• guriinii@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He’s a right dodgy cunt. We didn’t even elect the corrupt fuck. Actually fuming. He’s completely in the pockets of oil companies. His wife’s company made a $1.5bn deal with BP six weeks prior to confirming the new oil and gas licenses.

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    UK is on a speed run to fuck themselves over… brexit, this terrible internet law, and now this.

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    The Tories are trying to ruin the UK as much as they can before the next election.

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      Probably figure “well we wont get into power again just yet, but we can blame all the really bad times on Labour!”

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    Between this and Biden and Xi not even attending the climate summit in New York, we’re hopeless to actually get the people in charge to do anything real.

    We’re a train barreling toward disaster with the conductor(s) having drinks in the back.

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      They weren’t invited to speak at the summit because of national emissions.

      This week, Mr. Guterres, a seasoned politician from Portugal now in his second and last term as the head of the United Nations, is trying a new diplomatic wink-and-nod tactic. He is hosting a summit on Wednesday at which countries that have accelerated their plans to phase out fossil fuels are being invited to speak, and only if they send cabinet-level or more senior leaders. To show that they take the summit seriously.

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        This is correct, but the link leads to the wrong article. The one you are talking about is here, I suppose.

        When one thinks about it, it’s a quite genius move. He can’t name and shame, because that would be a breach of diplomatic protokoll, but as the host he can decide whom to give a voice. And by making the demands he is made he exposed those Nations that don’t realy give a fuck.

        I like him.

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          Definitely agree that it’s an awesome move.

          I linked to a live upate article with the part I quoted buried down in it; you need to scroll down to find it. I like your link better, but wasn’t aware of it; the past few days have had too much climate news for me to track every article

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    Aw no, now we’re gonna get Manbearpig, and the Tories are going to say “well we didn’t have Manbearpig under our government”.

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      He was super cereal back then and we just didn’t listen… we said sorry and that Al was right… manbearpig is real… and all he said was, " sucks for you" 😞😭

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    And now, yet again, I am disappointed that the former VP has not been replaced with artificial intelligence “AI Gore”