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There’s a great clip from yesterday where a BBC reporter got his proverbial backside handed to him on a platter by the President of Guyana after he accused the president of releasing too much carbon into the atmosphere through oil and gas exploration off their coast.

Watch the video below or read the transcription below:

 
After the reporter highlighted the extraordinary amount of oil and gas that would be extracted over the next two decades off Guyana’s coast, he said:

But let’s think of it in practical terms. That means, according to many experts, that more than two billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed from those reserves and be released into the atmosphere. I don’t know if you as a head of state went to…”

At that point President Irfaan Ali interrupted the reporter…

“Let me stop you right there. Do you know that Guyana has a forest, forever, that is the size of England and Scotland combined? If forest stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, a forests that we have kept alive…”

The BBC reporter interrupted Ali and said:

But does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?

Ali immediately countered:

“Does that give you the right to lecture us on climate change? I 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’t pay us for, that you don’t value, that you don’t see a value in, that the people of Guyana has kept alive. Guess what? We have the lowest deforestation rate in the world. And guess what? Even with our greatest exploration of the oil and gas reserves we have now, we will still be net zero. Guyana will still be net zero. With all our exploration….”

The reporter tried to interrupt again, but Ali would not let him and then let him have it:

I am not finished as yet. Because this is they hypocrisy that exists in the world. The world in the last 50 years has lost 65% of all of it’s biodiversity. We have kept our biodiversity. Are you valuing it? Are you ready 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 destroy the environment through the industrial revolution and are now lecturing us? Are you in their pockets? Are you paid by them??

It’s always awesome to see these garbage media reporters and their phony narrative get completely destroyed, especially by someone who isn’t apologetic about drilling for oil and gas.