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"Madam President, the goals of the Millennium Development project are of course praiseworthy and few would disagree with them. However I fear that too often, in this House, we have an excited focus on new action and perhaps pay too little attention to the results of what we have already attempted to do. It has well been said that we do not need to teach the grass to grow, we just need to get the rocks off the lawn. Too often, the rocks on the lawn are rocks that we have put there.
In that context I would like to point to the vital role of energy and electricity in taking people out of absolute poverty. Poor people need electric light so that children can study in the evening; poor people need refrigeration so that they can store food and store vaccines; poor people need electric cooking so they can be freed of the scourge of wood smoke in poor homes.
We have heard Commissioner Peibalgs speak of sustainability, but unfortunately when we use the word ‘sustainable’ in this House we actually mean ‘unsustainable’. Any efforts we make to deny access to cheap electricity fuelled by fossil fuels in the Third World will do huge damage. I am tired to death of hearing the proposition that poor people are most vulnerable to climate change: nonsense! Poor people are most vulnerable to our policies designed to mitigate climate change; they will suffer if we do not make sure they have cheap and plentiful energy."@en1
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