Re-claiming the moral high ground
Oasis Cities will enable the West to reclaim the MORAL HIGH GROUND – the position it surely and richly deserves..
Some 3rd world nations, mainly African, have found “Climate Change” is a useful tool to harangue the West with the dis-ingenuous claim that “White Man Made Climate Change” is causing great harm to the African environment, despite African “leaders” never displaying any sign of caring for “their environment” before..! Since independence in the early 1960’s the once almost pristine African environment has been degraded and destroyed by uncontrolled population growth, reckless forest destruction, relentless wildlife slaughter, and poor land management – which has led to rapidly spreading desertification in the Sahel particularly. At their favourite grievances tribunal – the United USELESS NATIONS – WMMCC is being wielded as another weapon with which to attack the “evil West” for their alleged “historical exploitation” of brown and black people.
As “compensation” for WMMCC they demand MORE “REPARATION$$$” – on top of the $trillions we have already given in (mostly stolen) “foreign aid” – into the bottomless pockets of corrupt African dictators..!
Of course the West, along with the big Asian economies (who are conveniently excluded from criticism), do emit far more pollutants than agrarian pre-industrial African countries. But none of our existing efforts or future (mostly fanciful) carbon-capturing schemes are likely to reduce our total emissions by the amount that would be required to reverse the warming trend, assuming that is even possible..!
Were the West to initiate a programme of replacing wasteful OB-Cities with OA-Cities – thus dramatically reducing our carbon footprint by (among other things) curbing car usage and fossil-fuel consumption – we would be able to respond to the relentless stream of 3rd World moral blackmail with a straight face and a clear conscience….
“With our Oasis-City building programme we have made enormous progress in reducing our Carbon Emissions, so what about YOUR PART of the deal..? What are you doing – or what do YOU intend to do – about your population growth and rapidly expanding desertification due to your ongoing destruction of your forests and wildlife..? How many trees have you planted to replace those you have cut down?”
Sit back and listen to the sound of crickets chirping…!
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