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Martha Ture's avatar

Dear Bill - re global warming and great art - do check out Nick Cave's Forothermore at the Guggenheim - he writes "A Tondo is me looking at these brain scans of inner-city youth that live in extreme, violent zones, and the trauma that comes from that, and pairing that with extreme weather patterns - colliding these two forces together."

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Meanwhile the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn continue to peddle their green facade. Prison is too good for this pack of morally bankrupt liars:

Oil Change International

March 7, 2023 By Andy Rowell

COP28 🦖 President pushes false fossil fuel solutions, such as CCS, at 🦖💰🦀🐘🦕🐍🦍🐉 CERAWeek

SNIPPET:

Also addressing the conference this morning was 🦖😈 Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber, who currently fulfills two completely contradictory roles. He is the Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), as well as President for the upcoming COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year.

Many scientific, political, civil society commentators, including colleagues at Oil Change International, have already pointed out how utterly incompatible it is to be the boss of and oil company and a host of a climate conference at the same time. It is akin to a tobacco baron organizing a conference on smoking and health. The conflict of interest is palpable.

Speaking after his appointment, Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, told the Financial Times that Al-Jaber’s presidency of COP28 was “tantamount to a full-scale capture of the UN climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists.”

Full article: 🤦‍♂️😠

https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/fossil-fuel-folly/fossil-fuel-propaganda-modus-operandi/msg923/#msg923

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