A video of Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali blasting a BBC reporter for trying to lecture him about climate change went viral this week. In an interview with BBC journalist Stephen Sackur, the world leader rejected the reporter’s insinuation that his country will be contributing to climate change by allowing for oil extraction off its coast.
5 gigatons of carbon, a forest that we have kept alive, a forest that we have kept alive?' The interview became more contentious, with the reporter firing back, 'Does that give you the right – does that give you the right to release all this carbon?' VENEZUELA APPROVES REFERENDUM TO TAKE OVER NEIGHBORING OIL-RICH ESSEQUIBO REGION CONTROLLED BY GUYANA Ali was having none of it and cut Sackur off again.