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When you look at the catastrophic damage that #ClimateChange is *already* causing, and then you look at governments all over the world saying that they want to keep burning fossil fuels for decades to come and making things even worse, the only question I find I can ask is:
"What the absolute fuck is wrong with people?"
The two-week COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, saw the largest global participation of Indigenous leaders in the conference’s history.
But sources say frustrations grew as negotiators failed to establish pathways for rapid climate finance for adaptation, loss and damage, or to create road maps for reversing deforestation and phasing out fossil fuels.
by Sonam Lama Hyolmo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/what-was-achieved-for-indigenous-peoples-at-cop30/
#news #COP30 #indigenouspeople #climatechange #deforestation #fossilfuels #Brazil
Governments of Colombia and The Netherlands Announce Co-hosting First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels as COP30 Text Drops with No Mention of Fossil Fuels
When you look at the catastrophic damage that #ClimateChange is *already* causing, and then you look at governments all over the world saying that they want to keep burning fossil fuels for decades to come and making things even worse, the only question I find I can ask is:
"What the absolute fuck is wrong with people?"
The two-week COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, saw the largest global participation of Indigenous leaders in the conference’s history.
But sources say frustrations grew as negotiators failed to establish pathways for rapid climate finance for adaptation, loss and damage, or to create road maps for reversing deforestation and phasing out fossil fuels.
by Sonam Lama Hyolmo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/what-was-achieved-for-indigenous-peoples-at-cop30/
#news #COP30 #indigenouspeople #climatechange #deforestation #fossilfuels #Brazil
This is why we can't have nice things
Governments of Colombia and The Netherlands Announce Co-hosting First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels as COP30 Text Drops with No Mention of Fossil Fuels
"𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠."
These words struck me. I was talking to IPCC author @wolfgangcramer as part of the train tour promoting my book Science in Resistance.
After we sang the Dies Irae together at SR's concert by the Eiffel Tower, commemorating yet another failure of global #climate politics at #COP30, we both traveled south to Marseille, where I presented my book Science in Resistance.
Wolfgang told me how, back in 2022, he and 11 other #IPCC and #IPBES authors met with President #Macron. After sitting with him for two hours, alerting him about climate and societal breakdown, and the need to urgently transform our economies away from infinite growth, they achieved nothing. No change in mind. No change in policy. Nothing.
This, to me, perfectly illustrates why appealing to power is no longer something we should be doing as scientists, as academics and generally as change-makers.
As I explain in my book, we need to build #power instead - In both the streets and inside our work and living places, democratizing them, decolonizing them and making them fit for social and ecological change. And crucially, pushing them towards exnovation - dismantling all the fossil structures keeping us depressed, isolated, profitable, and in chains.
You can get my book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/science-in-resistance/paper
To learn more about fossil exnovation, you can check our NSU study circle on the topic, and sign up for our upcoming winter session: https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/
Distracted. Cartoon for Trouw.
This is why we can't have nice things
Theocracies like Iran & the Holy See also right wing governments were running a side quest to redefine gender at #COP30 instead of aiming to reduce emissions.
As well as wasting time, it's known that minorities are most vulnerable in disasters.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251119-cop30-dragged-into-clash-over-gender-language-1
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