EU Racket Plans to Give £13 Billion of Your Tax Money to Third World for Climate Change
The European Union plans to dish out £13 billion (15 billion) of your
tax money to help the Third World fight climate change in what
appears to be yet another blatant rip-off of the citizens of western
nations.
The announcement was made by dreadful liberal Swedish Prime Minister
Fredrik Reinfeldt, who currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Climate change, whether real or imaginary, has become the new excuse
for the mad ruling elite to funnel even more white western tax money
into the Third World.
Mr Reinfeldt said that the figure, which represents a target annual
contribution to be reached by 2020, is a starting-point in
negotiations on a new global deal to combat climate change after Kyoto
Protocol requirements expire in 2012.
The (European) Commission has presented 15 billion as the European
part of the global response, said Mr Reinfeldt.
He added that the commission proposal still has to be discussed with
all the EU member states. Its a starting point of discussion.
The load will be shared between EU members based on gross domestic
product and other factors like emission levels, he said.
A European diplomat said authorities are looking for the EUs total
contribution to be twice that amount, or 30 percent of the 100
billion the EU estimates are required per year to meet emissions
reduction targets by 2020. The other half would come from the private
sector, from trade in carbon emissions rights quotas.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen welcomed the EU
announcement and called for talks between what he called rich and
developing nations to move faster. It is very encouraging that the
European Commission now puts forward a concrete and ambitious proposal
on climate financing, he said.
Meanwhile, a new poll has found that the public in Britain are
becoming less trusting of claims about climate change. A survey
conducted by researchers at Cardiff University found that 29 percent
of those questioned thought the evidence had been exaggerated double
the number who held the same opinion in 2003.
Many others thought the evidence linking human activity and global
warming was unreliable or conflicting.
* People like Mr Reinfeldt and Mr Rasmussen never stop to ask why
there are rich and developing countries in the first place, or why
these developing nations always seem to be developing and never
quite make it to the developed level.
Arguments that developing nations are somehow backward because of
colonialism are proven incorrect by the existence of the African
nation of Ethiopia. This nation, which has a population of 85 million,
is one of the oldest independent nations on earth with a history going
back nearly 2,800 years. It was first mentioned in the Greek poem The
Illiad and was a formally established nation in Roman times. A letter
to the emperor of Ethiopia, written by the 15th century king, Henry IV
of England, still survives, showing that it was a functioning nation
in medieval times as well.
Ethiopia has remained interdependent throughout all recorded history,
only once being occupied by Italy from 1936 to 1941. Despite being
older than almost every current European nation, Ethiopia is still a
developing nation, which is completely reliant on foreign aid.
Official figures show that between 1950 and 1970, Ethiopia received
almost $600 million USD in aid: $211.9 million from the US, $100
million from the Soviet Union and $121 million from the World Bank.
Sweden provided the training for the Ethiopian army, and India, which
itself gets billions of pounds of foreign aid from Britain, at one
point contributed the majority of foreign-born schoolteachers in the
Ethiopian educational system.
Since 2001, Ethiopia has received a further $1.6 billion USD in grants
from the United States, the European Union, individual European
nations, Japan, the Peoples Republic of China and the World Bank. In
2001 Ethiopia qualified for the Highly Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPC) debt reduction programme (sponsored by the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund), which is designed to help
persuade creditors to write off loans to developing nations.
In November 2007, the magazine The Economist reported that despite
almost a decade of well-intentioned development policies, Ethiopians
remain mired in the most wretched poverty.
Yet for some reason, much younger nations such as Australia (which is
only about 200 years old) are all developed nations which are
continually called upon to provide aid to the developing world.
http://bnp.org.uk/2009/09/eu-plans-to-give-13-billion-of-your-tax-money-to-third-world-for-%e2%80%9cclimate-change%e2%80%9d/
date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:16:03 -0700 (PDT)
author: Love Europe, Hate the EU
|
