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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova; Extinction rebellion have staged a protest at an oil conference in South Africa, calling African conference delegates “climate criminals” for discussing how to develop their oil resource windfalls.
Extinction Rebellion calls Africa Oil Week delegates “climate criminals”
8 November 2019
By Madison YaugerActivists are demanding that government declare a “climate and ecological emergency”
Extinction Rebellion protestors surprised conference-goers at Africa Oil Week for a second time this week. At noon on Friday, five protestors began hanging a massive banner at the Cape Town International City Centre (CTICC) with “Africa oil week Climate Criminals Conference” and displaying the Extinction Rebellion logo.
Seven men and women, dubbed the “Red Brigade”, dressed in bright red robes and wearing white face paint, walked silently and took up poses around the CTICC.
According to one anonymous protestor, the red symbolised the common blood of all humans.
“There are climate criminals making deals behind closed doors that put our futures at risk and we feel that is our duty to rebel for all life on Earth,” said another protester, 21-year-old protestor Shannon Goodman.
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Read more: https://www.groundup.org.za/article/extinction-rebellion-calls-africa-oil-week-delegates-climate-criminals/
Delegates were largely unmoved by the Extinction Rebellion protest.
No apologies: Africans say their need for oil cash outweighs climate concerns
Libby George, Shadia Nasralla
5 MIN READ
CAPE TOWN/LONDON (Reuters) – A handful of protesters on the ground floor of the cavernous Cape Town International Convention Centre spread fake oil on the ground and chanted, demanding an end to fossil fuels.Two floors above, the hundreds of delegates at Africa Oil Week were largely unaware – and mostly unmoved – by the display.
“Under no circumstances are we going to be apologizing,” said Gabriel Obiang Lima, energy minister of Equatorial Guinea, adding that they need to exploit those resources to create jobs and boost economic development.
“Anybody out of the continent saying we should not develop those fields, that is criminal. It is very unfair.”
The tension keenly felt at oil conferences in Europe was largely absent over the three-day event in Cape Town; there was little focus on climate change, apart from the shadow renewables cast over long-term demand.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-oil-climate/no-apologies-africans-say-their-need-for-oil-cash-outweighs-climate-concerns-idUSKBN1XI16X
My thought; this latest Extinction Rebellion effort recalls the days of the British Empire, a bunch of privileged white people trying to tell poor African nations how to run their countries. The protestors even wore whiteface, to drive home their point.
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It could be argued that Extinction Rebellion are by their actions and deliberate incorrect beliefs themselves the true Environmental Criminals.
“British Empire, a bunch of privileged white people trying to tell poor African nations how to run their countries”
They were run better too. Compare Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
The British Empire reinvested ~47% of the revenue back in the country. (Revenue they wouldnt have had had they not had the mining knowledge and markets the British bought (copper in Rhodesia for example).
This build roads, schools, hospitals. Bought law, stability and an end to tribal violence.
Monty Python’s ‘what have the Romans done for us’ might be worth thinking about when you make this kind of statement.
In every case you cite, the local populace didn’t want “rule” from afar. Being ruled from the “Crown”. Sound familiar? Brexit? New Zealand severing contact with the Privy Council (2000-ish), in order to determine it’s own legal course?
Here in the UK we discover that our one Green MP, Caroline Lucas, ‘occasionally’ flies to the US to visit her son…
Define ‘occasionally’ – and relate it to the (normally one) flight which the rest of us plebs and non-believers take each year….
David
I am from the UK and this is the first I’ve heard of caroline taking “holidays” to visit her son .. It must feel nice to book a flight and see your family when ever you like 😉
Did the protesters arrive at the venue in fossil fueled vehicles, on bikes with petroleum based tires, or walk in shoes with soles made of…? Well, you get the idea.
Every part of their trip was made using oil-derived production.
Look at these climate cultists wearing imperialistic and globalistic clothing and shoes! That stuff is fabricated under unacceptable conditions and with poisonous chemicals in East Asia for a handful of dollars and sold for much more in the West – to feed greedy investors – after a long, CO2-intensive voyage on a ship or plane.
Sorry, but I can’t take these climate-hipsters seriously. Preach water, drink wine! Hypocrites!
I bet most of them are not vegans either.
Without stable and affordable energy African countries have very little chance to ever exit their predicament. They are poor, sometimes dirt poor. Is it immoral to want to live a better life? I don’t think so. Those people have the same right to pursue their happiness as we do. But a mobile phone totting, designer clothed do-nothing that lives in their parent’s basement won’t understand that. His/her life has only ever been about him/herself. Africans who want to better their lot in life are no criminals – but those calling them so are.
That’s the problem with Fridays school strikers.
On Fridays “21-year-old school striker Shannon Goodman maybe were told that their futures don’t forever belong them damned climate deniers.
So school strikers can take over their heritage soon and live ever lucky protesting ad lib.