Posted on 01/08/2020 2:08:27 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
JOHANNESBURG - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, joined former U.S. vice president Al Gore on Tuesday to call on nations and companies to ditch fossil fuels to head off climate change.
Tutu, who is 88 and has been in hospital over the past few years owing to ill health, met Gore in Cape Town on Tuesday.
“Any organisation committed to operating responsibly in this new decade has a moral imperative to stop participating in financing the destruction of human civilization’s future,” the pair said in a statement.
“Corporations, governments and institutions that continue to invest in fossil fuels despite all the evidence of their effect on accelerating climate change are furthering environmental, economic and social injustice.”
Gore followed up his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” with a 2017 sequel arguing that the struggle against climate change is a moral fight. He likened it to the civil rights movement in the United States or the fight for gay rights in recent decades.
His and Tutu’s declaration is likely produce mixed reactions within the South African government, which has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but sees coal as crucial for generating electricity.
Three quarters of South Africa’s energy comes from coal, making it one of the world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide.
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Gore is a huckster that would make a three-card Monte dealer look honest by comparison.
I thought Tutu went Tata...he’s still among the living?!
Who?
Did someone say something????
Both should stop now!
Both of them should get off the grid to show commitment to their beliefs. But there’s no way either will give up their comfortable lifestyle and globe trotting. They are both hypocritical phonies.
But not for themselves.
Are they trying to make war with Iran?!?? Are they completely nuts?!?!?
/end-libtard-style-antiTrump-rant
“JOHANNESBURG - Archbishop Desmond Tutu...” is still a communist.
MADRID - Federalismo Francisco Franco is still dead.
The more things change...
Wow. A throwback to the 90s. The only thing missing is a boy band.
How did Gorebells get to South Africa?
The usual suspects
He must have taken Greta Thunberg’s boat.
And use what to keep warm with, to light our homes with, to cook with, to power our travel vehicles with? When Al Gore turns off all his power, then we can talk.
Obviously, two birds of a feather.
You better have a battery to even out this voodoo dance.
WFB once contemplated the accomplishments of Desmond Tutu and considered him to be the South African analogue of Martin Luther King. Desmond received his Nobel for the same reason that MLK received two of them. WFB asked, “Should they not have given two to Tutu, too?”
“Fossil” fuels have been responsible for powering the evolution of humans from using hammers to using nail guns. Horses to cars and aircraft and rockets and satellites. None of it would have been possible with burning wood or heating water with mirrors and sunlight. The number of humans in the human race has gone from millions to billions in a hundred years. How is that the destruction of human civilization?
South Africa is so much better now...
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