Sparks: Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock

This 'coalition' must now articulate a hypothesis that explains not only the benefits of renewable energy but also the continued resistance to it, beyond mere economic interest.

The fear of changing the composition of the airy void, once understood as the dance of countless atoms, dissolves the terror of the unknown into predictable mechanics.

A comprehensive catalogue of every emission source, with precise measurements of output and atmospheric conditions, must precede any true understanding or effective intervention.

The raw, grinding hunger of the fossil fuel barons will not yield to conferences, only to the greater, undeniable force of a world choking on its own progress.

Most of this global deadlock is but the busy accumulation of unnecessary complexities, obscuring the simple, essential truth of our dependence on the sun and wind.

Observing the delegates, one notes the elaborate costumes of diplomacy, yet the fundamental patterns of human stubbornness and self-interest remain remarkably consistent across all geographies.

States, like men, act not from abstract justice, but from fear of loss, the honour of maintaining their current power, and the perceived interest of their domestic economies.

If the earth itself cries out, and its very ground heaves with unnatural storms, ain't it a sign that something is terribly wrong with how we live?

This 'deadlock' reveals the deep hegemony of fossil fuel interests, shaping the very common sense of progress and prosperity that binds nations to their destructive path.

It is not the novel technologies that are truly astonishing, but the ancient, simple fact that the sun provides boundless energy, which we curiously neglect for the buried dead.

One can almost hear the faint, polite groans of the planet beneath the exquisite chatter of diplomatic gatherings, predicting a rather uncivilised end to the garden party.

How long, O nations, will you abuse our patience, allowing the clear evidence of nature's distress to be drowned by the clamour of self-serving interests?

If some nations benefit from extracting and burning, and other nations suffer from the consequences, then the house divided against itself cannot long stand.