John Feffer, the Director of International Coverage in Focus on the Institute for Coverage Research, wrote in an opinion piece at Tom Dispatch that the BRICS alliance is a “multopolarism of fools”. He highlighted the hypocrisy of the bloc the place they provide speeches about conserving the surroundings, however afterward, go to their respective international locations and start promoting fossil fuels.
BRICS Says One Factor However Does the Different: Analyst
Throughout the 2025 summit in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, BRICS extensively mentioned local weather change and the necessity to fight the difficulty. Whereas the discussions are good, their actions are usually not. For the uninitiated, all BRICS international locations are sellers of fossil fuels to various levels. Part of their economic system depends upon the sale, and their GDP takes a success.
Out of the 10-member alliance, 9 BRICS international locations blatantly promote fossil fuels. Solely Ethiopia doesn’t promote fossil gasoline, because it doesn’t have a home trade. Fossil fuels are dangerous for the surroundings because the combustion releases greenhouse gases that trigger local weather change, affecting the water and air that we naturally breathe.
As well as, Feffer defined that BRICS members discuss extreme US authoritarianism, however lots of the alliance members themselves run authoritarian regimes and suppress freedom of speech. Nations equivalent to China, Russia, and Iran, amongst others, impose the identical degree of authoritarianism (and even worse) on their folks, however blame the US for its shortcomings.
The playing cards don’t deck up, and their phrases don’t justify their actions. This makes all talks meaningless as their leaders construct castles within the sand at summits. He known as out the BRICS alliance “masquerading as a geopolitical counterbalance,” whereas the fact is completely different.
“As a bloc of principally authoritarian, eco-unfriendly, and socio-economically conservative international locations masquerading as a geopolitical counterbalance, the BRICS characterize the ‘multipolarism of fools’. The ends don’t justify the BRICS,” he wrote.
