The West’s headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit ‘Net Zero’ carbon dioxide emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the ‘green’ technology, says Bjorn Lomborg in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt:
Starting in the 1990s, climate change has become a fixation for rich country politicians and elites. It emerged as the world had just seen the end of the Cold War. There was relative peace and trust across the world, broad economic growth and swift progress being made against poverty. In the capitals of Europe in particular, it felt like most of the planet’s big problems were fixed, so climate change was the final frontier.
These proponents of climate action advocated with relish the goal of ending reliance on the very fossil fuels that had powered two centuries of astonishing growth. Sure, this would cost hundreds of trillions of dollars, but there would always be more growth.
What a naïve, narrow-minded world view. Time has not been kind to the foolish idea that climate change was humanity’s sole remaining problem – or that the planet would unite to solve it. Geopolitics and economics mean a rapid global transition from fossil fuels is impossible.
As has long been clear for many, the majority of the world never shared this myopic focus on climate change. Despite immense progress, in some countries life remains a battle against poverty, hunger and disease. In many more countries including India, the top priority is to create more jobs and life-changing growth and development. Outside the most advanced economies, climate change has understandably always been a relatively low voter priority.
Leaders from Europe and the United States talk up “Net Zero” as though it has global support. But this unity is quickly revealed as a mirage. For one thing, the destabilising axis of Russia, Iran and North Korea are not about to support Western efforts to solve climate change. Indeed, according to McKinsey, achieving the Net Zero target would require Russian climate policies costing $273 billion every year – around three-times what Russia spent on its military last year. That won’t happen.
The geopolitical challenges run even deeper. China’s growth has relied on burning ever more coal. It is the world’s preeminent greenhouse gas emitter, with the largest increase of any nation last year. Renewable energy made 40% of China’s primary energy in 1971, reducing to 7% by 2011 as it ramped up coal use. Since then, renewables have inched up to 10%. Strong climate action could cost China nearly a trillion dollars annually, hurting its journey toward becoming a rich nation.
The reality is that most of the world – including powerhouse India and emerging economies – will continue to focus on becoming richer, often with fossil fuels. Russia and its ilk will ignore the fixation on climate change altogether. And China will make money from selling the West solar panels and electric cars, while only modestly curbing its own emissions.
As rich countries irresponsibly attempt to export the cost of climate policy to poor countries through carbon adjustment taxes, they will drive a further wedge into an already fractured world.
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Blimey – at this rate we might not even know until after the end of the pandemic!
Um – what pandemic?
there is no end to the Pandemic
at this rate there might not be anyone alive to release the data to
One has to wonder exactly why this needs to be reviewed at all…? We’re not talking about Groom Lake activity here. It’s a trial for a public drug.
Anyone care to guess what they’re doing during this review?
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1454978099431444486
What’s most surpirsing is how much censorship goes on on YT.
Any medical link, and sceptical site gets instablocked.
EVEN links to the ONS get censored.
Last year I had comments instablocked on YouTube because they contained the words: “Sweden is a success story”. No joke, and I know for sure that phrase was the cause. I noticed my comment was getting instantly removed, and I kept removing bits from it until it went through.
Should make a great DS article all the links and things that Alphabet’s video arm fears people knowing.
We’ll all be dead by then.
Sorry, I thought you said 75 days.
The Pig Dictators youngest child will be 3
He’ll have repopulated earth by then.
Reminds me of the Rimmerworld episode of Red Dwarf.
Well, that’s not even slightly suspicious, is it?
Nothing to see here. Move along now.
Naked Gun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAKnbIr6TE
Corruption at work, but not necessarily ‘money under the table’.
The Beltway Establish protects itself in part, in order to protect the whole. And today, power is more valuable than dollars.
This is how unions are standing up for its health care workers.
The jab that made history
When did unions start becoming government propaganda shills?
When the government started implementing communist policies.
And posting brown envelopes..
Plus ca change. Story was that Scargill took money from whip rounds held by his brother miners in the Soviet Union. These days, the communist (regimes) have changed but the story stays the same.
you can hardly expect Siri to produce a successful, ie counter-narrative, outcome here.
Everyone who will be old enough to remember this will be dead. How convenient eh?
What’s their excuse for needing to review them before releasing them? If it’s to do with confidentiality then surely a company like them would have an embedded process of storing cleaned up versions of documents with personal data omitted as they go along, for precisely this reason.
Downing Street flat: Boris Johnson faces fresh questions over revamp costs – BBC News
Is the £15,000 ‘event’ donation in October the same £15,000 that was used to pay for the Pig Dictator and Carries £15,000 holiday to Mustique that New Year?
Perhaps it should be known as Drowning Street?
And they wonder why conspiracy theories thrive.
They’re just spoilers at this point.
Far too many Branch Covidians still haven’t got it yet though. Maybe when Twatter and Failbook (and Instagram, TikTok and the rest) lock them out of their accounts and demand their vaxpäss ID to tie their opinions to their social credit score, they’ll get it.
Although even that’s optimistic.
….
Two points for TY to address in his next
shilldenial piece.If they are all such useless headless chickens, just think how easy it would be to manipulate them to do elite lobbyists bidding without even realizing they’re being played like a fiddle. Follow the money! Who is profiting from these policies, Handjob with his share’s in genome sequencing companies, the comfortable lifestyle the PM is guaranteed when he leaves public office or Bill Gates who has almost certainly doubled his wealth during the pandemic. It’s not difficult to work out the motive if you want to, you don’t have to believe in grand new world order conspiracies, though undoubtedly the elite do conspire, at the expense of the rest of us, for the sake of their own ego & greed.
Then I won’t be jabbed for 75 years.
Naked corruption and grounds alone to reject their bullshit gene therapy. May we live to see every scientist, researcher, bureaucrat, lawmaker, doctor and nurse involved with this disgusting assault on humanity discredited and where necessary prosecuted. Enough is enough.
Bit optimistic. But one can hope for a Nuremberg 2.
But one never knows.
One thing’s for sure, they will get their just desserts in this world or the next.
If I were them, maybe I’d be a teeny bit worried – should the worm turn even on this earth, they’re toast. Think lamp posts and Mussolini….
If nothing else, it’s a warm thought to hold.
Imagine your missus goes out for the night with da gelz. They go clubbing. She’s a faithful and harmless woman who would never do the dirty on you. She has always emphasised her faithfulness and her devotion to your safety, your health and your happiness. You implicitly and explicitly trust this woman.
Over the next few days, weeks and months you hear awful things about your wife and what she got up to at the club. You hear story after story of her behaviour, of event after event, each filling you with horror and disgust. Eventually you have had enough. You trust your woman, but this needs addressing; can all these stories be wrong, an exaggeration, a conspiracy? You go to the source. She’ll put the people straight, and she’ll be mortified at the rumours calling her decency and integrity into question. She is utterly convinced of her uprightness and her effectivess with regard to being a good and faithul wife. She’ll be livid, and she’ll want to clear her name.
You go to her, and she says she’s not willing to address the accusations/charges of infidelity for another 75 years. It would just take too long to give you an answer before that. She asks that you continue to trust her, disregard the rumours/accusations, ‘unfriend’ the rumourmongers, calling them conspiracy theorists and a danger to your marriage, saying they are all anti-marriage, and tells you that you shouldn’t worry when she goes out again this weekend to the same club, and again in 3 months’ time…
If you had more than two brain cells knocking around inside your nut you’d tell her to sling her hook and divorce her immediately.
Now put this laboured, inadequate analogy aside and try getting into the minds of the millions upon millions of ordinary people who still trust these ‘vaccines’ and their creators.
Yep. An easy to understand analogy but it’s very hard to get through some very thick, empty craniums. Some members of my family will not have a bad word said about their beloved Boris but one today said she was “a little disappointed in him after yesterday’s revelations but we should go easy on him as HE’S just had a baby!”
Someone said to me the other day, ‘You can’t help but love Boris!’ after the odious tyrant appeared on the news.
‘What?!’ I replied. ‘He’s an evil bastard and he ought to be up on charges for his crimes!’
They were startled by my response, so I rattled off his crimes in order to let them know I had substance to back up my sharp reply and that I’m not some crank. That killed that conversation. Oops.
Thankfully, the person and I are close, and we could move on to more frivolous topics, but I’m absolutely astonished that people still believe Johnson is some clumsy, unkempt, cuddly teddy bear.
I’m actually coming round to idea of a very limited christmas this year because I know I just couldn’t cope and remain silent [to keep the peace] having to listen to all the “covid/Omicron/aren’t the vaccines brilliant, when are you getting your booster shot” drivel I would be exposed to
I had a neighbour tell me what a BRILLIANT job he has done of managing the pandemic. Total bedwetter [apologies to those whom the term offends but it describes her to a T]
Most people have a battered wife/husband mentality.
If it takes 75 years it takes 75 years. But until the documents are released clearly no-one can make an informed decision on whether or not the drug is safe. It is illegal to administer drugs without the informed consent of the patient, so, sadly, this drug will have to be withdrawn for the next 75 years.
Why can’t we subject it to an international speed reading competition? Where’s the rain man when you need him?
“We know for an absolute certainly that it’s completely safe, we just don’t know why.”
In 2019 that would have sounded like a clumsy satire.
In $CURRENT_YEAR, it’s just the Settled Science.
A colleague called me today to say they wouldn’t be at work as they ‘couldn’t feel their arm’. It was booster day the other day, apparently. Asked if anyone else had called in sick after their boosters. “Yeah, err quite a few” I replied. In other words, “yeah f*cking sh*tloads!”.
That could be very bad. One thing they rarely mention are injection injuries resulting from the needle itself. There are cases where people have lost use of an arm because of nerve damage from a poorly placed needle.
yet another reason to reject the vaxx
At work yesterday three people said they lost the use of their arm for up to half a day. Then last night three members of my family said exactly the same thing. I asked if they thought it was normal and completely in line with every other vaccination they have ever had? They declined to answer. These things are killing people.
What about other countries? I’m assuming that the NHS got the same date and did their own review. Shouldn’t that analysis be available?
Pfizer won’t even be around in 75 years. Especially when enough people find out what their ‘products’ have done to them…
So they reckon it’s going to take 75 years to redact 451,000 pages?
don’t they have access to a computer??
If anyone is still undecided about these toxic jabs then this is the reason to tell Bourla to take his own medicine before you do.
Sounds like the freedom of information request should be modified. Maybe split into much smaller ones and submitted separately. Leave them nowhere to hide.
Yeah, but they would just say, “Your request is very important to us. We are however processing an unusually large number of requests at the moment. Please hold while we find an operator who is free to attend to your request. …. ………… [cue, the Ring Cycle: repeat ad infinitum]”
Good journalism from RT yet again. They put our media to shame.
But RT is russian agency. Why are they so interested in discrediting american company producing vaccines? Maybe because they only care about to sell theirs to the rest of the world?
What about the UK equivalent document?
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et. al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
You should read Kennedy’s book, The Real Fauci, £2.99 on Amazon. It’s a real eye-opener where Ivermectin and HCQ are concerned and that’s just the first two chapters.
How long will it take the UK’s MHRA to release these documents? What about the EU’s EMA?
Or is everyone just going along with whatever the USA says?
good questions to ask in the national conversation about mandating covid jabs
The FDA is in the pocket of Dr Fauci, the man who made a deal with Bill Gates in 2000 at Gates mansion. Robert F Kennedy’s new book, The Real Fauci, should be mandatory reading for everyone and especially Politicians. This is a typical Fauci cover-up.
With the Pfizer trial data revealing a roughly 1 in 9 chance of spontaneous abortion, still birth or neo-natal death when vaxxing pregnant women it’s hardly surprising they wanted it kept under wraps for decades.
274 pregnant women were ‘treated’ with the vax in the trial, it resulted in 29 abortions or infant deaths.
This data was released a few days ago under a US Court Order and can be seen at the link below; look at page 12 to see that data for yourself.
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
More horse
and more reason not to have this experimental substance injected into your body.
presumably that implies the FDA Did not read the data from the trials before giving the go ahead to stuff it into millions of arms. On that basis alone the product trial should be stopped right away. Either they are covering up, or they never read the trial data and signed off a dangerous product, I suspect the answer is they have done both.
It has been reported that Fauci authorised the signing of a deal with Moderna to use the mRNA patents held by NAIAD on a profit sharing basis …. curious thing is that this was signed up some weeks BEFORE the announcement of Covid-19 by the Chinese government on 31st December 2019. Begs the question of Who Knew What and When and why didn’t they tell others??? .. especially so since Fauci had authorised the funding of Gain of Function Research on coronaviruses at Wuhan.
Perhaps NAIAD and FDA had a vested interest in approving mRNA vaccines as fast as possible ?
Time for a giant Wikileaks upload!
It’s pure bovine excrement.
Well, all the Devil’s spawn involved in this murderous scam will be dead by then. Mind you, if these mad scientists and their acolytes are not stopped, all life, including in the chemically-poisoned soil, may be dead by then. Let’s hope there really is a Day of Judgement waiting for them on the other side.
I see that Pfizer is forecast to have income of $36 billion in 2021. No wonder its crook CEO says that annual booster jabs will be necessary.
There’s a great piece in today’s Daily Telegraph about all of the egregious testing of these poisonous jabs.