The Rockefeller Foundation thinks it’s a good idea to stop focusing so much on the carbon footprints of 1st World nations and, instead, look towards holding down those 3rd world nations (mostly made up of black and brown people, you know)
The Only Way To Prevent the Worst of Climate Change
The fight against climate change will be won or lost in less wealthy countries that will produce the most emissions in the future.
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, continues in Dubai, too many people are still looking in the wrong direction when it comes to fighting climate change. Just about everyone focuses on the United States and other advanced economies since they are most responsible for past and current greenhouse gas emissions causing the planet to warm. But fewer think about less wealthy countries that will produce the most emissions in the future.
A new report from The Rockefeller Foundation reveals that the fight against climate change will be won or lost in these latter countries. Wealthier countries have made major investments in greening their economies but emerging and developing economies have not had the same opportunity. If they continue to fuel their growth with fossil fuels, these countries will produce enough emissions by later this century to trigger catastrophic global results regardless of what the United States and others do. Though harrowing, this data makes clear it’s possible to not only prevent the worst but ensure a better future for some of the world’s poorest people by empowering these countries with renewable energy technologies.
In other words, those 3rd world nations should be stopped from benefiting from reliable, affordable, dependable fossil fuels like the 1st world did. So that the rich 1st world folks like those at the Rockefeller Foundation can continue living their big, fossil fueled lifestyles.
Hey, the Rocks are smart enough to realize that the ‘developing’ countries will take the least expensive ways to industrialize, which means the use of fossil fuels. They also realize that, if more attention is paid to what President Trump accurately described as [insert slang term for feces here]hole countries, the less which will be paid to the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Wealthier countries have made major investments in greening their economies but emerging and developing economies have not had the same opportunity.
Oh, they have had the same “opportunity” but have wisely not taken it.