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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/16/time-to-end-ludicrous-cop-jamboree-eco-summit-baku/
The beauty of the COP process is that it can go on forever because it never makes a difference. It is, in a word, sustainable. Carbon dioxide emissions keep breaking records. Gas, oil and coal still supply 82 per cent of the energy the world uses. These meetings have gone on for nearly one third of a century already; they are an institution complete with traditions and ceremonies; people have spent entire careers attending them.
The last thing they need is for somebody to solve the problem. If, say, Melon Usk were to invent cheap, clean, endless fusion power tomorrow so we could stop worrying about climate change, the 67,000 would be alarmed: they prefer scolding us and having COPs.
The Taliban are attending the COP this year but most Western politicians have twigged that it is a waste of time. This year: no Biden, no Macron, no Modi, no Ishiba, no Scholz, no Xi. Only one G7 leader has not yet twigged that the whole thing is a performative farce: our very own Sir Keir. […]
Now that Donald Trump and Javier Milei of Argentina are pulling out of the whole sham, we can begin to see a glimmer of hope that the COP might one day fade into irrelevance. It will probably never die entirely but become about as newsworthy as, say, the Henley Regatta. Just less fun.
https://archive.ph/7b3B4
The beauty of the COP process is that it can go on forever because it never makes a difference. It is, in a word, sustainable. Carbon dioxide emissions keep breaking records. Gas, oil and coal still supply 82 per cent of the energy the world uses. These meetings have gone on for nearly one third of a century already; they are an institution complete with traditions and ceremonies; people have spent entire careers attending them.
The last thing they need is for somebody to solve the problem. If, say, Melon Usk were to invent cheap, clean, endless fusion power tomorrow so we could stop worrying about climate change, the 67,000 would be alarmed: they prefer scolding us and having COPs.
The Taliban are attending the COP this year but most Western politicians have twigged that it is a waste of time. This year: no Biden, no Macron, no Modi, no Ishiba, no Scholz, no Xi. Only one G7 leader has not yet twigged that the whole thing is a performative farce: our very own Sir Keir. […]
Now that Donald Trump and Javier Milei of Argentina are pulling out of the whole sham, we can begin to see a glimmer of hope that the COP might one day fade into irrelevance. It will probably never die entirely but become about as newsworthy as, say, the Henley Regatta. Just less fun.
https://archive.ph/7b3B4