Green Grifters | City Journal
You don t have to be a climate denier to see that climate-change politics have become the largest global grift in history, one that grows in proportion with each new conference. It was just a matter of time before Third World basket-case countries exploited the First World s virtue signaling. This year s UNFCC COP 29 conference in Azerbaijan (COP stands for Conference of the Parties) features the demand that developed countries fork over billions, if not trillions, more dollars to the Global South, ostensibly to help it adjust to climate change. Those billions will follow all previous foreign aid into the same sinkhole of corruption and incompetence.
The grift also includes the green energy enterprises that survive only thanks to government subsidies and mandates that no one meets. When it comes to electric vehicle use, those mandates would take down the power grid if they were met. President Joe Biden s hilariously named Inflation Reduction Act transfers close to $400 billion of appropriated taxpayer wages into subsidies for wind and solar development. The alleged purity of those alternative energy sources is based on keeping their environmental costs off stage.
Heather MacDonald.