Kerry has said a lot of stupid things around the climate cult, but, this is a top 5
John Kerry says people would ‘feel better’ about the Ukraine war if Russia would reduce emissions
John Kerry claimed that people would “feel better” about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would “make a greater effort to reduce emissions.”
“If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now,” Kerry said during a foreign press briefing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., his last as the SPEC, as he departed from the position Wednesday to reportedly join President Biden’s presidential re-election campaign.
“Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time,” he said.
Kerry’s remarks came after a Russian news agency reporter, Igor Naimushin, asked him about the U.S. relationship with Russia on his climate agenda.
“I believe that Russia has the ability to be able to make enormous changes if it really wanted to. I mean, if Russia has the ability to wage a war illegally and invade another country, they ought to be able to find the effort to be responsible on the climate issue,” Kerry said.
This is so dumb, it’s hard to know where to go with this post. Does he really think Russia cares about their carbon footprint? Does he really think people would feel better about Russia invading Ukraine?
Speaking of Kerry, here’s what the UK Guardian thinks of America
John Kerry’s recent claim in an interview with the Guardian that the United States is a force for good in tackling the climate crisis, despite soaring growth in fossil fuels, demonstrates that he fundamentally misunderstands the problem (John Kerry: US committed to tackling climate crisis despite fossil fuel growth, 4 March). The International Energy Agency made it clear: to reach net zero by 2050 the world can afford no new fossil fuel expansion. And yet the United States is by far the largest producer of oil and gas in the world – responsible for one in five barrels of oil and gas extracted globally in 2022 – and has the largest plans for fossil fuel expansion in the world.
President Joe Biden’s recent pause on new liquefied natural gas export authorisations is an important step toward reining in expansion. However, the pause does not go far enough to address the massive expansion of fossil fuels in the US causing the climate crisis and serious health and safety impacts on communities living nearby. If the US wants to be the climate leader that Kerry thinks it is, it’s time our leadership takes real action to stop fossil fuel expansion and lead a just transition off fossil fuels.
Kerry is a loon. I have never heard him complain about the climate impact of WAR.
Any idea what all those missiles we gave Ukraine do to the air and water? Hint: Those rocket motors don’t run on electric rechargeable batteries. The fumes from them are toxic. So are the fumes from artillery propellants and bursting charges. They poison the air in flight and poison the ground and water on impact.
What about the environmental impact of using thousands of depleted uranium tank shells on what was once fertile farm land? That land is poisoned for hundreds of years now. Or how about all those cluster munitions we gave to Ukraine, after we stopped using them ourselves because Princess Di declared that they were evil and indiscriminately killed children. But I guess as long as we are helping kill Ukrainian children, it’s fine.
And if all those potential cancers and toxic effects don’t make you wonder about the human cost of war, what about the value of the human life being deliberately taken as a result of combat action?
Maybe if Kerry were not personally profiting from the war in Ukraine, he would have a little more empathy for the massive harm to the human race, AND the planet HIS choices are doing. NOTE: Kerry was SECSTATE under Obama administration and continued the policies of Hillary Clinton to destabilize Russia and expand NATO into Ukraine. This is as much his war as Hillary’s, Newland’s.