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It’s almost like this has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with Modern Socialist ideals, like redistributing Other People’s money

Ahead of COP26, focus turns to climate finance

Climate experts have stressed that the upcoming UN climate conference, COP26, is the “last, best chance” for the world to come through with a plan to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) and help countries move to net-zero.

Don’t they say that every year? Besides, I thought the Paris COP was historic, the one that would Save The World? No?

Managing the green transition and heading off the worst effects of climate change won’t be an easy task either in terms of policy, or coming up with the necessary funds to make sure these promises have a chance of success.

“Finance is essential to accelerating the transition to net-zero and achieving the full ambition of the Paris Agreement,” said Mark Carney, the COP26 finance adviser for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in the lead-up to the pivotal summit. The COP26 website lays it out in stark terms: “To achieve our climate goals, every company, every financial firm, every bank, insurer and investor will need to change.”

Developing nations trying to transform their carbon-based economies and find ways to adapt will be looking for the world’s richest nations, which are responsible for most of the global carbon dioxide emissions, to make good on an overdue promise of $100 billion (roughly €86.2 billion) a year to help them fund climate finance. And that’s just the tip of the rapidly melting iceberg.

Negotiations at COP26 will be focusing on raising even more money after 2025 because $100 billion isn’t nearly enough, according to Pablo Vieira, global director of the NDC Partnership, which helps countries achieve their national climate commitments.

That’s weird, because most 1st World nations failed to abide by the pledges of their leaders to pony up their share of the $100 billion, and now they want more? Where’s the money coming from? The U.S. (and China and Russia now) already provides enough taxpayer funds to these 3rd World Shitholes Developing Nations, but, the point of climate funds is to give these nations money without strings, because the 1st World apparently owes them for being shitholes, er, Developing nations.

How much?

But as of 2019, the last year for which data is available, wealthy nations had yet to even meet their original goal, contributing just under $80 billion according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Estimates from the UN, World Bank and the OECD have shown it will take $6.9 trillion every year until 2030 to meet the world’s climate and development objectives. And that was published in 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paris was supposed to give $100 billion per year, so far, it’s been a total of $80 billion, less than a fifth. Now they want to spend even more money? How about letting Warmists send checks to the fund, if they care so much? And what do Developing Nations think?

Last week, a coalition of 24 developing nations that work together on international negotiations issued a statement criticizing rich countries for proselytizing a universal goal of net-zero by 2050. “This new ‘goal’ which is being advanced runs counter to the Paris Agreement and is anti-equity and against climate justice,” the statement from the ministers of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) Ministerial said.

The LMDC argued that its member countries should not be forced onto the same timeline to cut emissions as the industrialized world when they have done little to contribute to historic emissions and may want to use fossil fuels in their own economic development, as wealthier nations have.

Surprise! They want the cash, they don’t want to have to actually do anything.

Read: COP26 Focuses On Climate Crisis (scam) Funding »

Y’all are getting duped, you know!

How the 1% tricks you into thinking climate change is your fault

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Climate change isn’t a problem caused by all people equally; it is caused mostly by the rich, and since we live in a capitalist world, the suffering will fall disproportionately on the poor. Climate scientists, sociologists and economists are largely in agreement on this point. And it presages the way that things will need to change in order to stave off the extinction of humanity.

“The problem is structural and systemic,” Dr. David Fasenfest, an American sociologist and associate professor at Wayne State University, told Salon by email. “Capitalist society is geared towards waste and destruction in order to promote consumption while producing at the lowest cost. That requires power and that means without strict restrictions most of the time we use ‘dirty’ forms of energy like coal that pollutes and promotes climate change.”

Sounds like this has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics

In this sense, there is no individual or group of individuals who can be accurately described as the single “culprit” behind climate change. Everyone is acting according to their self-interest within the system of incentives established by our neoliberal economic system. Cumulatively, these led to social developments that exacerbate climate change. For example, if a business uses a more expensive form of energy rather than a green one, their production costs will rise and consumers will probably respond to the likely price increase by rewarding their customers.

“We are all both culpable and not,” Fasenfest observed. People who can afford and use air conditioning during hot weather, or continue to eat beef even though it exacerbates climate change, all contribute to a system that is destroying the planet. As Fasenfest observed, most people have no practical alternatives to participating in this system on a day-to-day basis; they can make lifestyle alterations which make teensy dents in the greater problem, but that is about it. If you are fortunate enough to live in a society that prospers under capitalism (relatively speaking), the chances are that you fall into the category of major climate perpetrator in one way or another.

And the Warmists hate capitalism (for others, not themselves, of course).

In a sense, then, global warming is the story of how industrialized nations put humanity on a collision course with disaster in a capitalist system. It is a global problem, albeit one that wealthier nations have exacerbated the most. To quote Howard Beale from “Network”: “We’re just the most advanced country, so we’re getting there first.”

They never quite want to say that capitalism needs to go and 1st World nations need to be reduced to 3rd world shitholes. And the article, if you’d like to read it in full, never quite backs up the headline. But, they are onto something a bit, because it is the Elites who are tricking the braindead Warmists that they should let government take their money and control their lives. Like

Prince Charles warns of narrow window to face climate change

Prince Charles issued a warning to the world days before leaders gather in the U.K. for crucial United Nations climate talks, saying there is a “dangerously narrow” window to tackle global warning.

The heir to the British throne said Saturday that the summit, which starts Oct. 31 in Glasgow, showed that “after far too long,” climate change and biodiversity loss are at last “of paramount importance to the world.”

In a recorded message to the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, 72-year-old Charles — a long-time environmentalist — said the coronavirus pandemic “has highlighted that human health, planetary health and economic health are fundamentally interconnected.”

“We now have a dangerously narrow window of opportunity in which to accelerate a green recovery, while laying the foundations for a sustainable future,” he said.

He may not be a 1%er by money, but, certainly by stature, and he’s happy to implement all sorts of stuff that will hurt your money and freedom, while refusing to give up his own Elite lifestyle.

Read: The 1% Trick You Into Thinking ‘Climate Change’ Is Your Fault Or Something »