Thread by @SteB777

I want to give a brief explainer, as to how the COP process, appears to have been fixed from the very beginning. Lots of the people involved in COP, and climate policy in general, have been sincere.

However, it's the top level, who've been insincere.
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The theme of many of my threads recently, has been how the top 1%, or rather a clique within the top 1% have been blocking action to address the climate and ecological emergency. This is all from a systems perspective.
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In society, there are key individuals at the top of all organizations, whether business or governmental, who have key decision-making power. In other words, nothing that organization does, and I include governments, happens without their permission.
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These key decision-makers, can either make big changes, or block action, by simply refusing to agree or cooperate with action. They also determine what their organization considers. As I've explained, all they have to do to block action, is to do nothing.
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This doing nothing, is all but invisible, as by its very nature, it simply involves, doing nothing.

A further problem, is at this very high level, there's an almost total wall of secrecy, where the public, even journalists, have absolutely no idea about what really goes on.
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What we do know for certain, is that those in this secretive decision-making level, meet with lobbyists, and those at a similar decision-making level from fossil fuel companies, and other vested interests.
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All we basically know, is that there is some sort of high level cooperation, between fossil fuel companies, petrostates and those at the top level of government, but we have no way of knowing how it works, and what goes on.
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At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what work scientists do, the @IPCC_CH and most participating in COP talks do, because it all depends on what the decision-makers at the top of governments, and industry decide, and they definitely collude at this high level.
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Those at the top, can give big blah, blah, blah speeches, then simply refuse to agree on action to make a change, and you'll never see that, because all they've done is nothing. Try proving this doing nothing was done for a reason, is all but impossible i.e. the rigging.
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We are just supposed to take the word from these key decision makers, that they're listening to the science, and they're committed to addressing the climate crisis, even if their lack of action, says the complete opposite. Actions, and non-actions speak louder than words.
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The biggest deceit, the big illusion, is that all these people at the top are somehow independent. That they'd never conspire to rig decisions for their own self-interest. But they're the ultimate clique, with many common interests, not in the public interest.
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