Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’
  • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social
    54·
    11 months ago

    Breaking news: Fossil fuel company CEO who was somehow allowed to run an international climate change summit says that fossil fuels aren’t bad. Everyone is befuddled as to how such a thing could have happened.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    11 months ago

    He is right. Once you ignore every single scientific evidence, there’s no science that backs ban on fossil fuels.

  • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyzEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Quote in the article from Al Jaber:

    unless you want to take the world back into caves

    This is projection: the nations whose economies are solely based on oil, will be going back to caves when their oil is either depleted or otherwise made impertinent.

    I wish I could find the quote, which came from a Saudi prince I think, and went something like “Before oil, my grandfathers were herders; after oil, my grandsons will be herders”.

    Without diversifying before it’s too late, I think that prince might be right. (Notwithstanding climate change issues, and how brutally hot it already gets there.)

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      It’s hilarious to think they have a massive warning flag and timeline…yet instead of figuring out how to diversify their countries, they just want to ignore it and push against the change.

      • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I kind of get it, they have newfound wealth that the west couldn’t wrestle out of their hands. Not all of the middle east is a desert but a lot of it is, they need to figure out how to make their people prosper without oil (or at least enrich themselves) or else they go back to before. From a humanity continuing to exist perspective it is immoral and criminal, but from a “their countries continuing to exist kind of like today” it makes sense.

        It’s still bullshit. They have so much money they can find a solution that doesn’t doom the planet.
        The West aren’t really any better, the United States is barely making any changes and those will get rolled back when the next GOP leadership gets installed into power. I don’t get why humans have such a hard on to see the world burn.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    COP28 president says recent visual blindness, auditory deafness, and sudden loss of nerve feeling has made perceiving the outside world ‘difficult’ but maintains there is no science behind fossil fuels being bad.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    There has to be some sort of law that states if a situation would be considered satire in media it will happen within a serious context in real life. Because who the FUCK thought the oil barons would be a suitable host? This is beyond a joke. We aren’t a clown world, or even a circus planet, this entire universe is made of fucken balloon animals.

  • sirdorius@programming.devEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers people with a brain see as a serious conflict of interest.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      How about you drop the cultural attack and instead focus on the source of the money. The reason why he is not a reasonable source is not what he wears but what his job is associated with.

      Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CBE (Arabic: سلطان أحمد الجابر; born August 31, 1973) is an Emirati politician who is the minister of industry and advanced technology of the United Arab Emirates,[2] head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC),[3] and chairman of Masdar.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
        25·
        11 months ago

        Nah fuck their culture. Cultures aren’t worthy of respect by default.

        Human rights organisations consider the UAE substandard on human rights, citing reports of government critics being imprisoned and tortured, families harassed by the state security apparatus, and cases of forced disappearances.[22][23] Individual rights such as the freedoms of assembly, association, the press, expression, and religion are also severely repressed.[24]

    • sirdorius@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      It’s telling that out of all the things wrong in this situation you chose to focus on how someone dresses