Yeah, so I’m here to comment on COP28. Ethan says he’s here to give out all these pointers to help us prepare for the New World, but I don’t know, man. We’ll see. He’s mostly just hanging out and getting stoned. Now he’s starting to think it might be a good thing if civilization does destroy our habitat and ends in 2030. Says it will close the door on our destructive practices from the New World forever. Those of us here will simply die off, and the New World will go on without us.
Maybe, but I have more confidence in our world than he does. There’s discontent among the people everywhere in the world right now. This is a sign there is an undercurrent of discontent. People, mostly young people, all over the world, are buying into the system and finding the system is failing them. Young couples in China are paying in advance for new homes, only to find those homes probably won’t be built, and they’re not getting their money back.
It’s the same here in the Western World. Young people working 3 or 4 jobs in the gig economy, and still not making ends meet, let alone finding anytime for themselves.
It’s the leadership, man. All of them. Look at what these wars are doing to our world, aside from proving we’re more animal than human. In addition to the inhumanity in Ukraine, the war has set back the environmental movement by decades. Time lost when time is crucial. One dictator, and a handful of followers have made this decision for the entire world.
In response to the war in Ukraine, the floodgates have been opened on oil extraction, and it’s provided big oil entrance into the very institutions created to combat the climate crisis. It started at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year. Now the WEF is not necessarily acting on behalf of the world population, but they would like us to think they are. The WEF is literally an annual gathering of the rich and powerful, who have taken it upon themselves to solve all the world’s problems, including the climate crisis. A group of 2000 – 3000 people meet annually to decide the fate of 8 billion people, who by the way, have the same right to decide the fate of the world as they do.
It was in Davos, the oil and gas executives arrived in their private jets to begin their campaign that the energy demands of the world economy cannot be met renewable energy alone, and they would take control of the transition.
Fast forward to COP28, which is on right now. COP28 is held by the UN, an institution formed in part to look out for the global population on common, shared issues. COP is an annual meeting held by the UN body created to combat the climate crisis. This is the closest thing the world population has to representation in regard to the climate crisis.
Who’s running COP28 this year? None other than Sultan Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, who believes there is ‘no science’ that a phase out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global warming to 1.5%. He also used the occasion to make oil deals with 15 nations.
Now they trot out Bill Gates to break the news that we should expect a temperature increase of 2 -3%, rather than the 1.5% increase agreed upon at the Paris Agreement. Good old Bill. All he cares about is the world’s well-being. A 2-3% increase in temperature will produce severe and irreversible loss to the environment. That’s a fact Jack. I’m sure there are some who will be able to afford to skirt this inconvenience, because ‘a lot of the ill effects people have heard about don’t happen under a 3% rise in temperature’ according to Bill. Indeed, only 50 million people will exposed to these temperatures that are beyond human survivability. So it’s all good.
I’ve asked Ethan what he thinks about this seeming transfer of power regarding the management of the climate crisis. He says this is the issue we should be using to develop our world voice. Leadership, and it doesn’t matter who you point to, is not here for us on the climate crisis. It is up to us to take over the leadership of this common critical issue. We do it, by appearing en masse at every major event and discrepancy found in the management of the crisis. We attend online. This is where we organize. This is where we develop strategies, and this is where we flex our collective muscle to show them they better rethink their strategy. It’s called the Wisdom of the Crowd, and it’s the vehicle we will use to take management over the world’s shared destructive paths.
This is the big one people. These are the people we have to stand up to.