To "save" humanity Big Green, Inc. is willing to sacrifice most humans to unimaginable poverty.
Real Clear Energy (8/23/21) reports: "The Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly cruel to the developing world, with Africa, Latin America, and South Asia all epicenters of high fatalities. But something worse may be on the way – this time not from viruses but good intentions, bolstered by often-unrealistic climate projections, which threaten to keep these countries in poverty for the foreseeable future...The western greens, albeit unintentionally, are essentially turning the Third World into the place they send their dirty work. Already, notes environmental author Mike Shellenberger, Africans are stuck with loads of discarded, highly toxic solar panels that expose both the legions of rag-pickers and the land itself to environmental degradation – all in the name of environmentalism. The developing world deserves better. If the advanced economies wish to impose draconian limitations on themselves, that’s one thing. That battle will divide those societies, and will continue to accelerate class conflicts, as evidenced by the gilets juanes protest in France. But in the developing world, where a majority of the world’s people reside, it could mean a far greater tragedy – permanent consignment to poverty, with consequences that will inevitably be felt, whether in armed conflicts or mass migration, even inside the green cocoon of the West’s ruling classes."
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"To be sure that we attain the 7.5 percent per year emissions reduction trajectory needed to meet the Paris goal, we must do more to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We need a policy on the supply side of the equation that puts a hard limit—a cap that declines by 7.5 percent each year—on the total fossil carbon we allow into our economy and ultimately into our air."
–James K. Boyce,
Scientific American
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