US Skips Climate Talks, Buys More Oil from Saudi Arabia
While nations debated a 'roadmap' away from fossil fuels at COP30, the U.S. reportedly didn't even bother to participate in negotiations, according to NPR. This diplomatic no-show comes just weeks after the Biden administration approved record-setting oil production quotas and quietly resumed weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, a deal critics argue is directly tied to expanded oil extraction. (Remember
those campaign promises about climate action? Good times.) One might wonder if the 'climate crisis' is truly a crisis when the world's largest economy and second-largest emitter is too busy arming oil monarchies to show up. It appears some national interests are simply too... lucrative... to be inconvenienced by a little thing like planetary collapse. How many more 'unprecedented' weather events
will it take for 'negotiations' to become 'obligations'?