This may offer a much-needed shift in perspective, because it puts the question of what should be done in this troubling time closer to the grassroots. And for some time now cities have been demanding to have more say over issues regarding climate change. It is increasingly obvious that a radically different approach is needed. Thus, it must not surprise us that decades of such summits between national governments, capitalist corporations, and technocrats have led to no results, while the ecological crisis is deepening. As philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis suggests, once irrevocable representatives have been elected, their first and main concern is to secure their re-election. Even though national governments take power after elections, once in office, they have the time, the resources, and the tools to entrench themselves in positions of authority and ensure their reelection. by extra-social structures that create and maintain a managerial class extremely prone to corruption and impunity. The main reason for this is that these summits are intended to be led by the nation-state-capital complex, i.e. In short, from wherever you look at it, there was nothing to really expect but more of the same. Furthermore, historically speaking, the previous 25 COPs have also led to no results. And when from Global Witness looked through the list of participants, they found out that the fossil fuel industry, one of those most responsible for the climate crisis, has the largest delegation at the summit to ensure that its interests will be preserved. Even the very world leaders who organized it were skeptical from the very beginning of the potential outcomes. During the days of the COP26 activists deemed it a failure. Even befor the beginning of the summit, climate scientists such as Peter Kalmus, author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, warned that one of the summit’s main goals – “Net Zero by 2050” – is deeply flawed plan that provides cover for big oil and politicians to preserve the status quo. There is little doubt that very few expected anything meaningful and productive to come out of the COP26. We should not kid ourselves: the climate catastrophe is an epic war of the rich on the poor corporate criminality on a global scale.~Dimitrios Roussopoulos

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