poverty

The climate agenda is blatantly anti-progress and anti-human

Consider climate anxiety among children.

By Joe Bastardi |2023-12-05T10:42:34-05:00December 5th, 2023|Comments Off

Financiers of misery – Part 2

Private ‘philanthropic’ foundations keep African families destitute, malnourished, dying early

By CFACT Ed, Paul Driessen |2020-04-22T20:21:27-04:00April 24th, 2020|Comments Off

Obama carbon colonialism and climate corruption continue

USAID policies perpetuate disease and malnutrition. Part three of a three part series.

By Paul Driessen |2018-08-15T09:23:09-04:00August 19th, 2018|Comments Off

Obama-Era Executive Order still hindering poor countries’ access to energy

The Obama administration may be gone, but its policies are still doing harm.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2018-07-16T14:13:31-04:00July 16th, 2018|Comments Off

Obama foreign policy still punishes the global poor

This particularly hurts Sub-Saharan Africa, where only a small fraction of the people has access to electricity.

By CFACT Ed |2018-05-16T22:38:46-04:00May 16th, 2018|Comments Off

Perverse, conflicted ethical systems

Radical environmentalists put people last, and destroy habitats and wildlife to end fossil fuels.

By Paul Driessen |2018-05-09T21:46:19-04:00May 9th, 2018|Comments Off

REPORT: Radical environmentalism could kill millions of people in poor countries

The grim irony of the pursuit of “green” energy is that it may be placing millions of people in poor countries at risk of living much shorter, unhealthier lives due to air pollution.

By CFACT Ed |2018-05-06T08:26:14-04:00May 6th, 2018|Comments Off

To the world's poor, electricity (including air conditioning), modern highways, quality medical care, and so much more of the good things first world people take for granted are routinely denied them out of concern for the environment (sic), or rather the elites' insistence that they rule over the poor with a paternalistic (slavemaster) hand. CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen calls the actions of these elites "callous, immoral, eco-imperialistic, and genocidal." As newly elected Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says, "They think they can dictate our destiny," but we will not submit to their rule.

By Paul Driessen |2016-07-26T08:45:50-04:00July 23rd, 2016|3 Comments

California Dem: Our global warming plans devastate the poor

“There is a regressive nature to some of these things,” Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a conference on green energy Friday. “We have to be sensitive to issues relating to energy costs.”

By CFACT Ed |2016-07-18T17:30:02-04:00July 18th, 2016|1 Comment

Professor: ‘Madness’ of fighting global warming will impoverish everyone

Cambridge University electrical engineering professor Dr. M.J. Kelly concluded in a peer-reviewed journal article that attempts to fight global warming with green energy will impoverish the world.

By CFACT Ed |2016-05-24T07:17:08-04:00May 24th, 2016|37 Comments

Obama’s global warming plan costs poor Americans $44 billion, raises taxes by 166%

President Obama’s global warming plan would cost America’s poorest families billions.

By CFACT Ed |2016-04-25T11:35:13-04:00April 25th, 2016|2 Comments

Divesting people of better living standards

The radical Green push for colleges and universities to divest themselves from investment in fossil fuel companies is misguided, immoral, lethal, and, yes, racist. While Western civilization has seen an 11-fold increase in wealth, a doubling of lifespans, and health and prosperity unprecedented in human history, nearly 1.5 billion still live without the benefits of modern technology. While China (which will ignore the bigots) has linked nearly its entire population to the power grid, over 300 million in India and more than twice that number in sub-Saharan Africa lack even the simplest of modern amenities that electric power and motorized transportation afford. CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen asks, "What right do divestment activists and climate change alarmists have to deny Earth's most destitute people access to electricity and motor fuels, jobs, and better lives?"

By Paul Driessen |2015-02-13T08:26:11-05:00February 7th, 2015|5 Comments

Obama promises an end to cheap energy!

Shellenberger and Nordhous state: “In the name of democracy it now offers the global poor not what they want—cheap electricity—but more of what they don’t want, namely intermittent and expensive power” which “offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western environmentalists take for granted.... In the name of democracy it now offers the global poor not what they want—cheap electricity—but more of what they don’t want, namely intermittent and expensive power” which “offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western environmentalists take for granted.”

By Marita Noon |2013-06-26T14:18:53-04:00June 24th, 2013|Comments Off

How ethanol programs cause 200,000 deaths each year

The EPA claims that ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has only a minimal impact on food prices. But Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, disagrees. . .

By Craig Rucker |2013-05-06T16:48:36-04:00May 2nd, 2013|1 Comment

Palm oil greasing the skids out of poverty

A campaign is growing to pressure food companies and consumers into boycotting palm oil because of its alleged environmental impacts. But according to a new report by the non-profit group, World Growth, palm oil is a highly efficient source of food and fuel, and is a good way to produce fossil fuel alternatives and capture carbon from the atmosphere.

By CFACT |2012-10-31T16:40:32-04:00August 31st, 2012|Comments Off