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Dirty-Energy Hypocrisy Symbolizes the World’s Approach to Climate Change
The UN Climate Conference convenes in Dubai, and the top-20 energy users plan to announce a doubling of fossil fuel use
Knock-knock. Who’s there? America’s climate change warriors. Okay, what do you want? We want to announce that we are doing all we can to fight climate change, so between now and 2030, the United States will double the amount of oil, gas, and coal to be extracted.
Oh, great, wait! W-w-w-whatttt?!
Absurd, you whisper? Indeed. The absurdity, which borders on insanity, will soon be expressed in the desert, the same one under which billions of plants and other marine life had the audacity to decompose and create the fuel we now overuse to destroy our earth.
Diplomats, environmentalists and business leaders will gather in Dubai to hash out how each nation will reach its climate goals and debate whether to issue a statement on phasing out fossil fuels in the coming years.
In July, U.A.E. officials said the country by 2030 would cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 19% compared with 2019. But the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. plans to boost oil production capacity to 5 million barrels a day by 2027 from the current 4 million…
