Head-on | Global North and the geopolitics of entitlement

Three issues terrify the leaders of wealthy countries in the Global North. The first is the rising geopolitical and military threat posed by the China-Russia axis. The second is the danger of conflicts in the Middle East spinning out of control. The third is probably the most worrying for its long-term impact on the rich world: global warming. For over thirty years of climate change summits, the Global North had blocked any mention of oil and gas as major contributors to carbon emissions. That fiction has ended at the COP28 summit in Dubai. The summit concludes on Tuesday, 12 December….