The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away

  • @BMTea
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    921 days ago

    I never understood the obsession with big oil. Oil and gas firms have strong lobby power but it’s actually the economics of cheap fossil fuels and nations’ desires to out-compete each other in growth and industry that are driving the demand.

  • lettruthout
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    722 days ago

    And we’re killing ourselves by not changing what we each can.

    We need to act globally AND personally.

    • @riodoro1
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      19 days ago

      How can you expect people to act when the world around them continues burning through resources at a break neck pace?

      One of mcdonalds in my city recently got turned into some sort of a light show/amusement parks for not more than a month. Thousands kilowatt hours wasted, millions of LEDs, tons of steel and plastic, fuel to transport it here and there. All to promote a brand everybody already knows. Now go tell children to take shorter showers.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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    522 days ago

    The UN seems to be running out of vocabulary to describe how serious the danger is.

    “they should’ve sent a poet”

  • Hanrahan
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    121 days ago

    No it won’t, you misunderstand COP meetings.