Watch: Morano on Fox on UN Climate Fund & Reparations: ‘UN climate fund will subsidize governments that are best at keeping people poor. That is obscene’

Watch 5 min. Segment here: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4520861912001/brazil-india-want-reparations-for-scaling-back-emissions/?playlist_id=933116618001#sp=show-clips

Selected Excerpts:

Morano: ‘The money is going to countries that are best at keeping people in poverty. Because, obscenely, this will attempt to keep countries like Brazil and India from developing to their potential.

So countries, instead of giving vaccines, humanitarian aid, are going to reclassify that aid to meet the climate fund obligations. And a lot of development experts think the poor countries will suffer even more.’

Stuart Varney asks this Climate Fund is a done deal:

Morano: ‘It can be stopped by the next President. Both our entire domestic and international climate policy will depend on the next president’s direction…

This UN climate fund is committing us to essentially helping poor countries stay poor. We are going to subsidize governments that are best at keeping people poor. That is obscene. And we are going to slow down their fossil fuel development. They will not be able to emulate the wealthy Western nations. They are going to have to stay poor in order to fight ‘global warming.’

‘China is laughing at us. They are building coal plants every several weeks and going to full industrialization.

They love these climate policies in the West because we are tying our own economies back while China can continue unfettered.

There is a movement out now calling for ‘planned recessions’ in order to fight global warming. The UN IPCC wants to redistribute wealth by climate policy’

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