{"id":335477,"date":"2024-07-04T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335477"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:44:40","slug":"if-they-cared-about-humanity-the-left-wouldnt-ban-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335477","title":{"rendered":"If they cared about humanity, the Left wouldn\u2019t ban fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"422\" data-attachment-id=\"335478\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=335478\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0African-child-hand-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1495&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1495\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/07\/03\/if-they-cared-about-humanity-the-left-wouldnt-ban-fossil-fuels\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=if-they-cared-about-humanity-the-left-wouldnt-ban-fossil-fuels&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=if-they-cared-about-humanity-the-left-wouldnt-ban-fossil-fuels#\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/ronstein\/\">Ronald Stein<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/cap-vijay-jayaraj\/\">Vijay Raj Jayaraj<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poorer nations need the same products enjoyed in wealthy countries that are based on fossil fuels to begin flourishing, concurrent with developed nations that only wish to live only on electricity from renewables!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost half the world \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalissues.org\/article\/26\/poverty-facts-and-stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over three billion people<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 live on less than $2.50 a day,&nbsp;and billions live with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/judeclemente\/2020\/06\/14\/the-biggest-energy-problem-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">little to no access to electricity<\/a>, like those living in places like Africa, Brazil,&nbsp;China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia, is complicated by the hypocritical \u201cgreen\u201d agendas of leaders in the few wealthier developed economies that have benefited from the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels since the beginning of the industrial era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wealthy countries desiring to pursue their net-zero emissions goals wish to rid themselves of fossil fuel usage and the products and fuels that made them Developed Nations, while poor countries need those \u201cproducts\u201d to elevate themselves from their underdeveloped status to become flourishing economies, not just for the growth of national GDP but also for the socio-economic improvement of individual families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vast difference in the lifestyle of some of these families will make many of us wonder if we are in a time travel machine. Hospitals without electricity, homes without refrigerators, families without a car or a motorbike, and millions with uncertainty about the next morsel of food on their plates!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future prosperity for these people, and about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalissues.org\/article\/26\/poverty-facts-and-stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">80 percent of humanity<\/a>,&nbsp;is contingent on their economic advancement through the rightful access to harness the foundational elements of any flourishing economy, i.e., the strategic use of fossil fuels to enjoy the products and fuels that are the basis of all the infrastructures such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Transportation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water filtration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanitation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hospitals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medical equipment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Appliances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electronics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Telecommunications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communications systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heating and ventilating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wealthy countries wishing to rid the world of crude oil, coal, and natural gas without replacements in mind would be immoral and evil, as extreme shortages of the petroleum products manufactured from fossil fuels will result in billions of fatalities from diseases, malnutrition, and weather-related deaths in both the developed and the under-developed economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortages of fossil fuel products would necessitate mandating the lifestyles of those in the wealthier countries, which would bring them back to the horse and buggy days of the pre-fossil fuel 1800s and could be the greatest threat to most of the planet\u2019s eight billion residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The few wealthy countries pursuing the generation of electricity from wind turbines and solar panels while simultaneously moving to rid the world of fossil fuels have&nbsp;short memories of petrochemical products and human ingenuity being the reasons for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/world-population-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">world populating from 1 to 8 billion<\/a>&nbsp;in less than two hundred years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world\u2019s population explosion was not just based on the discovery of oil alone. We have learned that crude oil is useless unless it can be manufactured into something usable. The 8 billion now on this planet are dependent on the oil derivatives and fuels that are manufactured from crude oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, through human ingenuity, we have more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/partial-list-over-6000-products-made-from-one-barrel-oil-steve-pryor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6,000 products<\/a>&nbsp;currently benefiting society and transportation fuels for the 50,000 jets moving people and products, and transportation fuels for more than 50,000 merchant ships for global trade flows, and the fuels for the militaries and space programs, as well as the fuel for the President\u2019s 400-ton Air Force One airplane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world\u2019s population depletes the earth\u2019s crude oil reserves over the next few centuries or so, the grandchildren in wealthier developed countries will be unable to enjoy the more than 6,000 products of our materialistic society being enjoyed by the current residents of those developed nations on this planet. Those in poorer nations have yet to enjoy the lifestyles of those fortunate to live in the wealthier nations, all made possible with the products made from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It cannot be overemphasized that implementing Net Zero emission policies would eliminate products derived from petroleum, which are the foundation of today\u2019s lifestyles and economies. Disruption to nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides alone will result in about half the world\u2019s population not having enough food to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001b2Z2EweXm19Rd4pF2_NvHdaeN_s1xTBMujmVMThi7K70yFL7S_78jsqT88EJ9YtzDRKZHDvsMrUNK36SPgfPNbyTX4YVd_MIJQMGVl1mcEXgaaI6M4MzCJ7_WE5tQlysn-fW_ndMgJ47oBUaKimuVgDqsIVvhmCBYY77yGGxzJhauR18EDoAjfl5LvSflTuu&amp;c=jeLoZFtCwxDC5Fhn4ikGvlNQOZhs4-Gw4aQZQJHY-RTP2FipBw7PAw==&amp;ch=t4kN0U__Tb1KlRoc6zmgeUXoaPlHTe91JWmk9dwzO3NmtzfQXK10yA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Life without oil is NOT AS SIMPLE AS YOU MAY THINK<\/a>, as renewable energy is only intermittent electricity from breezes and sunshine, and neither wind turbines nor solar panels can manufacture anything for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The climate will continue to be a challenge, as it has for billions of years, but now, we have 8 billion on this planet that we didn\u2019t have a few centuries ago, and we need to maintain healthy and productive lives in the decades ahead, currently being enjoyed by the few in the modern world. Depriving developing nations of the products and fuels manufactured from fossil fuels could be a much greater threat to mankind than any climatic challenges facing humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article originally&nbsp; appeared at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaoutloud.news\/the-paradox-if-the-elite-really-cared-about-humanity-they-wouldnt-ban-fossil-fuels-to-destroy-our-way-of-life\/\">America Out Loud<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poorer nations need the same products enjoyed in wealthy countries that are based on fossil fuels to begin flourishing, concurrent with developed nations that only wish to live only on electricity from renewables!<\/p>\n<p>Almost half the world \u2014 over three billion people \u2014 live on less than $2.50 a day, and billions live with little to no access to electricity, like those living in places like Africa, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia, is complicated by the hypocritical \u201cgreen\u201d agendas of leaders in the few wealthier developed economies that have benefited from the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels since the beginning of the industrial era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":335478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829536,691818228,691829533,691829534,691829535],"class_list":["post-335477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basis-of-all-the-infrastructures","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-humanity","tag-no-access-to-electricity","tag-water-filtration","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1pgV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":264831,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264831","url_meta":{"origin":335477,"position":0},"title":"The world needs more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/01\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortages of fossil fuel products would necessitate lifestyles being mandated back to the horse and buggy days of the 1800s and could be the greatest threat to the planet\u2019s eight billion residents.","rel":"","context":"In \"electricity\"","block_context":{"text":"electricity","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=electricity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-windmill.jpeg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-windmill.jpeg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-windmill.jpeg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-windmill.jpeg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-windmill.jpeg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":272276,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272276","url_meta":{"origin":335477,"position":1},"title":"Without a replacement, abandoning fossil fuels, supports China","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently, are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components. 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