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Rhiannon12866

(247,192 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:45 AM Thursday

Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS

Indigenous protesters against deforestation are making their voices heard in Belém, Brazil where the U.N.'s major climate summit is being held. Dozens of demonstrators forced their way into the COP30 venue and clashed with security guards — carrying signs and shouting that their land is not for sale. The protests are a further signal that tackling climate change and protecting the planet is an enormous emotional and logistical challenge that requires real leadership.

But the world's most powerful people aren't even at COP30. Trump, China's Xi and India's Modi are all no-shows despite being national leaders of the world's biggest polluters. Meanwhile the White House is doubling down on fossil fuels.

One well-known American trying to fill the leadership gap is former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. One of the first politicians to sound the alarm on climate change, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his prescient documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." - Originally aired on November 12, 2025.

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Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Thursday OP

I read elsewhere that no one from the f45 regime is attending because they could be arrested by ICC or in2herbs Thursday #1

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1. I read elsewhere that no one from the f45 regime is attending because they could be arrested by ICC or

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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:32 AM

Thursday

NATO.

red dog 1

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2. K&R

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Wed Nov 19, 2025, 04:31 PM

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It should come as no surprise that the U.S. is "notably absent from the COP30 Climate Conference."

"The Trump administration has proposed stripping protections for 13 million acres of the Western Arctic, throwing open the nation's largest intact landscape to reckless fossil fuel operations."
https://democraticunderground.com/1127186561

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