Denmark – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for the UN Climate Change Conference, on Wednesday condemned the North for not showing the same fundamentalist spirit it exhibits in developing countries on human rights matters on the menacing question of climate change.
“Where is its commitment to retributive justice which we see it applying on the other issues placed on the global agenda? Where are the sanctions for offenders? ” Mugabe questioned the conference.
“When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it is we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp, starve, sink and eventually die,” the Zimbabwean President said in his opening address.
Mugabe, who said Africa stood by the Kyoto Protocol, said late believers and late comers could not be dictators at this conference.
“Besides, they happen to be among the guiltiest on this matter. It simply has be come imperative that the developed world, itself the leading sinner on climate of fences, takes serious and effective measures to cut emissions on the one hand, while supporting developing countries to adapt to and mitigate the effects of this man-made planetary if not cosmic disaster.”
The conference ending on Friday is negotiating a global climate deal intended to avert climate disaster. Pana
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