I don't want to write about COP 29 in Azerbaijan. There's nothing to be said about the outcome. We can play the 'billion here and there' game. Let's agree that the rich will pay the poor for the damage caused'at least on paper'amounting to $300 billion a year. It's like a game of Monopoly: paper money, you buy, you sell, you block, you outmaneuver your opponent. And when the Olympic Games'two weeks of so-called COP 29 negotiations'are over, you pack up the dice, cards, and paper money into the box, and life moves on. How do you negotiate with a brick wall' In a country where you can literally take an oil bath'I saw it myself back in 2000 in Baku'where, according to Azeri national health authorities, you can not only improve your skin but also supposedly cure all kinds of diseases, including boosting sexual libido. You immerse yourself in a bathtub, smothered in a brownish, oily paste, and close your eyes to 'indulge' in the smell of oil. Afterwards, the person in charge of your...
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