At the heart of the Paris Agreement is a major furphy, certainly as far as Australia is concerned. Namely, that we as a sovereign nation should be financing the emissions-reduction efforts of other sovereign nations. The rationale for that is because as members of the Anglosphere we are to blame for the original sin of benefiting from the Industrial Revolution and we must therefore make extra amends in order to ‘tackle’ the imaginary ‘climate crisis’ of ‘global boiling’.