A Human Rights Travesty

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A Human Rights Travesty
Perpetuating poverty, disease and death to
prevent speculative climate chaos
International Conference on Climate Change New
York March 4, 2008
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Global warming is real . . .
The chasm

• Humans are to blame
• The changes will be cataclysmic
• Reducing CO2 will stabilize Earths climate
• Reducing emissions will be easy

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Climate change through the ages

• Ice ages
• Medieval Warm Period
• Little Ice Age
• Warm and cold periods

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Climate change is about power

• Power to control the power we need for
• Heating and cooling
• Food and consumer products
• Transportation
• Modern living standards

New York City during a blackout
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Who gets to decide?
Consumers, employees who own our energy
resources? Or someone else?
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Benefits of fossil fuels

• Modern living standards
• 1 degree of planetary warming

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Energy Reality in America

• Fossil fuels 84.9 of all the energy Americans
  use
• 39.8 petroleum
• 22.6 coal
• 22.5 natural gas
• Nuclear power 8.2
• Renewable energy 6.9
• 2.9 hydroelectric
• 3.3 biomass (wood waste, garbage, etc)
• 0.3 geothermal
• 0.1 solar and photovoltaic
• 0.3 wind

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7 billion gallons of ethanol in 2007

• 17 million acres
• 35 billion gallons of water
• Insecticides
• Fertilizers
• Diesel and natural gas
• More greenhouse gases

INDIANA
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 2,000 acres
1/20 of Washington, DC
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Wind power versus fossil fuels

• Electrify New York City
• Blanket Connecticut

• One gas-fired generating plant or
• 13,000 wind turbines

NYC ?
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Pushing America into an Energy Gap

• Between the energy we need and
• The energy we will be left with

• MegaWatts or
• BeggaWatts ??

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Slashing greenhouse gas emissions

• Japan 85 reduction
• United States 88
• European Union 83

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Reducing energy use

• Al Gore 100 million Africans

No tolerance for layoffs No tax breaks for job
exporters No tax hikes or so they claim
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Lieberman-Warner climate change bill

• Slash CO2 emissions by 80
• Draconian cuts in living standards
• Lowered economic activity
• Cost hundreds of billions of dollars
• Raise cost of living
• Increase business costs reduce profits
• Send operations and jobs overseas

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Trampling on civil rights

• Energy is The Master Resource
• It transforms civil rights we have on paper
• into civil rights in reality
• life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
• Policies that lock up energy and increase prices
• trample on civil rights

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Anti-people policies

• Barring access to
• Fossil fuels
• Hydroelectric power
• Biotechnology
• Effective malaria control

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Gar Smith, Earth Island Institute

• Once they get electricity, they spend too much
  time watching television and listening to the
  radio. If there is going to be electricity, Id
  like it to be decentralized, small and
  solar-powered.

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Ed Begley, Jr., actor

• Its much cheaper for everybody in Africa to
  have electricity where they need it on their
  huts.

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Appropriate alternatives to electricity

• Firewood
• Dung

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Appropriate alternatives to tap water

• Lakes
• Rivers
• Buckets

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Appropriate alternatives to modern kitchens
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Consequences of energy deprivation

• Lung infections 4 million dead / year
• Intestinal disease 6 million dead / year

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Views of real stakeholders 1

• Opposition to these energy projects is a crime
  against humanity!
• We dont want to be encased like a museum.
• People of Gujarat Province, India

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Views of real stakeholders 2

• Telling destitute people they must never aspire
  to living standards much better than they have
  now because it wouldnt be sustainable is
  just one example of the hypocrisy we have had
  thrust in our faces .
• Leon Louw, South Africa

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Protecting civil and human rights

• Families in developing countries must take their
  rightful places among the Earths healthy and
  prosperous people.
• Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Sustained development not sustainable
development
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The Master Resource Ultimate Resource

• Abundant energy the Master Resource
• Abundant mineral resources
• Intellect and creativity The Ultimate Resource
  
• Free enterprise
• Working together to ensure
• health, prosperity, environmental quality

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Congress of Racial Equality www.CORE-online.org
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
www.CFACT.org Center for the Defense of Free
Enterprise www.CDFE.org www.Eco-Imperialism.com