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  "path": "/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#14_March_2026_(climate_target_is_a_moral_failure)",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T02:37:39.000Z",
  "site": "https://stallman.org",
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    "said] at the opening session of the [COP30 climate summit.*",
    "accelerating global heating."
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  "textContent": "*The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a \"moral failure and deadly negligence,\" the UN secretary general said] at the opening session of the [COP30 climate summit.*\n\nAlas, COP30 proceeded to (in effect) abandon that goal, which many countries had abandoned already in the preceding year.\n\nThe causes of that abandonment are not visible, but I suspect the impetus comes from billionaires who are sucking up to governments that are more or less fascist and in cahoots with the fossil fuel companies.\n\nOne of them is Bill Gates, who has called for offering palliative care to the billions of poor who will be wiped over coming decades by accelerating global heating.\n\nBy the way, I do not endorse the straw man claim that global heating could literally render humanity extinct. Humans, even without science and the technology it led to, were very flexible about surviving in a wide range of environments. But the number who could survive would be far less than today.",
  "title": "Missing 1.5C climate target"
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