For the last two weeks, delegates from the world's governments have met in the United Arab Emirates for COP28, the United Nation's annual climate change conference.
Over one hundred thousand attendees, ranging from heads of state to climate bureaucrats, corporate leaders, nongovernmental organization representatives, and activists, descended on the lavish Dubai venue to hash out new policies for governments to force on their citizens in the name of fighting climate change.
Opposition to the goal of phasing out fossil fuels came, predictably, from the oil-rich regimes of the Middle East.
The African delegates are right to push back, but to call the phasing out of fossil fuels merely "Unworkable" is a serious understatement.
Despite all the pomp, formality, and official-sounding proceedings of COP28, the world's governments have no right to subject the rest of the population to such devastation.
Even without the promise to phase out fossil fuels entirely, the already agreed upon ambition to make a rapid shift away from fossil fuels and to limit further energy production will, if realized, be incredibly damaging.
At its core, the conference combines environmentalism-an antihuman ideology that is, in the words of Lew Rockwell, "Every bit as pitiless and messianic as Marxism"-with the coercive power of the world's governments.
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