By Kennedy Maize Delegates, staff, academics, activists, journalists, and miscellaneous hangers on have begun arriving in Belem, Brazil, a city of 1.4 million on the northeast coast, situated on the edge of Amazonia, the metaphorical “lungs” of the planet. They are gathering, tens of thousands, for the 30th annual gabfest of the parties to the … More COP30: fandango of feckless fantasy or significant turn of direction?