Many Climate Change Policies Needlessly Hurt These People: 
- 1.3 billion people who live without electricity across the world;
- 2.6 billion who lack clean cooking facilities;
- 4 million a year who die from respiratory and other related illnesses from dirty cooking fires—mostly women and children;
- 1.8 million children a year who die from illnesses related to drinking dirty water;
- 73,300 people who died cold-related in the last three years in the United Kingdom alone.
But It Doesn’t Have to Be this Way, and You Can Help!
Protect the Poor: Ten Reasons to Oppose Harmful Climate Change Policies, supported by an informative paper by two world-renowned climate-change scholars, Climatologist Dr. David Legates and Environmental Economist Dr. G. Cornelis Van Kooten, explains how to protect “the least of these” from policies that put an ideology before the welfare of people in poverty.
Key Findings:
- Abundant, affordable, reliable energy is indispensable to lifting and keeping people out of poverty.
- Mandatory reductions in CO2 emissions would greatly increase the price of energy, as well as goods and services. Such policies would slow, stop, or even reverse the economic growth that enables people to prosper and adapt to all climates. Mandatory reductions would also harm the poor more than the wealthy, compared to the small amount of warming they might prevent. Rising atmospheric CO2 benefits all life on Earth by improving plant growth and crop yields, making food more abundant and affordable, helping the poor most of all.
- In developed countries, the poor spend a higher percentage of their income on energy than others, so rising energy prices, driven by mandated shifts from abundant, affordable, reliable fossil fuels to diffuse, expensive, intermittent “Green” energy, will in effect be regressive taxes—taxing the poor at higher rates than the rich.
- To demand that people in developing countries forgo the use of inexpensive fossil fuels and depend on expensive wind, solar, and other “Green” fuels to meet that need is to condemn them to more generations of poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that accompany it.
Please join us during the month of March as we focus our prayers on Biblical earth stewardship and overcoming global poverty. This focus will culminate on March 25 in a day of prayer for the poor and the environment. Click here to learn more and download a helpful prayer guide, and click here to add your signature to Protect the Poor: Ten Reasons to Oppose Harmful Climate Change Policies.
