Vanessa Nakate on Twitter: "Africa is responsible for only 3% of global emissions." / Twitter

Africa is responsible for only 3% of global emissions.

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Nov 23, 2021

Prince William has renewed his attack on population growth in Africa, blaming it for destroying wildlife on the continent Critics have accused the Prince of hypocrisy for making such claims while expecting his third child thetimes.co.uk/article/prince

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Africans didn't hunt elephants almost to extinction to make billiard balls and piano keys.

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Not to mention the British royal family themselves have a carbon footprint 50x larger then the average Brit. joe.co.uk/environment/ro AND that the average Brit emits more CO2 in two weeks then some people in Africa do in a year. independent.co.uk/climate-change

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A sad, racist, disgusting intent of distracting from the main issue at hand: drastically reducing the emissions of our main global pollutors.

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Well this certainly seems par for the course for him 😡😡

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Nov 25, 2021

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Thanks for pointing out the facts, Vanessa! Misinformation is extremely dangerous re climate.

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And out of those 3% I would be very curious to learn how much of that comes from foreign investments and industries, waste management of imported waste, etc...

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And that was not what he said. Even what they put in the report differs both to the tweet and his actual words.

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That is not what he is saying and he is right, because of the extreme population growth in Africa almost one million acres of land has to be cleared every day!

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Dear Vanessa, every single day the world population grows with 227,000+ people. 1 million+ acres of beautiful wild land will have to be cleared to provide food for this growth alone. Especially in Africa there is extreme growth and a lot of land is being sacrificed.

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