"Let them eat Haggis": COPout 26's MT Greene House Gases.

 

Jesse Ventura of the Blond Whig Party.

Taylor-maid Greene-horn; from the femme in men Miss Teak to e-Mask-you-Lation Nation.

While the masculine anti-Maskuline trans-gendered, conspiracy-theory-addled Marjorie Taylors her remarks to appeal to her "Climate Change is a Hoax" constituency, the other Greenes, gathering like a flock of lost migra-Tory birds, have roosted across what they have come to refer to as "the Pond", which appellation reveals the Showboating nature of this boondoggle of a conference that has flown tens of thousands of people who "really care" about CO2 pollution, dumping, in the process, unnecessary additional tons of CO2 pollution into the atmosphere. CO2 that will still be in the atmosphere, added to that still hovering there from the previous less-than useless COPout conferences, long after all these participants are dead and cremated (adding more mega-tons of CO2 to the already over-burdened load mankind has dumped into its most vital commons). It's strikingly ironic that a vast ocean can be dwindled down in the mummified brains of the druling elites to a scummy pond, yet the very air we breathe is considered so immeasurable we can afford to dump 40 billion tons/year of CO2 into it, treating as a disposable wasteland the only delicate balance of life-sustaining gases in the known universe.  

Oh, but not to worry, our stalwart leaders are using their featherbrains to hammer out a road to the future, one paved with concrete and tar, of course. But don't blame me, it's not my assfault. And who's building that road? Why Brazil. Russia. The USA. All three of these leaders in emissions for no reason whatsoever, except "The Economy", are here to show the rest of the world how to curtail their emissions, so that these big three can continue to flare with a flair, or make a great nation from rampant deforestation, while each one jokes that "Climate Change is a Hoax". Yet it's somehow Exxon, or BP, that needs to be sued for "Climate Denial" (whatever that means).

Biden called on the world to increase its production of hydrocarbons right before jetting to the COPout conference where he urged that same world to decrease its combustion of hydrocarbons. Meanwhile Putin was busy tootin' how the world needs to take climate change seriously, even as his government opens mega-tons of fossil-fuel production facilities on the doorstep of the most rapidly warming area on the globe. These facilities, financed, as all such endeavors are, almost exclusively with borrowed funds leveraged to the hilt via funny-money and junk-bond cash, such that, should they not produce the abundance of hydrocarbons promised, they force a repeat of 1998, as Russian bonds are worthless without Arctic hydrocarbons to pay the interest on them, while the collateral on which they are based have not even the slightest ability to make good on the investments they have buoyed up. This sector, on which the entire economy of Russia hinges, has already, although not even out of their construction phase, released such prodigious amounts of GHG's that, although it has gone unheralded in what we still laughingly refer to as "the news", scientists have, since the beginning of the year, started referring to the heating up of the Arctic as accelerating from the "twice as fast as the rest of the world" to THREE times as fast (with some scientists referring to the warming in Alaska as occurring at a rate FOUR times that of the rest of the globe). A scant few years ago Putin boasted that Russia was the country best situated to profit from global warming, with its vast plains becoming the breadbasket of the world. Now he has seen the effect that an erratically warming globe has on food production: sure, you can plant more, produce more, but how to get it to market before a tornado roils through it or hail the size of baseballs shreds it to bits, or a relentless sun, its intensity magnified by the tons of seeping methane released from Russia's extensive fracturing and its endless vistas of thawing permafrost, fries the delicate germ on its stalk; that is if it doesn't burn it up in a raging wildfire or turn it into a reeking mass of rotting pulp following a deluge of torrential rain.

Then there's the clownish Bolsonaro's Brazil. Brazil has fielded one of the biggest delegations at the UN climate talks in Glasgow, funding a lavish promotional pavilion to propagate the meme that Brazil is “a longtime champion of the environmental agenda and an agrifood powerhouse”, two completely contradictory assertions: when you become an agrifood powerhouse by transforming the world's largest carbon sink into a defacto carbon pump, your claim to environmental championship might become somewhat besmirched. But trumpery has been adopted as the new language by dictators the world over. So nothing one says need be consistent with anything else you claim. Bloviate until you're blue in the face, you need never fear contradiction being voiced by the Corporate-owned and throttled, completely bought-and-paid for (which is the complete opposite of "Free"), press.

All three of these countries speaking out so forcefully on climate change are the same three countries that have paraded their utter buffoonery across the world stage, ham-handling for the entertainment and windfall profits of the elites, the pandemic caused by a Corona virus. Wherein Russia, thanks to its Greene-hued cohort of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, is currently in the throes of its worst viral outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic, while Brazil's president is facing mass murder charges for deliberately spreading the virus among his poorest and most vulnerable populations, telling them a la MTG, that the vaccine will give them AIDS, and the US stands out as the host of a grand ole Party, nursing a hangover of 3/4 of a million deceased out of a worldwide death count of 5 million, the highest mortality rate in the world in the wealthiest country in the world. But don't take away that Punch bowl, Jewdy.

Yeah. Let's listen to those guys.

Which means we  have to ignore him. Who him? He who him:

The UN Secretary General  António Guterres:

"Our war with nature" includes a food system that generates one third of all greenhouse gas emissions and is also responsible for up to 80 percent of biodiversity loss."

What Guterres prefers not to mention is that the food system he refers to is the result of what was called the Green Revolution:

the one at the heart of all three of the above-referenced countries' "agribusiness", by which is meant the world's extensive, Corporate-owned, mono-cropped, artificially-fertilized, via the use of tons of fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers and pesticides, solar power plants. Plants that, as you can see from the photo above, require enormous inputs of hydrocarbons to sow, fertilize, harvest, and market. And the so-called Green New Deal promises to deliver even more CO2 pollution that the Green Revolution did. And that's it. That's the agenda tens of thousands of people junketed to Scotland to be assailed with. Perhaps that's what they mean by Climate Denial. So long as you call it Greene, you can build any machine. But as Guterres remark makes clear, just because it's green doesn't mean it's clean. In fact it  ends up that it generates enormous quantities of greenhouse gas emissions while wreaking havoc on biodiversity. All before one bite is consumed. Or one tank of gas is adulterated with solar-powered fuel produced by the Green Revolution, which has morphed from a "revolution" in food production to a platform for extending the life of the fossil-fueled era of the ICE machine (which now, being powered by fuel produced by solar power under the auspices of the Green Revolution, are defacto part of the Green New Deal solution ... Voila! Trumpery rules). 

Yet none of these countries have the least intention of dismantling their Agribusiness Powerhouse, even as they rail at other countries to follow the "environmental agenda" the GlassCow conference is tabling. One that each of them not only ignores, but, since all of them have inextricably straight-jacketed their futures into dependence on carbon-intensive economies, flips the bird at. Because what "leveraging" depends on are loan packages built using other loan packages as "collateral," a fair number of which are unpayable already, with many more teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, kept viable only by the low-to-no interest regime of the world's Central Banks. Thus they have no flexibility. Like jit inventory, there is no room left to maneuver for change or to fund innovation, as there is no time left when everything has to be "just-in-time" to the nano-second. And, time being money, as it is, there is no money, either. It has all been spent upfront, leaving not a red cent for alternate planning or building back bigger: and that too must depend, not so much on borrowed money per se, as on conjured money.

On the heels of the Green Revolution came the Reagan Revolution, and it declared that anything that can't be monetized is not only worth less, it's worthless. And on this maxim of monetization, wherein the value of everything is subject to the price a fickle market imposes on it, has the globalized economy been built. No conference on that isle where resides the remnants of an Empire built all-but-exclusively on Slavery and Piracy in the Caribbean, (funded by a religiously enshrined monarchy of murderers, castle intriguers and despoilers), where sugar plantations thrive to this day on the labor of indentured servants living in squalor where slave-like restrictions still hamper their every move, has the least possibility of altering that. If for no other reason than that all three of the most powerful, resource-rich countries in the world have not the slightest intention of altering in the least their respective carbon-spewing economies. Like three volcanos, joined by yet another three, India, China, and the EU, they discharge CO2 into the atmosphere in an unending exhaust of noxious gases, inviting cataclysm, while positioning their Corporations to enjoy windfall profits from the ensuing chaos their enshrined Disaster Capitalism delivers in spades, all the while bemoaning the intransigence of the rest of the world to halt their fuelish ways.

 Build back bigger arsenals, the real rallying cry of American, Russian, British, and Chinese "Defense" Departments, suddenly almost makes sense.