Completar frases Fossil fuels for me but not for thee - 1Versión en línea ESL. B2. Gap-fill exercise. por Boglárka Kozári 1 Bjorn Lomborg : The rich world ? s message to the poor : Fossil fuels for me but not for thee - The rich are choking off funding for any new fossil fuels in the developing world The rich world ? s fossil fuel hypocrisy is on full display in its to the global energy crisis by Russia ? s invasion of Ukraine . While the wealthy G7 countries admonish the world ? s poor to use only because of climate concerns , Europe and the United States are going begging to Arab nations to expand oil production , Germany is reopening coal power plants and Spain and Italy are up African gas production . So many European countries have asked Botswana to mine more coal it will have to triple its exports . A single person in the rich world uses more fossil fuel energy than all the energy to 23 poor Africans . The rich world became wealthy by massively fossil fuels , which today provide more than three - quarters of its energy . Solar and wind less than three per cent . Yet the rich are choking off funding for any new fossil fuels in the developing world . Most of the world ? s poorest four billion people have no meaningful energy so the rich tell them to " leapfrog " from no energy to a green nirvana of solar panels and wind turbines . This promised nirvana is a sham consisting of thinking and green marketing . The world ? s rich would never accept off - grid , renewable energy themselves ? and neither the world ? s poor . the experience of Dharnai , a village Greenpeace tried to turn into India ? s first solar - powered community in 2014 . Greenpeace received glowing , global media attention when it that Dharnai would refuse " to give the trap of the fossil fuel industry . " But the day the solar electricity was turned on the batteries were within hours . A boy remembers wanting to do his homework but there wasn ? t enough power for his family ? s one lamp . Villagers were prohibited from using fridges or TVs because they would the system . They couldn ? t use electric cookstoves so had to continue burning wood and dung , which create terrible air pollution . Across the world , millions die from pollution that the World Health Organization says is to each person smoking two packs of cigarettes every day .
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