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Hosting a climate conference in an OPEC nation, not sure what they thought was going to happen.
This is exactly why they hosted it in an OPEC nation; to continue hamstringing the transition from fossils & delaying the impact to their profit margins — the same thing they've been doing for the last 50 years.
There was an article on Washington Post last week explaining COP28 and details around it. Also the reason for the location:
Why is an oil kingdom hosting COP28?
The United Nations rotates the location of COPs each year through five regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Europe. This year, it was the Asia-Pacific group’s turn to host, and the United Arab Emirates made an unopposed bid in May 2021.
Source (Published November 27, 2023): https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/27/cop28-climate-summit-dubai/
It’s because UAE volunteered to pay for it all. These things are expensive and no one over age 8 believes a UN event will result in any action, much less international cooperation on climate. Since it’s all just a PR stunt, UAE might as well spend a rounding error of its oil proceeds on having some control over the narrative.
Doesn’t that guy work for a fossil fuel company?
Edit: yes, he’s the head of the state-owned company of the UAE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_National_Oil_Company
What a coincidence.
Kids, this is why your planet died.
"Oh, we knew about it all right. But that would have had marginally negative short term effects on very specific parts of the economy, so we doubled down instead."
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It" -Upton Sinclair
Those sheiks never feel the global warming, they have their AC, and slaves for anything that needs to be done outside.
Fetch me my phone from my car
slave immediately ignites upon disentering the indoors and is burned to a glorious death in a horrendous blaze of fire
Disentering the indoors.
Undisexiting any given nonoutdoor
That’s my new band name tbh.
Martyred himself for the sultan, what's not to love slave?
Real difficult to have a conscience when you have a harem at your beck and call every night.
“verging on climate denial” Verging? And this guy is the president of Cop28? Holy crap. Stick a fork in humanity, it's done.
I'm sure he has zero incentive to say this too, right?
...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 🤔
COPOUT28
I know these have mostly been performative for a while but I feel like this one has really symbolised the crossover into entire absurdity.
Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want me to take the world back into caves, if you take away our endless flow of money."
Ok, I'll take the caves then. I mean you still lived in them a hundred years ago so what's the problem?
so what's the problem?
Caves have terrible wifi connectivity.
How do we fix this situation without straight up eliminating the people in power who refuse to even acknowledge the existence of climate change?
There is no "i" in "denial".
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It would take him back into a cave i.e. where his family came from and where he probably belongs.