Links tagged “development”

The reeking hypocrisy of Western elites and their never-ending attempts to dictate energy policy to countries in which they are not elected is finally called out.

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Bjorn Lomborg: "Do you remember how the UN kept saying Madagascar experienced the "world’s first climate-induced famine”? Well, the UN lied Poverty, not climate, caused Madagascar’s food crisis, an actual study finds." 

Michael Mann claims: "Indeed, more rigorous recent studies estimate that 5 million people PER YEAR die from climate change. As many as have died from COVID-19 IN TOTAL"

Climate Depot Note: Mann is including cold deaths as "climate change" deaths. See Bloomberg article Mann cites: "While most deaths have been caused by exposure to the cold, the trend is likely to reverse as the planet warms, they said." 

3 New Studies Conclude 21st Century Cold Temps Led To 7-10 Times More Deaths Than Warm Temps

Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Warming annually causes about 120,000 heat deaths but prevents nearly 300,000 cold deaths’

Foreign Policy mag: At COP26, developed-world governments are working to keep the global south poor.

Scaremongering about Africa points to a disturbing undertone in rich-world debates. On climate change, as on so many other issues, many in the West seem to see Africans as a mass of passive victims lacking agency and requiring charity—the quintessential “white man’s burden”—or a looming threat to civilization. To save the planet, this thinking goes, Africans can’t enjoy a high-energy future that people in rich countries take for granted. The climate just can’t afford Africans to be prosperous. ... 

Blaming Africa takes several classic forms. The first is to rattle off big scary numbers without background or context. Bill McKibben—one of the world’s most prominent climate activists—recently declared that the world can’t fight climate change if it doesn’t stop Uganda from building an oil pipeline, citing the project’s planned transport of 210,000 barrels per day, which sounds like a lot. McKibben never mentions that Uganda is one of the world’s poorest countries, that its people suffer from severe energy shortages, that it emitted a mere 0.01 percent of global carbon dioxide last year, and that the pipeline’s capacity will be equivalent to only 1.8 percent of crude oil output in the United States, where McKibben is based.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Constitution Day speech on Friday called for erasing a "colonial mindset" that only exists to "thwart India's growth".

"The colonial mindset hasn't gone. We are seeing from developed nations that the path that made them developed is being closed for developing nations." 

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Flashback 2009: India: ‘It is morally wrong for us to reduce emissions when 40% of Indians do not have access to electricity’