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Al Gore Says Fossil Fuel Industry Has 'Captured the COP Process' (www.commondreams.org)
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The former U.S. vice president accused the United Arab Emirates of "abusing the public's trust" by naming the CEO of its national oil company as president of COP28.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Capitalist governments doing capitalism. It's ridiculous to think that climate change was going to be fixed by consolidating the power of the people who caused it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah classic dictators learned America will let you do whatever you want if you play capitalist ball. You don’t need to be a democracy. Hell, America doesn’t believe in democracy. America is for sale.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Turns out you can do whatever you want if you are rich and powerful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conference of Oil Producers 2028

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Indeed.