COP-27 financiers and death dealers – Can it be done?

Paul Driessen

As Americans thank this week for our many blessings, let us recall the Pilgrims and Native Americans’ primitive agricultural knowledge and technology, the famine and disease that pervaded our lives. their lives – and so many people around the world are no better off than they are today.

Much of Africa is still living on the brink, with more than 600 million people even without electricity. Many regions in India, Asia and Latin America also face severe food and energy shortages.

Incredibly, so is Europe. “German industry stares into the Net Zero abyss,” “Europe’s energy crisis could get worse next year,” “Even the German wind industry is in crisis.” ,” “Millions face poverty and desperation in Green England, as Britons pay the highest electricity bills in the world,” warns the headline.

The ban on Russian gas imports in the wake of Putin’s war with Ukraine plays a role and is frequently offered as a scapegoat. But the main cause was Europe’s love of intermittent wind and sun, and hatred for fossil fuels and nuclear, amid the fact that cold winters had led Germany to destroy ancient villages. and more recent classical wind farms to extract lignite beneath them.

Near the house, new england and New York also faces a cold, dark winterbecause they also voted against drilling, mining, pipelines, coal and nuclear power — and are now demanding more oil and gas from the very companies they and President Biden want to bring. into oblivion.

However, the greatest hypocrisy of all was on full display at the COP-27 climate circus in Egypt from 6 to 18 November – where attendees repeatedly asked if Africa could should be allowed exploit reserves of oil, natural gas and coal to improve living standards, feed families and save lives!

Al Gore preach that fossil fuel investments should be stopped worldwide, including in Africa. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres haphazardly asserted that “New funding for fossil fuel exploration and production is illusory” and will only “feed the scourge of war, pollution and climate disaster” (however not in the real world).

At the COP-27 climate conference in Sham-El-Sheikhdown, Egypt, John Kerry said African nations should not rely on natural gas for electricity generation and modernization. (Kerry has five houses, a yacht and a private plane – but that’s okay because they’re in his wife’s name, and he just “use them.”)

Worse, it’s not just the energy that these arrogant eco-dictators want to thwart in Africa and other developing regions. It’s also modern fertilizer – really all aspects of modern agriculture – everything that can really help farmers feed the hungry and earn enough money to build houses or barns, for their children. they go to school, buy tractors and other equipment.

They don’t even want Africa to produce natural gas and use it to make nitrogen fertilizers. increase crop yield and absolutely necessary if the world is to feed its eight billion people – especially without turning millions more acres of wildlife habitat into marginal farmland.

Poor countries will no longer tolerate this racist, intolerable and outrageous neocolonialism. Nor should they, especially when they realize that today’s wealthy nations are on the verge of de-industrialization and bankruptcy – and have neither the intention nor the ability to spend billions of dollars, much less than trilliondollars in annual “compensation, loss and damage” payments for the alleged impacts of anthropogenic climate change.

So when the United Nations, today’s wealthy nations and ecological pressure groups tell them there will be no financing for fossil fuels and modern agriculture – only for wind and solar power. Heaven, organic farming and “Agroecology” – poor countries should just tell these suppliers poverty, disease and death to buzz off. That would leave poor countries largely on their own.

But they have a multitude of advantages that their predecessors did not: incredible access to energy, agriculture, industry, economics, health, communications, and other areas. advances of recent centuriesespecially in the industrial age of using fossil fuels.

They just need to chart their own destiny and capitalize on these advances. Every project they take on creates new wealth, innovation, and the confidence to take on the next project.

I have written about these heartless eco-empires – the financiers and merchants of death – many times (here, here, here and hereFor example).

Unfortunately, they never repented, never changed their lethal attitudes and policies. The global followers they are interested in highlight how ignorant but well-intentioned people are actually led by well-informed people with no ill intentions – about climate, energy, and climate. quality, agriculture and human rights.

Their agro-ecological plan reject almost the entire platform of modern agriculture, feeding billions of people with less land and water, using monoculture farming, carefully developed and tested chemical fertilizers and pesticides, biotechnology, seeds hybrids and mechanized equipment.

Instead, they claim “food sovereignty” — the “right” to “culturally appropriate” food produced through “sustainable and ecologically sound methods that are with agro-ecology policies – the kind that have brought Hunger and chaos to Sri Lanka.

They even defamed golden ricecould end Vitamin A deficiency, blindness and death in malnourished children.

Could madness and hypocrisy get any worse? Sadly – yes.

European leaders have begged African nations to launch oil, gas and coal projects – to ship to Europe. In their next breath, the EU Commission said support nitrogen fertilizer production in Africa would “conflict” with the EU’s climate targets.

The International Energy Agency is concerned that half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has no access to electricity. In the next breath, the IEA says stopping the planet’s overheating does not allow more Africans petroleum production.

Even more colonists, Time The magazine promotes the view that “insect-eating humans can help save the planet.” New York Times praising a new Julia Child “The Joy of Cooking (Insects).” And a group of prominent African and European “economy and nutrition experts” say climate change and other considerations make Africa the “perfect laboratory” to test new ways of doing things. new to feed humanity – like turn the lake of flies from the Lake Victoria region to “crackers, muffins, meatloaf and hot dogs.”

COP-27 (or FLOP-27) claims to have been achieved other”historical landmark” In save planet earth! But it’s all fueled by baseless hysteria about man-made climate catastrophes. Let’s all take a deep breath.

We definitely have to face climate change and extreme weather events – but no worse than before and without convincing, reproducible evidence that man-made emissions have replaced natural forces. More importantly, we have much more wealth, more knowledge, much better technology and resources than before – to help us adapt to climate change, survive events. inclement weather and rebuild afterwards.

That is infinitely more appropriate than covering the Earth with wind turbines, solar panels, battery modules, transmission lines, mines and factories to build everything – and processing plants to do. Bug burgers and other delicacies, in time for climate celebrities to enjoy them at COP- 28.

We cannot be calm and rational (and therefore colonization?) just this time? Just ask.

Paul Driessen is a senior policy adviser to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.www.CFACT.org) and author of numerous books and articles on energy, climate change, environmental policy and human rights.