Climate crisis 'sliding down agenda', warns global energy watchdog
The mood in Davos seemed to lack the urgency needed to keep global warming to 1.5C, says Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, which has said if the world is to reach net zero it must refrain from any new oil and gas exploration projects...
While it was less well-attended than in previous years, it nonetheless drew in political leaders from around the world.
A notable exception was the UK, which did not send either its prime minister or chancellor for the first time in nearly two decades.
Perhaps some political leaders are now more alert to the negative impact of being seen at private jet jamborees, hobnobbing with loons, grifters and totalitarian schemers. It should not have taken nearly two decades, but small gains are still gains.
Perhaps.
Sometimes an extended and repetitive threat becomes too bruising to worry about any longer. Unless you work in the Climate Change industry of course. Or should that be Climate Change theatre?
ReplyDeleteIt always was a labour-intensive way of trying to enslave and impoverish us. Perhaps they have regrouped and are looking at the latest totalitarian idea.
ReplyDeleteDJ - maybe "Climate Change theatre" is the aspect which won't survive a bored audience while at least parts of the industry could be more viable without it.
ReplyDeleteSam - there may also be an envy effect in that many powerful bureaucrats and political figures realise they will never travel by private jet, so their enthusiasm becomes muted.
"Loons, grifters, and totalitarian schemers"
ReplyDeleteI love it, I may steal it, thank you!
Peter - thanks, take as much as you like!
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