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Will you be joining COP27?

Aug 22, 2022

Environmentalists are preparing for their annual get-together. Again. The 27th iteration of the UN-sponsored Conferences of the Parties (COP) will be taking place at the beachside resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, this November. The last one in Glasgow (COP26) brought together 120 world "leaders" and over 40,000 disciples.

Below is a self-test, only partially tongue-in-cheek, to evaluate where you stand on environmentalism, the eco-war. It is designed to assess the probability of you being invited to COP27. You get one point for every time you agree with the item in the left column, i.e., the “in favour” (of eco-war) column. You only get a point when you agree with what is on the left. You get no point for what is right.

	In favour of eco-war	Against
1	Degrowth	Growth
2	Environmentalism, i.e., fight fossil energy sources	Humanism, i.e., support for 83% of humanity's energy
3	Fight agriculture revolutions, especially Green Revolution	Agriculture revolutions to the benefit of mankind
4	Renewable and expensive energy, like Germany and California	Reliable and cheap energy, like Canada (used to) and South Korea
5	Nuclear energy ban	Nuclear energy renaissance
6	Biofuels, i.e., governments burning food	Thorium, i.e., an option to solve mankind's energy needs forever
7	Coal ban, i.e., gas imports and support for Russia's economy	Fracking, i.e., energy independence and support for one's own economy
8	Windmills, i.e., support for China's economy	Web3, i.e., support for Taiwan's economy
9	Conservation of the country side and saving fish	Hydropower
10	Lithium batteries for electrification	Lithium mining
11	Direct line to MBS and Maduro	Natural-gas pipelines
12	Misallocation of capital in low energy density sources	R&D in high energy density sources
13	Pal review and misuse of science to fight capitalism	Peer review and applied sciences to fight poverty
14	Paul Ehrlich, population bomb scare, and I=PAT	Albert Einstein, nuclear fusion, and E=mc2
15	Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion	Golden Rice and smooth traffic
16	Al Gore and ideological "solutions" in the name of saving the planet	Norman Borlaug and practical solutions to reduce human misery
17	COP26 and Prince Charles, i.e., promotion of flying private jets	F/A-18 and Tom Cruise, i.e., promotion of flying military jets
18	Net Zero and burp-catching masks for cows	Economic growth and noise-canceling masks for eco-hypocrites
19	Vegan parenting, i.e., protein-deficitary upbringing of children	Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon
20	Climate anxiety, i.e., instilling fear into society's most vulnerable	Free copies of Factfulness in schools
21	Voluntary human extinction movement (VHEMT)	Reproduction
22	Solar radiation modification (SRM)	Stoicism to find inner peace and sound mental health
23	Organic farming to the benefit of prosperous environmentalists	Urea and GMOs to the benefit of everyone else
24	Millennial socialism and stakeholder "capitalism"	Ownership and shareholder capitalism
25	Concentration of power and central planning	Decentralisation of power and central heating
26	Watermelon green environmental policies and candles	Cucumber green environmental policies and LED
27	Tofu poke bowl with mealworms and house crickets topping	Farmed salmon poke bowl with avocado and seedless mango topping
28	Nicole Kidman eating bugs in WEF-sponsored ad	Kim Basinger eating strawberries in MGM-sponsored 9 1/2 weeks
29	CO2 wallet, i.e., surveillance of movement like in China	Carbon bike, i.e., freedom of movement like in Switzerland
30	Alarmism, pessimism, and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doom)	Reason, optimism, and logic
31	Fridays for future, partially funded by the enemies of the West	Research on sun, partially funded by the oil industry
32	Global cooling and little ice ages	Global warming and interglacials
33	Atmospheric CO2 concentration moving towards threshold of all life	Atmospheric CO2 concentration moving away from threshold of all life
34	Acceptance of avoidable heat deaths to reduce CO2 emissions	Air conditioning
35	The Great Reset and praise for "his excellence" Xi Jinping	History class and praise for "Madiba" Nelson Mandela
36	Transfer of power to unelected supra-national organisations	Democracy
37	Glorification of nature and "sustainable" hunter-gatherer lifestyles	Efficient use of scarce natural resources and human civilisation
38	Sustainable Developement Index which favours Cuba over Norway	Human Developement Index which favours Norway over Cuba
39	Fight to reverse Judeo-Christian societal achievements	Scientific revolution, enlightenment, and industrial revolution
40	Mitigation, i.e., precautionary principle and bureaucratic inertia	Adaptation, i.e., applying human ingenuity to problem solving
41	Computer model simulations by political UN-sponsored entities	Intellectual integrity when making forecasts within chaotic systems
42	IPCC changing history to fit political agenda	Evidence of Vikings settling in Greenland during MWP
43	Michael Mann from Climategate	Bjorn Lomborg from Copenhagen
44	Proclamation the science is settled and human impact is known	Science suggesting climate is complex and there is uncertainty
45	Foolishness, e.g., covering glaciers with blankets	Intelligence, e.g., knowledge of natural oscillations of glaciers
46	Applying "the four horsemen of apocalypse" to scare and control people	Education
47	Dogma, eco-cults, and name-calling opponents as heretics	Science, critical thinking and scepticism
48	Interventionism and subsidies, i.e., disabling poor nations to compete	Free markets and competition, i.e., enabling poor nations to compete
49	Executive green orders and Green New Deal	Separation of powers and Greening Earth
50	Road to serfdom to control climate, environment and (over)population	Pursuit of happiness

How many points out of 50 did you manage? Below a key to assess COP27 invite probabilty.

Points		Your "profile"
> 35		You are a deep ecologist and believe even one billion people are too many. You have no interest in solving problems related to climate risk.
25-34		You are an eco-warrior and have a what-ever-it-takes attitude to takle climate risk. It's an emergency. Reducing human misery is not part of the plan.
15-24		You are a Champagne socialist and believe in "climate justice" and that other people's money should be used to make the world a bit more fair.
5-14		You believe something related to climate change needs to be done but are unsure whether mitigation or adaptation is the way to go.
< 4		You won't be invited to the COP27 beach & pool extravaganzas in Sharm El Sheikh in November. You will be paying for it.