link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/climate/uae-cop28-documents-al-jaber.html
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image transcription:
meme has two parts. upper and lower.
on upper part is a screenshot of an article’s title(by new york times) that reads:
Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels
A leaked document has talking points for the president of the United Nations climate conference, who is an oil executive in the United Arab Emirates, to advance oil and gas deals.
on bottom part is Pepe the Frog1 inhaling from an oxygen tank labelled “copium”, aka the copium meme2.
accompanied to pepe is the text, “it’s over, Bros.”
and behind pepe is faded logo of cop28 summit.
1: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog
2: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/copium
This is too negative. We are making some progress (mostly despite governments). Kurzgesagt has a great video on this that is both based on fact and somewhat hopeful: https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw?si=K4oUpRAHbGro18We
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