Copped Out: Global Warming and Global Markets

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

As is now something of an annual ritual, last month’s COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended on a rather shabby note. Actually, one can describe its beginning the same way. Ilham Aliyev, the dictator who rules Azerbaijan, a country where fossil fuels make up 90 percent of its export revenues, opened the conference calling fossil fuels ‘a gift of God.’ This was something of a regression. Even the dictator who oversaw COP28 last year in United Arab Emirates...