{"id":1756035,"date":"2022-11-30T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756035"},"modified":"2022-11-30T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:03:07","slug":"how-the-un-climate-summit-empowered-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-un-climate-summit-empowered-china\/","title":{"rendered":"How the UN Climate Summit Empowered China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-the-un-climate-summit-empowered-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/copp-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em><em>The following is part of an interview with\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>ClimateDepot.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0founder Marc Morano and Federalist Staff Writer Evita Duffy, in which they discuss the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Great Reset, Covid, and the future of the West.\u00a0<\/em>It has been lightly edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evita Duffy<\/strong>: Hi everyone, this is Evita Duffy, staff writer at The Federalist, and I am joined today by Marc Morano, the founder of ClimateDepot.com and author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/hZD9UzG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Green Fraud<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/ajvqpMc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Great Reset: Global Elites in the Permanent Lockdown<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Morano<\/strong>: Thank you, Evita, happy to be here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ED<\/strong>: So you were in Egypt this last week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27. Can you just explain to us, what are climate reparations? How much is it going to cost us? What did you learn while you were there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MM<\/strong>: Well, it\u2019s called \u201cCOP\u201d because it\u2019s \u201cConference of Parties,\u201d which is a UN bureaucratic name. It really began when George H.W. Bush went to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and signed the \u201cRio Earth Treaty,\u201d which literally led to the creation of this UN climate process. So what\u2019s happened over the years is they\u2019re basically saying that the wealthy nations \u2014 Europe, United States, Canada, Australia \u2014 our use of fossil fuels (i.e., us driving around in SUVs) has created bad weather in Africa and therefore we need to give them reparations for all the bad weather we caused. That\u2019s literally the sales pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that is twofold. [First,] weather hasn\u2019t gotten worse as CO2 has increased. Oddly, the weather has actually improved. And you can look at this \u2014 hurricanes, floods, wildfires, drought, tornadoes, on every climate time scale \u2014 30, 50, 100 years \u2014 there\u2019s either no trend in these bad weather extremes or there\u2019s a declining trend. And how they get trends is \u2026 they can always cherry-pick a region or a timescale but if you look at it from a big climate picture, there is no climate emergency \u2014 no climate bad weather that we need reparations for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The [second] thing interesting about this \u2026 is that these poor nations have actually immensely benefited from the wealthy nations\u2019 use of fossil fuels. We brought schools, hospitals, medicine, infrastructure to these developing world countries and allowed them to develop even better. They\u2019re enjoying a lot of the First World benefits from our wealth, and so the key is to allow the Third World or the developing world (Africa, Asia, South America, the 1 billion-plus people that have no access to running water, adequate access to running water and electricity) to develop like we did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the real problem is they don\u2019t want them to develop. They don\u2019t want them to make the same \u201cmistakes\u201d (i.e., long life expectancy, lower infant mortality, infrastructure, wealth creation). So instead, they want us to just pay them, pay their leaders to keep their people poor because then they\u2019ll be good stewards of the environment. In a nutshell, that really is what the UN climate reparations fund is all about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ED<\/strong>: Yeah, like you say it\u2019s \u201ckeep the poor poor,\u201d and there\u2019s been a lot of studies that have come out that say poor people and poverty are actually worse for the environment. When people are in desperation, they put a strain on natural resources far more than people who are in developed societies. So it\u2019s actually probably having the opposite effect that [the UN delegates] want. Is that correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MM<\/strong>: Yes, you\u2019re directly on point. What\u2019s happened is \u2014 and there have been studies on this and we\u2019ve observed this over the last 100 years \u2014 wealthier nations have cleaner environments and put less strain on the resources. Now, you can look at places in the developing world, whether it\u2019s India or Brazil or South America or African nations. They\u2019re living in huts made of animal dung. They\u2019re burning dung and wood inside with horrible air quality. They don\u2019t have modern sanitation. The rivers are polluted. They don\u2019t have means of modern fossil fuel energy. So what do they do? They clear-cut forests, they burn trees, they in some cases hunt species that lose habitat. They don\u2019t have high-yield agriculture that comes with wealth and wealth creation and technological advancement. So they don\u2019t get enough food, or they need more land to feed people instead of increasing the food yield on the existing land for farmland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So it turns out if you look back at like Eastern European nations, they had some of the filthiest environments and they were the ones that were the poorest centrally planned socialist nations of the 20th century. In fact, if you look at like the United States, the World Health Organization lists the United States air quality as among the cleanest in the world. And since the first Earth Day, we\u2019ve radically improved our air and water quality while at the same time seeing massive economic growth and massive population increases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It can be done. And the way not to do it is the way the United Nations in this climate summit in Egypt tries to approach it through central planning, through regulatory bodies, and through literally trying to micromanage every aspect of human life and development, instead of allowing wealth prosperity through a free market system. They\u2019re dead set against that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ED<\/strong>: So let\u2019s go back to what happened at COP27 just for a moment because I read that China is exempt from paying any of these climate reparations, but China has the world\u2019s second-biggest economy and they\u2019re the world\u2019s biggest polluters. So how did that happen?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MM<\/strong>: Well, it happens because China is still listed as a \u201cdeveloping nation.\u201d You know, these are all called racist colonial terms. You can\u2019t say \u201cThird World.\u201d If you say \u201cFirst World nation,\u201d like Europe or the United States, that\u2019s considered racist. So I guess China\u2019s an \u201cemerging economy,\u201d is how they define it. So the United States could be on the hook for a billion dollars per year, possibly in climate reparations, and then China would have to pay absolutely zero, not a cent, because they\u2019re considered a developing nation\/emerging economy. \u2026 They were also in many ways exempt from the UN Paris Agreement for the same reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And so what\u2019s happened here is all of these nations end up coming here and they\u2019re begging for money. And this doesn\u2019t necessarily help the people at all. This helps the leaders of the countries begging for this money because it ensures they get money, they can then buy their reelection, they can build monuments to themselves, they can pay off all the people that they need to, they can solidify their power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn\u2019t even be surprised in the UN process if China ended up being on the receiving end of these climate reparations. Keep in mind, China doesn\u2019t only benefit from not having to pay so-called climate reparations. But they benefit from the entire UN Green New Deal [and] net-zero agenda because the world is going to be looking to China. The U.S. buys over 80 percent of our solar panels currently from China. We rely on China for all the rare earth mining for lithium and cobalt. China is expanding mining operations in Africa \u2014 places like the Congo with allegations of underage labor of children of 8, 9 years old by international human rights groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So this whole UN climate summit we saw in Egypt was actually the China empowerment summit because China is going to benefit from everything that comes out of this. The West will get poorer. The West will see more regulations. The West will be more reliant on China as we go forward with this UN Green New Deal agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ED<\/strong>: That\u2019s getting at the real question here because when all these delegates showed up in Egypt, there were, I guess, 400 jets that landed, and so [the delegates] can\u2019t care about the environment that much if they\u2019re taking private jets to the conference. So what\u2019s in it for them? I mean, why would they want to make Western nations poorer and these other Third World countries richer? Why redistribute the wealth? What is the purpose? What\u2019s in it for [the Westerners who are allowing this to happen]?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MM<\/strong>: That\u2019s a great question. You figure, why are they doing this? Well, the answer is simple. On one hand, you have the ideologues, and these could be the people like Harrison Ford and Leonardo DiCaprio, who literally think that the earth is facing a climate emergency and unless the UN saves us somehow from this climate catastrophe by passing some agreement that we\u2019re all doomed. And you have young activists who actually believe that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, Greta Thunberg left [the UN climate summit]. She\u2019s not a climate skeptic. She believes in the climate emergency but she\u2019s so concerned about climate that she now recognizes that if you care about climate, the UN is actually a scam full of lying and greenwashing. And this is why Greta Thunberg for the first time since she came on the public seat was not in attendance at this conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what ends up happening is you have world leaders who get to virtue signal, who get to have all these ideologues in green energy and corporate backers \u2014 in many cases, Democrat Party donors \u2014 push this whole green agenda on it because there\u2019s a lot of money and campaign contributions to be made. And they don\u2019t think they\u2019re necessarily destroying America. They think, and they\u2019ve been led to believe, that solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels, and they\u2019re just about to take over and this is going to be a revolution and they\u2019re going to lead it. Some of the politicians actually believe it. The others maybe are more cynical and this is just what their donors are pushing. This is what the UN is pushing. This is what the media is pushing. It becomes a sort of groupthink virtue signal. And it\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed as a member of the Ukrainian delegation at this conference, and they actually told me with a straight face that [what] Vladimir Putin fears [the most] is European nations doubling down on green energy. I can tell you right now, the Middle East, Venezuela, China, and Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia would laugh hysterically at European nations doubling down on green energy because this is the mess that they\u2019re in. <\/p>\n<p>Because of the green energy agenda, [European nations] ended up being reliant. In the case of Germany, 50 percent of their energy was coming from Russia. And now we\u2019re seeing the new prime minister of England basically saying they\u2019re not going to open up their fracking, they\u2019re still continuing this. It\u2019s a powerful ideology, where they think if they go against it, they\u2019ll lose elections, they\u2019ll lose donors, they\u2019ll get media disapproval, and they\u2019ll get their children angry at them because they\u2019re not saving the Earth. So that\u2019s how you get people to go against their own interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The flip side of that is how do you get African nations and poor nations where a billion people don\u2019t have adequate running water and electricity \u2014 how do you get them to sign on to these UN deals? You pay them off. You come up with a climate slush fund, the climate reparations fund. So the one thing you have to understand is the UN is very competent at one thing, Evita, and that is A) throwing a party and B) knowing how to play politics, knowing how to transfer money, knowing how to put the right interests in the right place to make things happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So they bring Africa and poor nations in South America to the table by offering huge sums of cash. They bring the Western leaders to the table by offering massive disapproval and, as John Kerry said, \u201cglobal shaming\u201d if you don\u2019t support this. Look what happened when Donald Trump pulled us out of the UN Paris Agreement. All hell broke loose. World leaders, the media, academia, the United Nations, [and] youth activists condemned him. Donald Trump was seen as Satan himself for not supporting the UN Paris climate accords and withdrawing from them. So you ask what they get out of it? They get out of avoiding being labeled like Donald Trump was.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the rest of the conversation here:<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Evita Duffy is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. 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