Let’s count the ways the Government of Poland earned the Fossil of the Day, while the Polish people deserve only Rays.
Reason 1: Continuously opposing the European Union from taking more ambitious climate action
Reason 2: Co-hosting a Coal Summit coinciding with the COP but not organizing any debate on renewable energy opportunities
Reason 3: Inviting polluting companies that openly oppose an ambitious climate action to sponsor the COP
Reason 4: Allowing the dirty side of European industry, Business Europe, to represent the business voice at the pre-COP
Reason 5: Writing mad postings on the official COP19 website about the economic opportunities the melting Arctic will bring as well as chasing the “pirates, ecologists and terrorists” on the sea
Reason 6: Presenting delegates with standard climate denialist rhetoric through their mobile device app, repeating the old chestnut that “climate changes are natural phenomena, which occured (sic) many times on Earth”.
Ray of Hope for the renewable energy loving People of Poland
The Polish government is holding the world back and acting as the PR department of the coal industry. But the Polish people want to grasp a renewable future, not be stuck in a coal-based past.
No less than 89% of Polish citizens want more energy to come from renewable sources and more than two-thirds of Polish people (70%) want an energy policy that gives support to renewables. 73% of Polish people want Poland to be more involved in global actions to prevent the negative effects of climate change.
With this ray we say: Thank you, citizens of Poland, for supporting a future without climate chaos.