No, pursuing failing political strategies is what's not serious.
It takes 1/3 of Senators to derail a negotiated treaty.
Those 1/3 of red state senators will never *personally* see adverse consequences from voting down such a treaty. That's because by the time Oklahoma and West Virginia and Texas voters come to their senses, those individual senators will likely have retired.
The political price is paid by the GOP as a whole, not by a bunch of individual senators. Sooner or later that price is paid, and when it is - and Corporate Democrats do not stand in the way - you can take meaningful action very, very fast.
What you propose is wait, wait, wait, wait some more, not yet, not just, any time now, just around the corner, just wait some... Hey, where did y'all go?
The serious strategy is to craft an agreement that the US government is able to sign on to, so those recalcitrant neanderthals won't have veto power. Without a US signature on an agreement the US government was instrumental in crafting, few other nations would have signed on.
They are not recalcitrant neanderthals who have veto power. They are serving concentrated wealth, and if you remain weak because you lack the strength of moral convictions based on universal principles (because you're corrupt, or unwilling to think things through due to various psychological denial mechanisms, or because your brain has fossilized due to old age), they will always find a way to thwart you. In fact, you make it easy on them.
Instead of obsessively focussing on the short term, where you just chase your own tail, you plan for the longer term (counting on AGW to help you out more and more, as time goes by). You make a
demand and you stand by that
demand, even if it isn't answered right away. Every time it isn't answered, you make clear who is responsible for that, but you keep fighting for that
demand, clearly and unequivocally.
That's how you pull the Overton Window back and eventually get things done. Not by sustaining some arbitrary 'truth' that is actually conditioned propaganda (Medicare for all is too expensive, Green New Deal is too expensive, let's not do anything because the GOP), with polite words that are hollow, intellectually dishonest, and morally bankrupt.
People who are serious about AGW, don't talk like you do, Steve. Because talking like you, results in nothing other than a continuation of the status quo. And the status quo is not going to solve AGW, let alone in time. You've already wasted 20-30 years of everyone's time that way.
That's what happened with the Convention on rights of the disabled, a far less controversial and more widely-supported treaty.
Again, the analogy is flawed at its core. It's
because AGW is controversial that you need to push as hard as you can on it, because AGW convinces more and more people every year.
You basically have no argument. You're just mindlessly repeating unoriginal, self-fulfilling prophecy BS. And then people are surprised that Algorithms of Hate are so successful.
Martin, is this thread going anywhere new? Or shall I just close it down? At least now you know Vandana Shiva is peddling GOP propaganda, smearing Saint Obama, and she's anti-GMO, which is
pushed by Putin to destroy America. So, there you go.