{"id":2209884,"date":"2024-03-30T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T02:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guyana-president-wrecks-bbc-reporter-trying-to-lecture-him-on-climate-change-i-am-going-to-lecture-you\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T22:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T02:43:25","slug":"guyana-president-wrecks-bbc-reporter-trying-to-lecture-him-on-climate-change-i-am-going-to-lecture-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guyana-president-wrecks-bbc-reporter-trying-to-lecture-him-on-climate-change-i-am-going-to-lecture-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana&#8217;s President shuts down BBC reporter attempting to lecture him on climate change: &#8220;I&#8217;m the one giving the lecture here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fguyana-president-wrecks-bbc-reporter-trying-to-lecture-him-on-climate-change-i-am-going-to-lecture-you%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2209884&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Guyana&#8217;s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali confronted a BBC reporter for accusing\u200c his country of worsening\u2062 climate\u2063 change through offshore oil drilling. During \u200dthe interview, the \u200djournalist questioned Ali&#8217;s authority to permit\u2064 such drilling, citing potential carbon emissions. Ali defended Guyana&#8217;s vast forest, highlighting its role in carbon \u2064storage and challenging the reporter&#8217;s stance on climate change lectures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali slammed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> reporter in an interview this week for claiming that his small nation was contributing to climate change by allowing oil drilling off its coast.<\/p>\n<p>BBC journalist Stephen Sackur suggested that Ali was wrong for allowing the drilling and asked him if he had the \u201cright\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s take a big picture look at what\u2019s going on here. Over the next decade, two decades, it is expected that there will be $150 billion worth of oil and gas extracted off your coast,\u201d Sackur said. \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary figure. But think of it in practical terms. That means, according to many experts, more than 2 billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed from those reserves and be released into the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me stop you right there,\u201d Ali fired back. \u201cLet me stop you right there. Do you know that Guyana has a forest, forever, that is the size of England and Scotland combined? The forest stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, a forest that we have kept alive, a forest that we have kept alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes that give you the right to release all of this carbon?\u201d Sackur asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes that give you the right to lecture us on climate change?\u201d Ali fired back. \u201cI am going to lecture you on climate change because we have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don\u2019t pay us for, that you don\u2019t value, that you don\u2019t see a value in, that the people of Guyana has kept alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuess what? We have in the lowest deforestation rate in the world. And guess what? Even with our greatest exploration of the oil and gas resource we have now, we will still be net zero, Guyana will still be net zero with all our exploration,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Sackur tried to cut Ali off, but Ali kept firing away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not finished yet. I am just not finished as yet,\u201d he continued. \u201cBecause this is a hypocrisy that exists in the world. We, the world in the last 50 years, has lost 65% of all its biodiversity. We have kept our biodiversity. Are you valuing it? Are you ready to pay for it? When is the developed world going to pay for it? Or are you in the pockets of those who have damaged the environment? Are you and your system in the pockets of those who destroyed the environment through the Industrial Revolution and now lecturing us? Are you in their pockets? Are you paid by them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The President of Guyana brought a wrecking ball to the BBC, which tried to guilt trip him and his country for exporting natural resources.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S5Md9Eh90j\">pic.twitter.com\/S5Md9Eh90j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1774258883281965085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview, Guyana&#8217;s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali criticized a BBC reporter&#8217;s claim that his nation&#8217;s oil drilling contributes to climate change. Journalist Stephen Sackur questioned Ali&#8217;s decision, insinuating he lacked the right to permit it. Ali vehemently defended his stance, asserting control over the conversation on environmental matters and national sovereignty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2209885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/Mohamed-Irfaan-Ali-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/Mohamed-Irfaan-Ali-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}