Daily Caller Piece: Why Don't COP28's 70,000 Attendees Save the Planet by Holding Their Conference on Zoom?

The blaring headline attached to a November 27 story at Politico.eu reads, “UAE plotted to use COP28 to push for oil and gas deals, leaked notes show.” Horrors.

But the first line of the story is even better: “The world’s top climate summit has become embroiled in a hypocrisy scandal, days before the start of key talks.” What? Hypocrisy on display at a UN-sponsored annual global summit, you say? How can that possibly be? Why, that’s never happened before!

Wait, are you sure about that? What about the photos we see each year of the local airports of Sharm el Sheikh, Glasgow, Paris or whichever other international city is designated to serve as the COP summit’s host, filled to the gills with all those private jets used by the conference attendees? All to attend a summit during which they plan to lecture the globe’s little people about the urgent need to control and reduce their personal, regional and national carbon footprints? Is that not the very essence of hypocrisy?

Or what about the stories associated with these annual confabs detailing gluttonous, $500 per plate dinners at which dozens of $1,000+ bottles of wine are consumed, engaged in by the attendees even as 1 billion or more human beings in developing nations still lack access to electricity? Is that not hypocrisy defined? 

And what of the stories each year of the massive upticks in prostitution and demand for high-dollar escorts that invariably come up as attendees of these COP summits sample the local delights? Isn’t such exploitation of less fortunate locals by international elites an unseemly display of hypocrisy? (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Energy Security Or Tyranny? 2024 Provides A Stark Choice)