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link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/climate/uae-cop28-documents-al-jaber.html
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image transcription:

meme has two parts. upper and lower.
on upper part is a screenshot of an article's title(by new york times) that reads:

Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels
A leaked document has talking points for the president of the United Nations climate conference, who is an oil executive in the United Arab Emirates, to advance oil and gas deals.

on bottom part is Pepe the Frog^1^ inhaling from an oxygen tank labelled "copium", aka the copium meme^2^.
accompanied to pepe is the text, "it's over, Bros."
and behind pepe is faded logo of cop28 summit.

1: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog
2: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/copium

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[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 152 points 2 years ago

The head of the climate conference... Is the head of an oil company. Oh my gosh this is like a Ricky and Morty episode

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

COP

In UAE

Conflict of interest for Money

It was in front of us all along

You mean the climate summit….. in fucking Dubai? Lol

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[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

This is all you need to understand how little of a shit our leaders actually give about climate change.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

How is that any different from all the jesus freaks?

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 years ago

What a fucking farce. Unless the people take matters into their own hands and topple their governments, nothing will ever happen.

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago

seeing the incumbent party in my home country watering down environmental protection rules to benefit(and later benefit from) crony capitalist friends even as they persecute activists, I think it's over.

it's too late for class consciousness.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 26 points 2 years ago

They're actually and unironically going to kill us all, aren't they?

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

If it turns a profit for them, yeah.

[-] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago
[-] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 25 points 2 years ago

I'm going to call it - The Oil Summit from now on.

[-] Titan@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

Anything that goes against capital will be refuted in our current system

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