The Climate Con: Why The West’s Carbon Crusade Is Dead Wrong
Dear Reader,
I'm watching idiots.
Rich idiots.
They're standing in Belém, Brazil. It's poor. It's hot. It's in the Amazon jungle. Perfect backdrop for photo ops.
They're lecturing us about carbon emissions.
COP 30. Another climate summit. More promises. More rhetoric. Zero results.
Here's what they won't tell you.
The climate alarmist scam is collapsing faster than a bad real estate deal in a recession – big emitters skip COP30, money dries up, even former doomsayers like Gates and Nordhaus admit the "emergency" was overhyped nonsense designed to transfer your wealth.
Rich nations are waking up and refusing to pay trillions in "reparations" to poor countries while hypocrites clear-cut the Amazon for limos and highways – this is the ultimate con job crumbling in real time.
Trump pulls out, funds drop, consensus shatters – Kiyosaki’s New Moneymaker is betting on real assets like oil, gas, and energy independence, not green fairy tales that bankrupt everyone but the elites pushing them.
I know that hurts. I know politicians hate hearing it. Too bad.
The data doesn't lie.
For decades, Western governments made carbon cuts their religion. They spent trillions. Electric cars. Wind farms. Solar panels everywhere.
The result?
Nothing.
Global decarbonization rate? Same as the 1960s. The Paris Agreement in 2015? Useless. Emissions hit a record high in 2024.
Record. High.
But climate campaigners demand we quadruple the decarbonization rate. Quadruple what isn't working.
That's insanity.
Follow the money. It tells the truth.
Europe and the US spent over $700 billion on green investments in 2024. Seven hundred billion dollars.
Emissions still rose.
Why?
Because rich-world emissions are irrelevant now.
The future isn't about us. It's about China. India. Africa. Brazil. Indonesia. Countries climbing out of poverty.
They need energy. Lots of it. And they're going to burn whatever works.
One scenario shows something shocking: Just 13% of CO2 emissions for the rest of this century will come from developed countries.
Thirteen percent.
So the West's net-zero pledge costs hundreds of trillions. For what? Almost nothing.
We're pushing manufacturing to China. Their economy runs on coal. Electric car batteries? Made in China now. Coal-powered factories.
Good job, Europe.
The EU wants carbon border taxes. Extra fees on high-emission imports. That'll cost everyone more. Rich countries. Poor countries. Everyone loses.
Here's the math they hide.
Even if the West eliminated every single emission by 2050, the temperature impact would be tiny. The UN's own climate model shows 0.04°F reduction by 2050. Less than 0.2°F by 2100.
Point-zero-four degrees.
That's your return on hundreds of trillions of dollars.
But climate summits obsess over what rich countries should do. Protesters glue themselves to highways in Europe and America. They ignore China. They ignore India. They ignore Africa.
Of course they do.
Self-sacrifice doesn't sell in countries that need energy to develop. Poor nations don't want Germany's climate debt. They don't want Spain's blackouts. They sure don't want UK electricity prices.
Would you?
Innovation wins. Always has. Always will.
History proves this over and over.
Los Angeles had smog in the 1950s. Did we ban cars? No. We invented the catalytic converter.
The world faced hunger in the 1960s. Did we ration food? No. We developed high-yield crops.
Problems get solved by better solutions. Not restrictions.
Green energy needs breakthroughs. But we're not investing in them.
Here's the scandal.
In 1980, after oil shocks hit, rich countries spent more than 8 cents of every $100 of GDP on green R&D. Finding alternatives. Solving problems.
Then oil got cheap. Investment dropped. When climate concerns rose, governments spent money on subsidies instead. Wind and solar subsidies. Not innovation.
By 2023, we spent less than 4 cents per $100 of GDP on research. Just $27 billion. Under 2% of all green spending.
Two percent on solutions. Ninety-eight percent on subsidies.
That's backwards.
Here's what we should do.
Increase green-energy R&D to $100 billion a year. That's all. Not trillions. Just $100 billion.
That could enable breakthroughs across multiple technologies. Fourth-generation nuclear. Scalable green hydrogen. Next-generation batteries. CO₂-free oil from algae. Carbon capture. Fusion. Advanced biofuels.
None of these are efficient yet. But innovation only needs to make one or two better than fossil fuels.
Once that happens, every nation adopts them. China. India. Africa. Everyone.
That's a global solution.
Western emissions cuts? They barely register.
Innovation costs a fraction of net-zero plans. Instead of subsidies that raise prices and shift emissions abroad, we could spend comparatively little to make clean energy competitive.
Actually competitive.
The politicians in Belém are blind.
They can't see past their photo ops. Europe. Canada. Australia. Negotiating in the jungle. Ignoring green R&D.
President Trump didn't show up. Didn't send anyone. Good.
His administration should lead on pragmatic energy policies instead. Real solutions. Affordable paths. Not symbolic gestures that waste billions and change nothing.
It's time for the West to recognize reality.
We're not central to solving this anymore.
Stop the wasteful spending. Start investing in game-changing technology.
That's how you win.
That's how you always win.
Rich Dad taught me something: Don't throw good money after bad.
The West is throwing trillions after a strategy that doesn't work. The data proves it. The math proves it. History proves it.
Innovation wins.
Restrictions fail.
Follow the smart money. Invest in breakthrough technology.
Or keep pretending your subsidies matter while China powers ahead.
Your choice.
Robert Kiyosaki
Editor, Money Power and Profit
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