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OPEC+ single-handedly changed the language in a final communique issued by the UN COP28 delegates that was supposed to call for the phase-out of fossil fuels worldwide (see Enemy of My Enemy – OPEC Successfully Blocks Anti-FF Text at COP28). Instead of using language about a "phase-out" of fossil fuels, the language was modified to say, “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.” The reaction since the conclusion of the jet-setting affair has been interesting. Some see fossil energy's coming (rapid) destruction in the agreed-to statement. Others read it and declare the planet will now burn to a cinder because fossil fuels are allowed to live on, at least for the foreseeable future. The same statement, two wildly different reactions.
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