When a classic stereotype of a haughty BBC reporter kicked off an interview of Guyana President Irfaan Ali with a lecture about carbon emissions coming from that country’s massive offshore oil development, Ali was having none of it.
In the absolutely priceless video, you can watch Ali educate this BBC jackass about his own special brand of hypocrisy in the starkest terms possible. I’ve prepared a transcript as well as I can that follows the clip.
It is, in a word, glorious: