Climate Elites Want To Keep Billions In Poverty, Just Not Themselves
The irony of the this year’s COP event location cannot be overstated
The United Arab Emirates, a nation synonymous with opulence, innovation, and towering skyscrapers, made most of its wealth from selling oil and natural gas, which are supposedly the cause of a coming apocalypse.
Dubai, the epitome of hydrocarbon-fueled extravagance, stands as a stark contrast to the very principles that COP28 purports to uphold.
Hosting COP in a nation deeply entrenched in the ‘fossil fuel’ industry is paradoxical at best.
In recent years, discord has emerged between developed economies embracing so-called green agendas and impoverished nations being pressured to adopt the same ‘decarbonization’ objectives.
Many voices in the Global South and East believe that the West’s call for ‘decarbonization’ exposes their hypocrisy both collectively and at a personal level.
Emission-Spewing Private Jets and ‘Carbon’-intensive Lifestyles
While political figures in the West regularly point accusatory fingers at the substantial CO2 emissions of China and India, they tend to ignore per capita emissions in various nations.
The per capita metric reflects individual lifestyle choices, shedding light on energy usage and quality of life.
For instance, India’s per capita emissions in 2016 were less than two tons. In contrast, the UAE, the COP28 host, had 24 tons.
The country that gave rise to the Paris Agreement, France, emitted about five tons, while Germany, an ‘apparent leader‘ in renewable energy, emitted about nine tons per person.
U.S. emissions totaled 15 tons, compared to less than a paltry one-tenth of a ton from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Climate policymakers in the West’s cozy, secure, and prosperous economies feel entitled to hold China, India, and African countries accountable for adhering to preposterous climate “rules,” when they have been using coal for two centuries or more.
Climate hypocrisy at the individual level also warrants notice. COP conferences are infamous for private-jet [ab]use of political leaders and celebrities.
For instance, consider Leonardo DiCaprio, the Oscar-winning celebrity notorious for his travel by private jet.
Leonardo’s typical trip on a G550 aircraft — a type of jet that he has used before — between New York and Dubai will emit approximately 52 metric tons of CO2 according to an emission calculator provided by Paramount Business Jets.
Now, let’s compare this jaw-dropping figure to the average person in the DRC, who emits a mere 0.08 metric tons of CO2 per year.
Leonardo’s one-way trip on a luxurious G550 jet from New York to Dubai would generate emissions that are a staggering 650 times higher than the yearly emissions of a person in the DRC.
The COP27 conference in Egypt last year had around 400 private jets, many of which could have been avoided by simply taking advantage of Egypt Air’s generous increase in [flight paths].
This year will be no different, especially considering the availability of private jet operators in Dubai.
The climate elites seem oblivious to the disparity between these celebrities and politicians releasing a substantially larger amount of ‘greenhouse gases’ in a single journey than what an average person in Africa would emit throughout their entire adult existence.
For a native of a developing nation, the decarbonization lectures of COP leaders are the most insensitive, selfish, ill-informed, corrosive, and hypocrisy-filled policy pronouncements of the yearly calendar!
The same speakers demand that the people of the DRC and other developing countries forgo their dreams of higher standards of living, which are unattainable without the use of significant amounts of ‘fossil fuels’.
Coal, oil, and natural gas play a vital role in elevating real people in the Third World from crushing deprivation just as they contributed to the West’s triumph over widespread poverty through industrialization.
There should be no restrictions on their use.
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Editor’s note: some years ago, Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund said: “The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
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D. Boss
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This is getting tiresome. Private jet travel is an easy target for the ignorant among us. However what these false arguments fail to realize are several factual matters, as follows:
1) There are approximately 22,000 private jets worldwide, increasing by 200-400 new ones per year.
2) Operators of these jets, whether privately owned or part of a charter service, need to fly them a minimum number of hours per year or they are completely uneconomical. Even privately owned jets lease them out when not being used by the owner.
3) In 2022 there were 5.5 million private jet flights worldwide for the year. 400 flights to a Climate Cult Conference is a meager 0.0072% of global private jet flights. And I might add those 400 planes would have flown somewhere, even without the conference!
4) Contrary to the misinformed notions here is how various modes stack up in terms of CO2 emission per passenger mile:
Human Walking = 0.442 lbs CO2/passenger mile
Gulfstream G550 (14 pax) = 0.314
Train (inter city, low speed, 150 pax) = 0.293
Boeing 747-400 (400 pax) = 0.239
Boeing 737-800 (160 pax) = 0.222
small car (4 pax) = 0.221
So you can see flying in a G550 to Dubai is only 30% more CO2 emission than flying on a B747-400 (assuming you take your entourage with you in the G550).
Furthermore, more modern airliners and business jets have 10% to 20% less fuel consumption and fly faster. Example being the G600 by Gulfstream comes in at 0.242 lbs CO2 per passenger mile, right in the same ballpark as flying on a wide body airliner.
6) the ten airliners per hour landing at Dubai, each emitted 620 metric tons of CO2 to travel the same 5,900 nautical miles as did the G550 used in the article’s example. (so the 52 tonnes of CO2 by the G550 is a pittance compared to all the B777 and A380 etc landing at Dubai)
So the adage that there are lies, damned lies and statistics applies here. Are the elites going to the conference on private jets supreme hypocrites? YES. Telling the masses we need to stop emitting CO2 while flying to the venue on a private jet, OR a commercial airliner for that matter, is delusional. That being said, vilifying business jet travel in isolation is as wrong headed as are these hypocrites, as business jet travel is an essential part of the global economy and the mere 0.007% of annual bizjet flights to this asinine conference is nothing compared to 35 million airliner flights per year globally in terms of CO2 emission, which is irrelevant anyway as CO2 is not the earth’s temperature control knob!
Notes: Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts – my motto: As such I went to first principles here, getting the chemical formulae for the fuels, working out how much CO2 is generated per mole in combustion, deriving the relative masses of fuel to CO2 production, and applying that to the consumption and speed and passengers for each mode. In short, I don’t care what so and so think tank has published, I checked the data myself from actual values. And as you can see, a human walking is the highest CO2 emitter per passenger mile of all modes…. (so if you believe CO2 is the enemy, then you are promoting outright evil, for to reduce emissions means eliminating humanity – CO2 in the atmosphere is the essence of life – below 180 ppm all terrestrial life dies as all plants would die)
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Howdy
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Nothing to do with ignorance D.boss, the target people are total hypocrites and the real harbour of ignorance.
From an article link:
https://stream.org/wars-minerals-and-fossil-fuels-congos-tough-fight-for-development/
They don’t tell others allready doing without, to do more with less, to give up dreams of anything even remotely approaching the good life these parasites enjoy, so the remainder ‘saved’ can be squandered by the hypocrites.
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