I’d like to say this:
. . but as a friend wrote, ” . . I have such a sense of dread for 2024″
I share her foreboding. Among many other things we just had COP28 – where we “address climate change.” And it was held in an oil-producing country and chaired by the CEO of an oil company. And the newly-elected chairman for COP29 also worked for an oil and gas company for 28 years. Don’t worry – they are good people and they really ARE trying to reduce use and sale of their primary $$$-producing products! Yeah, right. And most people nod sagely and slate Greta Thunberg – or anyone else – when she DARES to speak truth to power. Fuck me!
Here’s what COP has managed in twenty-plus years, us FOOLS:
COP28 agreed to reduce fossil fuel use verbally, while actually arranging to produce more, drill more and burn more. Our grandkids are fucked. They’ll have even more wars and poverty than we have now.
And then we’re having elections, in which people will be promised services like water and electricity and be disappointed. Again. What could possibly go wrong? *sigh*
~~oo0oo~~