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“We agree to fix everything,” says the treaty. Although it ends with a wink emoji.
Silent movie era comedic stars The Keystone Cops weren’t nearly as funny or clueless as their privileged namesakes in Dubai. [image from Wikipedia]
The rich, powerful and clueless world leaders smiled and laughed as they sipped their expensive whisky and munched on canapés, and they concluded their party in the repressive oil state of Dubai — with an Earth-cooking announcement.
“Trust us!” said the newly released text. “We fixed everything before in Paris in 2015 — don’t you remember?” The rambling agreement goes on for several pages. Nobody has read it because it seems to be a cobbled-together amalgamation of past agreements.
The delegates admitted publicly for the first time that the whole thing was a lark. It was an excuse for a party. Davos and Bohemian Grove were fun, but not quite enough. The common people had ruined this one.
“We expected, in a country as repressive as Dubai,” griped one delegate and climate criminal who wants to remain anonymous and a compliant media has agreed to protect him, “to keep the unwashed masses away from us. They did, well, okay. But the protesters and scientists really bummed me out.”
