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Podcast: Democracy Now!
Episode: Column â COP29: The Dictatorship of the Petroletariat
Description: By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
BAKU, Azerbaijan â COP29, the 29th United Nationsâ âConference of Partiesâ to the climate convention, convened this year in Azerbaijan, a small, authoritarian petrostate wedged between Russia and Iran on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The worsening climate catastrophe, fueled by the worldâs centuries-long embrace of fossil fuels, demands a united, world-wide response from all nations, including authoritarian ones. But does the conference itself have to be held in a country where dissent is criminalized, protests are banned and there is no free press nor right to free speech?
The worldâs oil addiction arguably beg...