World groups are stealing money from poor and hungry in their reckless climate crusade
NY Post
Too many rich-world politicians and climate campaigners forget that much of the world remains mired in poverty and hunger.
As such, wealthy nations are increasingly replacing their development aid with climate spending.
The World Bank, whose primary goal is to help people out of poverty, has announced it will divert no less than 45% of its funding toward climate change, shifting some $40 billion annually away from poverty and hunger.
It’s easy to treat climate as the world’s priority when your life is comfortable.
The 16% of the global population who live in those countries don’t typically go hungry or watch loved ones die of easily treatable conditions like malaria or tuberculosis.
Most are well-educated, and their average incomes are in the league of what was once reserved for royalty.
