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What really drives climate change regulations? You'd say, "saving the planet from global warming of course." Not exactly. As this article shows climate change is more about eliminating competitors to globalist oligarchs through taxation and wealth redistribution to developing nations. Of course in funding these nations as their population explodes, carbon emissions will increase globally but not before small business competition to the globalist elites are taxed out of business and the economies of developed nations are significantly weakened. It's only through the impoverishment of 1st world nations that we'll ever solve the border crisis by making the 1st world equally poor to the third world, except for the few ruling elites. Ultimately carbon emissions will continue to increase but who cares? Only then will the economic elites admit that anthropogenic climate change was always just a hoax.

Africa Climate Summit Demands Reparations via Global Tax on Fossil Fuels, Aviation, and Maritime Transport



United States Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry delivers his announcement during the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on September 5, 2023. (Photo by Luis Tato / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)LUIS TATO/AFP via

The first Africa Climate Summit ended Wednesday with a demand for global leaders to initiate a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation and maritime transport, all while reforming financial systems that force African nations to pay more to borrow money.

AP reports the call came in a declaration backed by the leaders of the continent which looked to the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases and its richest countries to fulfill a pledge of delivering $100 billion annually to developing nations in climate finance.

“No country should ever have to choose between development aspirations and climate action,” the declaration says, following other calls made in the past to impose taxes that could be redistributed to poorer nations.

The statement went on to call for Africa’s vast mineral wealth to be processed on the continent, noting that “decarbonizing the global economy is also an opportunity to contribute to equality and shared prosperity.”

The call for reparations comes after Kenya’s President William Ruto said a global tax on carbon emissions can help redress Africa’s chronically low Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rates, as Breitbart News reported.

He pointed to “climate change” driven by successful, dynamic economies in Europe, North America and Asia, as a drain on Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on the world’s richest nations.

Turkana, an indigenous community living in a semi-arid Northern region of Kenya, participate in a climate protest on the streets of Nairobi as the Africa Climate Summit commences in Nairobi. (James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry addresses the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on September 5, 2023. (LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

“Those who produce the garbage refuse to pay their bills,” Ruto said, according to AP, echoing others who have also called for carbon tax impositions.

The U.S. government’s special climate envoy, John Kerry, agreed and acknowledged the “acute, unfair debt” carried by Africa nations must be addressed.

He also said 17 of the world’s 20 countries most impacted by climate change are in Africa — while the world’s 20 richest nations, including his own, produce 80 percent of the world’s carbon emissions that are driving climate change.

The summit hosted by Kenya formed part of Africa’s preparation for the next U.N. climate change conference, which is scheduled to take place in Dubai in December, where “climate change” will once more dominate proceedings.

The event has largely featured leaders in government, business and civil society, many of them veterans of other climate gatherings.

“Heading from event to event doesn’t leave us with a lot of constructive thinking time” to bridge the gaps that still divide communities on the best ways to reduce emissions, Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said.

Some 18,500 participants flew in from around the world to Kenya and registered to be accredited for the summit.

About 30,000 delegates in total were estimated to have attended the summit.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/0 ... transport/

Ajax, do you think all those scientists are trying to steal both your petrol dollar earnings and your precious bodily fluids?

ajax18 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:00 pm

Africa Climate Summit Demands Reparations via Global Tax on Fossil Fuels, Aviation, and Maritime Transport

Maybe African nations look at the current collapse of climatic systems and the subsequent injunctions to them to reduce their carbon emissions by saying:

"Hey - you rich nations got rich while burning vast quantities of fossil fuels like there was no tomorrow. Now you tell us that we have to save the world from disaster by cutting OUR carbon emissions. OK, we understand the science, but if you want us to do that, maybe you should share with us some of the vast wealth you accumulated while you created the current blanket of CO2 that is heating the world at unparalleled speed?"

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Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:50 pm

ajax18 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:00 pm

Africa Climate Summit Demands Reparations via Global Tax on Fossil Fuels, Aviation, and Maritime Transport

Maybe African nations look at the current collapse of climatic systems and the subsequent injunctions to them to reduce their carbon emissions by saying:

"Hey - you rich nations got rich while burning vast quantities of fossil fuels like there was no tomorrow. Now you tell us that we have to save the world from disaster by cutting OUR carbon emissions. OK, we understand the science, but if you want us to do that, maybe you should share with us some of the vast wealth you accumulated while you created the current blanket of CO2 that is heating the world at unparalleled speed?"

Obviously, developing nations should have to suffer all of the consequences with none of the benefits of industrialized revolutions and fossil fuel exploitation.

I should also be able to fart in elevators, indiscriminately. Not my fault everyone else in the elevator didn't get to enjoy the buffet like I did.

The easiest way to reduce CO2 emissions is to plant new forests (afforestation) or restore old ones (reforestation). This would be opposed by many since they see no profit in doing so.

Rather than taxing nations, shouldn’t the oil companies be taxed instead?

But then they would raise the prices of oil, so we’d end up paying more anyway. So I guess it all works out on the wash.

OK, we understand the science, but if you want us to do that, maybe you should share with us some of the vast wealth you accumulated while you created the current blanket of CO2 that is heating the world at unparalleled speed?"

What vast wealth are you talking about? They can share our $32 trillion national debt. It's not going to be Bill Gates giving up his company and independence in the work place. It's the little guys that will be put out business by the monopolies of the globalist oligarchs.

ajax18 wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:35 am

OK, we understand the science, but if you want us to do that, maybe you should share with us some of the vast wealth you accumulated while you created the current blanket of CO2 that is heating the world at unparalleled speed?"

What vast wealth are you talking about? [...]

The national wealth of the US, created in significant part by the burning of large amounts of relatively cheap fossil fuels over the past two centuries, is of course not held by the US government, but by businesses and private individuals.

But quite rightly, the African nations feel no duty to enquire into the distribution of the vast wealth held in the US. That is simply none of their business. It is however indisputable that this wealth was created by processes which have created serious problems for the world in which both Americans and Africans live, but that Africans are being asked, for the sake of the common good, to abstain from doing what the US did.

It is thus reasonable for them to address America as a whole, and to expect Americans to sort out amongst themselves where the compensation for Africans who are being asked to act selflessly by holding back their own growth should come from. But that some compensation is due under the circumstances seems indisputable.

It's not going to be Bill Gates... It's the little guys

Congratulate yourself for voting in Trump and your party's regressive tax plan. You're smart enough to know a tax cut for you gives you more money, but not smart enough to know that wealth is relative and those up the chain from you got a better cut and so the end result is a net loss for you. You're a genius, Ajax. Thanks again. Hopefully you had few good shopping days with your Covid stimulus check signed Donald J. Trump as consolation.

It is thus reasonable for them to address America as a whole, and to expect Americans to sort out amongst themselves where the compensation for Africans who are being asked to act selflessly by holding back their own growth should come from. But that some compensation is due under the circumstances seems indisputable.

The idea that nonglobal environmental laws will do anything to slow global warming seems indisputable to me. So why have them? Because it's not about global warming but rather wealth redistribution.