Leftists love poverty.
Case in point: Ecuador, where the eco-socialists have convinced President Correa that a National Forest is more important than helping lift the citizenry out of abject poverty, which is how two-thirds of the people there live.
As delegates discuss various ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, our next guest has a simple message: keep untapped oil in the ground. Ivonne Yanez is an environmental activist from Ecuador, one of the larger oil producing countries in Latin America. Ecuador is believed to be sitting on an oil reserve of hundreds of millions of barrels. But the oil is located in the Yasuni National Park, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Ecuador has launched a unique campaign to have the international community compensate the country in exchange for keeping the oil in the ground.
One of these eco-weenies must have been offered compensation to not release flatulence while attending college and thinks they can expand the idea onto the world market.
Sadly for that idea, people like oil much more than farts.
UPDATE: I’m sorry, I need to make a couple of corrections:
#1. Obama loves him some warm scented air. He’ll probably fall for this.
#2. Leftists do love poverty, so long as it is someone else living somewhere far away from them.