Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

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.

  • Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I replied below with an explanation. I’m not aware of any way my comment could be seen as applying to any other type of person than Saudi Billionaire Oligarchs, so please tell me.if there is some language thing that would make you think my comment could be seen as derogatory to any other person. I’m not a native speaker, so there might be just a language issue.

    As for your comparison: that’s not fitting now, is it. Hitler being vegan (he wasn’t, he was vegetarian) is a minor detail that gets overshadowed by the main course which is mass murder and war.

    My comment is the other way around at best. Let’s not compare the crimes of Adolf Hitler to some bloke on the internet messing up his wording. That’s disrespectful to the people Hitler and his dick face cronies made suffer for no fucking reason.