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MELANIE COLLETTE: COP30, Green Hype, And Real-World Rip-Offs

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17.11.2025

November 2025: COP30 unfolds in Belém, Brazil, amid the familiar spectacle of jet-setting elites lecturing on climate from air-conditioned halls.

This year’s darling? The “bioeconomy“—swapping fossil fuels for products derived from nature’s bounty: plants, forests, algae, microbes, and waste. Think biofuels for your F-150, bioplastics for packaging, industrial chemicals, even drugs from organic scraps. Proponents promise circular economies, emission slashes, rural job booms, and freedom from foreign oil barons and rare-earth tyrants.

It evokes Reagan-era optimism: American grit turning cornfields into energy independence. But this U.N.-fueled fantasy is big-government snake oil — crony subsidies inflating costs, ravaging ecosystems, and mocking true conservation. Conservatives have battled these mandates since the Paris debacle; the bioeconomy is their sequel, exporting our prosperity to Brazilian bureaucrats while squeezing U.S. families. (RELATED: United Nations Recruits Countries To Crack Down On What They Call Climate ‘Denialism’)

Crop-based biofuels exemplify the scam. EPA models paint corn ethanol as a low-carbon hero. Reality bites: Mandates surge demand, spurring farmers to raze prairies and forests. “Indirect land-use change” (ILUC) unleashes buried carbon, often doubling emissions over decades. A........

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