The ruinous failure of COP27
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Simon Pirani provides a sober assessment of the disasterous outcome of COP27.
We are reminded of the remark, attributed to George Macaulay Trevelyan when speaking of another historical pivot point, that the revolutions of 1848 in Europe were the turning point at which history failed to turn…
Pirani’s conclusion: governments have failed. It is up to the movements, in defiance of these governments, to deal with climate change.
This article was originally published by People and Nature on Mon 21 Nov 2022. Read the original here.
Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured COP27. Hope lies in movements outside the talks
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Just found this video of Greta’s book launch:
An evening with Greta Thunberg for the global launch of The Climate Book. Greta Thunberg is in conversation with journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed.
The Climate Book brings together an unprecedented collective of over 100 experts, activists and witnesses to tell the biggest story in the world: how and why our planet is changing.
It is a clarion call to create change. It presents a global overview of the many, interconnected crises unfolding across the planet today, and reveals the part we can all play in securing a safe future for life on Earth.
The book contains testimonies from scientists and engineers, youth leaders and indigenous communities, national and international thinkers, and the voices of the most affected people and areas on the front line of climate change.
The Climate Book features renowned scientists such as Johan Rockström, Michael Mann, Katherine Hayhoe, Friedrike Otto, Stefan Rahmstorf, Saleemul Huq and Carlos Nobre, as well as luminaries like Thomas Piketty, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Naomi Klein and Amitav Ghosh.
These are stories to inspire hope through action in the urgent fight for the wellbeing of this planet. After all, if a schoolchild’s strike could ignite a global protest, what could we all do collectively if we tried?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ropBOwPvmLM
PS In the two articles linked to in the above article which try to discredit and smear Greta (AND the left), there’s a link in one of them (the second one) which links to the other one! I’ve just this minute listened to her speech (which begins at 9mins 20secs), and she certainly didn’t say anything in terms of ‘overthrowing’ capitalism, only sustainability, as you would expect.
There really are no limits to the malevolence of the rabid right-wing shills in their quest to try and discredit Greta. The following are just a few examples from the comments section of one of the articles linked to above:
So we now follow the advice of a girl with scant basic school education, who has never actually done a proper days work in her life, but has happily taken all the benefits from those little people who worked and paid taxes, such that she could be brought up in a society which provided her with healthcare, a free (and wasted ) education, clean , and free from starvation and disease. No longer a child, just a very mouthy and opinionated woman, who has contributed zilch to the lives of others, and now seeks to dictate and impoverish those who provided her with the life she leads,
What a fine example [Greta is still at high school]
I had hoped she had been quietly forgotten, as she deserves to be.
Smash the system! (Book launch at the RFH). London’s middle class lefties in a nutshell.
Greta Thunberg may be one of the most famous people in the world, but I don’t know anyone who takes her seriously. Her thoughts are fatuous. The young woman has nothing to add to the world, but thanks to her fame, seems to be able to get past her mental illness to live in the world. Thank God at least for that.
Yes let’s all listen to a creepy uneducated school drop out to solve all our problems. Makes perfect sense.
The author acts as if this is somehow new or a revelation. Thunberg has been a leftist puppet from day one.
A look at that face .. those eyes, that posture, that smirk … and it strikes me she must immediately identify as non-binary if she ever wants to get laid.
She resembles Chucky (the doll from the horror film)