With the progress of time, we have become increasingly accustomed to business leaders who although should know better, allow themselves to be browbeaten by climate change doomsayers to a point of submission and repentance. Many mining and heavy industry executives for example have now decided to shamelessly prostrate themselves before environmental crazies even though they know that their businesses are not going to run viably on solar and wind. The reason why these executives are easily swayed to abandon common sense and follow rabid environmentalists could be down to the fact they prioritize the next invitation to Davos over anything else.
They know there is nothing at the moment to replace oil, gas, and coal in their heart of hearts. It is just that they think it is more important to be feted by the United Nations and other climate scare-mongering groups.
We hear ad nauseam that the earth is doomed to end in twelve years unless we turn off coal and nuclear power stations. As if that is not enough, we are also harangued at every turn by environmental activists to stop using oil and gas. Even meat, one of the most nutritious food items known to man, is said to be bad for climate change cause. According to the narrative, beef production takes up too much land and fertilizer to produce feed.
It is also disturbing that those campaigning for so called clean energy are oblivious to the fact the world will get poorer without oil, gas, and coal for the simple reason that there are no viable alternatives. We can scream all day long about clean energy but that won’t change the fact neither solar nor wind are viable
It is also a sad indictment of our age that those propagating so hard to ban fossil fuels in favor of nonexistent solar and wind technologies are not willing to allow anyone to question the veracity of climate scaremongering. If you question the narrative, suddenly you are a science denier according to this new authoritarianism. So on and on it goes and every twelve years the apocalypse that was hyped up does not happen.
Which between coal-fired power plants and environmental activists poses an existential threat to the fate of the poor? The scaremongering which reached a fever pitch this week in the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharma el Sheik where the world leaders are meeting on the occasion of COP 27, gives you an idea. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off the conference by fretting that “we are in the fight of our lives and are losing “. Obviously, his idea of losing is when he fails to wean us off coil, oil, and gas. Boris Johnson was not too far behind. He proclaimed that this is not to moment to give up on net zero emissions. He was just disappointed that one of his advisers” scoffed at wind power on the grounds it was medieval”. What an adviser!
Given the foregoing, I want Guterres to lose his battle of banning fossil fuels. I want him to fail because success for him is when the majority of the world’s population is plunged into further poverty due to lack of cheap and reliable electricity. We have to remember that while eighty seven percent of the world’s population has access to electricity, in Africa it is only 42 percent which does.. To add salt to injury, only 8 % of the rural population has access to electricity. You only have to drive through parts of rural Malawi for that really to hit you in the face. Not everyone has been swept away by the anti-fossil fuel hysteria. Enter Minergy’s CEO Morne du Plessis. He recently stated that because coal is necessary for prosperity of developing nations, it is not going away soon. He also stated the obvious fact that green options are not affordable and underscored the need to develop technologies to clean coal. We need more common sense CEOs like Morne du Plessis in a corporate world infested with political correctness.
