• silence7OPM
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      10 months ago

      Because Dubai’s royal family got wealthy by exporting fossil fuels, which they continue to do.

      They’re desperate to find a way to say “you can keep on burning fossil fuels if you go buy up another country” instead of “we all need to stop burning this stuff”

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    10 months ago

    As soon as I heard about this deal last week it sounded immensely problematic. This is going to be a human rights disaster with marginal environmental benefit.