The Democracy Now! article begins:
This year, there are at least 2,456 lobbyists at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai — nearly four times as many as last year — from companies like Shell, Total and ExxonMobil. The lobbyists outnumber the delegations of every country other than Brazil and the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the summit, presided over by the CEO of the UAE’s national oil company, Sultan Al Jaber. “It’s definitely impossible to ignore how front and center the fossil fuel influence is at this particular COP,” says Rachel Rose Jackson, director of climate research and policy at Corporate Accountability, who says the climate summit must kick out big polluters and “reset the system so that it can finally end fossil fuels and advance real solutions and save millions of lives that don’t need to be lost.”
What can be done to “reset the system” and prevent the fossil fuel industry from baking the planet?
I’m not sure, but the effort to shame these people as “morally bankrupt” seems to have limited effect, insofar as Big Oil completely understands that they are despised, but don’t appear the least bit chagrined–or even embarrassed.
I thought the cartoon below was clever.
Makes us wonder how much more appetite Americans have for this insanity.
From “Mechanical Engineers Rock”:https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/06/26/the-end-game-the-end-of-what-organized-society/
I’ll be the first to admit that most of what readers come across here is not my original thinking.
That said, people who are loud, rich or popular don’t impress me. If I’m going to talk to you about wind, solar, climate change, or phasing out fossil fuels from our energy and transportation sectors, it’s going to come from bona fide experts in their fields.
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