{"id":376326,"date":"2025-04-25T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=376326"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:20:18","slug":"the-world-needs-people-day-more-than-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=376326","title":{"rendered":"The world needs People Day more than Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Driessen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts<\/a> from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to \u201cleapfrog dirty fossil fuels\u201d and have wind and solar energy power industries, businesses, communications, transportation, and modern healthcare and living standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Gore believes momentum on net zero climate action and renewables is \u201cunstoppable.\u201d Despite<\/em> the Trump administration removing the USA from the Paris climate pact and systematically reversing the Obama-Biden era climate and energy policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite<\/em> the absence of even one community anywhere on Earth having been able to meet its electricity needs solely with intermittent, weather-dependent, land- and resource-intensive<\/a> wind and solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite<\/em> coal, oil, and natural gas still providing 82% of total global energy needs and 100% of enormous petrochemical requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite<\/em> China\u2019s electricity generation<\/a> alone emitting 2.5 times more carbon dioxide than the USA and nearly one-third of the global total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite<\/em> millions of Europeans<\/a> being made jobless and sent into energy poverty by climate-centric policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite<\/em> hurricanes<\/a> and tornadoes<\/a>, floods and droughts<\/a> not increasing in frequency or intensity in decades, and the number of people killed<\/a> by weather and other natural disasters plummeting 90% since 1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Gore\u2019s policies definitely benefit himself and the Industrial-Political Climate Complex. He certainly won\u2019t move to Africa or give up his energy-gobbling Nashville<\/a> or oceanside Montecito<\/a> homes, or his SUVs, private jet travel or climate cash. But his pronouncements would certainly roll back industrialized-nation living standards and relegate poor nation aspirations to irrelevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, they\u2019re highly reminiscent of Obama science advisor John Holdren\u2019s plan to de-develop and de-industrialize the West and then tell poor nations how much development they will be \u201cpermitted\u201d to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce the United States has clearly started on the path of [de-developing and] cleaning up its own mess,\u201d Holdren wrote<\/a>, \u201cit can then turn its attention to the problems of the de\u2013development of the other [developed countries] \u2026 and ecologically feasible development of the [under-developed countries].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why, this Earth Day, people everywhere \u2013 especially Africa\u2019s and the world\u2019s impoverished, malnourished, energy-deprived citizens \u2013 should observe People Day<\/em> \u2026 and emphasize the energy and other resources people everywhere need to enjoy decent lives and safeguard our planet from the ravages that all-renewable energy would inflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sub-Sahara Africa\u2019s population<\/a> has increased by nearly 500,000,000 since Gore\u2019s 2005 \u201cInconvenient Truth\u201d and over 1,000,000,000 since 1960 \u2013 to 1.3 billion today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excluding South Africa (64,000,000 people using 3,200 kWh of electricity per person per year), the average Sub-Sahara African gets a barely detectable 180 kWh annually<\/em>. Compare that to average annual electricity consumption rates per capita in Europe (6,500 kWh) and the United States (13,000 kWh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In starker terms, nearly 1.3 billion Africans have access to a trifling 1.4% of the electricity that an average American uses every year. That means the average Sub-Sahara African has electricity 20 minutes a day, 141 minutes a week, 123 hours (out of 8,760) per year<\/em> \u2013 sporadically, at totally unpredictable times \u2026 for a few minutes or hours at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing abundant, reliable, affordable electricity to this vast region (3.2 times larger than the lower 48 USA) will require trillions of dollars \u2013 that should be spent on power generation systems that can actually do the job: coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, and perhaps some geothermal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, however, many African governments refuse to develop their vast coal and natural gas deposits to generate electricity. Their officials still fear and kowtow to Al Gore, UN and European pressure, and the catechism of climate cataclysm \u2013 while raking huge sums into private bank accounts from \u201cclimate reparation\u201d and renewable energy grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, European financial institutions, the World Bank, and other lenders still refuse to finance fossil fuel development or fossil fuel electricity generation. Even pre-Trump, Obama and Biden USAID (US Agency for International Development) programs \u201cput the climate crisis at the center of U.S. foreign policy<\/a> and national security\u201d and focused on compelling aid recipients to \u201ctransition\u201d from fossil to wind and solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, change is in the air. African people and their leaders increasingly recognize that coal, oil, and gas not only fuel electricity generation, vehicles, cooking, heating, and other necessities but developing and selling these resources also generates billions in revenue. This revenue can then be used to finance more energy and economic development \u2013 without having to beg ideological institutions for handouts, submit to their demands and restrictions, or remain mired in poverty, disease, dependency, and despondency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the example of China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam in driving hard toward modernity, Niger, Senegal, and C\u00f4te D\u2019Ivoire<\/a>are leading the way in Africa. Guyana is doing likewise on the North Coast of South America, even as Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro<\/a> seeks ways to seize its oil fields. They\u2019re all poised to ride oil booms, while South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and other African nations are breaking away from domineering, climate-obsessed banks and NGOs, using coal to chart their own courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These countries are also beginning to realize that \u201cclean, green, renewable, sustainable, affordable\u201d wind and solar power reflects none of those concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An African \u201cclean energy transition\u201d would require hundreds of thousands of wind turbines, tens of millions of solar panels, and hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines sprawling across tens of millions of acres of Africa\u2019s magnificent, scenic areas and wildlife habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their massive raw material requirements would mean mining at scales unprecedented in history, much of it by countries, companies, and artisanal miners that pay little attention to workplace safety, air and water pollution, mined land reclamation, or other standards in Africa or anywhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installations, mines, waste dumps, and toxic waters and materials would destroy more habitats, starving, poisoning, and killing still more of Africa\u2019s unique fish, birds, and wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the manufacturing of wind turbines, solar panels, transformers, vehicle and grid-scale backup batteries, and other equipment would be conducted far from Africa, largely in China \u2013 resulting in still more global pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, while providing few employment opportunities or other benefits to Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa would end up destroying<\/em> Africa to save it from climate catastrophes that exist only in headlines, computer-models<\/a>, and Al Gore\u2019s fertile imagination. It would generate still pitiful amounts of expensive electricity, only 25-30% of the year, as unpredictably as today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I helped organize the very first (1970) Earth Day on my college campus, when the United States and other industrialized countries still faced serious air and water pollution problems. Since then, America and much of the world have enacted laws and regulations, changed public and corporate attitudes about the environment, developed and installed amazing technologies, and cleaned up their air, water and land \u2013 while generating previously unknown and unimaginable health and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa can and should do likewise. A vital first step is focusing on People Day<\/em> and energy technologies that can actually turn their dreams into reality \u2013 instead of fanciful systems that destroy environmental treasures to \u201csolve\u201d exaggerated and imaginary climate crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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