Continual climate summits prove words are failing to produce action

Evidence

There is a power in naming this, rather than just filling up airtime. Because if you find yourself saying, as some activists more diplomatic than Greta did, that a climate summit is a “good start” and that the summit is officially called Conference of the Parties 26—because it had literally happened every year since 1995 at that point (save Covid-wracked 2020)—then it might be time to admit that words are no longer doing what we expect them to do. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 501

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: COPs have met annually since 1995 — a concrete data point on the intransigence question worth verifying and possibly building into the noise/silence or speech-degradation threads.
• XREF: connects to: Climate conference failures demonstrate capital’s power over democratic governance — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 340