This is a great read about the Climate scam and what could’ve been if the money had been used with common sense. Millions of lives could have been saved for starters. All IMO.
“Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources.
The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree — as even the alarmists will admit.
In other words, $16 trillion has been spent — a lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse — but there is not a penny of measurable payoff.
Yet it’s much worse than that. In economics there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?
What if the $16 trillion had been spent on clean water for poor countries? Preventing avoidable deaths from diseases like malaria? Building schools in African villages to end illiteracy? Bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than 1 billion people who still lack access? Curing cancer?
Many millions of lives could have been saved.
We could have lifted millions more out of poverty. The benefits of speeding up the race for the cure for cancer could have added tens of millions of additional years of life at an economic value in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain. For this reason, it is important that we identify the green “climate change” derangement syndrome as perhaps the most inhumane political movement in history.
The people at the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the United Nations, and politicians like Vice President Gore, President Biden, and Senator John Kerry who voted for and carried out this Green New Deal scam, should be placed on a wall of shame.
The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside. We’ve reached peak global warming craziness in America, for sure, and even Europe seems to have turned its back on its economically masochistic net zero fossil fuels obsession.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. Yet we can stop the madness of actually believing that politicians who can’t even pay off the balance on their credit cards can somehow change the world’s temperature.”