COPOUT30 in Brazil will be a sick climate change joke
COP30 Brazil faces backlash over extreme hotel rates and access concerns
The idea had seemed symbolically fitting at first – a global climate summit set on the edge of the threatened Amazon rainforest.
But as the annual United Nations climate mega-conference, known this year as COP30, draws nearer, what seemed poetic is now turning into a contentious fiasco.
In the Brazilian host city of Belem, the few remaining hotel rooms are going for 10 and 20 times their usual cost.
Residents in high-rises and favelas are offering up their homes at rates often exceeding US$1000 ($1685) per night.
An official booking portal for attendees includes a love motel that costs US$6660, for a 15-night minimum stay.
To make matters worse, some participants say these extreme costs are undermining an event already criticised for its inequities.
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The obligations put forward in COP29 are meaningless and do not in any way protect us from what is coming, nor does it make real momentum for adaptation.
The entire process has now been taken over by the polluter interests against the common good.
In COP29, there were almost 1800 fossil fuel lobbyists registered, far in excess of delegates from some developing nations that are climate-vulnerable.
This is Capitalism at its worst and we are seeing the exact same corporate polluter take over of COP30.
I just believe at this stage we are in an age of consequences, that the extreme nature of what is coming our way will splinter the political spectrum.
There is going to need to be a very different kind of politics and a very different kind of economy, society and culture required to be able to adapt fast enough for the climate realities coming.
The ugly truth is we will be forced to change whether we want to or not now because the speed of biosphere shut down and the enormous immediate changes they will wreck will literally force us to change.
It’s only a matter of time now.
COP30 will be another COPOUT.
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What a travesty, the first COP held some optimism but they have gone downhill from there.
Capital and Finance Capital seem locked into burning human society to extinction, maybe some will survive in outposts in a few decades but jeezus…it is going to get ugly.
Quite fitting it should be in Brazil 33 years after the Earth Summit in Rio De Janiero.
Remember that was the setting for a sustainable 21st century, when the word sustainable didn’t just mean make shit loads of money for the foreseeable future (according to Lutzon), and Agenda 21 and all those ideas that sounded so wonderful but came to absolute zilch and then we found out it was all part of the neoliberal agenda to make it look like something was being done to appease all the ageing stinking hippies and wide eyed kids. Remember the State of the Nation reports which John Key simply tossed in the bin and said “no more, this don’t make the rock star economy look good.
Perhaps it’s best if they just torched the Amazon forest and buggered off in their rocketships to invade Mars and fuck that up.