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Their wordsLeaders from Europe, Australia and Canada, making ever-larger climate promises with ever-emptier rhetoric, ignore the crucial reality that Western actions are no longer central to solving climate change.
Their wordsWhile the West dominated carbon emissions in the past, future emissions will overwhelmingly come from China, India, Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and other countries clambering out of poverty.
Their wordsSo the liberal West's net-zero pledge for 2050 will cost hundreds of trillions of dollars, but deliver little.
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