Africa
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Cape Town And Dubai Battle Over Africa’s Energy Future
by Duggan Flanakin June 24, 2021This major skirmish could determine the outcome of Africa’s fight for energy freedom.
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Environment/EnergyGovernmentUncategorized
The Real Reasons Africa Has Another Locust Plague
by Paul Driessen March 24, 2020The UN, environmentalist pressure groups and their financial backers have a lot to answer for.
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Environment/Energy
Reform USAID Energy Aid Policies Now!
by Paul Driessen and David Wojick January 7, 2020President Trump should direct USAID to support coal and gas, not just wind and solar.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
United Nations Misleads About Food Production and Climate Change
by H. Sterling Burnett October 10, 2019Enacting policies that restrict the use of abundant energy supplies will rob people of choice and harm the economy. This won’t hurt the global elite, but it will result in everyone else living poorer, more precarious lives.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Sanity and Humanity Return to the World Bank?
by Paul Driessen April 15, 2019President Obama infamously told Africans they should focus on their “bountiful” wind, solar and biofuel.
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83 years ago, one of the most forceful and thoughtful defenders of a free society was born.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Luddite Eco-imperialists Claim to be Virtuous
by Paul Driessen July 23, 2018Uber-organic campaign enshrines primitive agriculture and malnutrition as human rights.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Rejecting Carbon Colonialism
by Paul Driessen July 16, 2018African Development Bank breaks with anti-fossil fuel banks to fund coal power, prosperity.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
China Will Never Be a Climate Leader — Unless There Is a Payoff
by H. Sterling Burnett July 24, 2017China talks a tough game but never fails to put up its word on the environmental front. Now the world looks to them to be a leader in spite of the US leaving Paris.
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Poor countries have a right to use fossil fuels and will no longer let anyone stop us.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
A Young Person’s Guide to Energy Conservation
by James H. Rust August 9, 2016Energy has long lost media attention; so we no longer think about ways we use energy and its effect on national policy or our pocketbooks. However, problems of energy supply we deemed a crisis in the 1970’s are still with us. U. S. warships still protect Persian Gulf supply of Middle East oil which accounts for one-quarter world’s oil production.