I've been listening to the BBC and glancing at the UK media, the Guardian.
One's reaction to the latest Cop, is that, to use a Trump term... a hoax.
It was supposed to be the 'Cop of Hope', help!
They keep interviewing people who imagine that there's a new 'scientific' solution waiting for us just around the corner, almost like some wizard is secretly conjuring magic for us. Their faith in 'science' is... almost touching.
Many of the Greens they've talked to are deluded. They seem to believe that there exists, here and now, real alternatives, no, slot in replacements for fossil fuels that we're just to slow or lazy to introduce instead.
It's magical thinking, if one can call it... thinking. It's like they think that all we have to do is faze out coal, oil and gas really, really, quickly and then new technologies and alternative energy sources will... appear to fill the gap in our energy consumption. That's the 'hoax' part.
We have to reduce our total energy consumption and reduce our 'standard of living' or consumption and ration and husband all our resources. The age of capitalist mass consumerism is over, or should be, but that isn't being addressed a Cop, which should really be labeled a Cop Out.
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