• originalucifer
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    “terrible country who relies on the sale of fossil fuels claims ignorance on terribleness of fossil fuels”

    yeah, some story

  • teft
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    Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CBE is an Emirati politician who the Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and chairman of Masdar.

    Emphasis mine.

    That’s the first line from his wikipedia.

  • Ghostalmedia
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    522 years ago

    “verging on climate denial”

    I think it’s fair to say he’s progressed pasted “verging.”

    • Ann Archy
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      Like the planet has been “verging” on a climate catastrophe for a century. Just keep it verging like that, and we’ll all be ok!

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        As the guy falling from the top of the Empire State Building was heard saying half-way down: “So far, so good!”

  • @Zworf@beehaw.org
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    Really, why the hell did they organize a climate conference in a country completely dependent on selling fossil fuels. What did they expect…

    This is worse than a footgun.

    Not even to mention the human rights questions of course.

  • blazera
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    "unless you want to take the world back into caves.”

    ironically a likely scenario with runaway climate change overworking above ground air conditioning.

    • Ann Archy
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      12 years ago

      I’d rather live in a cave for free than sign my life over in servitude for a damp basement closet in the middle of a dystopian toxic shithole. Like, by far.

    • @Jack@lemmy.ca
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      More than 99% of people reject Green parties, and instead keep voting for parties and politicians subsidizing a mass extinction. Would it be ethically correct for the 1% of people who don’t want a mass extinction, to keep killing the omnicidal class - which the 98% will then find replacements for?

      It’s not just the richest 1% who are the problem - yes they cause vastly more harm than the rest, but it’s also the other 98% poorest who vote for the most violent, Machiavellian, narcissists there are to rule them.

  • @atomic@programming.dev
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    362 years ago

    As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company

    😂😂😂 yeah, we’re still not serious about surviving as a species on this planet.

    • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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      62 years ago

      I can’t believe he’s a doctor…

      …no wait, I can, because my friend is a doctor and has encountered a stupid number of anti-vaxxer doctors and nurses.

      • Ann Archy
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        And I can’t believe Idi Amin was King of Scotland! But I mean he said he was, so, who am I to question the king?

  • Nougat
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    212 years ago

    I’m willing to bet that his fireplace has a chimney.

  • Dem Bosain
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    172 years ago

    Perhaps he’s just worried that his preferred people will live in caves.

  • Ann Archy
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    172 years ago

    23 year old virgin who bought his academic credentials with a credit card decides to chip in on the future of planet! Planet decides to run with it.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      Never, so long as people like them are writing the laws. Morally-speaking, always has been.

      To be clear, I’m not just referring to UAE people, but also every member of congress/parliament in every country which has climate denial as state policy, which includes the US, Canada, etc.