Attorney and PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for Intl Legal Studies at Leiden🌞🌍⚖️
Researching self-determination and climate change👨🏾💼
🌳 I also advise smart, principled people and companies that are impacting the world
Dave-Inder Comar
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The just transition will have winners (future generations, vulnerable groups) but will also have losers (fossil fuel companies). We have to talk about the losers, because right now those losers are putting up a giant fight against climate action.
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Right now multiple Earth systems are flashing red. Like a control panel with several alarms blaring. This is how I interpret the planetary boundary and tipping point literature.
My appraisal is that this is truly unprecedented for humans. Only a similarly unique response will prevent true disaster.
Today I’m presenting a draft paper on the impacts of US financial sanctions on international civil servants like ICC staff and UN officials.
My argument is that this same sanctions infrastructure will come to bear on climate officials in due course
Finished up a great few days at the NESS conference in Sweden, discussing the "Empire striking back" on international environmental law.
We discussed at length—scholars keep meeting, yet the situation keeps getting worse. Backsliding. Tipping points. We can't ignore this. No real consensus on this.
There are real losers in addressing climate change. Fossil fuel companies are the most obvious ones, but large institutional holders of assets also likely lose.
Imperial, extractive States also lose
Present generations are in direct conflict with future generations
I talk about these issues here
There's a conflict between present and future generations that is not reconcilable in the context of climate.
The sacrifices needed to avoid catastrophe may not be politically palatable. Future generations will be left to hold the bag.
This is a real problem that we have to talk more about
Climate scientists now forced to plead for funding to avoid planetary disaster.
The irrationality and capriciousness of governments in the face of climate change is something out of an absurdist play.
The way in which wealthy countries have rushed to deploy data centers should be a reminder that the failure to quickly transition off of fossil fuels is, and remains, a policy choice, and not a technological problem.
"Don't look up."
The US is pulling funding for climate science, including AMOC. Other countries dithering on whether to fund this essential monitoring.
The interests that maintain the status quo would prefer the world blind than admit to the imminent catastrophe ahead
This is an era of increasing anarchy, Great Power violence, and lawlessness. People in power have lost their way. And they are destroying a habitable planet.
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