Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "The Hypocrisy of COP28 u0026 John Kerry's Plan to Curb Climate Change" video.
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Pretty sure the whole thing is just a scam to distract us from the world dying around us. The US makes up shit about 'other counties aren't going to do their part!' while the US is the richest country and has produced an ungodly amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (and is still dumping more than other countries by leaps and bounds, especially per capita), the US could have solved climate change by itself in the 90s, instead we get the same lines. The US isn't unique on this, most of the world is deeply full of shit when it comes to environment protection, and the more money and power you have the more full of shit you end up being, in part because the people who end up with stupid amounts of money are the greediest and most selfish pieces of shit you can imagine, meaning the people who have the power to change things would rather just condemn our world to uninhabitability 'because someone will solve it later'. Well, it's later and we're no closer to solutions, and the world is past the point of being able to manage climate change due to the great northern bogs and forests finally thawing out and rotting away, even if we literally released no more CO2 as a species the balance has already shifted.
There will never be progress until stuff like COP stops letting oil money in, this includes not letting OPEC and allied countries host. What we have now is a counterproductive game of charades that only keeps us distracted from solving actual problems. Literally doing nothing would actually be better, because then people would know that literally nothing is being done, this misleads people into thinking the issue is being dealt with.
There is no reason to believe that carbon capture via machinery will ever be meaningful, it's another of those distractions from actually solving the problem of releasing too much greenhouse gas. AFAIK all of the attempts to make this into a tech have been unmitigated disasters, wasting both money and usually producing more CO2 than they got rid of, because the idea is fundamentally a bad one.
Heads up, if you have a non-binding commitment from an entity, you have absolutely nothing. Any and all climate 'commitments' mean less than the fart of an single ant, they are ephemeral as wet tissue paper.
Complaining about chinese coal plants when the US is still subsidizing dirty energy as a policy (and actively hindering the adoption of clean energy) is a very bad look, it's like a kid arguing they can't clean their room because their sibling's room is a mess. The US is the world's paramount wasters of resources, the next biggest polluter (or worse, it really depends who you ask, it's like how the US doesn't have a corruption problem if you ask American politicians and media, but it clearly does), china, is more open to green energy than the US. Interestingly enough both the US and china can be the problem together, and both use each other as an excuse to do less (or nothing at all in most cases).
I know Kerry is clearly trying, but for the love of God, the answer isn't 'more capitalism!', it's turning our backs on the entire philosophy the US embraced when it rose up against the brits (when they didn't want to pay their taxes). Selfishness is a terrible tool when you're trying to solve complex problems, and people keep insisting that it's through our selfishness alone that we'll find the Magic Bullet to solve all our climate problems. It's magical thinking, but our species is notorious for this when it runs out of solutions, it just assumes God will solve the problems/they'll just go away. If we don't stop being capitalist our species is doomed, be it now or tomorrow.
Anyone looking to the youth for a solution (to anything other than issues that solely impact youths, ) should be, and I think this is how the youngs say it, 'yeeted' directly into the sun, hopefully while screaming. Don't ask the powerless to solve the problems the powerful are making for their own profit, our masses need to find their pride again (if you doubt people have lost it then you don't know why fascism is resurging everywhere). You're lucky if your kid is remotely useful, I was almost completely useless until I was into my 30s, I played a lot of video games and I managed to be REALLY BAD at them still, I shudder to think what kind of worker I'd have been. Counting on 'the kids' is insane enough that people saying it out loud should be asked if they're off their meds again. It's 100% the people who have power that need to use it to make things better, not just for their own pleasure.
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