Wednesday, September 20, 2023

HELL'S GATES GAPE WIDE AS UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS

WELCOME TO CLIMATE WEEK !




"THE GATES OF HELL HAVE OPENED"

Liza Featherstone, who writes for Jacobin & The Nation reports:

"Every year around this time in New York City, I become intrigued at the uptick in protests, screenings, art installations, and panel discussions about climate change. I start feeling hopeful: We must finally be getting to the point, as a society, where all our political discourse is about climate, I think to myself. Good! How else are we going to address this crisis? 

Inevitably I wake up from this pleasant confusion. I then realize with disappoint that… This just happens to be Climate Week… it is now the closest thing the climate movement has to a trade show, a week of fancy lunches and private drinks and flashy presentations announcing new investment funds, new green pledges from businesses and states, and thought leaders taking the opportunity to show their climate bona fides...

Climate Week is a vestige of an earlier era, when climate was one of many issues competing for our attention and doing anything to increase public consciousness felt like important work. That time has passed.

Liza Featherstone @lfeatherz




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