Yes sorry, it is $2.3 trillion. In domestic politics the recipients of the democracy get to vote on the govt. if it is doing a good job. Aid recipients don't h

Yes sorry, it is $2.3 trillion. In domestic politics the recipients of the democracy get to vote on the govt. if it is doing a good job. Aid recipients don't have any say, they just get whatever comes and the feedback that makes markets work is missing. The suppliers and recipients are disconnected, and there's possibly a corrupt tyrant in between to make things worse. There's no accountability. The Western donors (we taxpayers) are told "something is being done" and we see news with grain being unloaded and given to hungry people with pots in their hands. Good source material would be William Easterly's "The White Man's Burden". If you think Climate Change is where the focus should be, you're going to have to persuade a billion Indians and a billion Chinese that they don't need fossil fuels and access to plentiful energy supplies in the near future. Telling an Indian he can't have air conditioning from while you are sat in an air conditioned office is going to be a bit one sided.