Opinion: by Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon
Here is a shocking revelation for the Davos crowd: the world would be a better place without them.
The global elites left Davos last week after grappling with solutions to the profound crises facing the world. They left as they arrived, unaware that the crises are entirely of their own making.
ake energy, where shortages have led to the highest gasoline prices in theĀ U.S.Ā andĀ UKĀ history and toĀ fuel povertyĀ affecting millions of people. If not for the specter of climate changeāfor decades one of theĀ globalistsā central preoccupationsāthe worldās energy situation would be radically different.
Canadaās tar sands wouldnāt have been demonized and the country would have built the Keystone XL Pipeline and other pipelines to transport ever greater quantities of energy across the continent and beyond.
Liquefied natural gas facilities on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Asia, the Americas, and Europe would have been built to ship and receive plentiful natural gas.
āNet Zeroā policies wouldnāt be crippling the financing of new fossil fuel facilities. Carbon taxes wouldnāt be making energy ever more expensive.
In the same way that the United States quickly became the worldās largest oil and gas exporter once the Trump administration scaled back crippling climate-related regulation, Europe would have been awash in energy hadĀ bans on frackingĀ and offshore fossil-fuel development been lifted to allow development of its immense oil and gas reserves. Instead of fuel poverty, Europe would be experiencing fuel plenty.
The globalists pushing climate change policies tell us there is no choice if the planet is to be saved from catastrophe many decades if not centuries from now. What they donāt tell us is that their prophecies of doom are based onĀ computer climate models, all of which haveĀ proven falseĀ to date.
Not a single claimāwhether that the Arctic ice caps would melt orĀ polar bear populationsĀ would decline orĀ tornadoesĀ would increaseāhave materialized. Reasonable people can dispute whether the prophecies of doom will materialize in the future. Reasonable people cannot dispute that the globalistsā past decisions to override the free market have created todayās energy crisis.
Despite the globalistsā climate change policies, carbon dioxide in the atmosphereānow atĀ 400 parts per millionāhave reached record levels. This has been a boon for the planet because CO2āalso known as natureās fertilizerāhas produced a bounty of bumper crops.Ā Australia reportsĀ record wheat, barley, and canola crops and near-record sorghum crop.Ā India, the worldās second-largest producer of wheat, expects record exports this year.Ā BrazilĀ expects record corn.Ā Russia, with another record crop, will be the worldās largest wheat exporter.
Nevertheless, starvation is on the increase. TheĀ United Nations warnsĀ that weāre in the midst of a āglobal food crisisā in which ā44Ā million people in 38Ā countries are at emergency levels of hunger.ā Here, too, the responsibility rests with globalist policies that make food unaffordable.
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