John Kerry Warns Ukraine Invasion Will Worsen Climate Change
Editors’ Note: As we read this, we could not help but think about how detached from reality the Left and the Democrats have truly become. We are really dealing with a kind of secular religious dogmatism of an extreme variety. It is obvious Putin could care less about “emissions”, and the global warming nut cases in Europe that he cites are more concerned about keeping the flow of Russian carbon-emitting energy flowing, lest their populations freeze to death. As they say, you really can’t make this stuff up!
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry warned that a war in Ukraine could hamper global climate efforts and increase emissions.
“Equally, importantly you’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry said in the interview. “You’re going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted and I think it could have a damaging impact.”
“Hopefully (Russian President Vladimir Putin) would realize that in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land,” he continued. “Now, it’s thawing.”
Kerry added that he hoped Putin would focus on climate change.(RELATED: Oil Soars Beyond $100 Per Barrel For The First Time Since 2014)
WATCH:
“Secretary Kerry strongly condemns the unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces,” a State Department spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday. “On Monday prior to the attack, he was asked about the climate implications of a potential future conflict.”
“I am concerned in terms of the climate efforts that a war is the last thing you need with respect to a united effort to try to deal with the climate challenge,” Kerry told Reuters in a separate interview on Monday.
“Obviously we hope that we can compartmentalize, but it’s just made that much more difficult without any question,” he continued. (RELATED: John Kerry Brushes Off Question About Slave Labor In China, Says ‘That’s Not My Lane’)
Earlier in the day, Kerry addressed a crowd at American University Cairo in Egypt, acknowledging the threat of violence in Ukraine, but saying climate change was another major threat to world stability.
“We know that climate impacts threaten global security,” Kerry remarked during the speech in Cairo, Egypt. “I was just in Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference, where speaker after speaker acknowledged the ‘threat multiplier’ effect of the climate crisis.”
On Sunday, Kerry said the Ukraine crisis will be solved “one way or another,” but that the climate crisis “remains existential” in comments to GZERO Media.
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