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.
Oh, no one is saying that other moneybags are any different. I bitch about them, too. This time, I was bitching about the moneybags who very insistently call themselves Islamic, so I called them that as well. Especially since they justify a lot of their power and oppressive rules (against women, LGBTQ, etc) with their faith.
Yet I fail to see how calling those oil oligarch types in Saudi Arabia “Islamic moneybags” would say anything about any other Moslem on this planet, which would make the comment racist.
If.there is some language thing I’ve messed up, please tell me, as I’m not a native speaker (something that tends to be blissfully ignored so often when someone is flat out called a.racist or whatever)
You’re fine. People are just on edge because Israel is using islamophobic rhetoric to justify bombing hospitals right now.