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.
Oh. Well, if a professional liar says that something about Trump is “an objective fact,” I guess it must be true.
lol
Basing a claim on a single incident, e.g., the murder of Charlie Kirk, has no real validity.
So, here’s was AI says on the matter:
Violent crime, particularly homicide and gun violence, is significantly higher in the United States compared to Europe.
The U.S. homicide rate fluctuates between 5.5 and 6.5 per 100,000 residents, whereas most Western European countries see rates well below 2.0 per 100,000. A resident of the U.S. is generally 5 – 6 times more likely to be a victim of a homicide than someone living in Western Europe.
The meme here speaks volumes to life in the United States and free market capitalism as a whole.
I happened to have met the guy who, in the 1990s, tried to build railways that would connect Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. One day he got a phone call from Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, who told him, “The fare between any of the major cities in Texas is $80. The day you drive your first spike in the ground, I’m lowering it to $8.”
American businesspeople are no more interested in the wellbeing of our people than they have in being diagnosed with cancer.
If you’re wondering why there is so much pushback against renewable energy and other elements of climate change mitigation, you really don’t to look much further.
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