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European Greens Vote for African Hunger

Jack Hays

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This marks a new high in neocolonialist presumption. Think of it as the "white man's burden" for the 21st century.

[h=2]How to Starve Africa: Ask the European Green Party[/h] Jun 8, 2016 Bureaucrats EU Green Blob Greens
Posted by Josh
I read this today on Risk-monger.com
There is a commonly shared neo-colonialist expression: The Europeans have the watches; the Africans have the time. Today, the European Green Party, with the support of countless environmentalist NGOs, proposed an initiative in the European Parliament to make Africa wait for at least another generation to be able to lift itself out of poverty.
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It's a shocking read and ends:
A sad day for Africa
Today, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs voted “overwhelmingly” by 577 MEPs, with only 24 against and 69 abstentions to accept the Green Party’s Heubuch Report and demand that the European Union stop funding the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. It is with great hope that the world ignores this unfortunate act, considering it as a narrow-minded gesture towards appeasing a backward looking European green constituency.
In 2015, after 30 years of residence in the Brussels area, I became a Belgian citizen. Today, for the first time since officially becoming a European, I was ashamed of what ill-guided people in the European Parliament had done in the name of Europe. This act of selfish science denialism (with the potential for massive negative consequences) is no way for reasonable Europeans to act.
We need to let Africa have the chance to develop, not on our terms or demands, but on theirs. It is time to give Africans the watch and let them manage their affairs on their time, not ours.
Shame on Maria Heubuch and her band of eco-religious missionary zealots.
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Shame on our MEPs too. Read the whole thing here.




 
Jack Hays said:
This marks a new high in neocolonialist presumption. Think of it as the "white man's burden" for the 21st century.

[h=2]How to Starve Africa: Ask the European Green Party[/h] Jun 8, 2016 Bureaucrats EU Green Blob Greens
Posted by Josh
I read this today on Risk-monger.com
There is a commonly shared neo-colonialist expression: The Europeans have the watches; the Africans have the time. Today, the European Green Party, with the support of countless environmentalist NGOs, proposed an initiative in the European Parliament to make Africa wait for at least another generation to be able to lift itself out of poverty.
​
It's a shocking read and ends:
A sad day for Africa
Today, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs voted “overwhelmingly” by 577 MEPs, with only 24 against and 69 abstentions to accept the Green Party’s Heubuch Report and demand that the European Union stop funding the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. It is with great hope that the world ignores this unfortunate act, considering it as a narrow-minded gesture towards appeasing a backward looking European green constituency.
In 2015, after 30 years of residence in the Brussels area, I became a Belgian citizen. Today, for the first time since officially becoming a European, I was ashamed of what ill-guided people in the European Parliament had done in the name of Europe. This act of selfish science denialism (with the potential for massive negative consequences) is no way for reasonable Europeans to act.
We need to let Africa have the chance to develop, not on our terms or demands, but on theirs. It is time to give Africans the watch and let them manage their affairs on their time, not ours.
Shame on Maria Heubuch and her band of eco-religious missionary zealots.
​
Shame on our MEPs too. Read the whole thing here.




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Strictly speaking...nothing is preventing the 6 industrialized companies from investing or anyone else for that matter just as nothing is preventing the African states from aggressively seeking their own contacts.

Also...any time your growth and development is dependent on others, you really arent 'lifting yourself' out of poverty. Considering the stricture and controls being forced on them, maybe they are better off without Europe.
 
VanceMack said:
Strictly speaking...nothing is preventing the 6 industrialized companies from investing or anyone else for that matter just as nothing is preventing the African states from aggressively seeking their own contacts.

Also...any time your growth and development is dependent on others, you really arent 'lifting yourself' out of poverty. Considering the stricture and controls being forced on them, maybe they are better off without Europe.
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One way or another, the G8 is the source of capital.
 
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