COPOUT26 – we have failed our children, our planet and ourselves
The final watered down meaningless bullshit that has been agreed to is a shocking nothing as the entire species faces an unprecedented omnicide from catastrophic global warming.
Vacant promises that aren’t enforceable is only a win to the oil industry.
We will hit 2.7°C with current policies, 2.4°C if all Governments met the 2030 targets.
That is an abysmal failure of collective will and represents the longest suicide letter in human history.
It’s not James Shaws’s fault that the rest of the planet is still only paying lip service to the adaptation required to mitigate against the enormous threat global warming poses, so it would be unfair to blame him but the sophistry of NZs position to do the least possible while pretending we are manifesting something meaningful feels like James taking our cow to market and returning with 3 magic beans.
We are all like, ‘James, where’s the cow’, and James excitedly tells us he’s got these 3 magic beans and we all punch James.
COP26 has been a failure, if this was our last chance, then we have failed. The political spectrum can’t operate when the wealthy polluters own the capitalist system exacerbating the problem.
Radical isolationism & extreme nationalism will be the only responses left.
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It was a convention for carpet baggers, narcissists and hypocrites.
There’s Cop 27 in Egypt next year.
There were more people from the oil and coal industry than countries. Nobody can get anywhere with the amount of lobbying from the super rich polluters.
COP26: Fossil fuel industry has largest delegation at climate summit
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59199484
“Governments just keep giving the super rich more money in spite of it being targeted at poor and middle class.
At least 18 billionaires — and hundreds of other ultra-wealthy individuals — received federal stimulus checks even though the payments were aimed at helping poor and middle-income households weather the pandemic’s economic crisis, according to a new report from ProPublica.
About 270 wealthy people received payments in the first round of stimulus checks directed by lawmakers in 2020, despite having a total of $5.7 billion in income, according to the the report, which cited a trove of IRS data on thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals ProPublica said it had obtained.
These rich taxpayers received stimulus checks after tapping complex tax deductions to reduce their net incomes to less than zero, qualifying them for the checks, the report noted. Under the law, the full payments of $1,200 per single taxpayer and $2,400 for married couples were only available to single people earning less than $75,000 or couples with incomes below $150,000.””
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stimulus-check-18-billionaires-relief-payments/
Same in NZ where wage subsidies and other government subsidies, developer subsidies are being given to the rich listers companies, which is being taken from the middle class and poor (aka infrastructure costs past down to the middle class and poor, for private developments that benefit super rich in NZ).
Much is being made about the billionaires coming to NZ and buying mansions with the idea that they contribute significantly to NZ, the questions should be how much of their world wide tax are they paying here, for how long, because it probably will work out that the Kiwis end up subsidising their lifestyles with helicopter, private jet travel and increasing property prices, carbon emissions, justice costs, frauds https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/william-yan-aka-bill-liu-to-keep-nz-citizenship-despite-money-laundering-conviction/YMYXI6UP6MG6UTYBNQO2SLRGJE/ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/394280/whatever-happened-to-our-billionaire-khimich aka themore work permits for their staff on low wages https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018791897/james-cameron-explains-dairy-cows-on-wairarapa-farm and so forth. These people have accountants whose job it is, to extract every dime out of any situation they enter into. Pensions, credits, NZ will end up giving them credits not the other way around. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/billionaire-peter-thiel-makes-fortune-after-sweetheart-deal-with-government/B22JSOU3762DJCI53XCR4MLRHU/
We’re all doomed
Still think it was worth it for getting to watch my favorite Journalist Abby Martin ask US state governors about the role of the US military as it dumps forever chemicals into the backyard of average yanks.
Oh and until we stop the war machine we ‘ant stopping us locking in a 3 degrees rise. I’m just not sure how we can do that – except to stop being part of broken system.
While we punch James, can we punch Judy too? JFF? We all gotta hope. Paradigm shifting sure is painful. Go Earth! She’ll cradle me in my grave, and I’ll give her my carbon. Thank you, Earth xx
I’m thinking that the handling, even the thinking, behind 3 Waters is part of the Copout.
Chris Trotter says this in https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2021/11/yesterdays-controversy-labour-better.html
Mahuta’s strategic reticence on discussing Three Waters freely and fulsomely, along with Vance’s airy dismissal of any significant reasons for her doing so, are all of a piece. At their heart lies a deep (and not unjustified) fear that the truth will outrage sufficient New Zealanders to kill the project stone dead. This government, and its journalistic bodyguard, no longer trust the democratic system to deliver the “right” answers. Their response: to propose, and defend, a massive centralisation of power in bodies sealed-off from democratic accountability.