Climahypocrites were on parade at the United Nations Friday
(CNS News) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the signing of the climate agreement by a record number of countries is a moment for world leaders to recommit to actually win the “war” against carbon emissions that are making the planet hotter every year.
“The urgency of this challenge is only becoming more pronounced,” he said, “and this is why our gathering today is, in fact, historic.”
That would be the gathering that required hundreds, if not thousands, of people to use vast amounts of fossil fuels to travel to the UN.
Kerry said the power of last December’s climate agreement “is the message that it sends to the marketplace.”
It is going “to unleash the private sector” to define the new energy of the future and set the global economy on a new path to development that preserves the environment, he said.
The message it sends is two fold: first, that the government will hook up any compliant company. The second is that the government will destroy any non-compliant company.
“We are in a race against time,” U.N. secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the gathering. “The era of consumption without consequences is over.”
Interestingly, the people who are telling us this refuse to stop their own.
Leonardo DeCaprio is urging world leaders to leave fossil fuels “in the ground where they belong” as he tells them they are the “last best hope” for saving the planet from the disastrous effects of global warming.
The actor, who is a U.N. Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change, spoke shortly before the leaders began signing the Paris Agreement.
“We can congratulate each other today, but it will mean absolutely nothing” if you return to your countries and don’t take action to implement the deal, DiCaprio said.
Nothing like an actor who uses immense amounts of fossil fuels telling everyone else to stop their use, to “leave it in the ground”. Bet he wouldn’t be happy having to take a sailing ship to exotic locations. And surely won’t be happy when government restrictions affect his own big carbon footprint lifestyle. Of course, many of the proposals will only really hurt the “little people”.
