Why don't these people fear carbon dioxide?

Oblivious to climate change - The National Newspaper

BANGKOK // Awareness about climate change and the threat it poses is woefully lacking in Arab countries, Arab delegates and activists attending key climate talks in Bangkok told The National.

The absence of debate about climate change in the Middle East suggested the Arab world was “living on another planet”, said Wael Hmaidan, the executive director of IndyACT, a Lebanon-based non-governmental organisation.