NET ZERO EMISSIONS IS ONLY WAY TO ERADICATE WORLD POVERTY?
Christina Figueres, executive secretary of U.N’s Framework Convention on Climate Change said : “While poverty is affected or magnified by other things beyond the carbon intensity of energy, “there is a very, very close relationship between zero carbon… and less poverty” she said, explaining that decarbonisation allows for the world to restore its lands, improve agricultural productivity, stabilise aquifer, and increase access to energy. Not just that, but it would help improve the resilience of our infrastructure and allow for energy independence.
Christina Figueres, executive secretary of U.N’s Framework Convention on Climate Change
People must balance outrage and optimism after a “hellish summer” of extreme weather, the UN’s former climate chief has urged at the start of the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai. Going to that zero emissions [goal] is the only way we stand any chance of eradicating poverty, less poverty in the world, which is our common goal here, is actually the only way to ensure we can withstand the impacts of climate change?” She added: “It’s a very simple conclusion. Yes more carbon equals more poverty?. But also less carbon equals more growth, jobs, and stability, more benefit for all ?.”
Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
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People seemed to forget what happened when Sri Lanka’s government adopted a Net Zero policy and had banned the use of fossil fuels as a fertilizer. As a result of their stupidity hundreds of people died of starvation culminating in a rebellion which saw the left wing government flee the country.
Don’t blame our Councillors they will agree with what ever is put in front of them, they dare not do otherwise for the fear they won’t get a saloon passage of support from their Council at the next election
Renewables will generate more CO2 than coal or gas in their mining, manufacture, transport, maintenance and replacement plus the the fact they will require back up when their is no wind or sunshine.
Food systems account for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and fossil fertilizers—synthetic fertilizers derived from fossil fuels—are an unrecognized contributor to this figure. A peer-reviewed study published in August 2022 found that the global climate impact of nitrogen fertilizer alone exceeds that of commercial aviation, contributing roughly 2 percent of all global GHG emissions. These emissions arise both from emissions-intensive fertilizer production and from ongoing and diverse climate impacts when nitrogen fertilizers are applied to agricultural soils. For example, producing the ammonia (NH₃) on which nitrogen fertilizers are based releases an estimated 450 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year.
As ordinary residents bear the brunt of soaring power prices, policymakers are quietly backpedalling on the very climate commitments once heralded as moral imperatives. The reality of high energy costs, unreliable grids and public pushback is forcing a reckoning, not just in New York but across other Left-progressive states and regions like California and the European Union.
In California, Sacramento lawmakers are now being forced into a messy compromise to ease restrictions on oil drilling in the face of mounting public anger over gasoline and power prices. After years of cracking down on California’s oil industry, Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrat legislature in a complete about-turn passed bills to get Kern County oil wells pumping again to avoid soaring gasoline prices. In the EU, it was reported last week that member states such as France and Poland are openly rebelling against Brussels’s 2035 climate diktats ahead of COP30
Less Carbon Dioxide less poverty? That leaves only two options, Solar panels or Wind turbines to power our industry and domestic demand and neither one has been able to supply constant power.