Global warming activism is a hobby for people in rich countries, but for poorer countries, it is a luxury at best, an annoying neocolonial conspiracy to keep them poor at worst.  The lesson came home for a group of activists who attempted to disrupt the "Africa Oil Week" meetings at Cape Town's International Convention Centre by spreading "fake oil" on the ground and chanting.  They were pretty much ignored, according to this report from Reuters. Two floors above, the hundreds of delegates at Africa Oil Week were largely unaware — and mostly unmoved — by the display. "Under no circumstances are we going to be apologizing," said Gabriel Obiang Lima, energy minister of Equatorial Guinea, adding that they need to exploit those resources to create jobs and boost economic development. "Anybody out of the continent saying we should not develop those fields, that is criminal. It is very...(Read Full Post)