Posted on 03/26/2022 7:10:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Middle East is the most water-scarce region in the world, but participants at an upcoming climate summit in Dubai will be ensconced in a resort with one of the world’s largest water parks, complete with artificial lagoons, encounters with dolphins and a mesmerizing aquarium with sharks, sting rays and schools of fish.
It’s a striking backdrop for a climate summit aimed at tackling lack of water and other pressing issues facing the region due in part to warming global temperatures from the very fossil fuels produced by Gulf Arab states and others. The Arabian Peninsula, where Dubai sits, is grappling with menacing sand storms, rising temperatures and dangerous humidity levels.
Across the Middle East, people are living with the impacts of climate change. Farmers in rural Egypt face severe water shortages along the Nile River. Millions of people in Syria and Iraq are at risk of losing access to water, electricity and food amid rising temperatures and record low water levels due to drought.
On the same day the climate summit opens, Dubai is hosting an energy forum elsewhere in the city with energy ministers and global oil executives to talk about energy demand and how the climate crisis is impacting energy markets.
Given the pace of climate change, said Mohammed Mahmoud, director of Middle East Institute’s Climate and Water Program. “I think it’s kicking the can down the road as they try to figure things out, but we may not have the luxury of time.”
This week, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued another dire warning, writing on Twitter: “We are sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.”
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You don’t expect the super-hypocrites to drive themselves to the Motel 6 outside of Rio Linda, do you?
What would they do with their personal jets if they did that?
Dubai should turn off their electricity to save the planet—now—it is an emergency!
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Will they at least jet pool so they only have one private jet for every two attendees? And, no, flying back home to pick up the second does not count - they have to be in the plane together.
Joining the universal hypocrisy that excludes elitists from lockdowns, masks, social distancing and energy conservation. They don’t see a problem with it, and think we’re too stupid to notice.
Last I heard, 75% of the world is water, which we know how to desalinate. Would be cheaper to build thousands of them and green the deserts to create new economies, more food, lower “global temperatures “ and bring peace.
It’s such a gravy train scam. Trillions at stake, plenty to spread around.
“We need big money to fund our social engineering! Where will we get it???”
“Hmm...I know, let’s tax the air!”
The Israelis desalinate and irrigate innovatively. At a kibbutz, I was advised that they provide potable water for a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Ironic! I also was told they are exporters of water.
The Israelis can turn the Mediterranean Sea into fresh water and put it in their national grid for half the retail cost of the water that comes out the taps in DFW. that says something. They also recycle 90% of their water from the sewerage system into irrigation water for crops nearly every drop they make is used twice. Only Las Vegas recycles a higher percentage of the sewerage I’m Vegas every drop that hits a sanitary sewer is recycled either to lake mead via the Las Vegas wash or directly via irrigation water.
Read that again the Israelis turn seawater into drinking water cheaper to their peoples taps than already fresh water is delivered to North Texas suburbs.
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