Unmasking Climate Action at UN

The UN was a charming idea at birth, a sort of postwar daydream that looked noble on paper. In practice, it became a bloated beast devouring cash, drowning those who still try to play by the rules in oceans of paperwork and sanctimonious nonsense, while the truly ruthless sail through untouched. All of it rests on a fantasy: that there exists such a thing as a global conscience, a global people, a global will.

Democracy doesn’t scale like that. It barely survives at the county level—the lowest rung where the ruled can still look their rulers in the eye and demand answers. Take the U.S. as an example only because it’s familiar: counties are about as high as real representation goes. That’s where taxation, welfare, subsidies, and economic policy belong—close to the voter, close enough to sting.Every layer above that is just theater: remote, unaccountable, and absurd. The UN merely crystallizes this truth, a pageant of hollow speeches and empty gestures—summitry as farce.

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/09/23/unmasking_climate_action_at_un_1136609.html

Linkedin Thread