UN Climate Week reveals elites' scorn for the world's poor

As world leaders and influencers converge for New York’s UN General Assembly and Climate Week, two incompatible visions are about to clash — rich-world elites obsessed with climate change versus developing nations battling poverty, hunger and disease.

Here’s a plain fact the elites refuse to accept: Hundreds of trillions of dollars spent on traditional climate policy can only deliver tiny benefits, but devoting just billions to simple, proven policies can transform lives, alleviate poverty, promote health and boost resilience.

This chasm highlights why most of the world perceives rich virtue-signaling elites as disconnected from reality .

The climate activists flooding New York this week ignore decades of failed summits.

Since 1992’s Rio Earth Summit, the renewable share of global