By Paul Homewood
Ben Pile exposes the corruption at the bottom of the BBC’s smear of Kenyan farmer;
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Last week, the BBC Verify team’s Marco Silva published a World Service radio documentary, an article and a Twitter/X thread on climate and energy realism’s rising star, Jusper Machogu. Machogu, claims Silva, has become “a champion of climate change denial”. “I have been looking for answers,” he says, promising to explain the young Kenyan farmer’s ascendency. But what followed was a bog-standard smear piece that tells us more about Marco Silva and BBC Verify than it does about Machogu.
Machogu’s core argument is simple. “Do I and a billion and half other Africans deserve a good life? Bet ya!” he says. “But can we do that minus access to life saving Fossil Fuels? A big no!” That simple proposition is not what concerns Silva, whose belief is that “denial” of climate change underpins Machogu’s perspective and his global reach. Consequently, Silva’s hatchet job revolves entirely around just one tweet, in which Machogu wrote that “Climate change is mostly natural” and that “A warmer climate is good for life”. Accordingly, Silva assembles expert opinion from experts to bash this straw man.
Silva turns to Joyce Kimutai, who is billed as “a climate scientist from Kenya” and quoted as saying that Machogu’s views “are definitely coming up from a place of lack of understanding”. Her concern, like Silva’s, is that “misinformation” is threatening to derail the green agenda: “if that conspiracy theory spreads to communities or to people, it could just really undermine climate action.” But while the choice of a Kenyan climate scientist to counter Machogu’s seemingly inexpert claims may seem reasonable, a deeper look at Kimutai’s background reveals her to be a creature of the Western green blob.
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