Calling for greater international action on climate change, Samoa’s long-serving prime minister minced no words in a recent speech lambasting world leaders who don’t believe global warming is occurring— saying such skeptics are “utterly stupid” and should be taken to a mental institution. “Any leader of those countries who believes that there is no climate change, I think he ought to be taken to mental confinement. He is utterly stupid,” said Sailele, who has served as Samoa’s prime minister since 1998. Trump provoked global condemnation last year when he chose to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement. In Australia, Scott Morrison, the newly elected prime minister, has been facing pressure by some lawmakers to abandon the country’s Paris agreement pledges, local outlet ABC News noted.

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2018 13:30 UTC