Global climate battle plays out in World Bank

Reuters ^ | March 7, 2010 | Reuters

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The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global debate over who should pay for clean energy.

The opposition by the bank's two largest members has raised eyebrows among those who note that the two advanced economies are allowing development of coal-powered plants in their own countries even as they raise concerns about those in poorer countries.

While the loan is still likely to be approved on April 6 by the World Bank board, it has revealed the deep fissures between the world's industrial powers and developing countries over tackling climate change.

[libstripper]

When the choice is between serving the Watermelon superstition of AGW or actuially enabling third world people, most of them black, to have slightly better lives and longer life spans, it always comes to serving the superstition, even at the cost of killing thousands of blacks.

[what's up]

Reminds me of what happened with DDT in the 70's.

World environmental elites didn't allow Africa to use DDT which caused thousands of people to die of malaria.

Liberals claim to love the poor. Then they kill them or cause them to live in deep poverty.

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Beam me to Planet Gore !

[steveab]

Soro must not be involved in the Coal fired power plant. Otherwise, Obama would given them a few billion dollars.

[Sicvee]

Which way does the wind blow in South Africa? I don’t buy the global warming stuff, but even if it were true, it seems that South Africa should get a pass. The southern hemisphere is so sparsely populated that even if the plant were stinky dirty it would dissipate over the oceans and affect humans barely at all. As opposed to the dirty Chinese coal plants affecting the west coast of the US.