I’ve made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle. Let’s be real. None of this is about changing the temperature of the Earth. Even the most naive environmental activist can’t really believe that building windmills and driving Teslas is going to cool the planet.
This is all about money. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of government handouts.
That was never more blatantly transparent than at this year’s sham COP 27 climate conference in Egypt, which was attended by more than 20,000 delegates and activists from more than 100 countries. The only agreement that the delegates could reach was a hollow “commitment” from the rich Western nations — by that they mean the United States — to give “reparation” money to the poor nations of the world.
If you’ve never heard of this loony concept before, the theory is that America owes the rest of the world money for burning fossil fuels over the last hundred or so years.
Huh? These were the fossil fuels that provided America with the energy to save humanity from fascism and communism during World War I, World War II and the Cold War. These energy sources are what have powered the industrial age, bringing light, heat and air conditioning. And they have powered our infrastructure, factories, an abundant food supply and a technology revolution. Add to that our drugs and vaccines, which have saved many hundreds of millions of lives globally.
It was the fossil fuel energy revolution of the last century that supplied America with the wealth and financial resources to provide some half a trillion dollars of disaster and foreign aid to seemingly every area of the rest of the world. And now, President Joe Biden’s dunces are agreeing with foreigners that we owe them money?
America should be getting reparation payments. Not the other way around.
Oh, and did I mention that China and India skipped out on the conference this year? These are by far the two largest polluting nations, and they want no part of this global handshake “agreement.” This would be like celebrating that we have reached a peace agreement during World War II, except the bad news is that Germany and Japan aren’t on board.
The sliver of good news here is that Republicans are about to run the House of Representatives, and one of their first policy declarations will be to declare we are not sending a penny of climate foreign aid to other nations when we have mammoth problems here to solve at home.
It’s almost sinister that at a time when many third-world countries lack basic health care, adequate food production, clean water, affordable/reliable electric power and basic schooling for the young (especially girls), the European and American delegation is giving sermons on the dangers of climate change. With a fraction of the money the climate fanatics want to spend on green energy, the world could save millions of lives simply by ensuring the poor have access to clean drinking water and save millions of lives over the decades to come.
What all of this means is that the U.S. is under no moral or legal obligation to pay reparations to any nation. The U.S. is running a $1.2 trillion budget deficit, so there is no extra money in the bank vaults to spend right now on foreign aid. Perhaps when we’ve balanced the budget and we have surpluses.
That would be around the third Wednesday of never.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for humans to affect the climate on a global scale even if we wanted to. Yes, there are cycles that have been going on for eons but NOTHING humans have done can affect that. An active volcano emits more CO2 in a day that all humans in a year. All people on the planet standing arm in arm would fit in Connecticut and if each had a giant blow torch would still not equal one western forest fire. That little thing in the sky called the sun has complete control of our climate. Oh, and yes we could pollute the earth but it still wouldn’t change the climate one iota.
A shakedown scheme to give money to 3rd World Corruptocrats.
“It’s almost sinister that at a time when many third-world countries lack basic health care, adequate food production, clean water, affordable/reliable electric power and basic schooling for the young (especially girls), the European and American delegation is giving sermons on the dangers of climate change.”
Third world countries have been taking western money for decades, much much longer than they were colonised for, as you say the only reason these countries lack anything is because of their corruption.
The climate emergency/hustle is about money – that’s why western elites and leaders to agree to it, e.g. they benefit from it. It’s also one of the key communist tactics to subvert the West. This should be clear because no communist nation has or will ever comply with COP27 policies, Paris Climate Accords or any other ‘green’ scheme – they will forever be exempt. Only western nations are fleeced and wrecked in this way, because it’s intended to be this way.
Climate Reparations just a excuse by the globalists to redistribute the wealth If this had been around during Stalin I am sure he would give his approval for this
We need a head on debate as to whether or not climate change is a real danger or not. Heartland Inst and the CO2 Coalition seem to have proven it’s not, but few on our side seem to know even the basics of the discussion. See their websites for more.
Free market Capitalism has done more to improve the lives of millions of people than any other economic system. The nations that demand climate reparations do not practice this system so their poverty is of their own making and we in the west owe them nothing.
Can we stop saying “fossil fuels” which was created by the miscreate leftist commies to control the language and use petroleum products, implying that oil does much more than fueling our cars, such as manufacturing wind mill turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles? If we want to stop a movement we need to control the language. Merry Christmas to all!
As Trump said recently… Why is it always America that has to send money to countries full of people that hate us?.
Such people that think they can control the climate cant even control their own thoughts.