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24 nations, incl. Australia, Britain, & The Netherlands will form a breakaway conference from the annual COP conference, without the petro-states, focused on permanently ending fossil fuel use. (futurology.today)

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The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.

This ridiculous state of affairs can't continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don't have power in.

The first ever International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, scheduled for April 2026.

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, good luck, the type of society that doesn't use fossil fuels is completely different from what we look like now. But no one wants to face that, it's just performative theatre.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

The type of society that does use fossil fuels looks completely different than we looked pre-industrial Revolution.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 months ago

Correct, among those things, they had no way of supporting 8 billion people with 3% of the population working on farms. Or intercontinental travel measured in hours. Things like that.

What makes you think we aren't going back to that long term? That was what sustainable energy allowed. Or do you think it was just magical happenstance that office work and supersonic jets appeared around the same time as we started using fossil fuels?

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