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Climate Change Bandwagon

Posted by: Michael Smith | 11 May, 2009 - 11:58 AM

When you sponsor a child with World Vision would you rather your money went on food, clothes and shelter – or would you prefer your donation was spent on “finding solutions to address the impacts of Climate Change?”

World Vision’s CEO Tim Costello is currently advertising for 4 highly paid executives to develop “solutions for climate change.” The new Commercial Strategy Advisor will build a new business through Climate Change corporate partnerships. The Strategic Technical Advisor will verify and validate carbon credits, while providing technical assistance in the design of carbon reduction projects. The Project Manager will provide multi-disciplinary support and an understanding of how climate change relates to international development.

Still wondering where your monthly payment to sponsor a child goes? Read on.

The Climate Change Advocacy Campaigns Leader will lead “the development and implementation of World Vision Australia’s Climate Change Advocacy campaign to influence policy outcomes and increase public engagement”. That means lobbying the government and putting out important sounding press releases. Will the world really be better off with another spin-doctor pushing the idea of Climate Change?

There’s a large, expensive ad in the weekend press seeking applications for those 4 jobs with World Vision. The ad starts with the line “Climate Change is a key strategic priority for World Vision Australia. We are looking for talented and committed people who can help build our capacity and expertise in finding solutions to address the impacts of Climate Change.”

How many people around the world do you reckon are feeding from that particular band-wagon? Every university, government, NGO, big-business, trade union, and social-justice group – pretty much every wealth-consuming group around the globe thinks part of its reason for being is to find a “solution to the global problem of climate change.”

So World Vision, the organisation that asks you to sponsor a child, thinks its key strategic priority is to find a solution to climate change.

World Vision’s CEO Tim Costello earns $250,000 per annum with considerable tax benefits that come from working for a not-for-profit organisation. I wonder whether those people who contribute to World Vision want their money going on gabfests about climate change. Most decent people who send their money get satisfaction from knowing that their monthly payments go directly to pay for shelter or education for a child in poverty. World Vision would do better to focus on food over flavour of the month political ideology.

Blog comments

Love all this.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Malcolm Fraser was listed, either now or in the past, as being on the Board of World Vision.
That was enough for me.
Those so-called charities are a bunch of blood suckers. The only charities I consider to be genuine are "The Salvo's" and St.Vinnies. Forget the rest and concentrate the funds where they will achieve what they are intended to achieve.

Wobblyone Tuesday 10 November, 2009 - 7:30 PM
good grief...this is amazing ,I had NO idea his was going on..World vision is a political puppet then..I'm angry

robert goodchild Tuesday 10 November, 2009 - 6:57 PM
G'day Smithie,

I think Tim Costello has been talking to his evil brother.

Best Regards,
Royce R. Vines

If there was smoke it may be broke!

Royce Thursday 28 May, 2009 - 12:42 AM
G'day, the bush fires in Victoria are NOT evidence of Global Warming of any kind. It has happened before.

I believe that on February 6th, 1851, the temperatures in Melbourne reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit at 12:00 noon. This would translate to 120 deg F by 2:00pm.

At that time, nearly the whole of Victoria was a-blaze, to the extent that people in northern Tasmania thought the end of the world had come.

All this when the mini ice age had just reached its final stage.

AGW?, political, New World Order garbage, remember:-
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken

Best Regards,
Royce R. Vines

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." -- Neil Armstrong

Royce Thursday 28 May, 2009 - 12:40 AM
Smithy,
From the World Health Organization daily updates, of the 12954 infected with swine flu, there have been 92 deaths only from North America and some people say the Mexican deaths really total 7, not the reported 80. This global panic is looking more like Weapons of Mass Destruction every day!
Regards,
Albert

Albert Wednesday 27 May, 2009 - 12:33 PM
All you bloggers that hammer Smithy about his 'misguided assertions' etc are missing the point. No one is knocking the works of WV or the needs of desperate people in the world, stop and get your one eyed brains into gear and realise that you are all being conned by fraudsters because of the cyclical NATURAL effects of a climate change that won't be affected by all this money that the devout are prepared to throw away to those who will channel it into their OWN agendas. Are you so 'intelligent' that you are blind? Don't you have the basic ability to realise the the world has been hotter than this who knows how many times in it's history without humans and cows farting, and everything known to man producing carbon that didn't exist here before! We are lemmings controlled by a race of humans without conscience or morallity.
Wake up human race, although I feel the time has run out.

Ian Ebbstein Wednesday 27 May, 2009 - 12:33 PM