Posted on 11/12/2019 5:40:42 AM PST by RArtfulogerDodger
Global warming activism is a hobby for [white] people in rich countries, but for poorer countries, it is a luxury at best, an annoying neocolonial conspiracy to keep them poor at worst. The lesson came home for a group of activists who attempted to disrupt the "Africa Oil Week" meetings at Cape Town's International Convention Centre by spreading "fake oil" on the ground and chanting. They were pretty much ignored, according to this report from Reuters....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Simply put without reliable cheap electricity there is poverty, economic stagnation, social and political unrest. This global climate activism of privileged whites results in real human suffering and degradation. Those protesters were lucky they were not shot by enraged Africans.
They do not want third world countries growing and competing for their own natural resources.
Ping.
“How Dare You!”
Nearly posted this yesterday but got busy.
There is something extremely satisfying about this story.
Nice to see LeftyCulturalImperialism pitted against RacialGuiltFallacy and then observing the attending turmoil.
A perceptive comment from the article:
“I find the article mildly amusing because politically correct Reuters can’t bring itself to employ the standard dismissive language used to vilify dissenters from the warmist scare campaign. Read the entire article, and you will not find the word “denier” used anywhere. That’s obviously because Africans occupy an elevated status in the eyes of P.C. journalists. They cannot be dismissed the way rich white people can be.”
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