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Imagine a conference against slavery headed by Jefferson Davies in Richmond. Or a conference on human rights in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kinda hard, right?
Well, the ongoing UN summit on how to fight climate change is held in Dubai and chaired by the literal CEO of the United Arab Emirates´ oil company! What´s more, he actually *opposes* the Green transition and even said so. Meanwhile, UAE´s neighbour Saudi Arabia says pretty much the same thing. What´s strange isn´t that oil-producing countries oppose transitioning out of oil (of course they do), but that they have been put in charge of an international conference on how to supposedly, well, transition out of oil...
In not unrelated news, the climate summit has apparently also adopted a statement in favor of nuclear power.
I can´t help thinking that this actually means something, not just symbolically or archetypally, but "for real". Maybe the transition really is cancelled, and everyone is just going through the motions at this point.
That in turn could explain why the flagship of the climate change movement, Greta Thunberg´s Fridays for Future, has pivoted towards anti-Israeli activism and doubled down on it, despite harsh condemnations and a threatened split with the German section of the movement. Perhaps the "Green" capitalists and state bureaucrats are in retreat, so their street and college campus minions need a new outlet for their activism. Meanwhile, that other flagship, Extinction Rebellion, is getting increasingly more desperate, obviously because nobody cares anymore.
If I´m right, we will see new pivots from both the powers-that-be and the activists in the years to come, all the while climate change continues its usual course...
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