Thread by @SteB777

The only good thing to come out of COP26 is that at least we now know with absolute certainty that our current leadership/system is utterly incapable of meaningfully addressing the climate and ecological emergency.

What inspired me to write this scathing response is good people, experts, have wasted the best part of 30 years engaging with politicians who quite clearly don't want to do anything meaningful, and who are actually far more concerned about protecting the fossil fuel industry.

The fact that governments still provide this obscene level of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, 30 years after they were supposed to be reducing emissions, and by implication fossil fuel burning, says they're utterly disingenuous in their sentiment.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

The fact that governments supposedly committed to addressing the climate crisis are still actively supporting the opening up of new fossil fuel reserves, when they know they should be leaving most known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, says that they are utterly disingenuous.

As I said here, it is now crystal clear that governments and politicians only took charge of these talks, not to address the climate and ecological crisis, but to ensure no proposed measures interfered with business as usual, or altered the status quo.

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1459128811262521346

That's what these talks have really been about, to ensure nothing got in the way of the extravagant high carbon emission lifestyles of the rich or altered them. To keep below 1.5C the richest 1% need to reduce their emissions by a factor of 30.

Yet, not one proposal of these talks has ever been about the richest 1% reducing their massive carbon and consumption footprints, even though that is the only way to address this crisis.
nature.com/articles/s4156…

I'm sorry if I've not been scathing enough, but I've run out of words and metaphors for how disgusting this process has been. How it has absorbed all the efforts of those who care and truly understand the seriousness of this situation, and nothing useful has been achieved.