This opening salvo at COP29 represents an even sadder day than a certain election outcome. While we were keenly aware of Big Oil’s interference in the conferences from past meetings, this result underscores their total take-over of the process and throws the legitimacy of this and any further COP meetings into the trash can. But we have always know, throughout history, that the real deals are made behind closed doors, since the greatest fear of Big Business is democracy.
Agree! This is truly one of those “Are we really seeing this?” moments.
As humanity, we’ve become the very characters we used to get frustrated with in movies—watching the disaster unfold, wondering why they don’t act when they know the stakes are so high.
It’s ironic and tragic that we’re now playing that role ourselves.
This opening salvo at COP29 represents an even sadder day than a certain election outcome. While we were keenly aware of Big Oil’s interference in the conferences from past meetings, this result underscores their total take-over of the process and throws the legitimacy of this and any further COP meetings into the trash can. But we have always know, throughout history, that the real deals are made behind closed doors, since the greatest fear of Big Business is democracy.
Agree! This is truly one of those “Are we really seeing this?” moments.
As humanity, we’ve become the very characters we used to get frustrated with in movies—watching the disaster unfold, wondering why they don’t act when they know the stakes are so high.
It’s ironic and tragic that we’re now playing that role ourselves.