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After the only win from last year’s COP28 was saying out loud “End Fossil Fuels,” the Drill-Baby-Drill crowd under the leadership of Saudi Arabia is doing everything in their power to make it just a line in an “All of the Above” policy agenda.
At every international forum — from G20, to IAEA, to COP-on-Biodiversity, to Conference on Small Island Developing States, and probably others — the Saudi delegates have only been focused on disarming the terrible thing that happened at COP28 in Dubai.
I am freely quoting an article in the New York Times: “Saudi Arabia Is a Wrecking Ball in Global Climate Talks.” Reading the complete article is illuminating.
The Saudi head of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, told his oil buddies in Houston: “We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas.” I completely agree. Those oil barons are not the ones to do that. Not even the governments from many dependent and blackmailed nations should try to do it.
Leave it to the invisible hand of the market. That is the fastest and most secure way to get rid of all fossil fuels. They are simply too expensive and come with too many strings attached. That is even beyond the climate, environment, and health issues attached to fossil fuels.
So, I say, humor the hurt feelings of the Saudis and stop talking about “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.” We call it simply fighting climate change and we all know it is exactly the same.
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