President Duterte compare first-world countries to filthy rich businessmen

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President Duterte in comparing first-world countries to filthy rich businessmen: 'They think that they can dictate what the destiny of the rest of the nation (is).'

President Rodrigo Duterte is apparently subscribing to the idea that all this talk about climate change is nothing but a conspiracy theory orchestrated by developed countries to manipulate third world nations.

This is judging from his remarks in a send-off speech for Rio de Janeiro-bound Filipino athletes held Monday (July 18) in Malacañang where Duterte casually shared a recent conversation he had with a diplomat who once brought up the issue of global warming with him.

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“He was reminding me about these emissions and the carbon footprints. ‘Yes, we are a signatory to that agreement and would you be able to maintain your emissions?’ Sabi ko: ‘No, I cannot tell,’” Duterte said according to reports.

“You have reached your apex and along the way spewed a lot of contaminants and emissions and will (be) ahead in destroying the climate,” he added. Duterte did not name the ambassador he spoke with but it was presumably someone coming from the first world countries.

“Good for you. We are here. We have not reached the age of industrialization. We are going into it. But you are trying to (hold us back) with an agreement na hanggang dito lang kayo, nandito lang. We maintain the present emission. That’s stupid,” Duterte said further.

He did not specify which international agreement he was referring to but the Philippines was among the 196 countries who participated in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris where a deal has been drafted and ratified to cut carbon emissions.

It was finalized last April when then Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Paje signed on the Philippines’ behalf. Per the agreement, Manila is obliged through its Nationally Determined Contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 70 percent by 2030.

Duterte simply brushed this development aside, thinking that only wealthy countries would be benefiting from this deal in the long run. “Kalokohan ‘yan. So that is how very competitive and that is how very constricted our lives (are) now?” he said.

“It’s being controlled by the world. It’s being imposed upon us by the industrialized countries. They think that they can dictate what the destiny of the rest of the nation (is). Sila ‘yan,” Duterte said, comparing first world nations to filthy rich businessmen.

Source: Politics.com.ph

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