I Frankly I don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.”

Tinubu merely deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors to capture the dilemma that developing countries face over the dire existential adjustments that climate change policies require of them.

He used “church rat” to symbolize a poor nation (Nigerian English speakers often say “as poor as a church rat” where native English speakers say “as poor as a church mouse” to indicate extreme poverty) and “Holy Communion” to acknowledge the desirability of climate-change policies.

But he qualified the “Holy Communion” as “poisoned” to suggest that it’s a bitter pill to swallow.

In other words, climate-change policies are good (i.e., they’re Holy Communion), but they’re injurious (thus, “poisoned”) to a “church rat” (i.e., poor nations like Nigeria) in the short term because they require the kinds of self-denying sacrifices (such as stopping the use of firewood to cook, cutting down on manufacturing, etc.) that will hurt poor nations.
If a church rat eats poisoned Holy Communion it will die, or be seriously sick, in spite of the holiness of the communion.

Tinubu was basically saying he acknowledged that climate-change policies are great but that implementing them will come at a great cost to Nigeria because Nigeria is poor and ill-prepared.

He was expressing a cruder, less direct, more literary version of the sentiments that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed in November 2015 when he said rich Western nations “with luxury of choices should sharply reduce emissions” and not burden poor nations like India that didn’t create the problem.

“But [climate change] is not of our making,” Modi said.

“It is the result of global warming that came from prosperity and progress of an industrial age powered by fossil fuel.”

successmatters:
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Throwback:


This one is confused on how to react.

Waiting on further directives from the Obidient WhatsApp group.

He used “church rat” to symbolize a poor nation (Nigerian English speakers often say “as poor as a church rat” where native English speakers say “as poor as a church mouse” to indicate extreme poverty) and “Holy Communion” to acknowledge the desirability of climate-change policies.
But he qualified the “Holy Communion” as “poisoned” to suggest that it’s a bitter pill to swallow.
In other words, climate-change policies are good (i.e., they’re Holy Communion), but they’re injurious (thus, “poisoned”) to a “church rat” (i.e., poor nations like Nigeria) in the short term because they require the kinds of self-denying sacrifices (such as stopping the use of firewood to cook, cutting down on manufacturing, etc.) that will hurt poor nations.
If a church rat eats poisoned Holy Communion it will die, or be seriously sick, in spite of the holiness of the communion.

BurialGround:
He should have said MOSQUE RAT.

This does not ruled out the glaring fact that Tinubu- the CSU accountant graduate druggie kingpin and bullion vans criminal is an invalid that is plagued by senile dementia, Parkinson's Disease and chronic enuresis.

juvewalex:
Tinubu is too wise for some of the people critizing him when he makes statements because they've been wired to speak ill of him .

successmatters:
Dementia is a very wicked illness, what about using "poisoned cake"

Who poisons a holy communion?

How can a rat eat holy communion that is always sealed?

Old people should be remanded at old people's home.

juvewalex:
Tinubu is too wise for some of the people critizing him when he makes statements because they've been wired to speak ill of him .

Throwback:


He has finally received the information to post from the WhatsApp group.

What a shame.

Throwback:


See mumu wey no understand English.

Na Tinubu create "Church Rat"?

Imagine the kind of empty heads who are Obidient to a fraud.

Throwback:


He has finally received the information to post from the WhatsApp group.

What a shame.

Very soon he will say since Tinubu was in the North, he should have used "poisoned tuwo".

These guys are really dense, and have no knowledge of English.

successmatters:


My brother, nobody can defend Tinubu without sounding daft.

Throwback:


Yet you are nothing but an empty head.

A zombie lacking oxygen in the brain.

Can anyone support Obi without being a hypocrite?

Throwback:


Zombies need a professor to break it down to their level.

Throwback:


Yet you are nothing but an empty head.

A zombie lacking oxygen in the brain.

Can anyone support Obi without being a hypocrite?

successmatters:
Dementia is a very wicked illness, what about using "poisoned cake"

Who poisons a holy communion?

How can a rat eat holy communion that is always sealed?

"Thousands of bags of oil" Farook Kperugi, come and defend that one?

Old people should be remanded at old people's home.

BurialGround:


10 bags of thousands barrels of oil. Does this make sense to you?

Majesty2:
Tinubu’s Church Rat Reference to Climate Change Isn't Wrong
By Farooq Kperogi

I frankly don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.”
Tinubu merely deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors to capture the dilemma that developing countries face over the dire existential adjustments that climate change policies require of them.
He used “church rat” to symbolize a poor nation (Nigerian English speakers often say “as poor as a church rat” where native English speakers say “as poor as a church mouse” to indicate extreme poverty) and “Holy Communion” to acknowledge the desirability of climate-change policies.
But he qualified the “Holy Communion” as “poisoned” to suggest that it’s a bitter pill to swallow.
In other words, climate-change policies are good (i.e., they’re Holy Communion), but they’re injurious (thus, “poisoned”) to a “church rat” (i.e., poor nations like Nigeria) in the short term because they require the kinds of self-denying sacrifices (such as stopping the use of firewood to cook, cutting down on manufacturing, etc.) that will hurt poor nations.
If a church rat eats poisoned Holy Communion it will die, or be seriously sick, in spite of the holiness of the communion.
Tinubu was basically saying he acknowledged that climate-change policies are great but that implementing them will come at a great cost to Nigeria because Nigeria is poor and ill-prepared.
He was expressing a cruder, less direct, more literary version of the sentiments that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed in November 2015 when he said rich Western nations “with luxury of choices should sharply reduce emissions” and not burden poor nations like India that didn’t create the problem.
“But [climate change] is not of our making,” Modi said.
“It is the result of global warming that came from prosperity and progress of an industrial age powered by fossil fuel.”

Source: Farooq Kperogi Fb page
mynd44

BurialGround:


Dogs should go to their section and bark. Here is for sound minds.

successmatters:
Dementia is a very wicked illness, what about using "poisoned cake"

Who poisons a holy communion?

How can a rat eat holy communion that is always sealed?

"Thousands of bags of oil" Farook Kperugi, come and defend that one?

Old people should be remanded at old people's home.

Throwback:


Return to the cemetery, you zombie.

BurialGround:


Yoruba man with Muslim Muslim ticket cannot rule Nigeria.


Go and read history you will understand.