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Jul 29, 2009
“Al Gore uses more electricity in a week than 28 million Ugandans together use in a year.”
By Fiona Kobusingye
Coordinator of Congress of Racial Equality Uganda and the Kill Malarial Mosquitoes Now Brigade
The average African life span is lower than it was in the United States and Europe 100 years ago. But Africans are being told we shouldn’t develop, or have electricity or cars because, now that those countries are rich beyond anything Africans can imagine, they’re worried about global warming. Al Gore and UN climate boss Yvo de Boer tell us the world needs to go on an energy diet.
Well, I have news for them. Africans are already on an energy diet. We’re starving! Al Gore uses more electricity in a week than 28 million Ugandans together use in a year. And those anti-electricity policies are keeping us impoverished. Not having electricity also means disease and death. It means millions die from lung infections, because they have to cook and heat with open fires; from intestinal diseases caused by spoiled food and unsafe drinking water; from malaria, TB, cholera, measles and other diseases that we could prevent or treat if we had proper medical facilities. Hypothetical global warming a hundred years from now is worse than this?
Telling Africans they can’t have electricity and economic development - except what can be produced with some wind turbines or little solar panels - is immoral. It is a crime against humanity.
Watch for the movie Not Evil, Just Wrong coming this fall. A feature length documentary which shows how extreme environmentalism is damaging the lives of vulnerable people from the ban on DDT to the campaigns on Global Warming.
“Al Gore uses more electricity in a week than 28 million Ugandans together use in a year.”
By Fiona Kobusingye
Coordinator of Congress of Racial Equality Uganda and the Kill Malarial Mosquitoes Now Brigade
The average African life span is lower than it was in the United States and Europe 100 years ago. But Africans are being told we shouldn’t develop, or have electricity or cars because, now that those countries are rich beyond anything Africans can imagine, they’re worried about global warming. Al Gore and UN climate boss Yvo de Boer tell us the world needs to go on an energy diet.
Well, I have news for them. Africans are already on an energy diet. We’re starving! Al Gore uses more electricity in a week than 28 million Ugandans together use in a year. And those anti-electricity policies are keeping us impoverished. Not having electricity also means disease and death. It means millions die from lung infections, because they have to cook and heat with open fires; from intestinal diseases caused by spoiled food and unsafe drinking water; from malaria, TB, cholera, measles and other diseases that we could prevent or treat if we had proper medical facilities. Hypothetical global warming a hundred years from now is worse than this?
Telling Africans they can’t have electricity and economic development - except what can be produced with some wind turbines or little solar panels - is immoral. It is a crime against humanity.
Watch for the movie Not Evil, Just Wrong coming this fall. A feature length documentary which shows how extreme environmentalism is damaging the lives of vulnerable people from the ban on DDT to the campaigns on Global Warming.
