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I'm back from Paris. After two weeks writing about the nexus between the climate conference, corporate influence and media coverage, hanging out with anarchists and coprorate lobbyists, wandering the conference centre and watching the world's leaders come and go, my head's swimming with thoughts. Here are nine of them.
1) The detail of the deal probably isn't the most important thing
If you want comprehensive analysis of the text, check out Danny Chivers and Jess Worth over at the New Internationalist. My general summary is that, if you follow real-politic, it's remarkable that there is a deal at all, and that it mentions 1.5°C. If you follow science or hoped for justice, then it is woefully inadequate. To quote Naomi Klein, “it's worth pausing to know this: we do negotiate the right of entire countries to exist”.
