The price to turn the world economy into a green Utopia? Only $76 trillion.
Two years ago, U.N. researchers were claiming that it would cost “as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade” to go green. Now, a new U.N. report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion per year for 40 years.
So let’s do the math: That works out to a grand total of $76 trillion, over 40 years — or more than five times the entire Gross Domestic Product of the United States ($14.66 trillion a year).
But hey, we’re saving the world, right? Well, not really. We’re just spreading the world’s wealth around.
The press release for the report discusses the need “to achieve a decent living standard for people in developing countries, especially the 1.4 billion still living in extreme poverty, and the additional 2 billion people expected worldwide by 2050.” That sounds more like global redistribution of wealth than worrying about the earth’s thermostat.
That’s because it is. The report goes on and says “one half of the required investments would have to be realized in developing countries.” In other words, $38 trillion would go to the developing world.
My take: We need to disband the UN. If this report isn’t evidence of massive and dangerous mission creep, then nothing is.
And what would change from all of that? Nothing. A family trying to sustain having food and shelter in a third world country cares nothing about carbon credits, recycling or a 1.3 gal/flush toilet.
No, lots would change. The average person in the developed world would be a lot poorer — likely approaching Third World levels — and the average UN employee would be a lot richer.
They think they’ve closed the deal, and are now dickering over the price.
Green utopia my ass. What the pinhead bureaucrats at the UN want is to all live the same lifestyle as Al Gore and Prince Bigears but there isn’t enough dough in many of the 3rd-world sh*tholes like North Korea to finance it. This is their alternative.
Yes, to everyone’s comments. They are planning on “redistributing” American wealth to foreign countries…UN Agenda 21, Earth Summit Rio de Janerio 1992, is already accomplishing this with “sustainable” communities/development, etc. Building “green” buildings according to LEEDS, and numerous ways. On the state and local level, the push for “soft law” is led by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, or ICLEI, which had been founded a couple of years before the Rio Summit. More than 1,000 state, county, and municipal government organizations around the world are ICLEI members, and are pushing this radical environmentalist agenda with bribes and stiffer regulations. Everyone needs to educate themselves on this radical environmental agenda and begin at their local level in dismanteling this destructive program. The decent standard of living means living in high density housing (maybe 1500 sq ft.), biking and walking everywhere, while the government takes over the land through environmental protection…EPA – Employment Prevention Agency. This environmental protection and open borders crap is out of hand…take a look around the world is already green…trees, grass…believe the cesspool at the UN is smoking the grass…Obummer too! This is the “change” Obummer was talking about.