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Taliban tries reconciling science and religion in facing climate change
The Washington Post ^ | July 12, 2024 | Rick Noack

Posted on 07/14/2024 9:37:41 AM PDT by Salman

KABUL — When Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers headed to the country’s first “international climate change conference” earlier this year in the eastern city of Jalalabad, few foreign guests turned up.

Afghanistan remains a global pariah in large part because of the Taliban restrictions on female education, and that isolation has deprived the country of foreign funding for urgently needed measures to adapt to climate change.

So, for now, the Afghan government is largely confronting the impacts of global warming on its own and putting the blame for floods and sluggish governmental aid on foreigners. Some former Taliban commanders view global carbon emissions as a new invisible enemy.

“Just like they invaded our country, they’ve invaded our climate,” Lutfullah Khairkhaw, the Taliban’s deputy higher education minister, said in his opening speech at the Jalalabad conference this year. “We must defend our climate, our water, our soil to the same extent we defend ourselves against invasions.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cop26; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; panicporn; ricknoack
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Never mind the Wapo spin.

The Taliban fell for US ruling class disinformation. Not sure it matters, but it's interesting.

1 posted on 07/14/2024 9:37:41 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Right, WP the Taliban is concerned about climate change. What dolts WP has.


2 posted on 07/14/2024 9:42:00 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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“Right, WP the Taliban is concerned about climate change. What dolts WP has.”

Yep.


3 posted on 07/14/2024 9:43:14 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Salman

This a joke. Right?


4 posted on 07/14/2024 9:45:57 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Salman

The message is: US conservatives = Taliban


5 posted on 07/14/2024 9:47:06 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Salman

Only an insane leftist, godless earth worshipper would worry about taliban carbon emissions in afghanistan. These people are insanely sick.


6 posted on 07/14/2024 9:49:26 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Salman

Who knew that the Taliban was looking for a government grant from the greenie, doomsday cultists that run America.


7 posted on 07/14/2024 9:52:29 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Salman

The Onion, Babylon, The Bee?


8 posted on 07/14/2024 9:56:32 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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No, I am sure that Taliban heard that poor countries badly affected by climate change can get cash compensation via the United Nations. The Taliban are marking their place in line.


9 posted on 07/14/2024 9:56:32 AM PDT by Rockingham
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Right, WP the Taliban is concerned about climate change. What dolts WP has.

Exactly! They're too stupid to know they're being played for money.

10 posted on 07/14/2024 10:01:34 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Salman

They already poop in caves, wear bed sheets, live in other people’s homes, write in the dirt with sticks, and kill anyone that disagrees with them. I’m not sure what more they could possibly do to support leftist climate warrior efforts? They seem more like the perfect executive committee for eliminating climate change.


11 posted on 07/14/2024 10:01:47 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Baldwin

Seems like it must be Babylon Bee.


12 posted on 07/14/2024 10:07:03 AM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: Salman

There was a video of a Russian general explaining the advantages of the latest Russian FAE bomb, their version of our MOAB.

He ended his presentation by pointing out that the fuel-oxidizer combination they used was “not damaging to the environment.”


13 posted on 07/14/2024 10:08:42 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rockingham

We have a winner....


14 posted on 07/14/2024 10:10:02 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: Salman

Some napalm will help the Taliban adapt to warmer temperatures such as those found in hell.


15 posted on 07/14/2024 10:10:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Taliban, climate change warriors.

Lol. Should be worth 1.5 billion from biden.


16 posted on 07/14/2024 10:52:26 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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When Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers headed to the country’s first “international climate change conference” earlier this year

They want their share of Western guilt corruption money, that's all.

17 posted on 07/14/2024 11:02:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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“Taliban tries reconciling science and religion in facing climate change”

It would help if they had a basic understanding of either.


18 posted on 07/14/2024 11:24:18 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: falcon99

Well, Taliban blames others and demands compensation!
Like everybody!


19 posted on 07/14/2024 12:18:35 PM PDT by AZJeep
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...the Afghan government is largely confronting the impacts of global warming on its own and putting the blame for floods and sluggish governmental aid on foreigners.

Sounds like they already got it figured out.

Next topic on the agenda: Who is behind the push to allow women to be educated?

20 posted on 07/14/2024 1:54:07 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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