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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 136 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 37 points 2 years ago

COP

In UAE

Conflict of interest for Money

It was in front of us all along

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

wait, were people expecting something to come out of yet another climate conference?

repeat after me: we end capitalism, or we die.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, if we die, capitalism goes with us.

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

We figured out the cheat code

[–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 years ago

I didn't have much hope. however, after seeing yet another record hot year, I thought maybe this time people in power would do, or at least pledge to do something.

now I've truly accepted my fate. that I, along with billion others whose role in climate change is practically zero, will bear the most(provided we live that long).

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

repeat after me: we end capitalism, or we die.

lenin-laugh

[–] Chinzon@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

I agree, it takes a lot of copium to believe that all of this "phasing out by 2050" shit itsnt straight pandering. Its like a smoker with lung cancer saying they'll quit in a few years. We are hopelessly addicted to our lifestyles that depend on fossil fuels. The only one thats ultimately going to shift our society is mother nature when she eradicates us through famine, extreme weather and chaos

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

i’m sure they’ll think of something new on the 28th one

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We are 100% going to suffer, but I think we can still survive as a species if we act quickly.

If worst case scenario comes to fruition it would be sweet to at least not let those bastards live to 100 and die peacefully in their sleep, on their cozy air conditioned beds.

[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am not generally pessimistic, but i think it's just over. We won't do shit.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

i think most people will wake up when hunger and extreme heat comes to knock on their door. im not sure if its gonna be too late by then.

i do see the seeds of revolution starting to germinate, that looks like it will come first.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem is you can’t get people to organize and work together if everyone is worried about where to get their next meal. Hell, people can barely even do that now; how much more when that time comes.

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

That's exactly when people come to work together. The French Revolution happened because people were starving.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is too negative. We are making some progress (mostly despite governments). Kurzgesagt has a great video on this that is both based on fact and somewhat hopeful: https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw?si=K4oUpRAHbGro18We

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is that any different from all the jesus freaks?

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

It's not really, both are bad.

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah… you are complaining about a photo ops thingy. I hope you damn well know that this wasn’t just about a coin ritual. But I guess it’s easy to just go hurdurdur over a minor detail. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Okay what else was it?

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So?

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Probably pancakes.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

If it turns a profit for them, yeah.

[–] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

Just gonna leave this here https://news.sky.com/story/cop28-head-says-there-is-no-science-to-suggest-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-is-the-only-way-to-achieve-key-climate-target-13021958

[–] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 22 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

[–] Metz@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Good. We are not doing enough yet. We should blow as much pollution into the air as quickly as possible. And spray as many chemicals on the earth and dump plastic into the oceans as we can.

The sooner we make this planet uninhabitable for human life, the sooner it can begin to regenerate for a future species that will do better.

Humanity, the disease, the parasite, must be completely eradicated.

[–] jose1324@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Eco-fascism is cringe

[–] L1to@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really eco-fascism mor like eco-accelerationism

[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Same callous disregard for life.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

Their precious economies can't survive beyond 2050. Damages from climate disasters will be big enough to make every economy shrink and make the Great Depression look like child's play.

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How tf is a comment like this one which is basically on some ISIS-like kill everyone level beeing upvoted?

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Because if there's one thing lemmy loves, it's intellectually lazy hyperbole.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Fiction fetishizes the “burn it all down and restart” mentality; but you could stretch imagination to a billion sentient species, even assuming they could ever exist, and I doubt any could make the change and progress humanity has.

It’s not even possible to duplicate the Industrial Revolution before, because the easily accessible fuel is no longer there.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, let's kill all humans and leave the Earth a smoking crater so nothing can ever grow here again. That'll really help the future life.