A Terrible Idea Whose Time Has Come [Updated]

[Elderberry]

Powerline 11/7/2022

Britain’s “conservative” administration led by Rishi Sunak has opened the door to paying “climate reparations” to poor countries:

Britain has opened the door to paying climate change reparations to developing countries by supporting talks on the issue at the Cop27 summit.

On Sunday, at the meeting in Egypt, UK negotiators backed a last-minute agreement to address “loss and damage” payments to countries badly affected by climate-related disasters.

Climate-related disasters have existed from the beginning of time. “Reparations” are based on the assumption that “climate change” has made such disasters worse for poor countries, which is not true. But science has no role here; we are in the realm of politics and propaganda.

The good news is that the contemplated reparations are cheap:

Rishi Sunak will appear at the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, where he will pledge £65.5 million for green technology in developing countries.

More: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/a-terrible-idea-whose-time-has-come.php

[goatprairie]

climate reparations? Ha, ha ,ha. There's umpteen third world countries who would still be drawing their water from a nearby river and defecating in a field if not for those awful European countries colonizing them.
Basically, they want reparations for reluctantly being dragged into modern civilization. Which many of them still haven't quite adjusted to.

[unite for individuality]

The good news is that the contemplated reparations are cheap:

Rishi Sunak will appear at the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday,
where he will pledge £65.5 million for green technology in developing countries.

That's just the camel's nose under the tent.
Before it's all done, they'll have spent over £65.5 trillion
on their fraudulent "technologies"!

The world will be dirtier, the people will be poorer (devastated!)
and the politicians' cronies will be fabulously wealthy!