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From\u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Craig Rucker<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coal, oil and natural gas \u2013 in conjunction with innovative free-enterprise capitalism \u2014 have lifted billions out of drudgery and poverty and brought unprecedented prosperity to billions of people. They\u2019ve blessed humanity with pharmaceuticals, plastics, cell phones, sanitation and countless other benefits that wouldn\u2019t have otherwise existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, thanks to modern fertilizers (made possible by fossil fuels), countries from Brazil<\/a> to Zimbabwe<\/a> are enjoying record harvests of grains and other crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, according to the fulminations of far-Left politicians and activists, such as those who recently attended the UN\u2019s COP-27 climate conference in Egypt, fossil fuels and capitalism bring only human misery and planetary destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite claims to the contrary, man-made carbon emissions are only a bit player compared to the powerful natural forces that have always propelled climate and weather fluctuations. By any measure, there is no statistically significant uptick in wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, droughts, flooding or any other severe weather events that some say are \u201csmoking-gun evidence\u201d of climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That certain scientists have crafted climate models indicating trouble ahead might be convincing, if their models actually reflected some basis in reality. Thus far, they haven\u2019t. Yet we\u2019re supposed to accept such scary computer models as \u201csettled science\u201d and adopt the radical solutions they propose to cure our \u201cclimate ills\u201d \u2014 namely, ditch fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One has to believe there\u2019s more at play here than simply the altruistic desire to \u201cSave the Earth.\u201d And at times, the leaders of the climate alarm movement have all but admitted such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former-UN climate executive secretary Christiana Figueres<\/a>, for example, once stated \u201cwe are setting ourselves\u201d the task \u201cto intentionally transform the economic development model\u201d that has reigned for at least 150 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her UN colleague Ottmar Edenhofer<\/a> was equally blunt: \u201cInternational climate policy has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.\u201d It is the means by which \u201cwe redistribute de facto <\/em>the world\u2019s wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there\u2019s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s former chief-of-staff<\/a> who revealed his boss\u2019s Green New Deal \u201cwasn\u2019t originally a climate thing at all. We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for President Joe Biden, whether he shares these views or not, he\u2019s clearly onboard the global warming bandwagon. He made it clear that his administration would tolerate \u201cno more drilling\u201d and \u201cno more pipelines.\u201d He would use every regulation, executive order and other available means to de facto<\/em> transform our energy and economic system, even if it drives Americans into the energy poverty<\/a> already afflicting millions in the UK and EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of that, at COP-27, he signed off on his Climate Envoy John Kerry\u2019s de facto<\/em> pledge obligating the United States to send $1-billion or more to poor countries every year, to compensate them for \u201closses and damages\u201d from \u201cunprecedented manmade climate disasters.\u201d And do so even as the USA is supposed to \u201cgo green\u201d and de-industrialize!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, banks, politicians and climate activists are telling impoverished nations to \u201cleapfrog\u201d fossil fuels and limit development, farming and living standards<\/a> to what \u201cgreen energy\u201d will support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, none of this applies to our adversaries. They get a pass. In fact, the climate agenda works to their benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has become an economic and military powerhouse by using oil, gas and especially coal \u2014 plus technologies and intellectual property rights stolen from capitalist companies. China controls the supply chains and manufacturing for wind, solar and battery power that\u2019s supposed to replace fossil energy in currently wealthy countries that Figueres, Edenhofer, AOC and Biden intend to \u201ctransform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, China generates almost 70% of its electricity with coal \u2014 and emits more greenhouse gases<\/a> than all other developed countries combined. Yet it isn\u2019t obligated to reduce its fossil fuel use or pay into UN climate losses, damages and reparations wealth-transfer funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we\u2019re going to have massive UN wealth redistributions (primarily to ruling elites in poor nations), the accounting system ought to be fair and equitable. That means any payments should be offset by the value of fossil fuel benefits<\/em> still-poor nations have received. In some cases, that could mean countries like China and India should be paying us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if poorer nations have been slow to adopt the free-enterprise, private-property rights and fossil-fuel energy sources that made rich countries rich \u2014 they shouldn\u2019t be rewarded with \u201creparations\u201d for not embracing such practices. They should be encouraged to implement them more quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These exemplary systems have been promoted for decades, or centuries. Countries that utilized them (even partially, like China and India) have benefited mightily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, developing nations should ignore the climate cabal\u2019s far-Left, ideological anti-fossil-fuel crusade that is hindering their economic development, and making kids and parents in the West emotionally distraught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their struggling masses will be eternally grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in\u00a0The Daily Caller<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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