Activists, Not Global Warming, a Third-World Threat

Fox News ^ | Friday, October 22, 2004 | Steven Milloy

[presidio9]

A coalition of environmental activists called this week for rich countries to do more to control global warming and to help poor nations cope with the alleged effects of climate change.

The irony, of course, is their activism, not global warming, is the real threat. The activist groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam and ActionAid, issued a report calling for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions far more stringent than those called for by the international global warming treaty known as the Kyoto protocol.

They also want industrialized countries to subsidize poor countries’ adaptation to global warming to the tune of $73 billion per year, a sum on par with what industrialized countries now pay in subsidies to their domestic fossil fuel industries, according to the report.

Keep in mind that the Kyoto protocol, rejected by the U.S. Senate, President Bush and even Sen. John Kerry, only called for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. of about 7 percent below 1990 levels — cuts that the Clinton-administration Department of Energy estimated could raise electricity prices 86 percent and gasoline prices 53 percent.

Greenpeace and company now want greenhouse gas emissions to be cut by 60-80 percent from 1990 levels — cuts that would probably be economically devastating to the developed world.

The activists’ recipe for solving global warming thus appears to be, first, to kill off economic development in the developed world and, then, to have the developed world send what money it has left over to the developing world. It’s not clear, though, that an economically crippled developed world would be able or willing to subsidize poor countries, leaving those countries forever impoverished.

[Dallas59]

Can you imagine the pollution and deforestation if 6 billion people had to build fires to heat hotwater and cook thier food???

[Welsh Rabbit]

Yeah, thanks activists. Thousands and thousands are still dying of malaria in the Third World because of the global ban on DDT. Millions of malnourished people are not receiving the benefits of GM food due to the environmentalist's irrational Druid superstitions. And those who need to hunt for food on their ancestrial lands are now outlaw poachers on Western- owned game preserves.

[Zon]

Greenpeace and company now want greenhouse gas emissions to be cut by 60-80 percent from 1990 levels

So What!

Most of us want six-figure incomes and million dollar homes.

If you don't ensure us of those we'll ostracize you and refuse to sell you our gods and services.

Without you and similar parasite leeching of our efforts we'd soon be earning six-figure incomes and living in luxury homes. 

You have nothing we want or need. We hold real power.

[Stellar Dendrite]

BTTT

[steve8714]

You can live on cold soybeans, and they decrease "testosterone poisoning".

[cogitator]

Can you imagine the pollution and deforestation if 6 billion people had to build fires to heat hotwater and cook thier food???

A lot of rural India still does that. The smoke has been found in a thick layer over the Indian Ocean.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The implementation of Kyoto would lead to the deaths of 100's of millions of people, if not billions.

The citizens of large cities who have no firearms, no game, and no means to travel, would have only each other to eat IMO.