Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty

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Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania — home to some of the world’s poorest people. Uganda is betting big on its fossil fuel reserves. In February, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and France’s TotalEnergies agreed

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China Funds Africa’s Fossil Fuel Renaissance—To Africa’s and the World’s Peril

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China is pushing major advances in Africa’s energy sector. It will inevitably use the African fossil fuel sector as security for its own future energy needs. The geopolitical consequences could be serious. Countries in Africa are in dire need of economic uplift for which a fossil-fuel supported energy sector is indispensable. In a world of

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Liquified petroleum gas: Essential to alleviating energy poverty in Africa

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Gas is a fossil fuel, so it endangers our planet, right? At least that’s what radical environmentalists and climate activists want you to believe. The problem? Their perspective is completely detached from energy reality and obstructs alleviation of energy poverty. Gas is a fossil fuel wonder. It has been a game changer in meeting human

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To fix Africa’s hunger problem, bring on genetically modified crops

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The economic situation in Africa has improved a lot since the 1990s.  Yet rampant poverty and food insecurity still impact millions of lives there. Currently, there is a huge demand-supply gap in the agricultural sector.  At least three hundred million are malnourished. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization defines food security as “a situation that exists when all

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Toward a Renewable Chaos: Carbon Imperialism and Disadvantaged Smaller Nations

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Net Zero, Climate Action, Build Back Better, and the Great Reset are some of the names for policies aimed at expediting the transition of the global energy sector from fossil fuel to renewable technology. The goal? Saving the planet from climate apocalypse. But there is a huge hurdle to make this transition a reality. Most

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GM Crops: More Important to Africa’s Food Security Than Ever

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The economic situation in Africa has improved a lot since the 1990s. Yet, rampant poverty and food insecurity still impact millions of lives there. Currently, there is a huge demand/supply gap in the agricultural sector. At least three hundred million are malnourished. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization defines food security as “a situation

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Africa’s priority: Unrestricted energy development

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Africa has been recording fast economic growth in the last two decades, with an average annual GDP growth of 4.6% (2000-2016). However, that has not been sufficient to meet the developmental goals and poverty is again on the rise. In recent years, poverty rose slightly in Africa for the first time in more than a decade, especially in

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Reviving the Heart of the Earth: Energy Liberation in Africa

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Poets call Africa the heart of the earth. It is, both geographically and biologically. Yet, it remains the most underdeveloped continent. Only a handful of nations in the continent have become economically competitive with their European counterparts. South Africa is one such nation. When it comes to economic development, Nigeria and South Africa are the

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Does Bill Gates Fail to See Himself in the World’s Growing Billions?

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Bill Gates is a brilliant man. His combination of tech and business savvy not only made him one of the world’s richest people (currently, with a net worth of about $90 billion, #2 behind Jeff Bezos’s $112 billion) but also gave him the opportunity to be one of the world’s biggest philanthropists, chairing, with wife

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