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Subject: Poverty Stricken Don't 'Give a Damn' About Warming Author: larry [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:09:37 07/12/08 Sat http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080711182959.aspx According to one energy security expert, unless prosperity exists people simply will not care about climate change. Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said on July 11 that the poor have other priorities than global warming. “They [poor people] could not give a damn about climate change because they want 24 hours a day light,” said Luft who cited the example of people living in slums outside Bangalore, India. “In India alone, 600 million people are not connected even to the [power] grid,” said Luft, “When you talk to these people all you have to do is drive 10 minutes from the center of Bangalore to the slums there and ask them about climate change. And they’ll tell you: ‘We want electricity, we want it today, we want it cheap, we don’t care how you make it.’” Luft warned people gathered for a Washington, D.C. conference hosted by the left-wing Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) that the movement risks losing a huge constituency if the oil problem isn’t solved. CSPI is a pro-regulation group that often attacks businesses over food issues. The organization was putting on its fourth national Integrity in Science Conference co-sponsored by a number of liberal organizations and publications including Mother Jones, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Earthjustice and the Center for Progressive Reform. Calling OPEC an “oil cartel,” Luft accused the group of oil exporting nations of imposing the “biggest regressive tax” on the poor because they will not increase output. But the solution Luft proposed was not increased oil production [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]