SEE THE RENT-SEEKING INHERENT IN THE ENVIRONMENTALISM.

Naomi Klein did.

"Civil society should announce a boycott + instead hold a true people's summit," Klein wrote. "One gathering per continent to limit flying. Links to the official summit by video."

"There can be lobbying sessions built into the COP28 program with governments who will obviously go to the UAE," she continued. "But why should civil society expend the carbon, money, and time to join them just to declare it a failure all over again? Let's try something new."

Klein's call for a new oppositional approach to the annual United Nations climate summit came in the wake of a gathering at which civil society was harassed, surveilled, and sidelined by Egypt's authoritarian government as lobbyists from Exxon, Chevron, and other fossil fuel giants responsible for record-high greenhouse gas emissions swarmed the summit, fighting off efforts to include a fossil fuel phase-out in the summit's final text.

The libertarian-populist component of civil society likely agrees that there's something off about these globalist poobahs jetting off to some gathering of the well-connected, particularly to a climate summit in a desert country that would be uninhabitable but for air conditioning.  That component would likely also see those efforts to phase out fossil fuels without development of nuclear electricity and pumped storage and a few other things as deprivation with a helping of conservation.

"It remains imperative to get off coal, oil, and gas as rapidly as possible. Every tonne of CO2 that remains in the ground means less harm to lives and livelihoods," [Guardian environment editor Damian] Carrington added. "Can the U.N. climate talks deliver this at speed? It does not look that way. It is too easy for the fossil fuel states to hold the consensus-based negotiations to ransom, threatening to blow up the whole thing if their black gold is so much as mentioned by name. There were more fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop27 than delegates from the Pacific islands, which their industry is pushing below the waves."

That's the nature of rent seeking.  There aren't, alas, enough hotels and taxiways at those Pacific islands, idyllic though they might be for a climate summit, for the globalist poobahs to park their planes.