Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele of Samoa lashed out at leaders of the United States, China, India and Australia for not doing their bit to prevent climate change.
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele hits out at climate change sceptics during fiery speech
By Pacific affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele has lashed out at climate sceptics and urged Australia to make deeper cuts to carbon emissions to help save Pacific Island nations from the “disaster” of climate change.
Key points:
- Mr Sailele says “greater ambition” is needed to stop impact of climate change
- He warns geostrategic competition is creating uncertainty for small Pacific countries
- Australia, New Zealand and the US have been scrambling to reassert influence in the Pacific
Mr Sailele told the Lowy Institute in Sydney that climate change posed an “existential challenge” to low lying islands in the Pacific, and developed countries needed to reduce pollution in order to curb rising temperatures and sea levels.
“We all know the problem, we all know the solutions, and all that is left would be some political courage, some political guts, to tell people of your country there is a certainty of disaster,” Mr Sailele said.
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Prime Minister Sailele also criticised loans from China which he believes are burdening Pacific nations with unsustainable debt.
“Some might say there is a patronising nuance, believing Pacific nations did not know what they were doing, or were incapable of reaping benefits of close relationships with countries that will be in the region for some time to come.
“One has the tendency to be bemused by the fact that the reaction is an attempt to hide what we see as strategic neglect.”
Read more: same link as above
From a video of his comments;
… We all know the problems, we all know the costs, we all know the solutions, and all that is left would be some political courage, some political guts, to get out tell the people of your country do this, do this, the certainty of disaster. So when any political leader in Australia or in Samoa or in China or in the free countries that are responsible for all this disaster, China, India and also the United States, and any leader of this country who believes there is no climate change he ought be taken to a mental confinement, he is utter stupid, and I same the same thing for any leader here [Australia] who say there is no climate change …
Source (Video): http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-world/2018-08-31/samoan-pm-hits-out-at-climate-change-sceptics/10185198
Tuilaepa Sailele seems one of the more competent and honest Pacific leaders, so its a shame to see him get the climate issue so wrong. Perhaps he should do some more research before demanding mental confinement for people who disagree with him.
Did he say how much money he was after to fix the problem?
It’s like pron. He can’t define it, but knows it when he sees it. He’ll let you know when he sees enough of it. Which will probably be never.
Dean,
No. We would win and then have to rebuild them into a real country.
Then they’d get the money anyhow, it’s a win/win situation for them! 😉
Better way for the Samoan leader to make money.
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Almost worked for the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
Amazing what a politician is willing to do to anybody he thinks is between him and power or money.
Google translate:
“Somoa Leader,
Send more climate money.”
In France, being Trump-like, speaking like Trump, is the considered an abomination. Our politicians are so nuanced, intellectual, refined. Speaking frankly is a sign of going “extreme right” or “populist” whatever that is.
French politician “NKM” (Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet), formerly (*) in the French “conservative” party(**) is a moderate, the icon of progress, the woman with French woman mythical qualities (***). Also, NKM probably doesn’t eat much (or at all).
(*) NKM left politics very recently
(**) French conservative = the equivalent of the UK New Labor according to an involuntary moment of clarity of then-current French President Nicolas Sarkozy (that was before the Corbynization of the Labor obviously)
(***) qualities that US women magazines would like readers to believe are typical of French women (grace, distinction… think Sarah Palin, then think opposite)
NKM studied at “X” (Ecole polytechnique), the most prestigious French engineering school (it’s a military school, they open the military parade every July 14th). So NKM is considered an elite inside politics where most high level politicians are non scientists and from Science Po/ENA (Ecole nationale d’administration) cursus (where they are brainwashed with pro state leftist nonsense).
In 2015, NKM said on national TV that those skeptical of “climate” (can you even “doubt” climate?) are “des connards”. I don’t know the equivalent in strength of that insult, I think @ss h0les is close enough; “connard” is often used, and not very strong in everyday language, but for insults the context matters. In an interview it’s extremely strong: nobody respectable says that on TV. Ever. Not a chance. Not even a vulgar man. You can say it in private, but not on TV.
It’s just unthinkable that anyone would qualify a whole group of French people that way on TV.
It’s just unthinkable^2 that a politician who still tries to be electable (that is, not a bitter loser who is leaving politics anyway) would say that.
It’s just unthinkable^3 that a polite, “progressiste”, nice, cause-friendly (for any progressive cause), womanly woman would say that.
It there was one politician the average French citizen would not believe is capable of saying “connards” in public, it would have been NKM.
But then the context is extravagant: on leftist channel Canal+, they were apparently talking about… Philippe Verdier who used to work in French state channel weather service and his book “Climat Investigation” which was discussed on WUWT: Philippe Verdier does NOT deny climate change; Philippe Verdier says that climate change IS a problem.
NKM just needed that affirm her ineptness in that moment of hate against someone who is NOT a so-called “skeptic” of “climate”.
French sheep bucking the climate change Final Solution is like expecting Vichy France to have opposed the Nazis and the SS. (They were all on the same page.)
This guy is so dumb he probably thinks Gaspachio is Pinnochio’s father..
The Samoan PM is civilized on the outside but still primitive in his head
Are Samoans incapable of adapting to snail’s pace changes which have always happened?
“Please send us more money” would be enough
I don’t believe there was a “please” in that statement.
How about mental confinement for political leaders that try to cash in on scams? Or physical confinement?
How far the mentality of communist thought has spread. It’s settled science that the UN demands an end to capitalism. It’s settled in their minds as that was the agenda to end democracy in the first place. With the promise of a redistribution of wealth, like welfare, it’s not wealth at all except for the ability to produce, once spent, they are still broke. It lines the pockets of corrupt officials in foreign countries, who should be careful of what they are saying.
Since in my view, I see them as agents that are trying to extort money and/or destroy the basis of American society, the consequences may not be to their liking. The irony is that if America ever does go Communist, that government will give lip service to climate change and go after the people demanding money. They will be silenced very quickly. I’ll be lauded as a working class hero and they will be lined up against a wall somewhere. Not that life will be any better for me. Just not as bad.
It’s a global disease of leadership.
“Prime Minister Sailele also criticised loans from China which he believes are burdening Pacific nations with unsustainable debt.”
Simple solution, stop taking out loans and only spend within your means. Don’t blame the one loaning to you because you are too stupid to live within your means.
These guys are getting desperate since the US took its money away.
The guy is a shmo(an). By urban dictionary definition, having the parents of a Smurf and a Snork.
Someone please tell this guy about pumice compression.
‘Mr Sailele told the Lowy Institute in Sydney that climate change posed an “existential challenge” to low lying islands in the Pacific’
Uhh . . . you know, Samoa is MOUNTAINOUS. The Lowy Institute must be weak on geography.
He just wants our money.
I tried and tried, but words escape me.
I have a “mental confinement” to reality and not the pipe dreams and fantasies of the left-wing fanatics.
The Samoans are a great people. Just so distinctive in the World’s passing parade. It is a real pity, therefore, that they have elected this bludging, rent-seeker to speak for them.
I would instead suggest compulsory engineering training for politicians who would then realise that no matter how academically able scientists are they are more ignorant than an average man in the pub when it comes to practical ability.
To fail to grasp that the instrumentation and the environment aspects, like how built the area is and how close the measurement is to buildings or tarmac, when it is part of the site specification shows a dismal lack of training and practical good sense. A lack of sense not displayed in the majority of children over ten years old of engineers.
Peer review is not a satisfactory test as it allows the failings of a group to be perpetuated where an outside examiner has different skills that would highlight the deficiencies.
Also why are we expected to accept the views of ignorants politicians with no expertise in anything but spouting lies and platitudes?
Eric,
I agree entirely with your view that the Samoan Prime Minister is a compétent and honest leader.
His views on Climate Change are, I believe,misguided.
The statements he makes are sad.
However, I would counsel people here against sneering at him on the ground that he is only in it for the money.
While it is true that the Pacific Island Leaders are naturally driven by the money available to developing countries under the UN FCCC, it should be appreciated that they believe in Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Many have been led to believe that their Island States are at genuine risk this Century.
It is hard to be critical of these leaders when one reads the views of former President Obama and the majority of the US Supreme Court who have been convinced that Massachusetts is at serious risk of inundation this century.
Just agree with him, and tell him the first thing on the agenda is to ban all unnecessary air travel, i. e., tourism. And since we are correcting the ‘problem’, there is no reason to distribute money for abatement.
What Samoa needs right about now is a really big tsunami.