Progressive types always want to be perceived as compassionate, as so very solicitous of the poor, underprivileged and disadvantaged – or at least much more so than the evil, cold-hearted conservatives. And of course it’s because they’re so very concerned about the future of humanity, that they feel compelled to save the planet from the looming specter of climate change.
 
Yes, our friends on the Left seem so well-intentioned, so very noble (Especially crawling around in a bio-hazard suit 😀 ). But every once in a while, a member of the ruling class slips up, and unwittingly exposes the glaring hypocrisy behind their appealing-but-empty rhetoric. Like, for instance, our I-married-an-heiress Secretary of State:

High-flying, mansion-loving ‘climate change’ alarmist John Kerry draws a red line on new farmland in Africa ~

The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in DC had its moments, but perhaps none was more idiotic than John Kerry’s “contribution” to ending starvation and malnutrition in Africa […]
 

… (during a meeting of the) “Resilience and Food Security in a Changing Climate” panel, Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience that “8,000 children die every day” and in sub-Sahara Africa, one in four suffer from chronic hunger.
 
Then a few minutes later, he stressed how creating new farms would cause too much carbon pollution so they need to discourage more farm land.

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In other words, it’s unfortunate, but those poor kids will just have to starve because we have to save the planet (from a faux threat!)! Although they’re usually not quite so transparent as Kerry was last week, the Left arrogantly believes it’s perfectly acceptable to retard economic growth and limit civilizational advances in developing countries in the name of pseudo-science.

 
Paul Driessen discusses this nefarious phenomenon in his book “Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death,” revealing the dark secret of the ideological environmental movement ~

The movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates these people’s most basic human rights, denying them economic opportunities, the chance for better lives, the right to rid their countries of diseases that were vanquished long ago in Europe and the United States.

 
Incredibly, these first world elitists have deemed the third world unworthy of improving their standard of living, reducing disease or extending life spans. Those modest goals must be sacrificed on the altar of Climatism, to atone for “carbon pollution.”
 
Steve Gorham coined that term for climate alarmists, in “The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism.” His book relates how the U.S. is a prime offender when it comes to denying developing nations the means to improve their standards of living.
 
 
For example, in April 2010 the World Bank approved a $3.9 billion loan to South Africa for the proposed Medupi power station – which would be the fourth largest coal-fired power station in the world. The U.S., a voting member of the World Bank, abstained from approving that loan. Why? Ostensibly, they had ~

… concerns about the climate impact of the project and its compatibility with the World Bank’s commitment to be a leader in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

 
The UK and three other arrogant, first-worlder Euro-Nations abstained as well; we got ours – too bad about you peons. Or, as Gorham puts it ~

It’s the sorry position of our governments that Africans should not have electricity for refrigerators to reduce food-spoilage disease, for hospitals to improve health, and for factories to build economic growth and reduce poverty, if such electricity is produced by hydrocarbon power plants.

 
(Luckily for the people of South Africa, the power station project was approved – no thanks to their high-minded first-world friends.)
 

Ultimately, for progressives, it’s about power – not people. Their priorities are upside-down. And if these enviro-elitists aren’t thwarted, in their zeal to save the earth from a bogus threat they’ll “condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease – and millions to premature death.” (Paul Driessen ~ “Eco-Imperialism”)
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Related:
Unmasking the Greens’ Anti-Human Agenda
Water is Life ~ Just to provide a welcome contrast, here is what a conservative Christian group (Samaritan’s Purse) is doing to help improve the lives of those in developing nations ~

It is estimated that 1.58 million people die each year from diarrheal diseases caused by unclean water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene habits. This is equivalent to one person dying every 20 seconds. The majority of these are children in developing countries.
 
 
Providing clean water, coupled with health and hygiene education, is perhaps the most preventative measure we can take in keeping our world from infectious disease.

 
Up-date 8-14-14:
Kerry: Climate Change is ‘The Biggest Challenge of All That We Face Right Now’ ~ Seriously?! Is Lurch living in an alternative universe? Let’s see; the Middle East is on fire, our country has been invaded by illegal aliens, Ferguson, Missouri is imploding… and the Secretary of State is in Hawaii peddling a big lie called climate change.
When an agenda is being driven this relentlessly, you’ve got to wonder; what is their end game?!