Can the Human Race survive Global Warming? Part 1
Can the Human Race survive global warming?
Greed is the underlying reason for the terminal conditions we find ourselves in. It is an old adage that ‘money is the root of all evil, but it is true. The quest for more money is destroying our climate, and polluting our environment. It has sold our livelihoods, our lives, and our work. It is killing off our fauna and flora. Life as we knew it is over. We have passed the tipping point.
The leaders of business and industry, our politicians, and the media all knew what was happening. It has been in the public record since the 1980’s.Business leaders and politicians chose and still choose to cover it up while most media outlets simply ignore it. Large corporations are not living up to their obligations to clean up their messes. That is why I believe in an extra tax on large businesses and the wealthy.
There are many people who are culpable for our current climate and environmental problems. For me, the obvious culprit is the oil and gas industry, but politician have to share some of the blame, as well as the general populations. Yes even the people who were duped into believing the misinformation being fed to them and still are share the blame. Financial institutions share some of the blame as well for supporting businesses that choose profits over their moral responsibilities. Some people can claim ignorance, and I accept that excuse from the general population after all we have had billions of dollars’ worth of misinformation and straight lies shoved down our throats. The people who I believe are most to blame are those who knew what was happening and chose to do nothing about it, or even worse, to cover it up for the sake of immediate profits. They are the virus that is willingly destroying us.
The current Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, made this statement when he was trying to justify his government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and their support of the oil sands:
“No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them.”
That is a sentiment that is heard much too often as an excuse for continuing to suck oil and gas out of the ground. It values money over life. It is the classic misdirection. But stop for a moment and consider where we would be if the oil and gas industry chose to mine their resource responsible instead of only considering immediate profits. Think of what we would be doing instead of cleaning up the waste businesses are dumping on the ground and into the water.
Everyone, individuals, manufacturers, energy companies must consider about our planet’s health over profits.
The choice was madeThe following is an excerpt from the Columbia University Record of October 22, 1982 regarding the Ewing Symposium, a three day gathering of 100 scientists to discuss “what the earth’s climate will be like for the next century.” Comments are from Taro Takahashi, one of the organizers of the event.
“There are three competing effects,” Takahashi said. “First, we think that the earth’s climate is warming due to the ‘greenhouse effect,’ the retention of solar heat by the discharge of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, largely by the burning of fossil fuels. Second, volcanic and industrial activity are sending dust particles into the stratosphere that shade the earth and cool it. And third, the earth’s climate has a mind of its own—there are many natural processes that have been going on for ages. Scientists will evaluate the relative strengths of these components and discuss what the climate is most likely to be like in the future.” Recent changes. in the polar ice caps will also be discussed. The symposium is being supported by the Exxon Corp., the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Climate Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
In November of 2017, Dr. James E. Hansen wrote a forward for the book Unprecedented Crime, Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival by Dr. Peter D. Carter and Elizabeth Woody. Within the forward Dr. Hansen talks about organizing that Ewing Symposium with Taro Takahashi, “a continuation of a series of such meetings on fundamental topics in Earth Sciences, named for Maurice Ewing, the founder of Lamont Doherty Geophysical Observatory (LDGO).”
Pg 9, Unprecedented Crime, Carter and Woodworth.
Pg 10, Unprecedented Crime, Carter and Woodworth.
Pg. 10, Unprecedented Crime, Carter and Woodworth
Pg. 10 Unprecedented Crime, Carter and Woodworth.
Paul Horn, Inside Climate News
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs.” Ian Anguse
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs.” Ian Anguse
The Hill, Richels, Jacoby, Yohe, and Santer
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
