No, America Does Not Owe the World Climate “Reparations”

by Stephen Moore, heartlanddailynews.com

I’ve made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle. Let’s be real. None of this is about changing the temperature of the Earth. Even the most naive environmental activist can’t really believe that building windmills and driving Teslas is going to cool the planet.

This is all about money. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of government handouts.

That was never more blatantly transparent than at this year’s sham COP 27 climate conference in Egypt, which was attended by more than 20,000 delegates and activists from more than 100 countries. The only agreement that the delegates could reach was a hollow “commitment” from the rich Western nations—by that they mean the United States—to give “reparation” money to the poor nations of the world.

If you’ve never heard of this loony concept before, the theory is that America owes the payments. Not the other way around. rest of the world money for burning fossil Oh, and did I mention that China and fuels over the last hundred or so years. India skipped out on the conference this Huh? These were the fossil fuels that pro- year? These are by far the two largest pollutvided America with the energy to save ing nations, and they want no part of this humanity from fascism and communism global handshake “agreement.” This would during World War I, World War II and the be like celebrating that we have reached a Cold War. These energy sources are what peace agreement during World War II, have powered the industrial age, bringing except the bad news is that Germany and light, heat and air conditioning. And they Japan aren’t on board. have powered our infrastructure, factories, The sliver of good news here is that an abundant food supply and a technology Republicans are about to run the House of revolution. Add to that our drugs and vac- Representatives, and one of their first policy cines, which have saved many hundreds of declarations will be to declare we are not millions of lives globally. sending a penny of climate foreign aid to It was the fossil fuel energy revolution of other nations when we have mammoth probthe last century lems here to that supplied solve at home. America with It’s almost the wealth and sinister that at financial a time when resources to many thirdprovide some world half a trillion countries lack dollars of disas- basic health ter and foreign care, adequate aid to seemingly every area of the rest of the food production, clean water, affordable/ world. And now, President Joe Biden’s reliable electric power and basic schooling dunces are agreeing with foreigners that we for the young (especially girls), the European owe them money? and American delegation is giving sermons America should be getting reparation on the dangers of climate change. With a fraction of the money the climate fanatics want to spend on green energy, the

ANIMAL & RANGE SCIENCES animal & range sCienCes world could save millions of lives simply by ensuring the poor have access to clean drinking water and save millions of lives over the decades to come. What all of this means is that the U.S. is The Department of Animal & Range Sciences is part of the under no moral or legal obligation to pay College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences reparations to any nation. The U.S. is Four on-campus animal facilities house: beeF CaTTle/horses/swine/sheep running a $1.2 trillion budget deficit, so there is no extra money in the bank vaults to spend right now on foreign aid. Perhaps Students can major in Animal or Rangeland Resources and are provided with the very when we’ve balanced the budget and we have best of “hands on” academic instruction by our faculty. Fully equipped labs allow students access to cutting-edge research in: LIVESTOCKNUTRITION / GENETICS / PHYSIOLOGY / ENDOCRINOLOGY / MEAT SCIENCE / WOOL / surpluses. That would be around the third Wednes day of never. -

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/ WEED & BRUSHCONTROL / PLANTSYSTEMATICS / Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage GRAZINGMANAGEMENT Foundation and an economist with FreedomWorks. The Department also offers pre-veterinary studies –His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government is Devouring our Economy.” ▫ our graduates have a high acceptance rate into veterinary medicine programs. We offer graduate degrees at the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy levels. The M.S. or Ph.D. in Animal Science can emphasize nutrition or physiology, and offers a Ph.D. in Range Science to study range management, range ecology and watershed management.

The Department of Animal & Range Sciences is part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences THE DEPARTMENT ALSO OPERATES • • • • The Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (The College Ranch) – 64,000 acre ranch just outside of Las Cruces The Corona Range & Livestock Research Center – 28,000 acre ranch & facilities in Corona, NM Student organizations, including a Block & Bridle Club, Pre-Vet Club, Range Club, Horsemen’s Association, Therapeutic Riding Club, & Judging Teams Clayton Research Center hosts research on shipping protocols, particularly evaluating the health and performance of newly received cattle, and nutrition and management from feedlot to slaughter

“The climate change movement is really a climate change hustle that’s all about money”, columnist

Stephen Moore says.

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