Paco Dennis
SF VIP
- Location
- Mid-Missouri
"Introduction
Dear rebel,
After all the fanfare, COP26 has failed. Not one of the G20 nations, the richest and most culpable for this crisis, will cut emissions to keep global heating even close to 1.5C.
Global South nations have not been given the promised funds to rebuild from and defend against the extreme weather that already devastates their lands and people.
Fossil fuel infrastructure will continue to expand and governments will continue to rig markets to encourage it.
On all fronts, yet again, the can has been kicked down the road. Next year, we are promised, will be different. Next year real progress will be made.
Half a world away, another convention that will define our climate has also just finished. But this one, held in Cape Town, has been a roaring success.
Africa Energy Week is a networking event designed to accelerate deals between regional governments and global fossil fuel companies. Africa is full of untapped oil and gas reserves. Contracts are being signed and vast infrastructure is being built to get it.
African governments need to bring their people out of fuel poverty. Agreements should be in place to push renewables, and compensate them for keeping their fossil fuels in the ground. Instead, the fossil fuel industry sent more delegates to COP than any country, escaped binding restrictions, and is free to plunder, pollute, and profit as usual.
African rebels are bravely trying to push back against this suicidal system. In Action Highlights you can read about protests across the DRC, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. You can also find out how unfettered extractivism is causing ecocide and genocide in Ecuador and Brazil.
Despite hosting another week of beautiful COP26 actions that championed Global South activists, Scottish rebels are angry. Understand why in COP Action Highlights.
Our last issue was so stuffed with Global South action that we had technical problems sending it out. To those who received it twice, apologies. To those who never read it at all, why not check your junk mail folder, or read it on our website.
The rallying cry of COP26 was to keep 1.5 alive. But the G20 leaders have left it to die, and instead breathed new life into the fossil fuel industry. The human cost of their negligence is terrifying to contemplate.
These so-called leaders do not just have blood on their hands, they have it up to their waists. They wade through it.
If they are not stopped, they will drown in it. For the good of all life, we must somehow wrestle power away from them."
About a 20 minute read
https://rebellion.global/blog/2021/...sletter-58-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it
Dear rebel,
After all the fanfare, COP26 has failed. Not one of the G20 nations, the richest and most culpable for this crisis, will cut emissions to keep global heating even close to 1.5C.
Global South nations have not been given the promised funds to rebuild from and defend against the extreme weather that already devastates their lands and people.
Fossil fuel infrastructure will continue to expand and governments will continue to rig markets to encourage it.
On all fronts, yet again, the can has been kicked down the road. Next year, we are promised, will be different. Next year real progress will be made.
Half a world away, another convention that will define our climate has also just finished. But this one, held in Cape Town, has been a roaring success.
Africa Energy Week is a networking event designed to accelerate deals between regional governments and global fossil fuel companies. Africa is full of untapped oil and gas reserves. Contracts are being signed and vast infrastructure is being built to get it.
African governments need to bring their people out of fuel poverty. Agreements should be in place to push renewables, and compensate them for keeping their fossil fuels in the ground. Instead, the fossil fuel industry sent more delegates to COP than any country, escaped binding restrictions, and is free to plunder, pollute, and profit as usual.
African rebels are bravely trying to push back against this suicidal system. In Action Highlights you can read about protests across the DRC, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. You can also find out how unfettered extractivism is causing ecocide and genocide in Ecuador and Brazil.
Despite hosting another week of beautiful COP26 actions that championed Global South activists, Scottish rebels are angry. Understand why in COP Action Highlights.
Our last issue was so stuffed with Global South action that we had technical problems sending it out. To those who received it twice, apologies. To those who never read it at all, why not check your junk mail folder, or read it on our website.
The rallying cry of COP26 was to keep 1.5 alive. But the G20 leaders have left it to die, and instead breathed new life into the fossil fuel industry. The human cost of their negligence is terrifying to contemplate.
These so-called leaders do not just have blood on their hands, they have it up to their waists. They wade through it.
If they are not stopped, they will drown in it. For the good of all life, we must somehow wrestle power away from them."
About a 20 minute read
https://rebellion.global/blog/2021/...sletter-58-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it
