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So, roughly 90,000 people who took fossil fueled trips to Dubai, many of them on private jets, came to some sort of agreement to ending fossil fuels for Other People

Climate summit makes ‘historic progress’ — but the world still can’t quit oil

Climate talks in Dubai ended with a deal to curb the use of fossil fuels that was both historic and 30 years too late.

Good grief. Nothing like people who use massive amounts of fossil fuels telling you peasants you cannot use them.

The two-week conference, held in the oil-rich desert kingdom of the United Arab Emirates and presided over by an oil CEO, brought two competing realities into a painful collision. The planet is overheating, yet humanity remains inextricably reliant on coal, oil and natural gas.

The talks ended on Wednesday with a deal among almost 200 countries that committed to “transitioning away from fossil fuels,” notably by speeding up that shift before 2030. But the agreement also appeased oil-rich Gulf states by explicitly sanctioning those fuels’ use during the transition. And organizers gaveled it through so hastily that representatives for vulnerable island nations, who had a series of misgivings about the text, had yet to enter the room.

You mean those island nations with lots of airports and docks for fossil fueled cruise ships and goods ships, islands which would die without the tourism and goods and foods shipped in?

Still, leaders of the U.N. summit and representatives of major governments were quick to endorse the nonbinding pact as a historic acknowledgment that the world needs to move quickly to cleaner energy sources.

“This document sends very strong messages to the world,” said U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, who had placed his personal credibility on the line by backing the controversial choice of oil CEO Sultan al-Jaber to oversee the conference.

And then Kerry jumped in his private jet.

“This is historic progress,” said Danish Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen. “I can totally understand if our populations think that it’s a disgrace that it had to take 28 years. But now we’re here. We’re in an oil country surrounded by oil countries that are now signing a piece of paper saying we need to move away from oil. It is historic.”

And then he flew back on a private jet. The only people who this will hurt will be the middle and working class, because the Elites will still use lots of fossil fuels.

The final deal also included a pact to triple global renewable energy capacity and double the rate of energy savings through efficiency measures by 2030. And for the first time, it included a clear benchmark for reducing greenhouse gas emissions during this decade, which supporters view as a crucial guidepost for staying on track for hitting global climate goals.

Yeah, spending your money via higher taxes, and as your power bills skyrocket.

Many developing nations, in Africa and elsewhere, pointed to what they called the hypocrisy of Western countries that are continuing to expand their extraction of oil and gas while calling on others to consign those fuels to history.

Guess which nations are getting destroyed and will get worse to mine the metals necessary for “clean energy”?