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Cop Out, or, How I Would Run a Climate Conference
Next week, world leaders and dignitaries will gather in Glasgow, Scotland, to indulge in an orgy of environmental self-adulation known as COP26. These moneyed elites and scientific grifters will pontificate on the urgency of tackling Climate Change through the adoption of wholesale societal changes that sort of resemble communism. Private jets will converge near the posh Scottish Event Center for days of fine conversation, fine wine, and fine dining on the premise of saving the world from their lessers.
Now, if I was running a climate conference it would be different. The event would be held in August, the hottest month, in some poor African country like Liberia. Instead of limos and helicopters, the participants would take a donkey from the airport to a small village. The elites would stay in non-air-conditioned cinder-block hovels. Their food (bread) would be cooked in the corner of that shack over dung. Their fine wine would actually be water they have to pump from a well a block away. It would probably be potable, but maybe not. The housing units would share a ditch to use as a latrine. There would be no electricity and no internet and the conversations would take place in a clearing with makeshift seating. Hopefully, after a week of living like the energy have-nots, they would appreciate the fact that 4 million Africans die each year because they lack cheap electricity.
Meanwhile, any world leaders that will admit that CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) is a hoax will meet up at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for a week of appreciating the prosperity brought by the miracle of cheap electricity. The world spends about 10% of all its income on energy, so having people pay 2, 4, or 10 times the minimal cost is a huge deal. The elites want you to be cold, in the dark dark, and hungry, while they live in luxury paid for through your labor.
Yes.
So much truth here.
Now you understand why some Republican Congressmen formed a “Climate Caucus” to get in on the action.
And why there’s a climate-licker podcast now on Ricochet.
Thank you. That was nicely done.
Worrying about carbon is a boutique first-world fetish, and not something about which the poorest one or two billion can afford to be concerned. The best thing that can happen for them is prosperity, and the road to prosperity goes through fossil fuels (or, in some parts of Africa, hydro-electric power, but the first world frowns on defacing the pristine landscape of that impoverished continent).
Great post.
They also want to make sure that aboriginal peoples are never given access to modern technology, no matter how much it would help them rise out of poverty, because that would destroy their “culture.”
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the “Extinction Rebellion” protesters are always going after middle class people in their cars, never wealthy oligarchs in their private jets.
That’s because they’re entirely bought and paid for by the oligarchs.
And maybe standing in front of jets is more dangerous than blocking intersections. (I kinda wish they’d give it a try, just so we could see if that’s true.)
You’re onto something here. I would like to see the World Bank moved to some poor country that they are trying to help. Really, what are they doing in Washington DC?
Trump sort of did something along those lines when he moved the Agriculture Dept. to somewhere agricultural. The Vegetable moved them back because the bureaucrats prefer other bureaucrats to agriculture. But the department exists for agriculture rather than the bureaucrats.
This is a fantastic post, and it vividly captures the living conditions of energy poverty. I will see you at the Bellagio, DonG.
A daring fellow student raised the DDT ban as black African genocide by white leftists issue in 2008ish. He was not cancelled but caused a great disturbance in the Force for his solidly, I dare say smugly, leftist classmates.
Guard rail is stenciled repeatedly with “DO NOT STAND” “JET BLAST” “DANGER.” Alcohol may be involved.
Man…. I’ve searched, high, and low… Can’t find my invitation, anywhere!!
Superb post.
CO2 is, of course, plant food.