G7 Summit – flattering to deceive

Jun 16, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

The G-7 leaders would have done the world a service, if they had stayed home in their climate-controlled homes, and pristine environments. As far as I am concerned, the G-7 Summit was an exercise in trumpet blaring and mutual self-congratulations, on a job well done. It was a con job, with plenty of embedded promises and expectations, and the just as usual dispiriting; just like political manifestoes and party congresses, with an abundance of hot air followed by cold reality.
From my perspective, the world would be better off if G-7 chiefs had remained in their G-strings, and stuck to their knitting. That is, fooling the people and the world of good intentions about climate change and the environment, about poverty amelioration, about related debt relief, and about what matters to the world’s exploited and endangered, and not to self-interests. India and China might care enough about that clamp on coal, but why not something along the same lines in the long-awaited, highly anticipated action against fossil fuels dependency? China may care about the great game of nations, and what is bubbling up against its visions and objectives, but not the bulk of lesser developed societies. The G-7 Summit and leaders should have stayed home to assure their political future.
Once again, poor nations and their multitudes of poorer people, mostly coloureds, are put in their proper places. Meaning, at the bottom: they belong there, and must stay there. Just ask their foreign exploiters (like Exxon) and their local quislings (like the PPP and PNC). I recognised early that the jig was up, when U.S President, Joe Biden, made a big splash about climate change from White House porticos, and then started to sway sideways, as though he is Notorious B.I.G or Floyd Mayweather. What a balloon, what a letdown… I will say this now, and I am speaking for Exxon: the only change of substance happening with climate change is that nothing is changing.
Editor, Guyanese may be impressed with local and foreign political operators, but I don’t care if they are Joe Biden or the apologies we have here, they are almost all a pack of unmentionables, unreconstructed mistakes in suits (and dresses). The UN itself said that there is an unprecedented pandemic-driven unemployment crisis globally, and these mothers pick on coal. I say, why not? It has a reputation as black as Mephistopheles, and represents easy pickings. India had better beware: sanctions for excess atmospheric contamination. Oh, and it is another way to put the squeeze on China.
But I have to hand it to them, they are smart; slick is more the word. In the quid pro quo for doing nothing, after all the hullabaloos, on climate change, there was corporate giveback of 15 percent taxes. Smart, isn’t it? Note not much of corporate laments. But in true paternal colonialist fashion, they did stick it to us to the tune of a billion vaccines. Take that, and no grimacing, not even an ‘ouch’.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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