Guest essay by Eric Worrall
You might expect on the eve of a global food price crisis, a charity which genuinely cares about feeding hungry children would swallow their pride and prioritise accepting donations from any legal source. But Save the Children appears to have decided they care more about climate virtue signalling than their core mission.
Charity snubs £750,000 donation from gas company over reluctance to take cash from fossil fuel firms
- Save the Children rejected a large donation because it was from a gas producer
- The £750,000 donation from Neptune Energy for Ukraine was rejected
- Save the Children said they did not want the money because it ‘didn’t want to endorse fossil fuels’
By NIAMH LYNCH FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 12:55 AEDT, 23 March 2022 | UPDATED: 12:55 AEDT, 23 March 2022
Save the Children has refused an energy firm’s £750,000 donation to ease the Ukraine crisis because it doesn’t want to endorse fossil fuels.
It rebuffed cash from North Sea gas producer Neptune Energy two weeks ago, stating it was ‘committed to working on climate change issues’.
Despite refusing help for Ukraine, it said it would take cash for its Children’s Emergency Fund, which supports youngsters in crises around the world, because ‘this could be used in a crisis for which relatively little money is available’.
Neptune, which says it has given £1.5million for Ukrainian humanitarian efforts, challenged the decision with Save the Children’s trustees, saying its staff chose the charity and the snub had ‘shocked’ them.
Save the Children will now refuse donations from firms ‘whose core business is fossil fuels… following a lead by children who have protested about the threat the climate crisis poses to their future’, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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This has got to be one of the most stunning examples of climate hypocrisy and bad timing I have ever encountered.
Every one of the “Save the Children” executives who made this fatuous decision use fossil fuel in their every day lives, in the clothes they wear, their household appliances, home heating, the roads they drive on. Their computers and telephones are largely made of fossil fuel based plastic, and powered by fossil fuel. Even if they drive an EV, their automobile is mostly made of fossil fuel, and recharged by generated powered by fossil fuel. Any metal components in their EV were smelted and shaped using fossil fuel powered machines.
The timing of this move could not be worse. The world stands on the brink of a food supply crisis, thanks to the interruption of 25% of the world’s wheat supply, wheat which normally comes from Ukraine.
Even worse, the rest of the world might find it unusually difficult to make up the shortfall, due to fertiliser shortages. A significant portion of the world’s fertiliser is manufactured in Russia.
Can you imagine a more ridiculous time for a food bank charity to decide to be fussy about whose money they accept?
My suggestion, if you normally support “Save the Children”, find another charity to support, a charity run by people whose focus is their core mission.
The Biden Administration produces vast quantities of fertilizer. Unfortunately it’s not useful for food.
Or much of anything else, except memes re: how the pretender-in-thief fills his depends on occasion.
Let us dig into this a bit. The charity refused funds from a natural gas producer.
As it turns out natural gas prices have skyrocketed worldwide.
The rubber meets the road:
Natural gas is the critical feedstock for ammonia production which is via the Haber-Bosch process..
Ammonia is the first and a main constituent of agricultural fertilizers. When the price of natural gas went sky high, the price of fertilizer was forced way up. So far up, that many farmers have given up on the year while others will have poor yields due to insufficient fertilizer, or none at all.
this, and nothing else, is the primary source of the looming food shortages.
This charity rejects money from a natural gas company because “fossil fuels”.
Should they not also reject all foodstuffs from modern agriculture because they all depend in a critical way on natural gas for their very existence.
Follow the footprint. It is all in vogue to calculate “carbon footprints” up and down a product life cycle, from procuring the raw materials all the way to end of life.
Perhaps this charity could do a “carbon footprint” analysis on modern agricultural products and see the footprints going straight back to a natural gas well.
Why is it that everybody who raises the alarm over “carbon pollution” turns out to be singularly stupid?
Its bred into them via the collages they attended, and they have an evil agenda for the unwoke.
Oh, and they’re not stupid, just ignorant of how it will end. History has shown the ending time and time again. That’s where the “stupid” comes in. Always has, always will.
“Oh, and they’re not stupid, just ignorant of how it will end.”
Just ignorant??
No, it Runs deeper than that.
It is in the colleges for sure.
But so is BIO-101/102. The freshman full year Intro to Biology, not that watered down, one semester “Concepts in Biology” course. All the environmentalist students need is to take Intro. Bio. and it would disabuse them of the vast majority of their pet “environmental disaster” and “ecological catastrophe” ideology.
The campus environmentalists will pay any price, do whatever is necessary to Save The Planet. Except take a science course. That they will not do, way too hard.
Ever wonder about “carbon pollution” and how it went from ground level to international “cause celeb” in just a few years? Simple. The environmentalists simply do not know that CO2 is the “staff of life”, so they fell for the propaganda. No idea that CO2 is the primary feedstock of photosynthesis, how plants grow. No idea what photosynthesis is, never heard of it.
In a college student, this is willful stupidity.
A society that gets in to the rut of virtue signalling absurdity will find the rut delving the depths of atrocity. The core mission of the organisation-its very being, has been usurped by a different agenda. That agenda is absurd anyway- since when is refusal to debate a sign an argument has been won?
To quote Voltaire-“Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Permutations of this also apply. Those that FORCE you to believe absurdities will FORCE you down the road of mass atrocities. It only takes 2 years of constant propaganda to turn a lunatic idea in to accepted “fact.” It only took Hitler a couple of years to get Germans (an otherwise civilised society) to accept genocide. It only took 2 years of the Hutus demonising the Tutsis to ignite the genocide in Rwanda. It has only taken 2 years of fearmongering, data manipulation and propaganda for people to be happy with persecution of those that refuse to take untested, experimental drugs that claim to be a vaccine, but kill more people than are “protected.” Years of climate propaganda – spreading the nonsensical and absurd message that we must destroy the very basis of our society (cheap, reliable energy) and possibly the human race itself to prevent a 3% increase in essential trace gas levels has led almost all political “leaders” to believe and act on this absurdity.
Looks like Save the Children is off any donations from me. Indeed, ALL organisations of any type that get drawn in to absurd politically correct nonsense must be boycotted and allowed to implode and fail. It is our DUTY to make this happen.
It is our DUTY to preserve our civilization by making them collapse.
Societies being led down the path to atrocity is nothing new. The Pied Piper describes such a situation. Sodom and Gomorrah is possibly another example. The Emperor’s New Clothes is another such cautionary tale. History is littered with the ashes of societies that chose the path of failing to question.
Indoctrinate The Children
What this tells you: like most “charities”, Save the Children has too much money. Most charities have too much money, waste too much on administration and “gala events.” Give to small, local charities; they know who is really in need.
I went to a United Way appreciation dinner as a guest once. Salmon and filet mignon were the dinner choices with white and red wine served in carafes on the table. It was a semi formal awards thingy with lots of company brass and politicians congratulating themselves.
When you are a non profit as all these charities are, it’s very important to never have a profit. So high salaries and high expenses are normal, I was told.
The coal, gas, and oil industries have saved more children from poverty and hunger than Save the Children ever will.
So true! A few billion more.
To complete the thought: if STC and other deluded NGO’s are successful at eliminating fossil fuels, children will suffer the most, including increased poverty, food insecurity and hunger.
Whereas, if fossil fuel use continues, more CO2 is emitted, and the planet warms, all that will be beneficial to children and to food production and distribution.
Warmer Is Better for children and other living things.
I would suggest a charity, if you can find an honest one, that isn’t run by complete loons.
How do they think the food gets delivered to the needy children? I don’t see air cargo planes going electric soon. I also don’t think electric semis will be delivering food to the far places that Save the Children reaches out to.
Well, if they can do without $750,000 then I guess they won’t miss my measly $50 bucks…
A $750,000 donation turned down?
The 2019 IRS Form 990 for “Save The Children” is available at https://www.savethechildren.org/content/dam/usa/images/annual-report/2019/2019-scus-990.pdf
It’s 125 pages long.
Contributions and grants: $758,975,741
Salaries: $107,645,274
Employees: 1603
I guess they can afford to turn down a measly three quarters of a million.
Salaries divided by employees = $67,152!
G’Day Robert,
“$67,152”
That’s the same figure my calculator came up with. Then I went into the 990 to see what the officers were paid. On the 990 page 7:
President and CEO: $560,749 (plus another $57,362 estimated)
That’s a ‘base pay’ of about $280/hour for her 2,000 hour year.. Not too shabby.
The Corporate Secretary: $136,247. Aw shucks – just $68/hour.
At the foot of page 8: Total number of individuals (including but not limited to those listed above) who received more than $100,000 reportable compensation from the organization: 328.
It might be a charity but they’re working with some fairly substantial figures.
The rest of the story. I spent 11 seasons with H & R Block. I prepared just one 990 in those years. April 15, 1994 was my last day as a preparer. In 1996 I was passing the office, the boss lady’s car was out front. To my wife, “Let’s go in and say Hi”. The receptionist took my name back to the kitchen where the boss (an EA) and two other preparers were working on a 990, trying to describe how the charity’s activities benefited the community. The receptionist came back, grinning, “She says go on back, you’re the biggest bullsh*tter she knows.” It had been two years, but my coffee cup was still hanging on the rack over the kitchen sink. One cup of coffee and 45 minutes later they had more than enough ‘community benefits’ to satisfy the IRS.
All institutions are corruptible, and over time get corrupted. It’s inevitable, regardless of whether are “charities”, governmental or non-governmental organizations. Over time, their internal bureaucracies take control and focus on self-perpetuation and aggrandizement. Look at our universities, for example. The bureaucracies grow faster that the segments devoted to teaching, for instance.
Fat Cats!!
The food they feed to the children would not be gown without fossil fuel,….
Save the Children? millions annually, globally, we’ll call “ghost children”. Don’t elect (i.e. one-child, selective-child) to abort human life for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather causes. Divest from the wicked solution. Lose your “ethical” religion.
I have been a fairly regular if not particularly large donor to STC (ie I certainly cannot meet the Neptune donation). I do hope that STC don’t send me my reminder in the next few days. The response will be particularly blunt. I have cancelled my standing donation. If asked why I have cancelled, I will point out that I am a fossil fuel user so they won’t want my money.
It does leave an unanswered question which is how can I help kids in the developing nations without fools like these deciding that it is preferable those poor kids continue to starve rather than be helped by fossil fuels.
The up side is that as a shareholder in some fossil fuel companies, perhaps the directors will be less willing to use my profits to virtue signal and instead pay increased dividends so I can decide what to do with my money.
children who protested climate change affected their decision??
ah yes dearest greta can clock up a few more
“save the planet from humans- by causing their Death “then I guess?
because the kids protesting sure arent the ones starving are they?
Unfortunately there are far to many charities that have chosen to run themselves like a business and pay their high officers large commercial rate salaries. These people then move from one well paid job to another giving not a dam about what the charity was set up for only thinking of their own greed. Also large amounts of the money collected goes on needless activities, consultants and focus groups.
I could list several that have worked their way through virtually all that was donated with a mere pittance going where it was meant to. The Princess Diana Fund spent very little of the millions raised in her memory, Captain Tom who using his walking frame walked miles to raise funds for the NHS (Britain’s health service) only a small amount actually went where it should have and everyone knows (or should) that millions raised by BLM went to buy homes (yes that’s plural) for one of the founders of that organisation. It’s getting harder and harder to find charities that do what they were set up to do with dedicated people with the drive, the desire and the honesty to do what the organisation was set up to do. Most seem to be small local and have a narrow purpose, once those that set them up retire and pass it on is when things start going wonky.
James Bull
“It’s getting harder and harder to find charities that do what they were set up to do with dedicated people with the drive, the desire and the honesty to do what the organisation was set up to do.”
We have one of those organizations in Alberta. Their leader has spent weeks in solitary confinement for trying to do real charity.
Somebody should report them to the State of Texas.
This exposes the real reason for the Climate Change Cult’s position on the essence of life, CO2. Which is to kill off a large proportion of the world’s human population!
ANYONE reading this article and this post who believes in the Cult’s message that CO2 is bad, must do some soul searching and ask yourself if you really are anti life and hence supporting evil! Step outside of your brainwashed mental fog and get real!
Read this essay for starters (to any who are moderately, or whole heartedly for the Climate Change propaganda):
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/14/hypothesis-radical-greens-are-the-great-killers-of-our-age/
Now we know what’s more important—political posturing for the garbage elite’s climate change scam or feeding children. But this isn’t the first time that leftists have indulged in such insanity.