CopOut28 so much worse than feared & Shane Jones goes full Climate denial as planet burns
COP28 deal ‘significant step forward’, Climate Change Minister says
The Climate Change Minister says the new global deal at COP28 summit to call on all countries to move away fossil fuels is a historic agreement.
A new global deal on climate change has been approved by almost 200 countries.
It is the first time there has been a clear reference to the future of all fossil fuels in a United Nations summit text.
But the deal does not include any wording on the “phase out” of fossil fuels, something many countries were demanding.
It’s ended with a whimper after the OPEC Cartel attempted a fast one at a conference where oil lobbyists outnumbered activists.
There’s no real plan on how to reduce carbon by 40% by 2030. We are doing 10%, no real plan how to the other 30%.
Without that measurable and enforceable phrasing out of fossil fuels there is no way we can overcome the tipping points leading to catastrophic climate change.
Allowing the UAE to host COP28 was controversial in itself, finding out these pricks were using COP meeting to hide oil deals is a fucking outrage!
UAE planned to use COP28 climate talks to make oil deals
The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned.
Leaked briefing documents reveal plans to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations.
The UN body responsible for the COP28 summit told the BBC hosts were expected to act without bias or self-interest.
We are in denial about the changes that are coming.
We are in denial about the need to adapt.
We are in denial about the new realities.
Look at this heat map…
…We. Are. So. Fucked.
As Kiwis we are a very laid back culture and we are fastidious about ignoring things that might lead to conflict, until conflict is upon us and then we are unrelenting in fighting for a righteous egalitarianism.
I believe we are at a turning point on climate change and we need to start being honest that nothing we can do now will stop what is coming.
For many of us, climate change has been a theoretical argument about something that might happen in the distant future.
It is no longer that.
It is now a present on going risk factor that poses an existential threat to us as a species and it is here now.
I’ve been following the IPCC reports on climate change from the beginning, and the criticism made against the IPCC was that due to its strict need for only unilaterally agreed science to make the official report, it was always underplaying the urgency and severity of the climate crisis.
There was always a section in each report where the science was presented that wasn’t universally accepted but included to show the reach and scope of debate.
Increasingly over the years, the worst case scenarios in the IPCC are playing out in real time.
The scientists were wrong, but only in their optimism.
You understand that each year that passes now will get worse or remain as starkly bad as they are now right?
You get that it doesn’t go back to normal after this right?
The extreme weather will get worse and worse.
More extreme than these extremes now.
Radical adaptation and communal community resourcing alongside a Big State approach to lynchpin infrastructure for basic self-reliance as an Island country facing enormous economic shockwaves is the only means to build the muscle mass to respond to the ever intensifying external disruption of late stage capitalism.
The need to increase military spending to 5% alongside the new costs for this infrastructure must be funded via new taxes aimed at corporations and banks.
A financial transaction tax and windfall profit tax would take the yoke of taxation off working people and place it upon the shoulders of the wealthy.
National and ACT see mass immigration as a means to create fake growth at a time when we should be focused on de-growth.
Climate Crisis is here and adaptation is now.
We need to start rethinking Isolationism as a strength and Hyper-Regional Think Big as Economic Sovereignty.
The geopolitical shock waves are only getting more intense from here on in.
As you look around at the devastation these extreme weather events have caused, doesn’t being carbon neutral by 2050 look pathetic now?
We need a far larger vision than Luxon can produce, we need a far larger vision than the Left are even currently thinking.
That’s what makes Shane Jones latest banjo twanging redneck proclamations on Climate Change Hysteria so outrageous!
But it’s not just oil rich nations pushing back. Here in New Zealand the Government is doubling down on scrapping targets, with the new Resources Minister Shane Jones calling climate concerns “hysteria.”
We are on the age of consequences now, his denial is beneath the mana of the moment!
Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions that are causing the climate crisis, and big oil KNEW in the 1990s that they were creating catastrophic climate change.
The comparisons between how Big Tobacco lied and manipulated the science linking smoking to cancer is as audacious as Big Oil has lied and manipulated the science linking CO2 to global warming.
We should be collectively suing Big Oil now and using the payouts to fund the urgent Green transition away from fossil fuels.
It is outrageous that our Government has not led this fight and instead capitulate to the polluters rather than challenge them. Indigenous people have been at the forefront of the climate crisis battle and have been the frontline between corporate polluting greed and sustainable habitats.
You can see why the State illegally spied on Māori Iwi fighting big oil in this country.
We need a vastly different vision for this country now, and it will require a revolution at the Ballot Box.
The Left need a new big vision that is achievable and 100% sustainable.
A specific plan to get elected with a radical agenda, force other Parties of the Left to agree, a 100 day plan to force it through and a strategy to hold the changes in place.
The next 3 years will start seeing climate change events beyond the ability to ignore and will terrify the electorate.
We as a movement must have a plan and an ability to articulate that or we perish as a movement, as a people and as a country.
This is now an existential threat to our species playing out in real time.
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Tautoko that MB.
We’re fukd.
Well said Martyn – another excellent paper.
Pity those in power lack either the competence or compulsion to read, let alone, contemplate (or heaven forbid actually act on ) what is rapidly becoming an irreversible downward spiral for the planet.
Maybe those in power believe in End of Days and Armageddon – and are actually facilitating the status quo as a “means to an ends” with Luxon as the messiah!?!
That maybe true for you people Martyn. But, I live in Remmers dahling.
Jones has always been a climate science denier.
Always.
We should look to America for environmental leadership what with their military juggernaut, their million oil and gas fields and their fetish for undersea pipeline rupture. We need to examine population growth and optimize global production and supply to benefit people, environment and economy. Sustainable solutions shouldn’t be as bad as their industrial antecedents. We should demand dairy and deforesters and intensive greed miners be held accountable for their waste rather than burdening individuals with eco-guilt. Science needs to drive change and emotion should motivate and inspire.
So we can expect any day soon Jones will re- open Marsden Point, right?
To the thedailyblog.co.nz administrator, Keep it up!
Will, I see the new Government has already received international recognition and has been awarded the first “Fossil” award, for their outdated and revisionist fossil fuel policies. We’ll done National, not to worry, I doubt overseas prospectors will be interested, as NZ appears to lack economically viable deposits. Demonstrates what a dinosaur mentality National has.