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Bio Global warming: Greenpeace's true crime
April 6, 9:49 Thomas Fuller
I don't really care if Greenpeace knows where I live. And, although I think it stupid and sad that they would publish a nonsensical report that invents a 'climate denial machine' (that basically consists of dusty Republican think tanks that haven't influenced policy in decades), it's not the end of the world.
But on Thursday, Great Britain will decide (they have the deciding vote) whether or not the World Bank will fund the construction of a coal plant in South Africa.
If there is one thing the poor of South Africa need more than anything else, it is power. Cheap, reliable power. It is regrettable that coal is what is on offer (although $260 million of the $3.7 billion loan is for wind power, and a further $490 million is to reduce the plant's emissions). And the plant will produce 25 million tonnes (UK) of CO2 per year. But nothing else is on offer, and that figure is less than one tenth of one percent of global emissions.
People die because they lack power. They die painful and prolonged deaths at a young age, cooking on dung fires. Women and children are the most vulnerable. People lose their economic freedoms without power. People can't get educated without power--homework by candlelight just doesn't get the job done.
And Greenpeace is lobbying like hell to prevent construction of this coal plant.
Greenpeace--the people you seek to condemn to poverty, ill health and early death are more important than the 25 million tons of CO2 emissions you seek to prevent. Shut up and come back when you have financed modular alternative energy solutions that you can ship in, unpack and turn on as an alternative to coal power.
That is all.
Bio Global warming: Greenpeace's true crime
April 6, 9:49 Thomas Fuller
I don't really care if Greenpeace knows where I live. And, although I think it stupid and sad that they would publish a nonsensical report that invents a 'climate denial machine' (that basically consists of dusty Republican think tanks that haven't influenced policy in decades), it's not the end of the world.
But on Thursday, Great Britain will decide (they have the deciding vote) whether or not the World Bank will fund the construction of a coal plant in South Africa.
If there is one thing the poor of South Africa need more than anything else, it is power. Cheap, reliable power. It is regrettable that coal is what is on offer (although $260 million of the $3.7 billion loan is for wind power, and a further $490 million is to reduce the plant's emissions). And the plant will produce 25 million tonnes (UK) of CO2 per year. But nothing else is on offer, and that figure is less than one tenth of one percent of global emissions.
People die because they lack power. They die painful and prolonged deaths at a young age, cooking on dung fires. Women and children are the most vulnerable. People lose their economic freedoms without power. People can't get educated without power--homework by candlelight just doesn't get the job done.
And Greenpeace is lobbying like hell to prevent construction of this coal plant.
Greenpeace--the people you seek to condemn to poverty, ill health and early death are more important than the 25 million tons of CO2 emissions you seek to prevent. Shut up and come back when you have financed modular alternative energy solutions that you can ship in, unpack and turn on as an alternative to coal power.
That is all.