COP26- brace yourselves

Just trying to get my head around the process that is going on here which is about to start tomorrow. The objective here is for wealthy powerful humans who are a bit concerned about themselves burning too (Lady Gaga had to leg it from the California fires HERE)  to look for ways to appear like they give a toss about 'humanity' (which they may or may not do) and nature (they probably don't and certainly don't give a monkies about first winter larid)  while also looking for ways to retain their wealth, manage risks of revolution by addressing concerns of the populace (pacifying them) and see if they can make any more money out of it all. Mark Carney describes the Green transition as the greatest financial opportunity of our age with $100 trillion dollars in the game (HERE).  What this means is carbon capture technology, biofuels (our new E10 petrol at the pumps is now 10% biofuel), green energy infrastructure (windfarms, solar, electric cars) and investment and tax incentives to enable a decarbonisation of the planet. 

COP26 is no Extinction Rebellion summit. There won't be much talk of de-growth, orbing, dismantling capitalism, Venus in retrograde, replacing GDP with Gross Domestic Well-being (like Bhutan and New Zealand), reducing overall consumption, redistributing the wealth of billionaires or introducing Natural Capital Accounting. 

So what does this mean for the muppets like me? What does it mean for the birds I like to mince around watching? It probably means that housing, roads and industry will continue to be built (but using green technology), that human population will continue to increase, that nature will continue to be destroyed, that intensive farms will switch from nature less monocultures to even less nature less biofuels (without the human consumption element the chemical additives can increase too) , windfarms and solar farms will cover the earth surface and as all this increases and increases each human becomes less and less significant, becoming increasing lost in larger and larger systems,  living in a smaller and smaller space (houses and gardens are knocked down to create energy efficient apartment blocks), diets being switched to plant based as we can sustain more humans in small spaces eating more efficient plants, higher taxes to pay for this transition, being discouraged to fly and travel (to save the planet) and instead live in a rented box apartment attached to two devices, the first a virtual reality head set which gives access to the metaverse where we will be greeted by digital humans HERE and permitted to explore a world beyond our coops and the second headset from the corporation we are working for in customer services (thank you covid for helping the corps achieve more working from home- these billionaires even get viruses working for them!) .

The alternative scenario in the great plan that billionaires have for me, is restricted access to the metaverse (premium access only for collaborators) and universal credit/ universal basic income instead of a job (where the taxes for benefits pay for the Netflix bills, headsets and rent).  Both options include mass chemical control and antidepressants to keep the masses sedated and calm and to abate revolution. What with childless lives being promoted (Birthstike HERE ) and relationships very difficult to sustain what with humans lost in massive diverse systems and unable to find commonality on Tinder and Grinder- it is likely we will be alone in a box with access to a digital fantasy world to choose instead of suicide- the whole thing generating billions and billions of pound for billionaires who have their own mansions, massive gardens, private nature reserves to hunt on and steaks to tuck into and their happy families (everything they value, which they have convinced us we shouldn't) . 

COP26 is not about saving the planet or humanity, its about saving a group of humans and enslaving the rest and doing the whole thing at the expense of nature and wildlife (business as usual). Indeed de-carbonisation could well stop the planet from hell fire but we could instead be walking into a new cool hell. As ever and always the muppets will need to look after ourselves and will have to save ourselves. We need to maintain our own mind, freedom, wealth and power and find a way to keep moving and keep evolving.   

Main thing to remember is that a broad scale, the left and right are in it together for both good and bad. Lefties will tell us to stop having children, stop eating meat, stop travelling, surrender our freedoms and the right will mop that up and stick us in boxes eating chickpeas (with some marine algae sprinkled on it to make it taste a bit fishy and call it vegan tuna salad) and charge us for the head sets,  the rent and the vegan deliveroo. The corporations and wealthy fund these charities and activist groups through donations because the whole process works for them all . On the good side of this not so holy alliance, the left will encourage us not to be greedy bastards and the right will encourage us to not be lazy bastards. There's always a good side, there is always a choice for every individual to win, which is how the universe justifies itself (I believe in  consciousness formed by the sums of our individual parts of it but I also believe he/she/him/her is bored and slightly psychotic in the vastness of eternity) this squid game of life we all find ourselves having to play.  

The aim of this game is to dance around, having a laugh, stay alive, keep shining and avoiding all these fuckers trying to stick us in a dark cage and if we want to keep enjoying birds , not only will we have to save ourselves but them too. COP26 is not going to sort that out but it could shake up the game and reshuffle a few cards in the stacked pack. I saw this nice thing yesterday, the UK's first natural capital business HERE. Maybe a bit elitist, big landownery and hob-nobby but certainly seems like the principles can be adopted to more people power approach.  The good thing about these summits and high level processes is that if you pick apart all the bullshit hiding amongst the turds are opportunities to actually do something good that can be mobilised to stay free, escape the global slave camps and spend time in nature birding .