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- DogMuffins ( @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ) English34•10 months ago
So this is going about how we expected.
- KnowledgeableNip ( @KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space ) 18•10 months ago
Big Oil exec says he likes money and will let millions die to pad his already overinflated bank account.
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 16•10 months ago
It is very hard to get a person to understand something when tier job is tied to not understanding it.
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English11•10 months ago
So what is the president selection process like?
Chosen by the oil dictatorship which runs the host country.
- MrMakabar ( @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) 3•10 months ago
Legally speaking the president is elected by the Federal Supreme Council, which is made up of the monarchs of the states of the UAE. In practise it is the ruler of Abu Dhabi, until he dies and for a day the ruler of Dubai takes over until they elect the next ruler of Abu Dhabi as president.
- 0xtero ( @0xtero@kbin.social ) 9•10 months ago
Yeah this outcome was completely out of the blue.
- IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) English7•10 months ago
The problem is not the COP28 president
The problem is that the majority of world leaders, thinkers, academics, professionals and supposed leaders of this conference all decided that this should be the leader of this group.
The whole thing’s a joke and I’ll meet you all in the post apocalyptic wastelands … if I or any of us survive.
- Ben Matthews ( @benjhm@sopuli.xyz ) 3•10 months ago
Actually, it was not a majority decision, it was the turn of the “Asia” UN region to choose the location of this COP. (The previous one - not far away- was theoretically “Africa”, and the next one is meant to be eastern-bloc Europe). Of course they could, and should, change the UN traditions (or rebuild from scratch).
- x_cell ( @x_cell@slrpnk.net ) 7•10 months ago
Choosing Saudi Arabia for this is like choosing the US for an international conference on anti-imperialism.
- kwossi ( @kwossi@slrpnk.net ) 4•10 months ago
or a conference on democracy in north korea
- PoisonedPrisonPanda ( @PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•10 months ago
A conference about the planets hosted on pluto
- kwossi ( @kwossi@slrpnk.net ) 5•10 months ago
And then all of these clowns arriving with their stupid government private jets. we would honestly be better of without this.
- CurlyWurlies4All ( @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ) English4•10 months ago
What a fucking joke
- Tabs ( @Tabs@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
And that’s how it sounds like when you trade integrity for money