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Don’t they want to save the planet? Hot water requires lots of energy to make. Food, especially meat, is bad for the planet, we’re told. The Egyptian government should ban the use of fossil fuels, so, all those 10K+ 40K+ attendees will have to find alternative ways to get home, rather than fossil fueled flights. Anyhow, the NY Times doesn’t see anything wrong with Warmists missing out on things

A Few Things Are Hard to Find at the Conference: Hot Food, Water and Trash Cans

On the third day, the smell of burgers wafted through the air. All around the courtyard of the vast conference complex where this year’s United Nations global climate summit is being held, hungry delegates perked up.

“I haven’t eaten much here,” said Sylvia Muia, a Kenyan reporter for Climate Tracker who had followed her nose Tuesday afternoon to a line that stretched across the entire courtyard. At the front of it was a kiosk selling $12 burgers, the first hot food available in the area all conference.

Told that kiosk workers had promised more food by Wednesday, she laughed. “That’s a bit late,” she said. “Uh, we’re already starving.”

It was early days yet, but COP27 was already drawing joking comparisons to the Fyre Festival, the catastrophically fraudulent 2017 music festival in the Bahamas where attendees were left clawing for wet mattresses and cold sandwiches when the luxury villas, pig roasts and celebrity acts that had been advertised failed to materialize.

The conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh had plenty of headliners, not to mention real beds. But a distinct shortage of food and water as some 40,000 delegates descended on the conference was causing audible consternation.

Yeah, 40K took long fossil fueled trips to Sharm el-Sheikh to complain about Other People using fossil fuels. You won’t find any stories about the attendees traveling around in private EVs.

But Monday and Tuesday, as world leaders claimed the summit stage and the crowds grew, most of the climate activists, oil and gas executives, government negotiators, and other dignitaries found themselves waiting in hot, hourlong lines at a handful of kiosks selling overpriced Nescafe coffee and pastries, which ran out by midafternoon.

The world leaders were not much better off. The VIP tent where they sat before delivering their speeches was empty of food by about 6 p.m. Monday.

Are we seriously supposed to fee bad for these people? They could have done this by video-conference, rather than all those fossil fueled trips.

Before the summit, Egypt had announced that Sharm el-Sheikh would go green. Cloth bags and biodegradable food packaging replaced plastic cutlery and bags; recycling bins were supplied, and solar panels went up. The delegates shuttled around in electric buses or buses fueled by natural gas, which Egypt said burns cleaner than other fuels.

But, there were lots of traffic jams, so, people had to wait 45 minutes for a bus! ZOMG!

At the venue, it was easy to find colorful new bins for recycling paper, plastic and cans. But places to throw away other waste were scarce.

By day’s end Monday, many of the recycling bins were filled with trash.

Why did they have so much that couldn’t be recycled? Bad, bad Warmists.