Every year global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy as the world’s elite arrive on carbon-spewing private jets to lecture humanity on cutting carbon emissions. This week's climate summit in Egypt offers more breathtaking hypocrisy than usual, because the world’s rich will zealously lecture poor countries about the dangers of fossil fuels — after devouring huge amounts of new gas, coal, and oil.
The world’s major development organisations — at the behest of wealthy countries — refuse to fund fossil fuel exploitation that poor countries could use to lift themselves out of poverty A study in Tanzania found almost 90% of households given off-grid electricity just want to be hooked up to the national grid to receive fossil fuel access.
Compare this to Africa, the world’s most renewable continent with half of its energy produced by renewables. But these renewables are almost entirely wood, straw and dung, and they are really a testament to how little energy the continent has access to. Despite all the hype, the continent gets just 0.3% of its energy from solar and wind.
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)
BjornLomborg An poor (corrupt) counties have the gall to demand money as reparations... the whole green deal is corrupt and seems to have little to do with savi g the planet... ask what COP27 have for lunch and dinner.
Fantastic & painful piece by Lomborg. At this rate, the truth will be unstoppable!
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