- Tuvalu… No.
- The Seychelles… No.
- Bangladesh… No.
- Kiribati… No.
- Vanuatu… No.
- The Solomon Islands… No.
Guest post by David Middleton
The Country Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
Of the 186 countries assessed in a recent survey of climate vulnerability, Chad was rated most in peril. A combination of high poverty, frequent conflicts, and the risk of both droughts and floods means the central African nation is bottom of the list, just below Bangladesh and some way behind Norway, the country least vulnerable to climate change.
So why Chad? For a start, it is one of the poorest countries in the world. Around 87% of Chadians are classified as poor, according to the Multidimentional Poverty Index, which factors in health, education and living standards.
[…]
This is exacerbated by the fact that the country has been in civil war or conflict for 35 out of the 57 years since it gained independence from France.
Any poor or conflict-prone country will always be vulnerable, but Chad’s geography means climate change is a particular risk. Chad is bigger than many Westerners may realise. At 1.28m km² it’s larger than Nigeria and twice the size of Texas. Around 90% of its 10m people live in the southern half of the country, as most of the northern half extends well into the Sahara desert.
[…]
Since the mid-20th century, temperatures in Chad have been increasing while rainfall is decreasing. Ninety percent of the country’s largest lake, Lake Chad, has disappeared over the past 50 years due to a combination of droughts and increasing withdrawals for irrigation. Climate studies project things will get increasingly hot and arid throughout the 21st century, which means lower crop yields, worse pasture, and a harder life for anyone dependent on Lake Chad.
[…]
M’kay…
- Chad is one of the poorest nations on Earth. ✓
- Chad has been at war for 61% of the last 57 years. ✓
- 90% of the population lives in the part of Chad not in the Sahara Desert. ✓
- Chadians have drained 90% of their largest lake over the past 50 years. ✓
- Climate models predict that it will get worse. AEUHHH????
Only one of the above is truly related to “climate change.” Any guesses as to which? Vanishing Lake Chad? No. This is due to droughts of the 1970’s and 1980’s (when global cooling was the crisis du jour), the lake’s unique bathymetry and agricultural withdrawals (Gao et al., 2011). According to hydrological models, by the year 2000, Lake Chad would have recovered to 82% 1963 area and 59% of its volume, if not for the agricultural withdrawals and unique bathymetery.
In warm desert, warm semi-arid and tropical savanna climates, droughts *are* climate, not climate change. So, the answer is #5: “Climate models predict that it will get worse.”
Climate models are apparently so good that they can predict that the worst place on Earth, with a nearly uninhabitable climate, will get worse due to climate change?
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Can anyone identify this logical fallacy? How can you cite the hydrological model of Lake Chad, while ridiculing climate models? If you criticize one type of model, you must criticize all models!
Can Chad’s climate realistically get worse? For starters, Chad appears to be invulnerable to CAGW’s chief bogeyman: Sea Level Rise…
So… They got that going for them… Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends.
Eyeballing a Köppen climate classification map of Chad, it appears that about 65% of the country is warm desert (BWh), 20% is warm semi-arid (Bsh) and about 15% is tropical savanna (Aw).
With most of Chad being unsuitable to agriculture largely due to a lack of water… could climate change really make things any worse? It’s hot. It’s dry. It’s been hot and dry longer than there are modern weather records. Could it really get worse?
The capital city of Ndjamena was already very hot before the 97% consensus decided that humans were responsible for at least half of whatever happened since 1950:
That’s the annual average, including nighttime and winter. The climate has literally gone from uninhabitable to uninhabitable and the climate models say it will likely get worse!!!
We can see how severely (or not) the Chadian climate changed over the 20th Century on these historical Köppen climate classification maps from Rubel & Kottek (2010):
History says Chad’s climate has been bad since at least 1900. The models say Chad’s climate will get worse. The models have a very good track record of being wrong.
Whatever happens to Chad’s climate, Sam Kinnison offered a solution to this sort of climate problem back in the 1980’s… (Warning, Sam Kinnison cussed a lot)…
As usual, any and all sarcasm was very intentional.
References
[1] Gao H, Bohn T J, Podest E, McDonald K C and Lettenmaier D P 2011 On the causes of the shrinking of Lake Chad Environ. Res. Lett. 6 034021. IOPscience
[3] Rubel, F., and M. Kottek, 2010: Observed and projected climate shifts 1901-2100 depicted by world maps of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Meteorol. Z., 19, 135-141. DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0430.
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Didn’t the French keep records in the 1920’s and 1930’s, or have they been lost?
Here’s a plot of Yola Nigeria, 427 km southwest of Ndjamena…
I haven’t gone through all of the GISS stations to see if there are any longer record-length stations in Chad.
Here is Chad (world) by month for both temp and rainfall for 100+ years in easy to use excel.
http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.cfm?page=downscaled_data_download&menu=historical
My, my, my! The Yola Nigeria chart also shows the 1930’s as being hotter than subsequent years. Looks just like the U.S. 1999 Hansen surface temperature chart profile. Putting the lie to the bogus, bastardized Hockey Stick chart profile.
The alarmists want to claim the U.S. surface temperature chart profile is different from the global temperature chart profile, but all you have to do is look at the individual unaltered charts of other nations for that time period and you will see that unaltered charts look exactly like the Hansen 1999 U.S. temperature chart profile.
It’s obvious the alamists pushing this view are lying to us. Not all of them of course, most of them are just dupes, but there are some deliberate liars amongst them. Certainly the creators of these manipulated charts. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Thanks for that chart, David. I’ll add it to my collection of similar charts.
Here is a comparison of the 1999 Hansen U.S. surface temperature chart versus the Global surface temperature chart (the bogus Hockey Stick chart).
As you can see, on the left is the 1999 Hansen U.S. chart and on the right is the bogus, bastardized Global surface temperature Hockey Stick chart.
The 1999 Hansen chart shows the 1930’s as being hotter than any subsequent year, being hotter than 1998 by about 0.5C (which means it was also hotter than 2016 by about 0.4C).
Now, which one of these two charts most closely resembles the chart from Yola Nigeria? Obviously, Yola Nigeria’s chart most closely resembles the 1999 Hansen U.S. surface temperature chart profile with the 1930’s being hotter than subsequent years, and has no resemblance at all to the bastardized Global surface Hockey Stick temperature chart. This is true for unaltered charts from all over the world.
Does anyone really believe that U.S. temperatures and Global temperatures would be so different as to generate two completely different temperature profiles?
The bogus, bastardized Hockey Stick chart was produced for only one reason: to provide the only “proof” the alaramists have that human CO2 is causing the climate to heat up. Without this dishonest chart the alarmists would have nothing to point to that shows “global warming”. It they used an honest chart, all they could show was that we have been in a temperature downtrend since the 1930’s. Not good if you want to promote Global Warming. So they changed the official records to make things look that way.
The Hockey Stick Chart is a lie, and the Red Team needs to show this lie to the public. A proper temperature profile shows the Earth is NOT overheating.
They can’t possibly be lost. The University of East Anglia didn’t have computers then.
Perhaps the hard copies were lost in an office move. (Points to anyone who can name the referenced scientist and his field.)
+1000 to HotScot for wit and truth in one.
Tom,
Is that lost?
Or “lost”?
Not everybody in this power-grab is completely, 100%, ethically pure and honest.
I may not be, myself – even if I aspire to sainthood.
Don’t know why.
Saints seem usually to be defunct.
I try to be about 100% – but I am human, and probably kid myself, too.
Auto
Anticipating aggressive antagonism . . .
I worked briefly in Chad in the late 70’s. In the hot season it routinely got over 40 Centigrade in the day
The real threat to Chad is their warring rulers, military coups, tribal warfare, rebels and civil war. I can only hope the Green Fund philanthropy money does not go into buying AK-47’s and foreign real-estate. Diarrhea causes 23.6% of all premature deaths in that country, climate change ???. They need clean water, mosquito nets and condoms, not solar panels.
http://www.healthdata.org/chad
Of course Chad is on board with UN’s give-a-away other nation’s tax payers money. Just what we need: A dictator on world government welfare system.
Presumably Chad already receives “x” dollars in foreign aid and isn’t spending the majority of that on “tackling” Climate Change™ . . even though it’s the greatest threat to their existence.
I wonder why.
Same with all the other developing countries lining up to for a hand-out from the Green Climate Fund.
What proportion of foreign aid are they currently spending to change the weather?
Chad’s population went from 4.5 million in 1980 to 14 million in 2015. That is why they are most endangered, and why Lake Chad has not recovered. Won’t end well.
With growth like that I would guess much of the warming in the largest city is UHI. Probably a lot of trees have been removed to make way for shacks.
Global warming causes a population explosion.
Many probably do not remember that under the Carter Administration there was a drought in the Subsaharan region of Africa. We were told people were starving. Jimmy sent food. That would have been much of a problem but someone in our government decided to also sent feed for livestock. Normally during a drought people in the area would have culled their herds to a minimum but with the extra feed they didn’t. Problem is that cows, goats, camels, etc all still graze. Somewhere I have/ had a paper discussing the expansion of the desert due to overgrazing. Expanding deserts by themselves can cause changes in especially local weather patterns. Under Mao the Chinese expanded intense farming into arid areas and pushed them over the edge into deserts. None of those was cause by greenhouse gases, unless you count the fossil fuels used to transport the food and animal feed.
Ed, the drought in the Sahel was not caused by overgrazing. It is a cyclical thing. From 1983 to date the Sahel is moving north taking over the grassless desert. About 500 km so far. Is the expansion of the Sahel caused by overgrazing? I didn’t think so.
Whatever happens in Africa, they blame overgrazing. And witchcraft. There is always a cure available. Everyone takes the medicine. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. (H/T to Little Big Man).
Well I am not going to search for the journal article; it is somewhere in my many boxes. Sorry I didn’t mean to infer that the drought was caused by overgrazing but the expansion of desert. You are right drought in the Sahel is a cyclic thing. However, what the paper said was that normally during “the dry” residents would cull their herds until the next wet period and had done so for thousands of years. The USA had helped out those in the region before when the dry lasted longer than usual. During the Carter era they went a step further and sent more than just food for people but for animals. Those living there saw much less reason to cull their herds. In a society were the number of animals is one’s wealth I am sure it was only logical to them. The reason I was interested in the paper at all was because it used remote sensing to show the expansion of the desert. I was using remote sensing and considering its capabilities relative to work I was doing at the time.
But I thought that the Sahel has been greening for the last 30 years. What’s up?
Ed
Very interesting details there re feeding the animals. Foreign aid can screw up just about anything.
A lot can be done to secure the recovered desert. Neem trees are planted in the most miserable places in the Sahel and fenced to keep the goats away. A decent planting campaign like the one that put in hundreds of millions of trees in the US during the depression would do wonders for the Sahel. It is wet enough to support Neem and acacia forests.
Peach trees are also very good for holding back the desert.
I read the title initially as most “Valuable”. And figured it had to be France and its whopping $1.5 million for government leeches.
Then I skimmed the article and read Chad, and figured it had to be a reference to the Hanging Chads of 2k. I finally read the whole article, and found my first 2 impressions were probably more accurate than the claim by the paper.
http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.cfm?page=downscaled_data_download&menu=historical
Looking at rainfall and temperature for chad 1900-2015, there is no trend.
Climate not changing due to CO2- even worse!
Gosh.
Stop the presses.
Auto.
I hope no Precious Little Snowflakes watch the Sam Kinison video. Oh sure it is right to the point, kind of like 80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the USA border and if it warms up they might be able to spread out a little, but the idea of perpetual heat might traumatize the PLSF’s and they coundn’t find their way to a Safe Zone.
I suggest reading “The Fate of Africa, The History of the Continent Since Independance”, Meridith, Martin. European overloads did not pay attention to African tribal identity, just the resources of the land. The chapters in the book cover individual “nations” in Africa and explain what was occurring in a particular country from ~1960 to 2000. After reading it I can say that I wish all the current African rulers had the humanity of a Mandela.
Mandella was a terrorist who refused to denounce his past murderous activities
I read Dr. Stanley’s book on searching for Dr. Livingston. Hell of a book by a smart Victorian guy with no particular ax to grind. read it if you can find it. It’s engrossing. Some of those explorers make the SAS look like wimps.
Seems Africa was totally f***ed back then and it had nothing to do with colonialism, climate change or anything other than Africans being Africans. Seems nothings changed.
is drilling for water not on the schedule?
Looks to me like, given the included maps of Chad, …… that Lake Chad is located on the southwest corner of the portion of the country that is denoted as a ….. “hot n’ dry” Warm Desert Climate (BWh).
So, just how “hot n’ dry” is that Warm Desert Climate where Lake Chad is located, ……. and what is the yearly average rainfall in that locale where Lake Chad is located, …… and does Lake Chad have another source of water other than the assumed “non-existent” rainfall?
Thus, if there is no inflow of water into Lake Chad, ….. and there is no outflow or seepage of water out of Lake Chad, …….. and there never was any evaporation of water from the surface of Lake Chad, …… then I guess one can blame the Chadians for draining 90% of the water out of their lake over the past 50 years.
Nearly all water in Lake Chad comes from the Chari river. More than half the water is now diverted for irrigation. Lake Chad won’t recover unless there is an extremely large increase in precipitation.
Same story as for the Aral Sea in Khazakstan.
From the looks of this map it appears to me that Lake Chad has a tremendous “watershed” area that consists of dozens n‘ dozens of rivers and streams. To wit:
With that great of a watershed me thinks there is probably more of a rainfall problem rather than an “irrigation diversion” problem. But whatta I know.
Perhaps you should add all the catchment damns along those rivers? The pump intake points along those rivers? You gots mad intrawebs skillz, show us. I bet googlearth would be a good place to start! Do something useful for your fellow man, for once. I am headed out to bale hay today, so I’ll be all atremble with anticipation at what you have for us this evening!
@ur momisugly 2hotel9 June 13, 2017 at 5:32 am
Like they say, 2hotel9, …….. don’t give up your day job of driving a farm tractor , round n’ round in circles, ……… making you think that you are “a BIG wheel”, …. cause you might have trouble finding another job ifffen it requires more thinking.
But in the meantime, …… try really hard at thinking about the following, to wit:
population of Chad – 14.962 million (2017)
area of chad in square miles – 495,800 mi²
annual rainfall in Chad:
* The Sahara zone, northern third, Warm Desert Climate, under 50 mm (2.0 in) per year.
* The Sahelian zone, center, Warm Semi-arid Climate, from 300 to 600 mm (11.8 to 23.6 in) per year.
* The Sudanese zone, southern, Tropical Savannah Climate, over 900 mm (35.4 in) per year.
HA, ….. during the Holocene Climate Optimum at 7,000 years BP, Lake Chad had a surface area of 130,000 square miles, which was ¼ of the total surface area of present day Chad, …….. but then the climate of North Africa (Sahara) went to hell in a sandstorm and Lake Chad began drying up and Lake Chad’s surface area has decreased to its present 6,875 square miles, …… which is a loss of 123,125 square miles of lake surface area (water).
Unless the Monsoon like rains return to North Africa and Sahara, then Lake Chad is doomed to becoming “a seasonal mudhole” and there is nothing the Warminists can do to change that fact.
Samuel C Cougar
You are trying to tell a farmer about the effects of irrigation? And your qualification above his is exactly what?
Did you know that even in the USA farmers have heard of irrigation?
Documentary makers who decry the shrinkage of Lake Chad and blame it on global warming are liars. It is caused by irrigation upstream of its main water source.
Crispin in Waterloo
You have assumed that a person who claimed he/she was “headed out to bale hay” was in fact a vegetable/produce farmer whose fields needed to be irrigated to be productive, ……. but for all you know the aforesaid person might be nothing more than a “green card” carrying laborer being paid to drive a tractor.
Crispin, I am 2 months short of completing my 77th trip around the Sun ….. and being a life-long “student of the natural world”, along with my learned Degrees in/of the Teaching of the Sciences and thus my acquired “qualifications” on different subject matter as a result of my learned knowledge and experiences ….. would utterly amaze you, ……. I’m sure.
Crispin, …… GETTA CLUE, ….. dairy, beef, horse, goat or sheep farmers who grow and harvest hay, by cutting and bailing said for storage, ……. really don’t give a damn or engage in the irrigation of their hay fields or pastures.
Shur it tis, ….. Crispin, …… shur it tis, ….. and the following is absolute fact of that happening, … to wit:
Crispin in Waterloo, …….. please tell me “Oh Wise One”, …… why would a country that is highly deficient in/of agriculture, ……. and has pretty much been experiencing constant Civil War during the past 50 years, ….. and wherein most inhabitants are living in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers, …… have the equipment, electrical power, workers, management, etc., to operate and maintain a vast network of individual irrigation systems?
They get the resources for irrigation projects from the World Bank and other international warfare organizations…
http://projects.worldbank.org/P000490/lake-chad-polders-irrigation-project?lang=en
There is even an effort underway to build a navigable canal from the Congo Basin to replenish Lake Chad…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad_replenishment_project
I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. I would argue that as irrigation has been an agricultural technique for millennia, even subsistence farmers have figured out how to divert water from the rivers and streams in the watershed using relatively simple techniques. There are probably at least some larger scale projects, taking up water for irrigation as well as human and animal use (drinking, etc.). It seems plausible that irrigation along with human and animal intake could cause a deficit in recharge, particularly when combined with little precipitation.
One of the common irrigation methods around Lake Chad and the Chari River is the use of polders…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder
1.28km squared? Decimal point typo?
I wish the global warming would hurry the heck up and do it. With most of the Earths water in the atmosphere going to the poles where it’s stored as Ice…it’s not raining as much in the equatorial regions as it should be. This interglacial period should be getting warmer, but instead it’s getting cooler at the poles and stagnant elsewhere. I know people living in the coastal regions hate the idea of being under water and that’s literally physically speaking and financially speaking…but this stagnation is keeping arid areas arid that in the last interglacial were greener because of the more tropical global climate. It’s the scare tactics of global warming flooding of coastal areas that this is even an issue. People ignorantly build below the high water and storm damage markers of the last interglacial and get all butt hurt when that is in jeopardy of happening again.
It’s very clear that the nation most vulnerable to climate change is the United States.
Huge removal of wealth? (check)
Destruction of farms? (check)
Ruination of cities? (check)
Increasingly violent social turmoil? (check)
Primary focus of climate-related hostility? (check)
Politicians especially addled by climate change heat? (check and check again)
One could go on.
I would say it’s a toss up between Canada and and Russia since when it gets colder, and that’s the next REAL climate change coming, neither will be able to grow food.
+1000
The polar bears are secure compared to the crocs and lungfish in Lake Chad. –AGF
Chad;s problem reflects Africa’s problem: runaway population growth.
I wonder what happens when the c̶r̶y̶s̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶b̶a̶l̶l̶s̶ models don’t give them the results they want?
Scientist 1: The model is predicting peace and love.
Scientist 2: It’s broken Fix it.
…
Scientist 1: The model is now predicting death and destruction
Scientist 2: That’s better….
Climate change consciousness has increased, and this increased CONSCIOUSNESS is leading people to conflate “change” with “human-caused change”.
Of course, we can figure out which countries are vulnerable to climate change, BUT is it climate change in general, or climate change that humans specifically are alleged to cause?
If the article is about climate change ATTRIBUTED to humans, then this needs to be stated up front and not just (apparently) assumed. It seems that the human attribution is just ASSUMED in any discussion of climate change, and this is grossly wrong, misleading, and tunnel visioned.
Not to mention the fact that nations which are vulnerable to climate change, are pretty well vulnerable to everything. More proof that the IPCC and UNFCC are *all* about socialist redistribution of wealth from the United States and other prosperous free nations to third world tin-horn dictators.
If I lived in Chad, I suspect that the last thing I would be worrying about is AGW. Only an idiot would think that AGW was a “big” imminent problem compared to everything else happening there. The author has everything bassackwards. Instead of thinking about why Chad might be more vulnerable to AGW, we ought to be thinking about how to solve its actual problems. Limited resources are already strained by the native population, and there are hundreds of thousands of refugees from Darfur (where is George Clooney?) and the Central African Republic adding to the burden. Boko Haram is causing problems in the region near Nigeria, displacing thousands of people. These two issues are mentioned in that article, so the author is aware of them. Yet he is harping on about AGW???
Lowering emissions isn’t going to do jack for these people. To be fair, the steps listed at the end of the article are practical and have the potential to improve people’s lives. However, they are not actually related to climate change, and are more about benefiting people in the present. These land management techniques will improve agricultural outputs and land, with the side benefit of (possibly) reducing the water volume needed over the course of a season. While this will likely also have a positive effect on the environment in general, such techniques are not being utilized because of fears of AGW.
No matter what environmentally friendly things are done in Chad, the country is going to be hell for the vast majority of people until the socioeconomic problems are addressed. Perhaps all the brainiacs screaming about AGW could take a little time to figure out some solutions that do not involve enriching Chad’s corrupt governing elite.
So, Chad was in line to get the lion’s share of the billions of dollars stolen from American Tax Payers? And here I thought Merkel had claimed that spot.
Al Gore must be involved or get involved somehow.
He likes to focus on hanging Chads to try to get his way.
For every 1% rise I CO2 the soil moisture of the drylands (that patch of colour in the centre) increases 0.68% because plants are more water efficient.
The climate models tell lies. If it keeps getting generally hotter, the Hadley cells will push north and it will start raining further inland. At some point the system will tip back to the way it was before 6600 BC and start thunderstorming across the whole Sahara. Yes there really are tipping points in the climate when it comes to the thunderstorm cycles. Even Mauritania will bloom.
The problems in Chad centre on its governance. It might be much better off split into several viable countries. Pointless perpetual war is a useless domestic policy, as useless as the international version.
Chad, just like the majority of other “countries” in Africa, is being dragged down by tribalism. Trying to set arbitrary boundaries will only work if each “tribe” accepts those boundaries, or each “tribe” is powerful enough to keep other tribes out of their specific boundaries. People laying the blame for Africa’s troubles on “the white man” are either blindly naive or pushing the leftist political agenda.
While tribes were separated by large, open expanses of terrain there was relative peace. Still warfare between tribes, nothing like the 20th century saw or the 21st is seeing. Hell, just look at what Mugabe has done to what was a prosperous and fairly well educated population, that same crap has and is happening, repeatedly, throughout Africa. And this is very much like the “opioid” crisis in America, people have to choose not to kill themselves with pharmaceuticals and narcotics, same in Africa, people have to choose not to murder each other over tribalism, or socialism, or egalitarianism, whatever name they put on it. THEY have to CHOOSE. So far they have chosen to kill each other over rancid stupidity no matter the nomenclature used to describe it.
@ur momisugly Crispin in Waterloo … and …… 2hotel9, …… here is a super duper, really great ….. African success story …… that defines how the citizens of an African country should conduct themselves iffen they want to escape the stigma of being forever noted as being a waring nation of un-educateable misfits and murders.
To wit:
Hmmm – Another dangling Chad problem…..
Thanks for sparing me to make the reference…
Load of bollocks topped off with: “when global cooling was the crisis du jour”.
And the piece de resistance: “More proof that the IPCC and UNFCC are *all* about socialist redistribution of wealth”.
Memo to self – ignore this twit’s rubbish. Racing to the bottom with Eric Worral.
Global cooling was indeed the crisis of the decade for the 1970s.
Leaders of the bogus “climate change” cause admit that their goal is socialism.
So I guess that makes you the twit spewing rubbish and racing to the bottom.
Tony would have to race upwards to reach the bottom… 😎
Hard to race to a place he has been all along.
Regarding the past crisis du jour
“The Ice Age Cometh.” (Science News, March 1, 1975)… I can also break out Time & Newsweek if need be.
From March 1975 to May 2017, Science News has gone from “the Ice Age cometh” to “Arctic sea ice… accelerating to oblivion”… Ohhhhhh Noooooooo!!!
Regarding the Marxist nature of the IPCC & UNFCCC, I give you Christina Figueres…
http://www.unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/29623-figueres-first-time-the-world-economy-is-transformed-intentionally
And Ottmar Edenhofer…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/18/ipcc-official-%e2%80%9cclimate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth%e2%80%9d/
It never did.
Q-fracking-ED
Yes. It was The Chad…
And for more France bashing….
Chad “…has been in civil war or conflict for 35 out of the 57 years since it gained independence from France.”
It seems that France has a pretty crappy track record with the condition of their imperialist leftovers. If the president of France really wants to be able to claim they are at the top of the heap wrt human rights then France should be busy cleaning up the poverty and wars that they have created throughout the world.