Vijay Jayaraj
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has shown a change that could mean the difference between life and death in Africa. Speaking at the “Africa Summit” in Washington, D.C., Wright told mainland leaders of 1.5 billion people that the Trump administration “don’t want to tell you how to deal with your energy system.” This is different from the Biden regime, which is aiming at a much-week royal family in the Western climate with new green deals to developing countries that are unaffordable and suffer.
Wright said of climate evangelism: “It’s a paternalistic postcolonial attitude that I can’t stand.
Africa struggles under contradictory political and economic pressures: Building a prosperous country on coal, oil and gas has taken decades to stop Africans from digging out their own fossil fuel abundance. The continent is bound by the protection agenda of Western elites, who use its financial and geopolitical leverage to force Africans to participate in campaigns against the fabricated climate crisis.
But where is the evidence for this “threat”? Life expectancy worldwide has doubled since 1900, hunger rates plummeted, and climate-related deaths have fallen by 98%. The prediction of global overheating is the fear of relying on pseudoscience in pseudoscience, and the alleged solution to prevent disasters has not worked under any circumstances.
Therefore, these climate policies that force Africa are not environmentalism. Ecological imperialism makes poverty and deprivation that only wise energy policies can reverse. Poor education, poor health and shortened life will remain the ecological nirvana promised by many Africans.
“If you track the evolution of energy in the world or a country, it's the evolution of human possibilities, human opportunities and quality of life,” Wright said.
Wright repeated his message at the Ceraweek Energy Conference in Houston, noting that millions of people use solid fuels such as wood, straw and animal feces for cooking and heating.
“Indoor air pollution from this event alone will be estimated to kill more than 2 million people each year,” he said. He asked where is the global conference to deal with the crisis?
What is deafening is the silence of the climate agency, which was established to prevent the development of natural gas sediments that will eliminate these dead.
Wright said about one billion people around the world enjoy the comfort of modern life, consuming energy equivalent to 13 barrels of oil per person each year. In Africa, this number has dropped to less than a barrel per person.
“We wear beautiful clothes, mostly made of hydrocarbons. We travel on motorized transport. We have extra luck crossing the world to attend conferences.” Meanwhile, African women walk miles to carry fresh water, hand-washed clothes and abandon education because they are unable to do their homework at night because of the lack of electric lights.
“Besides obvious scale and cost issues, there is no physical way for wind, solar and batteries to replace countless natural gas uses,” Wright said. The same goes for replacing coal and oil.
Africa sits above energy wealth. Nigeria, Angola, Algeria and Libya are oil giants; Mozambique and Tanzania have world-class natural gas fields; South Africa and Zimbabwe hold coal reserves that can power the entire region. However, most of the wealth is blocked by foreign pressure and domestic timidity.
Wright's recognition of fossil fuels is a game-changer. He opened the door that was once bolted. His rejection of past impositions and embrace of African energy autonomy is an overdue recognition of realism and opportunity.
Rich energy is the lifeblood of progress. Without it, Africa is still trapped in a pre-industrial plight, whose people condemn toil in the dark, while the West preaches fictional crisis.
Leaders on the continent must seize the moment with unapologetic determination. Wright's words are a challenge for Africans to take decisive action.
As Wright said, the African Energy Week meeting in Cape Town in September will be a key platform for connecting with global investors and accelerating growth. From oil rigs in the Gulf of Guinea to coal reserves in the Kalahari Basin, it is time to build. Godspeed, Africa.
The comment was originally Call every day March 18, 2025.
Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Assistant company2 allianceArlington, Virginia. he He holds a Master of Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia and a Bachelor of Science in Energy Management from Robert Gordon University in the UK, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Anna University in India.
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