In a country saddled with leftists and activists, where everyone wants to become a "world citizen" and statesman by pulling down one's own country and countrymen, where government departments and tribunals often transform into activists, stopping all means of production, progress and economic activity in the name of environment and indigenous people, will we ever see leaders and politicians stand up for the well being of their own people?
As if the relentless pressure of the developed world to keep us from growing is not enough, we have our own going one up on them and campaigning for scaling down of economic activities - all in the name of emissions. And, just to make sure that we do not raise our head ever in the economic race to provide our people with better living, more food and basic comforts of life like electricity and cooking fuel, we import NGOs and activists from the very countries, who want to see us remain backward, to stop us in the tracks.
Compare this with Singapore, already a developed country, with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. The PM of Singapore unabashedly promotes industry and wellbeing of his people, CO2 be damned. Read this article from the Scientific American.
Extracts:
“Like every country, Singapore is interested in protecting its national interests while advancing the global efforts."
“Competitiveness is an issue for all the countries. I think Singapore would like to maintain a level playing ground so that it is not put at a competitive disadvantage.”
There are protests from research groups: “We rate this target ‘Inadequate,’ meaning it is not in line with any interpretations of a ‘fair’ approach to hold warming below 2ºC"
But Singapore is not deterred:
"government statistics also show the country’s total electricity consumption more than tripled between 1990 and 2012."
Prime Minister Lee says: "The energy and chemicals industry is a major carbon emitter worldwide. It is the nature of the industry,”
He goes on to say: “We must reduce our emissions, both of greenhouse gases as well as other more local pollutants, but at the same time, I want to assure all the energy and petrochemicals companies here that the Singapore government stands fully behind them and will continue to help them to succeed.”
LET US, FOR ONCE, THINK FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY AND COUNTRYMEN.
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