Don’t Be Sorry the U.S. Missed the COP 30 Party |
The UN climate shakedown is a road to nowhere, right through the rainforest.
There used to be a bumper sticker popular with environmentalists and other left-wingers: “Think Globally, Act Locally.” The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) should really have dug it up and used it to theme its Conference of Parties (COP) that recently concluded in Brazil. Except that the UNFCCC acted like it was thinking globally, while partying thoughtlessly in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
For years, the annual COP was used as the global stage for the international drama production centered around climate change, once known as global warming. Each COP proved itself to be nothing more than a UN Disney-esque fantasy, where the rich and powerful would take their private jets to luxury international locales to absolve themselves of humanity’s supposed sin of greenhouse gas emissions. They signed big checks redistributing the wealth of first-world countries (which they had no part in creating) to third-world countries in the name of something called “climate justice.” Throwing other people’s money at problems is easy and fun.
And since this is the UN, you don’t even have to really care; Saudi Arabia chaired the annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women last March. COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, was more of the same, except for two things: President Trump has again pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord that was spawned by........