Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a high profile figure in the effort to end Apartheid in South Africa, we need to follow teenage climate activists to achieve a tipping point which will lead to the global outlawing of fossil fuel.
Climate change is the apartheid of our times
Boycotts, sanctions and divestment proved effective in South Africa, but that required a mindset shiftCorporations, financial institutions and socially conscious citizens must pull us back from the climate change abyss. They have the muscle to make renewables mainstream and reposition fossil fuels as the tobacco of the energy industry.
At last week’s UN general assembly, more than 60 world leaders announced new climate targets, with 66 countries pledging to reach “net zero” carbon emissions by the middle of the century. But the US, Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Brazil were not among them.
UN secretary-general António Guterres is counting on the leadership of young activists to pressure governments to do more to address what he rightly calls the “climate emergency”. We agree that forward-thinking young people are the change agents for tomorrow. But corporations and financial institutions must act today. They should join the more than 1,100 institutions with $11tn in assets who have announced that they are divesting.
The campaign to divest from fossil fuel has two legs: participants agree to divest from fossil fuel and invest in renewable energy. Many have divested (and many more must still do so) but relatively few have reinvested in renewables. This second step is critical to make clean energy more affordable, push us to the tipping point and lead to the outlawing of fossil fuel use.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, one of our most important levers in overcoming apartheid was the support of global corporations that heeded the call to divest. Apartheid became a global enemy; now it is climate change’s turn.
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I’m shocked and saddened at what I see as the betrayal of poor people in South Africa, of poor people across the entire world, by one of my heroes.
Archbishop Tutu knowingly calls for fossil fuel to be attacked, divested, discouraged, even though he knows there is currently no affordable renewable alternative to fossil fuel.
The one hope poor people in Africa and elsewhere have of a better life is that their lives will be touched by industrialization. There is no other path to improved living standards.
By attacking investment in fossil fuels, Desmond Tutu is knowingly attacking the welfare of poor people, using his influence to turn poor people away from prosperity, gambling their hopes of a better life on affordable renewable technology which currently does not exist, which might never exist.
Nobody can be certain what will happen in the future, not even climate modellers. But we all know what is happening right now.
For shame, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Answer the cries of your people for deliverance from the misery and hopelessness of extreme poverty, and have a bit of faith that if you right the wrongs of today, the future will take care of itself.
SA, once one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, is already well on its way to become the 2nd Zimbabwe. If they follow what’s in the article, the conversion will occur all the faster and be unrecoverable.
More dumb comments from a populist who seeks the adoration of those less fortunate. The lunatics really seem to be taking control of the asylum.
Have to be wryly amused at those trying to shut down the oil industry to ‘save the climate’. If they were to be successful, there would be a lot of hungry, sick, barefoot, naked, unhoused people in the world, especially those living in cities. They are under an illusion that only gasoline and diesel are produced from oil. Little do they know.
Considering the number of flights this entitled Tutu has flown…
Another day. Another profit (sic). Another [political] climate activist.
Of all people, the people of South Africa should remember the Xhosa cattle-killing.
George Santayana wrote in his book “The Life of Reason”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life, the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.”
The Xhosa is a tribe in the southeast of South Africa. Curiously enough, back in 1856, a 15-year-old girl had a vision, much like Greta Thornburg. And, the leaders of her tribe listened to her vision of the future, just like the United Nations. And then they did what she suggested. Below quotes are from http://www.bluecerealeducation.com/blog/xhosa-cattle-killing-movement-1856-1857
The full article is worth reading. ( First learned of the Xhosa on WUWT. I learn something every time I visit here!)
“Nongqawuse was a 15-year old Xhosa girl whose uncle, Mhlakaza, was a respected diviner and advisor to King Sarhili. In April 1856, Nongqawuse and a friend walked to the banks of the Gxarha River, ………….
There, the girls met two strangers who claimed to be ancestor-spirits and proceeded to explain that the Xhosa dead would soon rise and a new era of supernatural prosperity would begin……..
…..They would, of course, first have to destroy all existing crops and cattle to make way for this renewal. They were contaminated anyway – corrupted, both literally and spiritually. For things to become new, the old must pass away……
…….The more evident it became that renewal was not forthcoming, the more committed and dogmatic the faithful became – a tragic pattern in these sorts of things. Even if the entire community had reversed course, however, it was too late……….
In February 1857, King Sarhili met with Nongqawuse and Mhalakaza at the site of the original vision, where they spoke privately for a long (but unspecified) amount of time. He then announced that the promised New World would begin in exactly eight days, with a blood-red sunrise and a massive storm, during which only the homes of true believers would remain standing and the colonizers would return to the sea. Finally, the dead would begin rising, the crops begin growing, and the new and improved cattle return.
Sarhili’s proclamation prompted a final week-long spasm of crop destruction and cattle-slaughter, until the eighth day arrived. It was a normal sunrise, and the weather was mild.
…….something in the neighborhood of 40,000 Xhosa died of starvation, illness, and related violence.
Today, “Nongqawuse” is a byword – brought up whenever someone’s ideas are considered especially foolish or destructive.”
Poor DesmondTutu is proving to be a dangerously ignorant fool. And perhaps “Greta” will someday become to mean an idea that is considered especially foolish or destructive.
Why do some (most) of the fossil fuel (oil, coal and gas) companies not declare that they are stopping the supply of these essential fuels immediately? The outcry from the majority of people would demonstrate that these fuels cannot be substituted for by anything.
I have so often wondered the same thing?
We need to use Alinskys Rules for Radicals against this madness. A warning from Alinsky- The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. All you have to do is say – ok, lets do it your way, lets just abandon the use of fossil fuels- no oil, no coal, no gas-your Green Utopia. Could you please explain just how abandoning all fossil fuels will support the 7 billion humans that inhabit planet earth? How will we smelt iron to make wind turbines? How will we get fresh food from farms to cities?
The warmists will not have adequate answers to this, so confusion and retreat will ensue. The inability to come out with a credible answer will make them look very bad indeed. Then the inadequacies of their Green Utopia can be exposed and ridiculed.
What! and steal our court jesters.
How dare you! 🙂
“How will we get fresh food from farms to cities
They won’t need to see answer to “Climate crisis” and food provision below – eat babies 😮🙄 :
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I bet he uses FF every day! that frogging HYPOCRITE!
“Tutu Calls for Fossil Fuel to be Outlawed …”.
Just another of the absurd ambit claims made recently, but they do help the ratchet effect employed by the eco-tyrants viz. by shifting the Overton window towards the hysterical limit.
Outlaw fossil fuels in the West will give an advantage to China and India making West the new Africa. Tutu is the last person to trust for reducing poverty. He is a creator of poverty that preys on the stupidity of the masses.
“Climate change is the apartheid of our times”
Not quite. “Climate change” is the biggest, baddest, and grandest mass delusion of all time.
It does nothing for the environment, but rather, harms it.
It harms people, most especially poor people.
It claims to be based on science, when it is not; it is pseudoscience.
Bad actors, especially those pushing socialist/Marxist agendas and world government have latched onto it to use for their purposes of seizing power.
It has frightened people with a total Lie, causing anxiety, depression, hysteria, and other psychoses,
especially children and young adults.
And more, much more. It is in short evil incarnate, with even those in religious orders, including the Pope and Bishops singing its praises.
““Climate change” is the biggest, baddest, and grandest mass delusion of all time.”
I think that distinction goes to all the religions in history. CAGW is just another on the list.
Religions have to be useful, or they die out. They’re a codifications of rules learned over time that keep your society working.
CAGW kills your society stone dead.
“Climate change is the apartheid of our times”
No, but their prescribed “solutions” to “climate change” ARE the apartheid of our times.
In the 1960s the hippies were thick on the ground (and in general). A mass popular movement of irritating ignorant tools, out to save the world and to revolutionise stuff and liberate everyone they imagined needed liberating, whether they wanted liberating or not. And discussing stuff, lots and lots of discussing very meaningful … stuff.
It was just as mad as now, it was just as depressing in its ignorant unbalanced dim-view of humanity, and of the future. There was actually always good with the bad. But they had flairs and paisley shirts, it was centred on drug culture and communal living according to collectivist ideology and a general rejection of clear thinking and a preference for obtuse diatribes. An immature counter-culture of hatred for the mundane, the necessary, and the essential aspects of human life an prosperity.
We’ve had the age of Aquarius flower children, the smug insufferable Yuppie, and the dopey tragic Hipster blocking our way in the supermarket as they obliviously play with their gadget in the middle of aisle 2, or while driving on a freeway.
And now we have the Climate-Extinction mega-dorks.
But that too will pass, once the money runs out, and they have to pay their own bills and live their own lives in a more viable way. Should be fun.
Until then we’ll watch the dumbest, laziest, most unbalanced obsessed elements of society glue themselves to the streets of Capitals all over the world to establish for all time a new lower baseline for just how stupid a human being can become if sufficiently ‘educated’.
I think we should let those ER idiots remain glued in place, urinating and defecating on themselves for days, until they’re desperate enough to tear part of the flesh off to “unglue” themselves. I bet their numbers would plummet after a few of those “episodes.”
We’d have to also be sure to take lots of pics and videos of their “uncomfortable” situation to illustrate their stupidity for the rest of the world, too, of course.
Any ‘lever” in a storm.
No “storm”? Make one up.
Do not trust (be VERY skeptical of) anyone that believes “Their ‘Cause’ justifies the means.”
Just another arrogant hypocritical busybody telling everyone else what to do. These shameless tosspots couldn’t care less about their own hypocrisy. They are fully aware of it of course, but they don’t care because they are completely unaffected by the outcome of what they propose. Like Al Gore, DiCaprio, the Pope, Prince Charles and all the other losers in their camp, Tutu knows that he too can carry on enjoying the trappings of a wealthy influential lifestyle. They are like so many wealthy mountebanks who suddenly favor socialism after having made their millions on the back of capitalism. They get to the top of the heap and then want to pull the ladder up after them so that no one else can get there. This is why the hard-working middle classes and the poor should give them all the middle finger. We should mock them, ignore them, insult them and tell them all to go shove their demands where the sun don’t shine. They deserve nothing less.
This second step is critical to make clean energy more affordable, push us to the tipping point and lead to the outlawing of fossil fuel use. – Tut8.
You first, Tutu. You first. You do without any of that, starting yesterday.
Climate change is the apartheid of our times
Political separation without a consensus. Scientific separation on the facts, not truth as you perceive them.
It is pathetic that the Left wing are so angry and ignorant.
The Left wing have shut down all critical reality discussions in the media. Ones with facts, costs, time to install, corruption in the Left, impact of changes, and so on.
The result of which the Left wing and the general public are clueless as to what would happen in reality if any country really tried to get to zero CO2 emissions.
Low hanging wasteful CO2 emissions could be stopped today.
If the EU was serious about CO2 emission reduction they could ban all tourism air travel and cruise boat travel to and from the EU.
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It’s equalization of misery. South Africa will soon be unable to produce fossil fuels or the money required to import them, therefore the entire world should be dragged down to the same level.
Among other issue, South Africa has a water problem.
So all his people live even worse than under apartheid?
“…Back in the 1970s and 1980s, one of our most important levers in overcoming apartheid was the support of global corporations that heeded the call to divest…”
Trade and economic sanctions against a nation and its businesses, driving currency inflation higher, etc., is nothing like alleged divestment from global fossil fuel corporations.
Tutu may have been reading a lot of Green websites and newsletters, where claims abound that green energy is already (or just about to be) cheaper than fossil fuels. The pope likewise. So they have been seduced into this insanity, as part of the madness of crowds.
Those who demand the end of fossil fuel use should be granted their wishes immediately and personally.
1. Turn off Desmond’s electricity unless he signs to accept the power comes principally from fossil fuel and he accepts it.
2. Refuse to switch the fuel pump on when he arrives at the gas station to fuel up, unless he signs to say he accepts fossil fuel is essential for sustainable civilised life.
3. Remove all plastic from his home including electrical wiring insulation, which is fossil fuel based, unless he signs to say he will never condemn fossil fuel.
Just those three things would bring home to him and many others, the value of fossil fuels.
His choice, he doesn’t have to accept the conditions of supply. If he wishes to continue being an advocate for world de-industialisation by condemning fossil fuels, he can do so from the comfort of his own candle lit cold home.
Ja. Ja.
Hope the good bishop will get to read my report.
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Could be something to do with Prince Harry’s visit.