By Ray Cardello for December 18, 2023, Season 23 / Post 44

The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP28, was the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, held from November 30 to December 12 at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. COP28 has a name as long as the climate change movement itself and is the perfect example of its true purpose. Like everything the Progressive Movement does, COP28 is not about the climate but control. The Progressives are a misnamed group, as there is nothing about progress in their thoughts or deeds. The Progressives are about power and control. They need power to stay in charge; control is the tool they use to ensure power. By repressing minorities to ensure their dependence on the ruling class and limiting the options of the middle class to enjoy their freedoms and opportunities, a more appropriate name might be the Repressives. They are a dangerous group that has mastered the delivery of their message, distorted as it may be, by controlling the media, education, and entertainment so that they can manipulate the masses through methodical indoctrination. It is a slow and steady process that has been successful.

COP28 was a meeting of the elites and enabled who have risen to their respective levels of self-importance. John Kerry was our primary envoy to the conference, and his story is a prime example of my assessment. John Kerry returned from Vietnam as an activist against the government and war machine. He built his reputation through public speaking to the impressionable youth of America and built a coalition that got him elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. Kerry had a mediocre stint in the upper chamber and failed at his attempt to become Commander in Chief. He was named Secretary of State and appears to have parlayed that job into a lifelong appointment as America’s energy and climate czar. It is an unofficial position that wields tremendous power with no accountability.

Kerry and the rest of the COP28 delegates gathered in Dubai for two weeks to develop their strategy to strip the world of fossil fuels as quickly as possible. This process is disingenuous at its root. First, we know our climate is changing. It has been for all time, but there is little data on what these rash decisions and actions have to reduce the change rate. These elites also think they can control a select group of countries and allow others to go unchecked and affect results. For example, India and China are the biggest abusers of the environment. Both took part in COP28, but it was a token gesture as neither will take the steps to control carbon emissions. China is putting a new coal-burning energy plant online every two weeks. There is no stoppage of fossil fuels in China’s future.

At home, Kerry and Biden have been on a mission for three years to restrict or phase out our cars and every appliance of convenience we use daily. Their plans have no option, and it is a gross overreach of power that is probably unconstitutional when challenged. But their plan only works if we allow it to. The EV policy is already backfiring. Thousands of dealerships have said they will no longer be ordering EVs. Their lots are full of electric cars that have not sold in months. That is dead inventory tying up capital. Manufacturers are starting to lay off workers in their EV plants. Americans are not buying into the Green New Deal. The people still have power, and we can beat back bad policies if we unite and don’t bend.