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Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
(www.theguardian.com)
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Quote in the article from Al Jaber:
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.)
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.
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.