Sounding more like a Park Slope food co-op clerk than the leader of the world’s most-feared terror cabal, Osama bin Laden released a new tape in which he gripes about how the United States isn’t taking global warming seriously and bemoans the corrupting influence of big business.
The unlikely advocate for green living — who has no qualms about having gleefully killed almost 3,000 victims on American soil on 9/11 — wants the global-warming naysayers to lay off it.
“This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions — whether intentionally or unintentionally — and about the action we must take,” said bin Laden.
“Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury. The phenomenon is an actual fact.”
In the less-than-three-minute-long audiotape, which was aired on al Jazeera yesterday, bin Laden put the fault for climate change squarely on Western nations and bemoaned the influence of big business.
“All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global-warming crisis,” bin Laden lectured on the tape, which has not been verified by intelligence agencies.
He then ripped into his favorite whipping boy — former President George W. Bush — for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement that placed emission-reduction targets on developed countries like the United States.
“George Bush Junior, preceded by [the US] Congress, dismissed the agreement to placate giant corporations. And they are themselves standing behind speculation, monopoly and soaring living costs,” said bin Laden, who had briefly addressed climate change before but never in such detail.
“They are also behind globalization and its tragic implications. And whenever the perpetrators are found guilty, the heads of state rush to rescue them using public money.”