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Saftu criticises Trump’s climate denialism, calling it reckless [SOUND]

# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says US president Donald Trump’s recent comments on climate change are reckless, and amount to a dangerous form of climate denialism and imperial arrogance. In a scathing speech to the United Nations earlier this week, Trump criticised climate change, calling it the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. Saftu’s general-secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, says while Trump mocks renewable energy, workers and poor communities globally are living through unprecedented climate disasters:

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