Fix it yourself or not.
The U.N. continues to sink into irrelevancy, whether it’s trying to do something about global warming, the Ukraine war, the West Bank violence or the never ending terrorism of the Palestinian movements of Hamas and Hezbollah. As usual, we are all left to solve our problems for ourselves and luckily that does seem to happening without the U.N. in small ways around the globe. China continues to migrate to solar, cities like Paris and London convert inner cities to bike and pedestrian walkways significantly lowering air pollution.
Panama negotiator Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez railed against the deal in Brazil as COP drew to a close.
“A climate decision that cannot even say ‘fossil fuels’ is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence,” Monterrey Gomez said. “Science has been deleted from COP30 because it offends the polluters. – The Associated Press
Here we are, 30 years into COP and we hear this kind of nonsense about the very people who claim to be wanting and in charge fixing this problem.
The clear takeaway is that we are on our own, and if you live in a place most affected by climate change, you better build your own ark, because no one is coming to save any of us.