By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog
The Brazilian rainforest is so
endangered that the latest UN climate conference will take place there.
Along the way to saving the planet, a four lane highway had to be cut
through tens of thousands of acres of protected and endangered
rainforest. Endangered by its protectors.
(But the good news, according to the Brazilian government, is that it’s a “sustainable highway.)
And
if that’s not enough, fleets of jets will soon descend on the Brazilian
rainforest as an estimated 45,000 attendees will show up to party,
socialize, conference, and listen to lectures about how this time the
planet is really on the edge of destruction. Please pass the canapes.
COP30,
as the conference is known, hasn’t saved the planet in 29 conferences,
but maybe the 30th one will do the trick, at least if the delegates can
find someplace to stay in the rainforest.
The Brazilian
government is announcing that individual rooms are available for
planet-savers from other countries for as high as $600. Over the summer,
the UN held ‘emergency talks’ not over saving the planet, but over the cost of hotel rooms to save the planet from $600 rooms.
‘Poorer’
African nations warned that they couldn’t afford the cost of the hotel
rooms (but they can usually afford gold watches, elaborate palaces and
private armies) and would not come unless the costs came down. With the
fate of the planet at stake, UN negotiators held several ‘urgent’
meetings to discuss plans for lowering the costs of a hotel room to save
the planet.
Unfortunately the only way to lower the costs of the
planet-saving hotel rooms would be chopping down even more rainforest
to build more hotel rooms. Sometimes you have to destroy the rainforest
to save the rainforest, or destroy the rainforest to make it cheaper to
host African delegates to discuss saving the rainforest from umm… the
people destroying the rainforest.
By then it was too late to
build new hotels, but two massive cruise ships were dispatched to the
Brazilian rainforest to provide African delegates with cheap cabins to
stay in. For the planet.
The MSC Seaview, a 1,000 foot cruise
ship with 18 decks, massive pool, four-story glass-walled atrium, disco,
theater and full-sized bowling alleys, and the Costa Diadema, that has a
4D theater, a spa across 4 decks and a crew of over 1,000, were
dispatched to save the planet by hosting the African diplomats to
discuss reducing emissions from things like cruise ships.
It
would take the average person 100 years to produce as many ‘emissions’
as these cruise ships do in one hour. But sometimes you just have to
pollute to stop polluting the planet.
These cabins on cruise
ships going nowhere (an apt metaphor for both the UN and its serial
climate conferences, currently up to 30 and counting) will be going for a
mere $220.
While the Africans were appeased, the Europeans were
still furious over the high price of hotel rooms and refused to book
rooms at $600 a night. Not even for the sake of saving the planet.
The
Brazilian government rushed to find cheaper motels and Airbnbs to save
the conference and thus save the planet, and the Europeans relented, but
cut back their delegations so that fewer diplomats will be coming to
save the planet. And that might actually save the planet.
But
since this is Brazil, for those truly passionate about saving the
planet, many of the arrivals will have to make do with ‘love motels’
that in America are usually known as the sorts of places that charge by
the hour.
As the New York Times described it, the ‘love motels’
are preparing “rooms that range from the sensual to the raunchy for a
different kind of guest: diplomats and climate scientists, civil
servants and environmental activists” and “taking out anything too
erotic“ which suggests that they have no understanding of what diplomats
and ‘civil servants’ actually do at conferences.
Diplomats and
‘climate scientists’ will be given the option of having the “erotic
chair — a metal-and-leather contraption resembling a dentist’s chair
that was bolted to the floor for safety” taken out. At another hotel,
“an oversized framed picture of a person’s rear end” was taken down. The
brothels are doing this in the hopes of charging foreigners as much as
$650 a room.
There’s something undeniably fitting about using
whorehouses to host UN conference attendees. For all the talk about
saving the planet, these conferences are shakedown sessions at which
nothing is done for the environment (which is invariably worse off after
a mass of glorified tourists converges on some exotic out-of-the-way
locale) and the only green is the kind that comes in wallets.
“I’m
also listening to ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ by Rihanna nonstop,”
Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, the vice chair for the implementation of
the UN Climate Convention, told reporters at COP29 which was held in the oil-rich and otherwise bleak hinterlands of Baku.
Juan’s
female dog in question was the Western world, and it’s tired of
bringing the money to pay off third worlders, whether for expensive
rooms in mildly redecorated brothels, for ‘climate offsets’ or for their
‘climate catastrophes’. Much of the talk at the COPs comes down to
creating large funds with which to bribe Africa, Asia and Latin America
into going along with the latest version of the Chicken Little hoax,
from ice ages to global warming to climate change, that a bunch of
special interests and their hired ‘scientists’ describe as the ‘climate
consensus’.
Third world countries are too busy wiping out
endangered species to care about the planet. The only reason they show
up to these UN shindigs is to demand ‘compensation’ from the West. The
compensation comes in the form of funds set up to help them deal with
the supposed effects of ‘global warming’ and in the form of ‘climate
offsets’ in which Western nations agree to ‘cut’ emissions, but in
practice just pay third world countries to buy some of their
non-emissions.
If this sounds confusing, imagine that UN
Secretary General António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres has promised not
to cheat on his wife, but he finds himself staying in a Brazilian ‘love
motel’ at a mere $650 a night and decides to use one of the menus to
avail himself of a local lady of the evening who is similarly disposed
to reducing emissions and saving the planet.
But UN Secretary
General António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres has taken a firm vow at
COP29 to stop cheating on his wife. So he arranges for an ‘adultery’
offset in which he offers $220 to a local gentleman who is not cheating
on his wife to offset his adultery. Guterres, now in possession of an
‘adultery offset certificate’ then commits adultery. And when Mrs.
Guterres catches him in the act, shows her the certificate and explains
that he’s not committing adultery, he’s actually reducing the total
amount of planetary adultery by offsetting his adultery with the
purchase of someone else’s unused adultery. And this is really a way to
end adultery.
If this sounds like a complete immoral fraud,
welcome to the business of saving the planet. You not only know more
than all the ‘experts’, but you’re not paying $600 for a room in a
brothel or paying $600 million in climate offsets to non-industrialized
countries to buy their pollution.
Fortunately, President Trump is
keeping American diplomats home and out of Brazil. That means we’ll
save money on their hotel rooms/brothels and actually save the planet.