Bummer: U.S. May Sit Out COP30 In Brazil

What the Trump admin should do is announce that they did not want to send a whole bunch of government employees on long, fossil fueled trips to Brazil, for which they would also have to drive fossil fueled vehicles from the airport to the host city using a road built by clearcutting the Amazon

The US is sitting out the most consequential climate summit in a decade. It may offer a victory to China

The Trump administration fired the last of the US climate negotiators earlier this month, helping cement America’s withdrawal from international climate diplomacy. It may also have handed a huge victory to China.

The elimination of the State Department’s Office of Global Change — which represents the United States in climate change negotiations between countries — leaves the world’s largest historical polluter with no official presence at one of the most consequential climate summits in a decade: COP30, the annual UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil, in November.

Without State’s climate staff in place, even Capitol Hill lawmakers who usually attend the summits have been unable to get accredited, a source familiar with the process said.

COP30 is intended to be a landmark summit, setting the global climate agenda for the next 10 years — an absolutely crucial decade as the world hurtles toward ever more catastrophic levels of warming.

In other words, it’s an attempt by a bunch of climate authoritarians to dictate how Other People are forced to act by their governments, while the people forcing this on the peasants rarely practice what they preach. Will the CNN “reporters” and staff by going to Brazil on a low carbon sailing ship?

There’s no point for the Trump admin to send anyone. They wouldn’t be allowed to advocate for the cult Fascism, and all the cult Fascists present at COP30 would not listen to Trump admin members saying “stop. Listen to yourselves. You’re advocating authoritarianism.”

China is building out clean energy at a blistering pace, as the US takes a chainsaw to its wind and solar sectors and makes a hard turn back toward fossil fuels.

“It is likely that China’s voice will be heard more loudly (at COP30), as they have identified growth in green technologies as a key pillar of their economic strategy,” said Joeri Rogelj, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.

They’re also building tons of coal fired power plants in China and across Africa. They also like to dump underpriced solar panels, wind turbines, and EVs, all with their control and spy codes built in.

In a statement to CNN, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called climate change a “common challenge faced by mankind.”

“No country can stay out of it, and no country can be immune to it,” the Chinese statement said.

China loves ‘climate change’ because it gives them another measure to control their citizens. One cannot actually expect CNN to take the side of freedom over authoritarianism, which China represents, when Trump is in office, can they?

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