we want you to keep!"
And yet global green campaigners endlessly spend money trying to
prevent Africans from using fossil fuels, promoting renewable energy and
trying to sell us little solar ovens. But this great generosity does
nothing to address the horrible realities of people dying now –
day after day, year after year. Greens worry constantly about Africans being exposed to insecticides. We worry about dying from malaria.
We don’t need enemies of humanity. What we need is financial and
political support to conquer malaria, lung diseases and intestinal
parasites. We need clean water and affordable, reliable electricity in
our villages and cities. We need modern hospitals.
We need environmental activists to realize how important fossil fuels
and hydroelectric plants are to having decent, healthy living
standards, lights, computers, the internet, clean hospitals, clean
water, and everything else modern countries have.
We need them to support us Africans in preventing malaria in the
first place – which means we need more than bed nets. We need
campaigners to recognize that we have the same rights as people in
modern, rich, industrialized countries to decent living standards and
modern technology.
2 comments:
They're missing the point. Africa is the way it is because it's full of Africans. If they really truly want [bed nets, DDT, hydropower] they'll find a way to make them instead of continually holding out the begging bowl to the West.
Only that will never happen because low IQ, corruption and tribalism.
I remember Kim du Toit's piece on 'Let Africa Sink', which covered a lot of the problems.
Which doesn't change that a lot of idiot enviroweenie "We know what's best for you" clowns from the west keep getting in the way when the local citizens do try to change things.
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