Chris KendallFor fucking fuck’s sake, whose genius idea was it to put the wolf in charge of the sheep’s emergency anti-predator conference?? Our civilisation is completely doomed. Sorry kids.
Pepijn Schmitz
Matthew Abbott@captainchaos @hannu_ikonen @ottocrat I remember a week ago, when Biden announced he was skipping COP28, multiple newspapers (and a few mastodon users) saying this complicated his climate credentials or proved he didn’t give a shit about the climate.
Maybe his staff had simply done cursory research into the current leadership…
@matt Chairing doesn’t mean leading. The UN process is the only one we’ve got so we have to make it work. Leaving it to the oil barons to run it won’t save us.
@ottocrat Chairing *does* mean leading. It doesn’t mean unilateral control, but chairs set agendas, pursuant to any limitations set by previous bylaws, and have a large influence on proceedings.
Either way, the US was not absent from the conference. We sent a whole delegation, including our Envoy for Climate. The only thing Biden’s presence would have added here is photos of him shaking this guy’s hand.
Ms. Peg