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 Africas 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 civilizations 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 Tutus 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 Africas energy comes from coal, making it one of the worlds top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Tutu is a sick senile man. Gore at his best.
When you cross 2 idiots you get one big dumbass idea.
Rich fat slob, duplicitous liar, chronic nitwit algore is roaming the world to find senile fools to support his stupidity. algore got a D in science in college. What a pampered, self-preening idiot.
I would prefer an end to Gore and Tutu......
Then ground your private plane, Algore.
The South Africans, of ALL races, have always considered Tutu to be a joke/ a clown.
“Mr. Gore, tear down this mansion!”
The Climateklatura will never practice what they preach. They are like the Brahmins or the uppercast Spartans. A caste apart from us plebs
The day Gore’s mansions go dark, I’ll give 1 oz. of give a $hi. to what he says.
Al Gore worth $300 million and still not satisfied.
South Africa also has an Al Gore? As if they did not have enough problems.
bert urges end to Desmond Tutu and algore
If Al Gore sailed to South Africa to make this announcement I’ll give up all fossil fuels starting now.
How did Gorebells get to South Africa?p
I give him a lot of credit, taking a sailboat there. Long journey. Oh, wait...
I urge an end to demonrats.
Algore. He against the use of fossil fuel. How did he travel to South Africa?? What a scammer! Amazing how many stupid there are to continue to listen to that jerk!
Let's call it oil products. More than 6500 products come from oil. You can't mine minerals without oil You can't convert those minerals to useful products without oil You can't mix and assemble useful items without oil You can't make solar panels, electrical-generation windmills, hydro-electric generators, transport vehicles, roads, homes, food, or pretty much any modern societal necessary products, without oil.
We need oil to refine into solvents, plastics, paint, lubricants, asphalt, roofing materials, fuels, fertilizers, makeup, packaging, etc. The list is long. Not all oil is made into gasoline and diesel, just some. Try building a car, train, boat or plane without oil and then have it take you anywhere.
As you said, oil powers the evolution of humans. Without it, that would destroy modern human civilization (most of us would first starve).
“South Africa’s Desmond Tutu and Al Gore urge end to fossil fuels”
South Africa first, Tutu, then we can all see how that goes first before the rest of us make such a decision ...
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