Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has made the fatal mistake of accepting the idea that there is a global climate crisis and that he must adapt his economic and energy policies to address this supposed disaster and save the planet before it’s too late. At the center of his concern is Argentina’s debt load and the assumption that if his government embraces the policy insanities proposed for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, scheduled for late October and early November, this would be a way to obtain debt relief. So, as the host of the Sept. 8 High-Level Dialogue on Climate Action in the Americas, attended by several South and Central American and Caribbean heads of state, Fernandez announced that he has decided “to place climate and environmental action at the center, and as a priority of my government,” Telam news agency reported Sept. 8. Having earlier this year announced that he wanted his government to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Fernandez is now calling for creating a “new paradigm for development” based on “environmental social justice which is the new name of development for the region.”
Among those listening to this nonsense were U.S. climate czar John Kerry, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and the British president of COP 26, Alok Sharma. Yesterday’s virtual conference was convened to formulate a common policy for the whole region, heading into COP26. In his remarks, Kerry lamented the time lost on this issue during the Trump presidency but said that Joe Biden is trying to remedy this. He warned, however, that “nature is screaming that we’re not doing enough: we see floods, droughts, avalanches, melting glaciers. When I ask scientists what most worries them,” he said, “they say that what’s happening is irreversible.” It’s a mathematical issue, he added. “We won’t reach net zero emission by 2050 if we don’t move forward.”
