Al Jazeera: We’re “greening” ourselves to extinction

Essay by Eric Worrall

h/t rhs; Greens are waking up that lots of their company and political buddies are grasping unscrupulous profiteers, who don’t have any intention of genuinely trying to scale back CO2 emissions.

We’re ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction

Apocalypse buyers are pushing pretend local weather options on us which might be making local weather change worse.

Vijay Kolinjivadi
Vijay Kolinjivadi is a post-doctoral fellow on the Institute of Growth Coverage on the College of Antwerp.

Revealed On 29 Jan 202329 Jan 2023

Greater than a decade in the past, funding specialists James Altucher and Douglas Sease wrote a ebook for the Wall Road Journal referred to as Investing within the Apocalypse. They argued that the top of the world is a worthwhile alternative for individuals who know easy methods to “fade the worry”, as everybody else panics. They maintained that when catastrophe strikes, buyers ought to method it with the rationale that “irrespective of how dangerous issues appear, they actually aren’t that dangerous”.

Effectively earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, they suggested investing in huge pharmaceutical corporations as a technique to reap dividends from international pandemics. Additionally they inspired placing cash into renewable power techniques whereas ramping up oil manufacturing.

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What’s worse, governments and companies have teamed as much as flip the apocalypse right into a money-making alternative. They’ve rushed to place ahead false options to the local weather disaster: from the push to interchange fuel-engine autos with electrical ones, to so-called climate-smart agriculture, to protected areas for nature conservation and big tree planting initiatives for carbon offsets.

All this trickery known as “greening” and it’s designed to revenue off of local weather fears, not cease local weather change. Whereas guaranteeing excessive returns, this deception is tantamount to the genocide of the a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of people that will perish from the results of local weather change throughout the subsequent century as a result of issues are that dangerous.

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Within the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, the guards of a nationwide park funded by the US and German governments have additionally engaged in violent assaults on the Indigenous Batwa individuals residing in its territory. A 2022 report by Minority Rights has produced proof that at the very least 20 members of the neighborhood have been killed and at the very least 15 girls raped throughout pressured eviction campaigns.

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Learn extra: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2023/1/29/greening-ourselves-to-extinction

Within the full article above the Al Jazeera writer cites among the horrible carbon credit score schemes in Africa, claims of armed militias are allegedly being despatched into forests to commit atrocities, to drive off the locals, and assist put together forests to qualify as an uninhabited woodlands appropriate for producing carbon credit.

Trump hating movie producer Michael Moore additionally steered companies and politicians have betrayed the inexperienced motion in 2020. From reminiscence his documentary “Planet of the People” apparently began out as an try to show fossil gas suppression of inexperienced expertise, however ended up accusing a variety of inexperienced leaders of being dishonest and unscrupulously grasping profiteers.

The query is, will the few remaining inexperienced true believers be capable to do something to cease the planetary exploitation being dedicated of their title?

Historical past suggests the reply is not any.

Take biofuel. Even Greenpeace overtly hates present era biofuel as of late, however they appear helpless to cease it.

Why we oppose the federal government’s biofuels mandate | GUEST POST

Jake Roos
3 August 2022

Jake Roos from Don’t Burn Our Future explains the harm brought on by rising crops for gas and what the Authorities ought to be doing as a substitute. 

If the federal government’s plans come to fruition, from 1 April 2023, our future might go up in flames. Except we modify course, a brand new regulation would require home gas suppliers so as to add a proportion of biofuel to petrol and diesel.

Mandating biofuels would possibly sound like nice information. It seems like our authorities is doing one thing to scale back New Zealand’s dependence on fossil fuels and cut back CO2 emissions. However sadly not: simply because one thing has ‘bio’ in its title, doesn’t imply it’s inexperienced.

The ‘sustainable biofuels mandate’ just isn’t inexperienced. Nevertheless effectively intentioned, the mandate will worsen local weather impacts and additional enhance our meals and gas prices.

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Learn extra: https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/why-we-oppose-the-governments-biofuels-mandate-guest-post/

After all, many greens as soon as supported biofuel, however because of some vigorous web site edits you’ll wrestle to seek out proof of that as of late.

What went fallacious? In 2008 biofuel brought about a serious international hunger disaster. For those who didn’t discover, that’s since you stay in a wealthy nation. However the issue was very actual certainly, for individuals who stay in poor nations.

Secret report: biofuel brought about meals disaster

Inside World Financial institution examine delivers blow to plant power drive

Aditya Chakrabortty
@chakrabortty
Fri 4 Jul 2008 04.35 AEST

Biofuels have pressured international meals costs up by 75% – way over beforehand estimated – in response to a confidential World Financial institution report obtained by the Guardian.

The damning unpublished evaluation relies on probably the most detailed evaluation of the disaster to this point, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at international monetary physique.

The determine emphatically contradicts the US authorities’s claims that plant-derived fuels contribute lower than 3% to food-price rises. It would add to stress on governments in Washington and throughout Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to scale back emissions of greenhouse gases and cut back their dependence on imported oil.

Senior growth sources consider the report, accomplished in April, has not been printed to keep away from embarrassing President George Bush.

“It will put the World Financial institution in a political hot-spot with the White Home,” stated one yesterday.

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Learn extra: https://www.theguardian.com/atmosphere/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy

Regardless of the hideous and ongoing issues brought on by biofuel, the stress on meals costs, you may nonetheless purchase E10 or E15 or no matter at your native gasoline station – for my part as a result of huge cash received concerned, and since politicians are cautious of upsetting these voters and donors who’re cashing in on biofuel mandates.

If greens can’t cease the biofuel juggernaut lots of them as soon as supported, they aren’t going to cease any of the opposite for my part pretend inexperienced schemes which they helped launch. Solely time and public outrage has any probability of limiting or stopping the ugly cash making schemes local weather activists and inexperienced idealists helped to inflict on the world, however at the moment are powerless to cease.