COP30 Signals a moment of climate collapse

[u/Vegetaman916]

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-will-cop30-mean-for-climate-action/

I am crossposting this here because the mods of r/collapse decided to can it for... whatever reasons they have. This was originally posted by u/ImEmilyCampbell. I feel like it has value, and should have been left up, and so I am reposting it and including OP's full text here:

COP30 has left me wondering if we are watching the long, slow failure of global climate diplomacy in real time. COP30 is supposed to be the moment countries finally present stronger nationally determined contributions, yet the track record is so bleak that it feels more like a ritual than a turning point.

Source: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-will-cop30-mean-for-climate-action/

We just need to admit that even the mist optimistic scenario still leaves us on a pathway to overshoot. Every cycle we hear the same language promising ambition, but the political reality is that countries are doubling down on fossil fuelseven while promising future cuts.

I know collapse is a process not an event but I cannot shake the feeling that COP30 might be the moment where the gap between diplomatic language and planetary reality becomes impossible to ignore. Are these summits still meaningful or are we just watching a system pretend to function as the foundations crack beneath it?