Speaking at an event hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank that is skeptical of climate change, the United Kingdom's former environment secretary, Owen Paterson, accused climate-change activists of having “African blood" on their hands. Setting aside the deeply offensive character of such efforts to silence its critics, the coal industry is posing a false choice: end the use of coal or end poverty.
Lors d’un événement organisé par la Global Warming Policy Foundation, un groupe de réflexion qui se veut sceptique des changements climatiques, l’ancien secrétaire de l’environnement du Royaume-Uni, Owen Paterson, a accusé les militants préoccupés des changements climatiques d’avoir du « sang africain » sur les mains.