The World Bank has been reported by Oxfam to have issues with tracking approximately $41 billion dollars allocated for climate finance over the last seven years. The discrepancies are largely due to inadequate record-keeping rather than direct evidence of corruption. This situation has led to public outcry over the transparency and efficiency of global climate funding efforts. – That’s how AI on X summarized the story for social media. It was very kind of Grok to say, ‘have issues tracking’. That’s nice. That’s like saying we’re having issues tracking Jimmy Hoffa. I’m guessing that 41 billion is gone. Long gone. It’s in islands and jets and pockets of scammers around the globe.
Just so, you know, I’m a massive skeptic. Whenever there’s a giant pile of money to ‘solve’ a problem? I get skeptical as all hell. Gavin Newsome has ‘lost’ billions in his efforts to ‘solve’ homelessness.
The homeless money scam is easy to spot. If you’re in California, you can actually see it. You see more homeless people and then you think: ‘Well, that ‘solution’ is crap. What am I spending my money on? There’s more homeless now. I feel as though this is a fraudulent effort.’ (I’m trying to be kind here)
If you’re keeping track at home, here’s the recipe: Find a ‘problem’. Then propose a solution that requires lots of money. Lastly? Keep a bunch if the money meant for the solution. Tada. It’s time-tested recipe and it works. Now I’m not saying (for legal purposes) that this is case with the World Bank missing funds. What I am saying is: It has all the hallmarks of a scam.
I know we’re all very busy people, but maybe we could carve out some time to stop these seemingly endless scams. Sound good? Imagine what we could do, as a society if we knew how our money was being spent. It would be amazing. Flying cars for everyone and eternal youth? Maybe. Maybe we just get more of our own money in our pockets. Either way, it would be a win.
The spending is endless. Our money isn’t. The scammers won’t stop but maybe we can slow them down a bit.
