COP29: “Combating Local weather Change” is Euphemism for Ending Fossil Fuels

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After the one win from final yr’s COP28 was saying out loud “Finish Fossil Fuels,” the Drill-Child-Drill crowd beneath the management of Saudi Arabia is doing every thing of their energy to make it only a line in an “All the Above” coverage agenda.

At each worldwide discussion board — from G20, to IAEA, to COP-on-Biodiversity, to Convention on Small Island Creating States, and doubtless others — the Saudi delegates have solely been centered on disarming the horrible factor that occurred at COP28 in Dubai.

I’m freely quoting an article within the New York Instances: “Saudi Arabia Is a Wrecking Ball in World Local weather Talks.” Studying the whole article is illuminating.

The Saudi head of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, advised his oil buddies in Houston: “We must always abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and fuel.” I fully agree. These oil barons usually are not those to do this. Not even the governments from many dependent and blackmailed nations ought to attempt to do it.

Depart it to the invisible hand of the market. That’s the quickest and most safe technique to eliminate all fossil fuels. They’re just too costly and include too many strings hooked up. That’s even past the local weather, surroundings, and well being points hooked up to fossil fuels.

So, I say, humor the harm emotions of the Saudis and cease speaking about “transitioning away from fossil fuels in vitality programs, in a simply, orderly and equitable method.” We name it merely combating local weather change and everyone knows it’s precisely the identical.