COP…out
Assemble fifty thousand delegates,
From around the world. Ask what the price is,
When considering the climate crisis,
Of convening fourteen days of debates.
Then there’s the press corps and TV news,
Social media that requires broad banding,
The wining, the dining, the glad handing:
A towering Babel of discrepant views.
Far, far too many are still enraptured
With fossil fuels and profits they’re making.
For all the hot air there’s no mistaking
That not a gram of carbon is captured
After the fortnight, despite pressing need.
Just lots of motions with nothing agreed.
D. A.