Glasgow Climate Conference
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retold in 11 talks
Critiques the Glasgow conference where 'all the right things were said' but nothing happened, illustrating the paradox that actions lie and capitalism generates apathy through hyperactivity.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 10
“In some sense all the right things were said there... But we say and we say and and things go on.”
“we are approaching the end... and then absolutely nothing happened”
“all that they said in principle was true. we need global cooperation, blah, blah, blah. nothing happened.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Ivan Ilyin2Olof Palme2Alexander Dugin3David Graeber3Prince Charles2Kirill I of Moscow2Marek Edelman2Adrian Johnston3
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Every retelling 10
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At the Glasgow COP conference all the right statements were made about global warming, but no adequate action followed, the paradigm of knowing + not acting that actualizes catastrophe., illustrating cynical ideology,ecological crisis,melancholic apathy