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How Climate Colonialism Is Depriving Africa Of Essential Energy

by Vijay Jayaraj
October 17, 2024, 2:36 PM
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European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development that the continent desperately needs. [emphasis, links added]

A highly political climate-industrial complex enables Western governments and international bodies such as the United Nations to exert soft power over poorer countries’ energy policies.

Advancing a green agenda in the name of saving humanity from a fabricated climate emergency and offering seemingly irresistible handouts of money and technology, the colonists insist on replacing fossil fuels with unreliable and expensive wind and solar energy.

Yet the relatively high mortality and morbidity of Africans — among the world’s poorest people — can be relieved only by the energy of demonized coal, oil, and natural gas.

This artificially induced energy gap is the difference between life and death, hope and despair. It’s a pernicious intrusion in energy markets that shortens life spans, snuffs out newborns’ cries, and erects barriers to progress.

Africa Faces Energy Poverty

In 2024, it is unconscionable that over 600 million Africans still lack access to electricity. In sub-Saharan Africa, only 28% of healthcare centers have reliable electricity.

More than 900 million people cook with traditional biomass such as wood and animal dung, inhaling toxic fumes that claim over 600,000 African lives each year. Clean water remains a luxury for vast swaths of the population.

As has been shown in parts of Asia, these problems can be alleviated over time with robust investment in fossil fuels.

Coal and natural gas can provide affordable and reliable electricity, and natural gas can immediately reduce deaths from the pollution of dirty cooking fuels.

Consider that a single electric car charging overnight in Europe consumes as much power as an entire African village uses in a week.

Such stark disparities are not mere numbers. They represent battle lines in the daily struggle for survival of Africa’s impoverished.

In this light — or rather, darkness — nations find themselves ensnared in a global madness, their potential extinguished like fire without oxygen, smothered by the very lack of what’s needed to fuel their ascent.

Foreign-funded activism against fossil fuels, cloaked in the language of climate alarmism, blocks paths to development that Western nations themselves traversed on their journey to prosperity.

Tides of Development Funding Shift

For decades, international financial institutions and Western donors viewed energy access as a cornerstone of African development. Many of these projects leveraged Africa’s abundant fossil fuel resources.

But things have changed.

The African Development Bank announced in 2019 that it would no longer finance coal projects. In 2021, it went further and placed severe restrictions on oil and natural gas investments. The World Bank followed suit.

Now, even domestic efforts of Africans to rejuvenate their oil and gas sectors are being opposed by paid activists from Europe.

There was heavy opposition to the Africa Energy Week event in South Africa, with European-funded protesters appearing at the African Energy Chamber’s Johannesburg offices.

“Some of the protesters … from the poorest townships didn’t even know why they were there, having been promised only $5 and a meal for their participation,” said NJ Ayuk, the chamber’s executive chairman. “Africans deserve better than to be used for foreign agendas.

“Unfortunately, climate panic and fearmongering are alive and well, and the target is Africa. The way we see it, the world’s green agenda ignores Africa — or at least it dismisses our unique needs, priorities, and challenges,” Mr. Ayuk said.

Africa’s Growth Should Be Nurtured, Not Disrupted

As they hinder African development to purportedly save the planet, Western activists are increasing the continent’s vulnerability to nature’s elements.

It is a well-established fact that wealthier societies are far more resilient to environmental shocks and natural disasters such as drought and pestilence.

The challenges facing Africa are immense but not insurmountable. The right policies and investments can achieve universal energy access, drive economic growth, and build prosperous societies.

All of this will remain out of reach, however, as long as green policies continue to obstruct sensible energy development. An ill-informed and myopic crusade threatens to entomb African aspirations in the darkness the crusaders claim to be dispelling.

Echoing across both sunbaked lands and misty forests is the question of whether Africans will be permitted to flick the switch of progress or be confined to the shadows of others’ destructive obsession.

As a leader of the resistance to the new colonialism, Mr. Ayuk says that “Africans must produce every drop of hydrocarbons we can find to better the lives of its people and meet global energy security needs.”

He is quite right.


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  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    7 months ago

    They need Better Homes and ways to cook their meals with reliable Energy not the Pipedreams of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Nutcases

  2. alan stewart says:
    7 months ago

    Peculiar Priorities: 27+TRILLION $$ for Net Zero 2050: The statistics on global poverty are staggering. According to the United Nations Millennium Project, there are currently 1.2 billion people living in poverty. Fifty thousand deaths per day (18,000,000 annually) occur worldwide as a result of poverty. Every year more than 10,000,000 children die of hunger and preventable diseases. More than half of the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day and 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. Worldwide 2019 Weather deaths were ~55,000. (Our World in Data source)

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