The Subject Heading says it all.
Trouble is, the day is coming when Bullshit will be as scarce as Hen's Teeth.
But the last few lines of the article say it all.
Carl Jarvis
"the future success of any serious fight against global warming must
in time take on an independent working class character directly in
opposition to the
capitalist system and all its advocates. The critical demand, "System
Change Not Climate Change!" must find expression among the only forces
in society
capable of challenging capitalism's march to doomsday. Corporate
funded NGO's, usually beholden to their sponsors, are simply incapable
of exercising the
class power required to win this historic battle."
On 1/1/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
> https://socialistaction.org/2019/12/29/bullshit-at-madrid-cop25-climate-conference/
> "Bullshit!" at Madrid COP25 climate conference
> Socialist Action
> /
> 3 days ago
>
> By JEFF MACKLER
> Socialist Action's 2020 candidate for the U.S. presidency
>
> Some 500,000 climate activists mobilized in Madrid by a broad array of
> NGO's around the world demanded that the United Nations-sponsored COP 25
> (Conference
> of Parties) agree on a series of critical measures to halt the world's
> march to planet catastrophe. After eleven days of "negotiations" ending
> on December
> 15 the result was zero. No significant agreements on any issue emerged
> from this 25th annual UN climate conference where representatives from
> 200 capitalist
> countries and fossil fuel energy lobbyists from the world's leading
> polluters once again ensured that whatever "accords" were reached were
> worthless in
> terms of preventing the near-term projected deadly increase of 1.5 – 2.0
> degrees celsius in the earth's temperature. The December 16 New York
> Times front-page
> headline bluntly read, "Climate Talks End With U.S. Ceding Nothing." Lip
> service verbiage aside, not a single one of the world's leading powers
> could agree
> on any concrete measures to fundamentally reign in their dependence on
> fossil fuels and the monopoly super profits derived from their continued
> and expanded
> use.
>
> The COP25 demand from representatives of the poorest nations on earth,
> including those threatened with inundation from sea water and massive
> ocean pollution,
> for compensation and aid was similarly met with contempt, if not counter
> demands for guarantees that the world's greatest polluters could not be
> held liable
> in future law suits!
>
> "Bullshit!" was the term applied in 2015 to the non-binding COP21 Paris
> Accords by leading climate theoretician James Hansen, former head of
> NASA's Goddard
> Institute for Space Studies and more recently head of Columbia
> University's Earth Institute Program on Climate Science, Awareness and
> Solutions. The same
> Bullshit! definition was applied by leading climate experts around the
> world regarding the final proclamation drafted at COP25. Indeed, some
> 300 participant
> activists entered the Madrid conference hall and demonstratively
> deposited sacks of manure to illustrate their contempt for the proceedings.
>
> What most disturbed these climate activists was the near total
> indifference of the world's great economic powers. The Trump
> administration's decision to
> withdraw entirely later next year from the UN COP process was matched in
> contempt for the earth's future by a loophole-filled proclamation of the
> European
> Union. China and Russia too joined those who opposed any serious
> restrictions on the world's dependence on fossil fuel. Trump's
> representatives attended
> with the sole objective of insuring that no limits were placed on U.S.
> corporations' optimizing profits. The present U.S. election cycle circus
> notwithstanding,
> the Democrats' opposition to any serious challenge to the corporate
> polluters and to the associated and never-ending U.S. oil wars matched
> Trump's policies
> to a T.
>
> The leading spokespersons from the NGO's could only denounce the COP25
> results while expressing hope for the future election of more climate
> friendly officials
> and governments that they might influence at next year's Glasgow COP26
> conference.
>
> Greta Thunberg
>
> Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg's stinging indictment of
> the world's politicians and all governments' deadly blindness to the
> consequences
> of ignoring an impending climate Armageddon and her leading role in
> rousing some 7.6 million worldwide in the recent worldwide Student
> Climate Strike notwithstanding,
> the future success of any serious fight against global warming must in
> time take on an independent working class character directly in
> opposition to the
> capitalist system and all its advocates. The critical demand, "System
> Change Not Climate Change!" must find expression among the only forces
> in society
> capable of challenging capitalism's march to doomsday. Corporate funded
> NGO's, usually beholden to their sponsors, are simply incapable of
> exercising the
> class power required to win this historic battle.
>
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> everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind
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