Shocker: developed world declines to impoverish itself for benefit of Third World

Nee coal plant for Botswana, courtesy pf Peking

Climate talks collapse “Alexandria Villasenor, a 14-year-old climate activist, says she’s "disappointed".

The push for a strengthening of voluntary carbon cutting plans is led by small-island and least-developed states, along with the European Union.

These have called out nations they see as blocking consensus for all countries to step up, notably the United States, Australia and Saudi Arabia.

China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030.

These emerging giants have chosen instead to emphasise the historical responsibility of rich nations to lead the way and provide financing to poor countries.

Of course, there’s this consolation for the teenagers:

Even if nations in Madrid snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and agree to implement their pledges on paper, Earth is on course to warm more than 3C by 2100.

If these people were serious about reducing CO2, they have options, now:

The next nuclear plants will be small, svelte and safer. And they could push more fracking to produce natural gas as an immediate replacement for coal plants. And they could target China, which is “still building an insane number of coal plants” domestically, and, according to this NPR article, “building hundreds of coal-fired plants abroad”.

But the global warming movement, being fought using useful idiots in western academia and its media mouthpiece, is about political, not solar power, and centralized authority. Nothing could be more attractive to the corrupt bureaucrats at the UN than a massive new pile of cash to keep for themselves and distribute to their friends while they return the developed world to the stone age. It’s heartening that there are still some adults who recognize this and refuse to play.

(Poor Greta — the child has already been displaced by a 14-year-old, and as the media works to keep the image fresh, the trend is ever downwards)

Never too young for indoctrination