• atomic@programming.dev
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    1 year 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.

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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.

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      I hereby coin Hanlon’s Inverted Anticapitalist Razor:

      Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greed.

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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.

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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.

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Wow someone in an organization called ‘cop’ who’s a bastard, who could have seen that one coming.