No matter how difficult and how painful it will prove to be, the only sensible choice right now is for the world to unite as one and agree that it is time to totally break our addiction to fossil fuels.
But this almost certainly will never happen.
Even if the UN General Assembly voted in favor, that still would not happen. Why? Because the US capitalist empire would never allow it, and the United Nations is essentially powerless to enforce anything.
And it’s not only the US. It’s also Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Canada, Australia, India, China, Japan, South Korea — on and on and on and on.
Virtually every nation-state in the world is far too invested in capitalism’s fever dream of endless growth to ever consider calling a halt or urging their citizens to adopt a carbon-free lifestyle.
Instead we’ll simply carry on with Business As Usual, with politicians making their phony pledges and corporations doing their greenwashing, and with temperatures rising and ecosystems declining and species dying, while billionaires turn into trillionaires.
