Ryan Bridge: The problem with COP29

Who's got a trillion dollars to spare this morning? 

That's the value of our new climate change tab from COP29 – the climate change conference. 

This year all the officials, the politicians, the experts, the industry, every man and his dog, has flown to Azerbaijan to lecture everybody not in the room about climate change. 

And they're already cranking the classics through the stage: 

We're at a turning point, the Paris Agreement’s at a crucial tipping point because Donald Trump's going to pull out, even though we've been through this crucial tipping point before. 

This is the problem with COP-insert-number-here: no one really listens. 

Every year they make the same pilgrimage and give the same speech, and every year we shrug our shoulders and wonder why doesn't the number ever match the year? 

Shouldn't it be COP24? 

Oh well, back to the mall for another coffee at Robert Harris. I also need to pick up some presents from Kmart for the grandkids this Christmas. 

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing every year over and over and expecting a different result, then these guys are beyond nuts. 

The big push this year is finance. 

They wanted rich countries, supposedly like ours, to pay $100 billion a year to poor countries to stop them from burning coal and adapting to climate change by 2020. 

Well, we missed that goal and now they want a trillion dollars a year. 

That's 1000 billion, or four Elon Musk's. 

Despite all the talk, and flying around, and threats, and end of day speeches, global emissions went up last year reaching record levels. 

Do we care about climate change? Yes. 

Enough to change our habits in a major way? No. 

We keep electing leaders to fix other things like inflation, and until that changes, or all of our houses actually do catch fire, we'll be at the mall down at Robert Harris not listening to Azerbaijan. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody who's got a trillion dollars to spare
this morning, have you? That's the value of our new
climate change tab from COP twenty nine. The Climate change
conference this year, all the officials, the politicians, the experts,
the industry, every man and his dog has flown to
Azerbaijan to lecture everybody not in the room about climate change.

(00:24):
And they're already cranking the classics through the stage speakers.
We're at a turning point, the Paris Agreements, at a
crucial tipping point, because Donald Trump's going to pull out,
even though we've been through this crucial tipping point before.
Last time he was in our house, is burning all
the classics. And this is the problem with Cop insert
number here. No one really listens. Every year they make

(00:47):
the same pilgrimage and give the same speech, and every
year we shrug our shoulders and wonder, why doesn't the
number ever match the year? Shouldn't it be COP twenty four?
Oh well, back to them all for another coffee at
Robert Harry Rus. I also need to pick up some
presents from Kmart for the grandkids this Christmas. Things to
do if the definition of insanity is doing the same

(01:09):
thing every year, over and over and expecting a different
result than These guys are beyond nuts. The big push
this year is finance. They wanted rich countries supposedly like ours,
to pay one hundred billion dollars a year to poor
countries to stop them from burning coal and adapting to
climate change by twenty twenty. Well, we missed that goal,
and now they want a trillion dollars a year. That's

(01:31):
one thousand billion, or four elon musks. Despite all the
talk and flying around in threats and end of day's speeches,
global emissions went up last year, reaching record levels. Do
we care about climate change? Yes, enough to change our
habits in a major way. No, we keep electing leaders

(01:52):
to fix other things like inflation, and until that changes,
or all of our houses actually do catch fire, will
be at the mall down at Robert Harris not listening
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