The Great Global Warming Swindle, Part 8
Part 7 of The Great Global Warming Swindle left off in the middle of examining how the environmental extremist/AGW (anthropogenic global warming) crowd’s childlike faith in AGW is leaving the poor of the world in places like Africa caught in the trap of poverty and disease.
Even poverty-ridden continents like Africa have natural resources such as coal and oil, but AGW-worshippers insist they rely on things like solar power.
A short drive outside Nairobi, Kenya (where some say President Barack Obama was born) finds a public health clinic which serves several villages and is powered only by solar panels. The building has lights and a refrigerator to keep things like vaccines cold and preserved. The hitch: the doctor can have lights, or refrigerator, but not both. If he tries to have both at the same time, the whole operation shuts down. The solar panels simply don’t provide enough power for both, and when things cloud up…
What’s more, in this poverty-ridden nation, solar power costs 3x conventional sources.
Former environmentalist Paul Driessen considers AGW outcomes like this the most morally repugnant aspect of the global warming campaign.
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore says, “I think one of the most pernicious aspects of the modern environmental movement is this romanticization of peasant life, and the idea that industrial societies are the destroyers of the world.”
As someone who grew up fairly poor by American standards, and as someone who has seen poverty in other countries that made my childhood look like life in a palace, I cannot agree with Moore more.
Economist and author James Shikwati says, “We are being told, ‘Don’t touch your resources. Don’t touch your oil. Don’t touch your coal.’ That is suicide.”
Patrick Moore continues, “I think it’s legitimate for me to call them anti-human. You don’t have to think humans are better than whales or better than owls or whatever if you don’t want to. But surely it is not a good idea to think of humans as sort of being scum. That it’s okay to have hundreds of millions of them go blind or die or whatever. I just cant’ relate to that.”
I can’t either.
It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad, wouldn’t it?
In case you missed them, you can catch previous parts of The Great Global Warming Swindle: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7.
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