Great Britain to be punished for the Industrial Revolution & raising global living standards
Climate reparations to compensate countries with weather
Rashid Sanook (or Rishi Sunak if you aren’t President Biden), the British Prime Minister, has kicked off the COP27 summit by leaking to the press that Britain has opened the door to paying ‘climate change reparations’.
According to the front page of the Telegraph today, “the UK negotiating team accepts that the issue can no longer be kicked into the long grass. The British team are sympathetic to the position of developing countries that suffer from climate disasters”.
In another article, the Telegraph is convinced that the world owes poorer countries a climate debt but questions how to pay them.
Finally, it seems, the debate will be had out in the open. For the first time, so-called “loss and damage” has made it on to the finance agenda for the annual Cop climate summit.
Pakistan has been among the loudest voices calling for climate compensation as it struggles to deal with repeated catastrophes, including floods this year that left a third of the country under water.
It is difficult for the developed world to argue against the injustice of the situation. The US is responsible for 20 per cent of the world’s cumulative CO2 output, according to analysis by the website Carbon Brief. Pakistan, by contrast, has contributed just 0.3 per cent.
No, it is quite easy to argue against the injustice of the situation because, until it has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt, there is no injustice. There are tragic weather/climate incidents such as the recent floods in Pakistan and I am extremely empathetic towards the people who have suffered but show me a definitive and direct link to Western CO2 output.
Although, they try to convince you otherwise, the science is not clear. Like we are told over and over again when looking at the vaccine data, correlation is not causation. Rising CO2 levels do not mean they have been caused by human activity. Rising CO2 levels don’t necessarily mean rising temperatures, it could be the inverse or completely unrelated. And rising CO2 does not necessarily mean more extreme weather. There are many other explanations and maybe, who knows, the industrial and technological revolutions would not have ever happened without rising CO2 levels.
And even if the evidence was convincing, I feel the same way about the slave trade and colonialism, I am not responsible for and have no guilt about what people did in the past. In my life time, in the UK, per capita CO2 emissions have fallen, and drastically, to levels last seen in the 1850s.
So, if I’m getting this right, we as a country, should be punished, by paying reparations, for doing the very thing that they want (reducing CO2 emissions).
The UK, thanks to its industrial revolution, is on the hook too, having contributed around 3 per cent of global emissions, but suffering very few of the consequences.
And enough with the Brit-bashing, self-flagellating, neo-luddism. Without the industrial revolution most of the world would still be in the medieval dark ages. Living standards would be abysmal, life expectancy at birth massively lower than it is today and we would be living a feudalistic society (oh wait, that’s probably what the COP lot want).
Rishi Sunak, who most definitely wasn’t attending COP27 (to look good to the Conservative voters) but was then “pressured” to go (I’d love to see when his hotel was booked), will pledge £65.5 million for green technology in developing countries.
In his speech, he will say: “By honouring the pledges we made in Glasgow, we can turn our struggle against climate change into a global mission for new jobs and clean growth.
And we can bequeath our children a greener planet and a more prosperous future. That’s a legacy we could be proud of.”
Boris Johnson will also deliver a speech warning against the “naysayers” who threaten Net Zero targets.
Pakistan is leading a push by developing countries including Bangladesh and the Maldives for compensation from richer countries responsible for most of the world’s pollution.
The UK backed the issue being on the Cop27 agenda during two days of negotiations ahead of the Egypt summit and is understood to accept that a deal must be done over the economic cost of climate change, which is forecast to reach $1trillion by 2050.
Multimillionaire, multi-home owning Sunak, together with Jeremy Hunt after their globalist coup, is set to announce £35 billion in spending cuts and up to £25 billion in tax hikes. The IMF was very quick to criticise the previous budget but I’m sure we won’t hear a peep from them when it comes to ‘climate reparations’ that the country cannot afford.
Apparently, “the wording of the [reparations] agreement made in the early hours of Sunday morning was watered down to ensure there was no mention of direct compensation or liability to developing countries. But the UK and other developed countries will now be under pressure to reach a deal that will satisfy the governments of countries such as Pakistan”.
“The US in particular has come around to the idea but has argued that China, which considers itself a developing nation, should also contribute.”
Extreme language is already being used to push these deals, which are probably just further wealth transfers, making the rich richer and everyone else poorer.
Al Gore wants us to end “this culture of death”. Antonio Guterres says “we are on a highway to climate hell” and the President of Colombia says there is a risk of “the extinction of humankind”. Intense stuff for the first day, I’m sold, lets ramp up those reparations to $2 trillion!
Even the Archbishop of Canterbury is piping up.
Setting aside the massive amounts of money involved, this doom-mongering language, creates a massive mental-health issue for youngsters. They hear so much propaganda that they genuinely believe they have no future. Resulting in young ladies such as this one this morning.
So get ready to get even more poorer due to climate reparations. But maybe the more interesting question from today’s opening day at COP27 is why was Rishi rushed away from the conference, minutes before his speech?
These climate reparations are all about getting people to bow their heads and take a knee. In woke capitalism it is bowing the knee because of your whiteness or your lack of LBGTQ love because you think children should wait until they are 18 before completely changing themselves with irreversible choices. Statism is the same. Bow down and take a knee to the all powerful state. Collectivism is also the same - bow down to the community or the communist state. The only society that doesn’t bow and take a knee is individualism, which teaches you to hold your head high and be proud of who you are.
This climate push is more of the same - trying to get you to submit.
Just another wealth transfer from The West... nothing to see here....