Global Warming Replaces 9/11 As Justification To Do Anything
Stop asking questions and just let us tax the living hell out of you, including the very air you breathe, after all - it's for the environment and we've never lied to you before have we?

Invoking September 11 has officially been succeeded by a new mantra and an excuse for the state to unleash a fresh tyranny no matter how offensive and damaging to individual liberty it may be. Global warming has replaced 9/11 as the justification to do anything!

The bellicose denouncement of global warming skeptics (that is skeptics of the man-made explanation) and their tarring as being akin to holocaust deniers, is beginning to mirror what happened after 9/11, when anyone who criticized Bush's agenda was lambasted as a traitor, a terrorist sympathizer, and completely divorced from the political mainstream.

Simply evoking the menace of global warming has become the government's justification to do anything!

Politicians are professional liars, they make careers out of deceiving people and twisting reality to fit pre-conceived agendas, yet a cascade of otherwise rationally minded people are eager to blindly trust everything they have to say about climate change, no matter how delusional it sounds.

They are also willing to comply with the ridiculous overbearing "solutions" to climate change that will just coincidentally restrict mobility and freedom of travel, regulate personal behavior, empower and expand global government and reinvigorate the surveillance state - everything Big Brother ever wanted - but surely they wouldn't lie to us about global warming to achieve it, would they?

What is more dangerous? A temperature fluctuation that has been mirrored and exceeded ten times in the last thousand years alone without any lasting impact on the eco-system, or an excuse for western governments to tighten the shackles of fascism around our ankles in the name of saving the planet?

Has not recent history alone offered proof in triplicate that governments exploit, hype and engender hysteria about monsters under the bed that the state itself has manufactured? Why should we believe them this time?

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I just want to thank and congratulate everyone who showed up for Step It Up 2007!!! There will always be naysayers and others who are first to say something against us, but we can't let it hold us back. None of these "unbelievers" will eat their own words when we do reduce carbon emissions and expand recycling. They won't let up when we do convince our city and county politicos to construct more mass transit, and in the meantime create more middle-class tech, blue-collar construction, maintenance, and administrative jobs. I was suprised to see that young people showed up en mass, often without their parents, to support this cause. Tell your friends and family what you learned and how you feel.

I was inspired, motivated, and even more focused to reduce my carbon footprint by this event. And to all of you out there who have negative BS to say, you make me laugh because your words just make my resolve stronger. Because of you, I talk the talk and walk the walk. What do you have to say about that?

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The report that Carl Pope boasts is "now the official Sierra Club global warming strategy" has an extended discussion of home heating and cooling without mentioning the word "tree." George Monbiot's recently-published Heat concludes that manufacturing a ton of cement creates a ton of CO2, a fact not emphasized by proponents of EE buildings...

In the analysis of energy efficiency, the phrase "organic agriculture" never appears and there is no mention of the massive use of petrochemicals or factory farms and there is zero concern with the fact that the average American food item travels 1300 miles from farm to plate...

"Biomass" is largely an effort to turn whatever wildlands remain on this planet to energy crop monocultures. Not surprisingly, the word "ecology" does not appear in the biomass chapter. What is surprising is the subsection on "Urban residues" which discusses the use of municipal solid waste as feedstock for heat conversion to electricity. This is a polite way of saying that environmentalists should endorse spewing incinerator poisons into city air and abandon the notion of not generating waste.

One of the more shameful chapters of the report concerns "Biofuels." It has nothing against corn ethanol. It only rejects using corn grain to produce ethanol on the basis that the 10 million gallons of ethanol which could be manufactured from US corn would represent only 5% of this country's gasoline demand. It pays no attention to issues brought up the same month in a Scientific American article that (1) refining ethanol uses more energy than it produces, and (2) ethanol requires "robbing food crops to make fuel." The lack of concern with either ethanol efficiency or world hunger renders the Sierra-endorsed report as less ecologically-minded than Scientific American, the prototype of techno-hype publications.

The chapter clings to the hope that ethanol could be produced if, instead of using corn grain, "residues from corn and wheat crops" made up the feedstock. There are several problems with this "cellulose" strategy. First, as with geothermal, making ethanol from cornstalks is so highly speculative that it has no place in long term projections. If it could be done, it would be from genetically engineering corn to make it more amenable to separating sugars from lignin. There has already been plenty of genetic contamination of foodstocks. Additional genetic engineering is exactly what agriculture does not need.

The biggest problem with cellulosic ethanol is that it assumes that soil should be nothing more than a sterile medium for growing crops and that "residue" has no part in replenishing soil. Just as the Forest Service under Bill Clinton brought us "salvage logging" based on the belief that decaying wood has no significance for forest ecosystems, Hillary Clinton might usher in the concept that decaying cornstalks have no contribution to soil ecosystems.

Those who fixate on biofuels don't seem to grasp that keeping natural fertilizers out of the soil means relying more on petrochemical fertilizers. With a straight face they are proposing to reduce oil use in cars by increasing use of oil-based fertilizers...

We all want to believe that our checks to Sierra or the Nature Conservancy do some good in the long run and that they are just a little slow to do the right thing. The tough reality is that big enviro is doing bad things that lead in the wrong direction...


Big enviro may be doing more to preserve the ethos of self-devouring consumerism than big corporations could ever do. What a surprise to learn that the Sierra Club has a history of obtaining funds from Chemical Bank, ARCO and British Petroleum...

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I just want to reproduce a letter I wrote to the paper. Even though I am Australian and wanting Australia to address this issue, it is one of inreasingly pressing urgency.

Dear Sir,
There’s an elephant in the room that no one wants to see. It’s called global population. In the past 60 years global population has expanded from 2.5B to 6.6B and is estimated to grow to 9.1B in the next 50 years. The Optimum Population Trust indicates that 2B – 3B is a sustainable global population.

The runaway, out-of-control population increase in humanity is the root cause of climate change, global warming, water shortages, desertification, species extinction and any number of other environmental stressors in the world. It is our single biggest and ongoing issue.

Many people and organizations recognise the need for a national population policy, but it remains a non-topic for our politicians. A National Population Summit held in Melbourne in 2002 has had no follow-up. We still do not have a National Population Policy. But nationalism has little place in this scenario except as part of a co-ordinated effort; it is a global problem.

This is a finite planet: its carrying capacity is fixed. And it is in trouble. While the spectre of climate change is growing and various countries argue about what action they should take and try to limit the effect on their economies, global population is rarely mentioned.

There is no way climate change, global warming, water shortages, desertification, species extinction and all other environmental problems will ever be adequately controlled until we learn how to control our human population.

Go to www.popcouncil.org and www.optimumpopulation.org check out their work in developing and developed countries.

I see a need for all countries to adopt policies to address this issue.

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