Posted on 12/04/2023 6:28:45 AM PST by bitt
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said he thinks coal plants should not be “permitted anywhere in the world.”
During a speech at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Kerry said he is becoming “more and more” militant about climate policy because people are avoiding responsibility.
“We don’t need that necessarily to tell us we ought to be transitioning out of coal,” Kerry said about the pollution from coal plants. “There shouldn’t be any more coal power plants permitted anywhere in the world.”
“That’s how you can do something for health,” he added. “And the reality is that we’re not doing it.”
Kerry spoke at the conference during the first-ever dedicated “Health Day,” which intended to highlight the connections between the climate crisis and health crises. He said the climate crisis and health crisis are one and the same.
Kerry is serving as the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and was nominated by President Biden in November 2020.
He said he is becoming more militant about coal plants because he does not “understand how adults who are in positions of responsibility can be avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis.”
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I say no private jets should be allowed “anywhere in the world.”
“John Kerry says no coal plants should be ‘permitted anywhere in the world’”
And how many tons of CO2 did his wife’s private jet emit on his round trip to the COP28 climate conference?
John Kerry is a Luddite.
SPOT ON
Hey, did the greens in Germany ever thank biden and kerry for blowing up the Nordstream pipeline?
Did Kerry mention China is the largest contributor to pollution from coal plants? Or is he ignoring China? Have they paid him off?
John Kerry, ignorant and lying his entire life.
Hanoi John Kerry deserves to become a Tree Ornament.
I’d like to see him deliver that message to his friends in China.... in person! 😁
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam by the way (typed in my best Rush voice), lectures the rest of us about pollution while he flies private jets and lives in mansions.
Where do they think the electricity will come from?
China would wine & dine him, do PR events, pics of him shaking hands with Xi and others, write him a check (The most important thing!) and then build more coal power plants!
Says the guy who buys Indulgences (carbon offsets)
Yup!
John Kerry once said something that , to paraphrase, he is allowed to fly on a private jet and emit the carbon pollution.
His reasoning is, number one , he buys carbon credits, and number two, he has to travel around the world to work on climate change issues, and the best way to get there is by private jet. So his carbon footprint doesn’t count because he is working to deal with climate change.
But leftists are NOT intent on world domination. /s
Tell that to the PRC.
Hello XI, John Carey reporting for duty
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