Islamic call on rich countries to end fossil fuel use

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Islamic call on rich countries to end fossil fuel use

By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News

34 minutes ago Science & Environment

Islamic environmental and religious leaders have called on rich countries and oil producing nations to end fossil fuel use by 2050.

The Islamic Climate Declaration says that the world's 1.6bn Muslims have a religious duty to fight climate change.

It urges politicians to agree a new treaty to limit global warming to 2C, "or preferably 1.5 degrees."

The Declaration asks Muslims, in the words of the Koran, "not to strut arrogantly on the Earth".

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The main focus though is on "well-off nations and oil-producing states," who are urged to lead the way in phasing out greenhouse gases, no later than the middle of this century.

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[DetlefK]

1. Good luck. The middle-eastern theocracies need that oil.

Their economies operate exclusively on oil, and in exchange for that money, the people are willing to overlook the tyranny. (Unless they are not and become muslim extremists seeking to replace the political tyrants with another world-order, a religious one.)

Where would the arab countries be without oil? They have next to no industry, they have next to no scientific research, their agriculture is way too small for the oil-induced population-boom... Oil and tourism, that's all they have. (Well, that and oysters and caviar. But you can't build your economy on oysters and caviar.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It's notable the clerics calling for this come from oil-importing countries

"The call has been supported by religious leaders including the Grand Muftis of Uganda and Lebanon, the president of Indonesia's major body of religious scholars as well as environmental groups and government officials from Morocco and Turkey."

These days, Indonesia imports slightly more oil than it exports. Where oil is the major part of the economy, they keep quiet.

[MisterP]

2. plus it's a very destabilizing monoculture

instead of politics they just fight to distribute the oil money and skive off a lot for themselves; we can see that in Nigeria, Mexico, pre-Chavez Venezuela