Last month I was in Colorado walking up and down the streets of Denver talking to people about fracking. Trailing behind me were paid counter-protesters hired by the fossil fuel industry. This, sadly, wasn’t unusual.
The Inner-Workings of a Moderately Successful Climate Summit
The UN climate talks are a labyrinth of acronyms, bureaucracy, and ideological battles.
Plenty has been written about the outcome of the Paris climate talks, so I’m going to skip that part. Instead I want to talk about how these things work at a human level.