I have long viewed the COP xy (0<=x<3, 0<=y<=9) social events as fraudulent green washing. This years soiree is the icing on the cake of my cynicism about any possible meshing of common good and corporate capitalism.
What most of our favorite planet's inhabitants strive for is simply existence. They live on subsistence, not abundance. The people who call the shots for us in the wealthy North use their (the masses referred to previously) misery to motivate us keeping our noses to the grindstone. Our dutiful compliance is met by total disregard for our health by fostering the full blown transmission of a dangerous virus and too, the obnoxious trappings of a governance that simply ignores our plight.
What must be said however, is we collectively need to recognize that the game is up. Our northern lifestyles are not sustainable and will not prevent our doom much less the harm done to the far more numerous inhabitants of the rest of Earth. We will do better when we all can walk a few minutes from our homes and bask in the beauty that this miraculous spectacle of life affords unadorned.
Love that Ed Abbey quote. I got a chance to interview him a couple times. The last time was just weeks before he died. As with all aspects of our world corporate oligarchy and all world governments, the whole COP process is a complete fraud. It is dead. It's just one big corporation now that can only muster up a soggy-bottomed sociopath like Elon Musk as an avatar of a guiding star.
In one of his books, in writing of the inevitability of industrial civilization collapse., Ed argued for driving big cars fast, drinking beer and tossing the bottles out the window as a way to take us to the collapse faster, so we could (maybe) begin redoing civilization in a sane manner. Essentially, that -- minus the sanity part -- is what the world leaders are doing.
For any young folks out there who haven't read it, check out ""The Monkey Wrench Gang" ... before it is banned. Ed anticipated Extinction Rebellion by several decades.
> For any young folks out there who haven't read it, check out ""The Monkey Wrench Gang" ... before it is banned. Ed anticipated Extinction Rebellion by several decades.
I have long viewed the COP xy (0<=x<3, 0<=y<=9) social events as fraudulent green washing. This years soiree is the icing on the cake of my cynicism about any possible meshing of common good and corporate capitalism.
What most of our favorite planet's inhabitants strive for is simply existence. They live on subsistence, not abundance. The people who call the shots for us in the wealthy North use their (the masses referred to previously) misery to motivate us keeping our noses to the grindstone. Our dutiful compliance is met by total disregard for our health by fostering the full blown transmission of a dangerous virus and too, the obnoxious trappings of a governance that simply ignores our plight.
What must be said however, is we collectively need to recognize that the game is up. Our northern lifestyles are not sustainable and will not prevent our doom much less the harm done to the far more numerous inhabitants of the rest of Earth. We will do better when we all can walk a few minutes from our homes and bask in the beauty that this miraculous spectacle of life affords unadorned.
Love that Ed Abbey quote. I got a chance to interview him a couple times. The last time was just weeks before he died. As with all aspects of our world corporate oligarchy and all world governments, the whole COP process is a complete fraud. It is dead. It's just one big corporation now that can only muster up a soggy-bottomed sociopath like Elon Musk as an avatar of a guiding star.
In one of his books, in writing of the inevitability of industrial civilization collapse., Ed argued for driving big cars fast, drinking beer and tossing the bottles out the window as a way to take us to the collapse faster, so we could (maybe) begin redoing civilization in a sane manner. Essentially, that -- minus the sanity part -- is what the world leaders are doing.
For any young folks out there who haven't read it, check out ""The Monkey Wrench Gang" ... before it is banned. Ed anticipated Extinction Rebellion by several decades.
> For any young folks out there who haven't read it, check out ""The Monkey Wrench Gang" ... before it is banned. Ed anticipated Extinction Rebellion by several decades.
Also recommend. Thanks, Mark.
Thomas