Al Gore Says Fossil Fuel Industry Seek to 'Capture' Climate Talks

[Uncle Joe]

The former vice president said at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event that oil and gas companies were “using the atmosphere as an open sewer.”

Fossil fuel interests are trying to co-opt the battle against climate change, Al Gore warned on Thursday, noting that the United Nations had appointed a top oil executive, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, to lead this year’s global climate talks.

“That’s just, like, taking the disguise off,” Mr. Gore said at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event in Manhattan. “They’ve been trying to capture this process for a long time.”

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“They have captured control of the political and policymaking process in too many countries and too many regional governments, and they’ve reached out to try to capture the U.N. process,” he said.

Fossil fuel industries, he said, “have portrayed themselves as the source of trusted advice that we need to solve this crisis. But they are responding to powerful incentives to keep digging and drilling and pumping up the fossilized remains of dead animals and plants and burning them in ways that use the atmosphere as an open sewer, threatening the future of humanity. It’s enough already.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/climate/al-gore-fossil-fuel.html