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EU prepares to push for ‘global phase-out’ of fossil fuels at COP28, draft document shows
(www.euronews.com)
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Given the history of COP either one of two things will happen - (a) it gets rejected completely, citing some technicality like 'a bad comma in paragraph 36 that means the chinese delegate will never sign' or (b) it'll get agreed, then every country will proceed to completely ignore it.
The world won't do shit until global agricultural output collapses and hundreds of millions starve... or maybe a wet-bulb heatwave that kills tens of millions.
Even then, at this point I figure the oligarchy view climate change as a good way to cull billions right around the time AI and robotics is rendering billions unemployable, so they'll probably continue fighting tooth and nail to burn more fossils.
Depressing and sad, but it’s likely and they can tell themselves “nature caused it”, so they can sleep easier with their choice. Until they start taking those statistics into account, they’ll continue paying to ignore it. The governments are complicit, with the lower rungs trying to squeeze into the survivors group.