Going, Going

International agreements and concerns about the climate emergency are receiving thoroughly British levels of attention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which intends to auction permits for extracting fossil fuels in the world's second-largest surviving rainforest and most efficient carbon sink. Forces of anti-statue metropolitan wokeness have urged corporations not to bid at the auction, while the DRC's minister for hydrocarbons invoked the Congolese taxpayer and the right of transnational corporations to exploit his country's natural resources. Nevertheless, the ridiculous little racist Lord Goldsmith, Britain's Minister for Saving the Lesser Breeds From Themselves, has declared Her Majesty's Government "very concerned," since the auction calls into question a forest protection deal co-signed by Boris Johnson, at least insofar as any deal co-signed by Boris Johnson is not called into question by itself.