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If the false ideology of a ‘carbon road block’ by big finance hits Africans looking for ways to improve their national economies and living standards, expect China to move in even more than it has done already.
By Paul Driessen and David Wojick, Ph.D. ~
Africa has the world’s lowest electrification rate. Its power consumption per capita is just 613 kilowatt-hours per year, compared to 6,500 kWh in Europe and 13,000 in the United States, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina observed in July 2017. That’s 9.4% of EU and 4.7% of US electricity consumption. It’s equivalent to Americans having electricity only 1 hour a day, 8 hours a week, 411 hours per year – at totally unpredictable times, for a few minutes, hours or days at a stretch.
It’s actually even worse than that. Excluding significantly electrified South Africa, sub-Sahara Africans consume an almost irrelevant 181 kWh of electricity per capita – 1.4% of the average American’s!
In Sub-Saharan Africa, over 600 million people have no electricity, and over 700 million rely on wood, grass and dung for cooking and heating. The region is home…
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The term I prefer is “Climate Imperialism”.
The imperialists imposing this rule use the same bigoted rationalizations that earlier imperialists have used throughout history.
The burden, the enlightened leadership, the big view, saving the poor (fill in the blank) who really don’t know what’s good for them. The presumptuous hubris, the transparent cynicism, the arrogant dismissal of serious questions.
The imperialists of today need to be exposed and hounded now more than ever.
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