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COP26 - an analysis

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Winter solstice time will soon be here and very little is growing in the garden right now.  Next year I hope to write about growing my toxic plants through a full year, but for now, as I can't write about gardening, here are some thoughts on last month's COP26 summit.  As you no doubt know, this was the 26th conference on climate change, and although it made tiny steps in the right direction, it was widely recognised to be as much a failure as the previous 25 COP conferences.  In order to appreciate the magnitude of the failure, let's compare what needs to be done with what was actually agreed. What needs to be done is simple to say, although hard to do.  We need to stop burning fossil fuels.  That means exactly what it says.  It doesn't mean we keep burning them but try to mitigate it by planting trees, burying carbon underground, burning fossil fuels more efficiently, or paying other countries to burn less so we can burn more.  It means actually stop burning them.  We