Where are the cops for COP28? Where are the criminal and social justice forces that are on the job, making sure the commitments are kept to?
I guess the problem is there are no rules. Just commitments. If this is number 28, then have there really been 27 previous talkfests, where tens of thousands of people fly in and out to make commitments, to wrangle over the precise language, to lobby for, and to protest against, those who are not doing what they committed to do?
And the scientists of course are a ghostly presence, like offstage sirens, warning in more and more exasperated tones: ‘hello, climate change is actually here, in case you haven’t noticed the fires and the floods, the heat and the melting icecaps’.
Can you imagine a world where the murderers, the domestic violence perpetrators, the corporate thieves and arsonists all make commitments to change and they all get together on a global stage to put their commitments on, wait a minute, is there actually a table?
It really does mess with the brain eh!
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