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What is needed is a breakaway group of nations willing to get serious about the climate emergency. Who would join it? Most of the world’s countries, potentially.
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- What is needed is a breakaway group of nations willing to get serious about the climate emergency. Who would join it? Most of the world’s countries, potentially.
- author: Rupert Read
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date: Dec 4, 2021
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- This could very well work. By applying social tipping point theory, a coalition of the willing could potentially accomplish a lot more than a coalition mired in friction.
- There is enough capacity between 100 nation states willing to take far more aggressive measures than what a few petrostates of the COP convention continuously veto that it could bring about a social tipping point.
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“come back next year and try again”. My response is that it will be the same old thing – they’ve had 26 chances already. The planet can’t afford any more. I think the time for the Cop process is over. We just can’t keep kicking the can down the road.
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- come back next year and try again
- author: Rupert Read
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date: Dec. 4, 2021
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- We just can't keep kicking the can down the road
- author: Rupert Read
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date: Dec 4, 2021
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- Well, COP28 is over and just as Rupert Read predicted above, we will
- kick the can down the road again
- come back next year and try again
- It's a perpetual groundhog day, until it isn't
- Well, COP28 is over and just as Rupert Read predicted above, we will
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