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 Frog1 inhaling from an oxygen tank labelled “copium”, aka the copium meme2.
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

    • elvith@feddit.de
      11·
      1 year ago

      Dubai isn’t necessarily a bad place per se. Like… “do you like it here outside w/o air conditioning? That’s your average winter in the Antarctic in a few years, if you don’t act.”

      Problem is, it’s not done this way…

  • comrade19@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year 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

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

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

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

    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      Serious question…how do we end capitalism?

      Like, even a near-term steps to take would be sufficient. I’m just feeling a bit run down these days. It seems like when we, the MAJORITY PEOPLE, get a win… we’re slapped in the face with ten other losses. Fascism is on the rise, inflation is insane, housing prices are insane, here in the US there is a legitimate chance Trump might win again which is extremely disheartening.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        We organize. Lenin literally wrote a manual outlining the basic general steps, and those were used successfully all around the world by the working class to take over the state. It is also a great way of fighting fascism.

        We organize worker unions, then start using our power of collective bargaining and strikes to force them to concede more and more. All that while building a paralel socialist party and bottom up councils to direct the decisions, this party will eventually take over the state. In an ideal world this can be done nonviolently (it did initially happen peacefully in russia) but the elites will resist so we have to be prepared and strong enough. Along the way we may need to arm ourselves, save up on food and necessities to defend against the state violence that will come. For that we need a good chunk of the population onboard but its definetly possible. About half the people in most countries are already convinced voting can only bring the lesser evil so half the battle is done for us.

        This is just one way, of course there are several schools of thought on the left about how to do it. Anarchists have an interesting idea of just building the all institutions we need parallel to the state too, although their method never worked on a large countrywide scale, it works pretty well for smaller communes.

  • Metz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.