A COP Deal, Means To Me. COPs have this sensation to me of being so global and meaning to solve such a big issue with a deal that I can’t wrap my mind around what a deal actually looks like and how I feel about it happening or not happening. From Kyoto to Copenhagen and Paris, it’s meant to drive the world towards a cleaner and more viable planet but did the deal itself do more than manifest a goal? Is it the ‘what gets measured’ portion of the saying? And before I ask you, who decides that the goal this year is to create a deal to phase out fossil fuels and how does that narrative get out there. Because if anything is spectacular is the media discipline of that message, it came out of nowhere and had every major opponent of it scrambling to counterpunch. So how do you think of a COP deal? If at all…
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