Last winter I had the opportunity to attend the UN Climate summit in Cancun Mexico. I had an amazing time and I learned a lot but the things that the “greens” were saying appalled me. As many people know Africa is one of the poorest continents, high levels of death and is largely under developed. The main reason for all of these issues is the fact that Africa is a very energy poor continent. The people still cook over wood or dung fueled fires causing horrible lung conditions, they do not have easy access to hospitals to get treatment for their medical conditions, they don’t have clean drinking water and the list goes on. When a country has access to energy they have a way to power a hospital, run a water purification plant, can have electricity for their houses so that they can cook with a clean fuel source that doesn’t cause horrible lung problems.  While in Mexico all I kept hearing was there is a possibility that our ozone is being destroyed by carbon, but there is no definitive proof, that our future generations may be affected by what we do now as a human race. All these comments are not definitive things, they are maybes and possibly. I even asked a man involved with the UN conference what if it is proven the global warming isn’t happening because of man’s involvement, what if it is actually just a natural occurrence that happens in cycles over time with the earth. Do you know what his response was? Well, then there is no harm done, we are just being cautious. WRONG! There are hundreds of thousands of people dying every year in Africa because they have minimal access to a reliable energy source. Those are lives that we can count that are being affected right now. That is a definitive, people are dying, it is happening and it is happening everyday.  As you read this people are dying because they don’t have energy.  What is even more ridiculous is that it isn’t just third world countries that are affected by energy restriction and energy poverty but developed nations. England has restrictions on energy consumption of its people and therefore will turn off the energy in someone’s home so they may not have heat in the winter of air conditioning in the summer for periods of time. Thousands of people are dying from heat stroke and pneumonia because of the energy restrictions that have been put into place because of the possibility of global warming. Again, global warming is just speculation it hasn’t been proven that man is causing global warming, that carbon emissions are killing our ozone. Essentially what the “greens” are doing is betting real lives, of people living right now for a possible problem in the future. What makes it worse is that these said “greens” are not willing to give up their own energy usage they just want to restrict other people. Al Gore fly’s around in private planes, Green Peace have huge tankers that bring with them to all major events. Both of those things take up considerable amounts of energy and give out large amounts of carbon. Going back to my original point essentially the “greens” are killing people because of something that isn’t proven, that may not be a problem, that will probably not be a problem in the future. It just makes me sick.