There’s a new – if as yet unauthenticated – audio message from Osama Bin Laden:
In the recording, the voice says more people are affected by climate change than wars, and appears to refer to recent flooding in Pakistan.
Um, that’s a slight change of direction. And what about this?
He also called for greater investment in agriculture, saying the issue was “not about gains or losses, but about life or death.”
Since when did Bin Laden get all his ideas from Alex Evans?
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