Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’
The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.
Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
The comments were “incredibly concerning” and “verging on climate denial”, scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres.
“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It” -Upton Sinclair
…and just a few hours later: claims of being mistinterpreted (again - Guardian). Poor princeling - never even imagined someone could speak back to him and now has no idea how to act. Maybe shouldn’t have left the cave after all 🤔
How do we fix this situation without straight up eliminating the people in power who refuse to even acknowledge the existence of climate change?
I know these have mostly been performative for a while but I feel like this one has really symbolised the crossover into entire absurdity.
I’m somehow appreciating the fact that they don’t hide anything this time.
They finally spoke the quiet part loud: “world leaders” aren’t in good faith working on climate crisis. They are going to fuck us all.
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