Western politicians and climate activists are using the jungle backdrop of the poor Amazon city of Belém, Brazil for photo ops as they lecture the world on carbon emissions at the COP 30 climate summit this week.
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Leaders from Europe, Australia and Canada, making ever-larger climate promises with ever-emptier rhetoric, ignore the crucial reality that Western actions are no longer central to solving climate change.
It’s time they recognize that real progress depends on innovation, not increasingly costly restrictions.
For decades, Western governments have made carbon cuts their mission.
They’ve spent trillions pushing electric cars and unreliable wind and solar energy, but their pricey programs are barely making a dent.
The global decarbonization rate has stayed roughly constant since the 1960s.
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