Cop26 marked the definitive transition from a national and democratic order to a global and technocratic one.

The COP26 attendees are elite oligarchs. They discuss laws and taxes that do not apply to them. These lavish banquets, private jets and hordes of flunkeys are not bad optics.The symbolism is deliberate.

The cynical bandwagon-chasing that you always suspected, is not only going on, but going on at a rate you would not believe.