Dear Editor,
What arrant nonsense from Oxfam.
“Each coal power station can be seen as a weapon of climate destruction – fuelling ruinous weather patterns, devastating harvests, driving food price rises and ultimately leaving more people facing hunger.”
Oxfam and the “Manmade carbon dioxide causing global warming” and “now climate change” religion green fanatics appear to have forgotten what makes the plant kingdom grow to provide the starting point for the food chain that humanity must have to survive.
What a surprise – “carbon dioxide”
It has been proven empirically that increased levels of carbon dioxide accelerate plant growth which is beneficial to the ongoing food chain and humanity, including the starving Africans. Oxfam should concentrate on the root cause of starvation and environmental pollution – uncontrolled population growth with its attendant demands on the environment.
Rational argument and logic unfortunately does nothing to convince the “manmade carbon dioxide causing global warming” and now “climate change” religious fanatics and their supporters that they are the next honorary members with special mention of the “Flat Earth Society”
As for the G7 leaders’ hypocrisy to phase out oil by 2100, it is obvious they can make this feel good statement to appease the green fanatics as none of them will be alive by then.
It does make good political sense for them to say this, knowing full well that the world cannot junk the petrochemical industry in 2100 or any time in the future after that.
Mentioned in previous articles, the major petroleum producers have been bagging coal, for two main reasons as I see it: a policy of appeasement of the vociferous minority green fanatics.
Also, forgive my cynicism, the usual example of bagging a competing energy supplier for energy supply market share.
We all know where appeasement ends up – ask the late Neville Chamberlain.
As for the major petroleum producers bagging coal, petroleum producers should be very careful about this strategy as they are in my opinion playing into the hands of the green fanatics’ strategy of “no to all fossil fuels” by turning each sector of the fossil fuel industry against each other.
Then the green fanatics’ strategy will be to finish off the remaining fossil fuel survivor by turning the petroleum producers arguments against coal against the petroleum producers.
Well, that is what I would do if I were planning the green fanatics’ strategy to “rid the world of fossil fuels”.
This would ensure the green dream of us all living in caves eating mung beans.
The only problem with this dream is that there are not enough caves to go around for the developed world’s population!
The petroleum producers should not ignore “Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences”, and the old saying “United we stand, divided we fall”
So I am off to drive my fossil fuelled car around the US and then my fossil fuelled diesel powered LandCruiser around Australia, to help out the petroleum producers and also “leave a carbon footprint you can see from space” (courtesy David Archibald quote).
John Kopcheff
