Bill McKibben: Egypt U.N. Climate Summit Must Demand Freedom for Jailed Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah

We speak with climate author and activist Bill McKibben, who is pushing for the climate movement to demand the release of Egyptian prisoner and human rights activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah ahead of the next U.N. climate conference, which will be hosted in Egypt. McKibben says releasing El-Fattah to the U.K., which has agreed to house him, would be "the easiest of gestures" by Egypt, whose authoritarian leader met Saturday with President Biden. "The spread of authoritarian governments around the world is one of the things that's making it difficult to deal with the existential challenge that climate change [presents]," says McKibben.

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[Ianpact]

Thank you, Bill McKibben, Amy and DN! crew.

[dreamlife]

Democracy Now is just the best, honest, professional news outlet in the world 🌎

[peterdollins]

Why I support Amnesty. At 80 I've seen 70% to 90% of our wildlife destroyed with 85% of our fish & wild places, that's why I also support 7 wildlife charities.

[adinahaun]

Another pariah nation holding all of us captive. Thank you Bill for your relentless work!

[yurielcundangan]

The fact that they were aRResting people running against them really shows you that revolting was necessary

[DuderofDudeness]

Also mckibben: Largest climate destroyer nay toe subsidiaries/us military is fine

[yurielcundangan]

Worse thing about bad guys is that they think they're actually the good guys

[ahmedhany]

"Fossil fuels and Autocrats go together, all too neatly". Saying the guy from a country that is heavily dependent on fossil fuel. I'm not defending autocrats, but Countries like Egypt, Turkey, India, Thailand, Indonesia are not heavily dependent on neither private vehicles nor different industries that use too much fossil fuels. Now compare these countries to US and EU countries.

[clintonmckenzie]

We need them to lower gas that's it

[JugglinJellyTake]

Given the oil, gas and food crisis it seems unlikely there will be a COP27 in Egypt as we are likely heading towards food riots that led to the Arab Spring.

[ZMAN_]

All president go to all these countries? Pull all our troops out from everywhere.

[divinelove]

There was a time when Christ and Mother Mary journeyed to ancient Egypt to save their lives from King Herod. The Egypt now is a far cry from what it once was.

I'm for freedom so as long as that freedom doesn't result in the loss of life.