Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Guyana president, Dr Irfaan Ali, ripped BBC journalist, Stephen Sackur, apart during interview over oil and gas climate change in viral video.
Guyanese President Irfan Ali’s all-out attack on “Western hypocrisy” on Carbon emissions has gone viral.
President Irfaan Ali was speaking in an interview to BBC journalist Stephen Sackur, who had questioned the President on Guyana’s carbon emission rates as it planned to extract oil and gas along its coast.
In a viral interview clip, Guyanese President can be seen interrupting the question of the journalist, and cross questioning him on whether he had the “right to lecture him on climate change” and if he was in the “pockets of those who destroy the environment through the industrial revolution and are now lecturing us”.
At that point, the interviewer interrupted President Ali and said, “Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?”
Unamused by the follow-up question, Ali questioned Sackur’s right to lecture him about climate change and said that Guyana had the lowest deforestation rate, globally. “Does that give you the right to lecture us on climate change? I’m going to lecture you on climate change. We have kept this forest alive that you enjoy that the world enjoys, that you don’t pay us for, that you don’t value. Guess what? We have the lowest deforestation rate in the world! Guess what? Even with the greatest exploration of oil and gas we will still be net zero,” he said.