{"id":285543,"date":"2023-10-28T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285543"},"modified":"2023-10-28T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:31:13","slug":"forbes-climate-policy-hurts-the-poor-more-than-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285543","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Climate Policy Hurts the Poor More than Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Africa\u2019s poor will be hardest hit not by \u2018climate change\u2019 but by the policies pushed by the West\u2019s green lobby. African forests and drinking water will diminish further.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have we all just entered a parallel universe where mainstream media publishes articles which make sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Change Hurts The Poor: But Not The Way You Think It Does<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tilak Doshi<\/a>
Contributor
Oct 26, 2023,03:49pm EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would seem straightforward that resolving the \u201cclimate change\u201d problem would serve the poor the most, given that they are the hardest hit. But, by a tragic turn of irony, moves to \u201cfight climate change\u201d are precisely what is hurting the poor most.<\/strong> It is not \u201cclimate change\u201d but the policies adopted in response to it that are the problem afflicting the poor the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of us who take affordable electricity \u201824\/7\u2019 supply for granted are unaware of the existential constraint on people\u2019s daily lives that a lack of electricity implies. This was brought home brilliantly by Geoff Hill<\/a> at a talk in House of Lords in Westminster on Monday. Geoff is Africa correspondent for The Washington Times, the first non-American John Steinbeck Award winner and has published with the Mail & Guardian<\/em>(Johannesburg), The East African<\/em> (Nairobi) and across the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This leads us to the third striking feature of the climate finance data collated by CPI<\/a>. Within the 92% of the $640 billion spent on climate finance<\/a> directed to climate mitigation in 2020 (as opposed to the 8% spent on adaptation), 91% (or $536 billion) was spent on solar and wind power. Yet no country in the world has developed without the dense energy available from fossil fuels. Asking Africans to leave their fossil fuels resources in the ground in return for \u201cclimate finance\u201d from Western governments and multilateral agencies to invest on unreliable solar and wind power is plainly<\/strong> unworkable<\/strong><\/a>. Dilute, unreliable and intermittent power from the wind and the sun will not meet the continent\u2019s quest for higher standards of living, to save the forests and to have clean water to drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2023\/10\/26\/climate-change-hurts-the-poor-but-not-the-way-you-think-it-does\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well said Tilak Doshi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cGeoff\u201d referred to is Zimbabwean writer Geoff Hill, who Net Zero Watch reports<\/a> spoke to the British House of Lords about how lack of reliable energy is leading Africa to burn their forests<\/a>. Just like Europe almost destroyed their forests, before the large scale exploitation of coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net Zero Watch also provides two documents, Paper 1: Africa\u2019s burning issue: charcoal and the loss of forest (pdf)<\/a><\/strong> and Paper 2: Clean water for Africa: A dream whose time has come (pdf)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t have a link to Geoff\u2019s speech, if anyone has a link please post it in comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really hope this Forbes article is more than a one off glimmer of sanity. If mainstream media news outlets were to start consistently acting like real journalists again, investigating and discussing real world problems caused by climate policy, instead of uncritically cheering on every ridiculous green idea which crosses their desk for the sake of the cause, the world would rapidly become a much better place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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