Save face in the desert

We walk so worried about not stepping on any calluses that, instead of walking, we levitate.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
19 November 2022 Saturday 17:39
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Save face in the desert

We walk so worried about not stepping on any calluses that, instead of walking, we levitate. Proof of this is the climate summit and the soccer World Cup, two examples of the global hypocrisy installed in the compromising posture.

Gathering a bunch of politicians, activists, environmentalists and rabble-rousers in Sharm el Sheikh was stupid. In addition to the meager results, the anti-environmental spa chosen borders on immorality because it was known that the Egyptian dictatorship would curtail any protest and turn the meeting into a washing machine for its image. Some participants have contributed to the embarrassment dressed in costumes like that of the vegan cow while consuming hundreds of liters of water recently arrived from the Milanese Alps, courtesy of the organization. With the striking display of polluting private planes, an all-you-can-eat buffet or the absence of recycling, and the culmination of tough delegates putting on a role to put out a boiling planet.

Overcome the tabarra of the climate, threatens the World Championship of soccer. It is bloody for the intelligence that is organized in Qatar, a wasteland where so that the players do not scorch they have installed air conditioning in the fields and the public import it at the checkbook. All very sustainable. The nonsense can only be explained by the petrodollars that have lubricated wills and servile pens willing to do anything to snatch away their bag.

The last straw was when the FIFA president suggested a ceasefire during the tournament as if the dispute in Ukraine could be resolved with a bout of narcissism. Without forgetting the careerists who have just discovered that in Qatar human rights are not respected, immigrants are enslaved, women are subjected and homosexuals are imprisoned. Since long before the election of the tiny emirate, the fundamentalist regime that subjugates it was known, and there has been plenty of time to force a change of venue or impose a minimum respect for inalienable principles. To save face, flashy artists are preparing to disown the sheikhs and conscientious teams will wear rainbow bracelets. Very little merit for such nonsense.