Just another Climate Money Bank
And an another Income Redistribution Avenue
As I wrote in a recent article entitled, “Climate Gullibility”, “Former Chicago mayor and former Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel declared, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” In Emanuel’s situation, this maxim encapsulates a progressive political opportunity and he first coined it during the 2008 financial crisis. Emanuel and his net worth of $15 million all from politics and political appointments would seem to be a challengeable and contestable financial crisis”.
However, Rahm’s axiom based on the extraordinary climate push this summer should be extended to “Never let a crisis (even if it’s false) go to waste”. Recently, held in Vancouver British Columbia, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) had yet another ‘urgent’ climate change meeting. As stated in Wikipedia, the GEF, “is a multilateral environmental fund that provides grants and blended finance for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), mercury, sustainable forest management, food security, and sustainable cities in developing countries. As with the United Nations, especially the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the organization is merely a bank providing free payroll services for third-world countries – no conditions, collateral, work, or evidence applies.
A few years ago, in response to a question by a former Canadian military serviceman Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “"Why are we still fighting certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now." Yet, at this meeting he has said, “Canada has earmarked $200 million for the new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund” and further, “to mobilize $20 billion per year by 2025 and $30 billion bly 2030 in financial resources for biodiversity.” None of this goes into Canadian pocketbooks.
Naturally, Canada’s Justin Trudeau was there to bark orders at the Canadian government to prepare checks for countries outside his own. The American representative to the GEF is Abigail Demopulos, an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury who appears to have been in the employ of the U.S. government for decades. No climate experience is required - just the finesse of frivolous funding. No members of the GEF are elected officials, making it significantly easier to appropriate astonishing amounts of money from taxpayers.
The CEO and chairperson of the Global Environment Facility is Carlos Manuel Rodríguez from Costa Rica. His biography claims he was, “a pioneer in the development of Payment for Ecosystem Services”, and “During his three terms as Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica doubled the size of its forests”. While Costa Rica is about the size of West Virginia or Denmark and smaller than the Province of Nova Scotia, I can understand why the bio-historians use the term doubled rather than acreage or actual size - and that makes how much difference when China commissions 2 coal-fueled energy plants a day - even if you believe in a greenhouse gas?
Trudeau was in climate action talking about all of the wildfires in Canada during the recent summer - while, worldwide wildfires are down 25% and many of those ignited this year have been started through arson - “Never let a crisis (even if it’s false) go to waste”. One of the basic tenets of progressivism is redistribution of wealth and in the USA, “income redistribution over the last few decades has been a zero-sum process, with gains at the top essentially coming straight out of the pockets of the bottom 90 percent of Americans”. Wealth redistribution, and making the majority poor, as well as destroying the incentive to have wealth leads away from the free market towards socialism - a political pursuit through the deception of climate change.
The money provided to many developing nations ends up in the hands and pockets of a tyrant dictator and is never used as the fund administrators intend. Of course, the fund needs no evidence of anthropogenic climate change either because if it did, that account would be closed.
