A perfunctory search on Wikipedia informs that the Strangler Fig, Ficus watkinsiana, ‘grows on another tree, using it as physical support, while also stealing sunlight, nutrients, space, etc. from it, which eventually kills the host plant’. When considering the current avalanche of UN/IPCC/COP ‘climate change’ diktats that are strangling industry and commerce, the analogy with the natural strangler fig parasite is apposite.