Vijay Jayaraj

For the people of developing nations wanting to better their lives, the use of hydrocarbons is not negotiable.

China has once again shrugged off global calls for reductions in fossil fuel emissions by reaffirming its commitment to produce and consume more coal than ever. Developments in the coal sector during the past six months indicate that the dragon is determined to avoid a

It takes decades of development to make a power sector efficient and effective. South Africa is illustrating that an electricity system can be destroyed more quickly.

Energy poverty forces hundreds of millions to use polluting substances like wood and cow dung to cook and to heat homes. With this practice killing millions, the importance of drilling for natural gas cannot be overstated!

Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania — home to some of the world’s poorest people.

It is time that developing economies stop experimenting with proven failures like wind and solar and start developing infrastructure that can address international price volatility.

The green agenda of European politicians — in place longer than Biden’s — has led to fracking bans, closing of nuclear and coal plants and overreliance on wind. High energy prices and electricity shortages have ensued. Countries face possible price hikes and disruption of gas supplies.

The reality that fossil fuels will dominate the global energy sector for many decades renders meaningless the sacrifices people in the West are being asked to make — high energy prices and shortages — to purportedly save the planet from the fabricated crisis of global warming.

The causes of Third World intermittent electricity include poor grid infrastructure such as outdated transformers and inadequate fuel supply to power plants. Now, unreliable so-called renewable energy sources — based mostly on wind and solar — are being added as a further risk to reliability.

Energy disruptions, blackouts, and other crises are a direct result of ‘green’ policies, and can cause widespread mayhem and death – especially in developing countries.

The West must stop excoriating developing economies for their necessary utilization of fossil fuels.

India and China rightfully shunned western-based pressure to eliminate carbon emissions because it was in their national interest to do so. They should not have to explain their reasons.