Samoan PM Uses Sydney Speech To Slam “Stupid” Politicians Who Don’t Believe In Climate Change
Meanwhile, Australia has no climate change policy.
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele has hit out at “stupid” climate change deniers and urged Australia to cut its carbon emissions, in a fiery speech in Sydney on Thursday evening.
In a speech at Sydney’s Lowy Institute, Sailele said climate change was a “disaster” and an “existential challenge” to low lying island nations in the Pacific such as his.
“We all know the problem, we all know the causes, we all know the solutions,” said Sailele. “All that is left would be some political courage, some political guts, to get out and tell the people of your country [there is a] certainty of disaster.”
Sailele added that leaders who don’t believe in climate change was “utterly stupid” and “ought to be taken to mental confinement”.
Speaking of which: Sailele’s speech comes as the Australian government shows itself to be increasingly uninterested in taking a serious position on climate change. Malcolm Turnbull was at one point trying to legislate our Paris Agreement targets in his signature energy policy, the National Energy Guarantee… and we all saw how well that worked out for him.
Scott “Let’s Wave A Big Lump Of Coal Around In Parliament” Morrison has since separated the environment and energy portfolios, with his new Energy Minister Angus Taylor insisting his priority is cutting energy costs, not reducing emissions.
“I’m not sceptical about climate science, but I am and have been for many years sceptical about the economics of so many of the emissions-reduction schemes dreamed up by vested interests, technocrats and politicians around the world,” Taylor said earlier this week.
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h/t ABC