The moderators of the British TV channel GB News apparently find the consequences of climate change funny: when activist Alex De Koning of the British environmental activist group ‘Just Stop Oil’ explains the consequences of the climate crisis in a live broadcast using the example of Door heat deaths, he is simply laughed at by the television duo.
Climate activist Alex de Koning was added live as an interview partner on the GB News channel. It was about the bickering of activists who disrupted a speech by Labor politician Keir Starmer. Koning explained in the conversation that the climate crisis requires rapid action. Bushfires and floods would wreak havoc worldwide, and Britain was also hit hard: 1,700 Britons died in a heat wave last year alone.
Moderator doubts the seriousness of WHO
The moderators, Andrew Pierce and Beverley Turner, don’t want to believe that. And they promptly questioned the number – they also maliciously doubted that climate change was one of the causes of the deaths. When the student cited the World Health Organization (WHO) as the source for that figure, Turner said she didn’t find it reliable. These have “profit and control motives”.
The expression “boiling in your own sweat” caused laughter
King continued to try facts and went on to say that the dead were victims of heatstroke. The body can no longer regulate its own body temperature, especially through sweating. ‘You boil in your own sweat’, the activist tries to give a visual description of this phenomenon. The moderator then loses her cool – after initially trying to suppress a laugh, she eventually puts her hands to her face and laughs out loud. Her colleague, meanwhile, contemptuously reprimands the interviewee for the “stupid claim”.
The moderator finally goes even further at the student: “Don’t be mad at me, Alex, but I think you need to grow up a bit, because that’s ridiculous.” He continues to joke about the statements of the climate activist, who reacted in shock: “It is not an opinion to say: the climate crisis is costing people their lives,” says Koning.
Organisation: ‘We don’t think it’s funny’
The interview took place in early July, but only recently went viral after the organization Just Stop Oil tweeted (X) excerpts of the conversation, accompanied by newspaper clippings and images of flooding, fires and smog. “We don’t think it’s funny,” they explain in the clip.
Source: Krone
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