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Just What Temperature Should The Planet Be? Environmentalists Seek So Much Authority Over Our Everyday Lives, Fears Are Rising That The Real Agenda Is All About Power And Control (Part III in a Series) By Perry Hicks Sometime back, I found myself part of a small audience to an environmental harangue about global warming. The individual, sounding quite authoritative with his arguments, was having sway with this little group until I asked aloud this one question, “Just what temperature should the planet be, anyway?” The question stopped the self styled activist dead in his tracks because for all the environmental hype over global warming, no one can definitively answer this question. As we have seen with the Pascagoula data given in the previous article, average annual temperature is quite literally associated with time. So the question goes beyond temperature to just what point in history do environmentalists want us to live? If this last statement has brought on great guffaws, please calm your laughter and think about it; if industrialization has brought about the rampant pollution of Mother Nature, then the optimum era to live would have to be pre-industrial revolution. And this apparent desire to roll back time, and with it social progress, is potentially a bullet straight in the heart of environmental activism. A Third World America By modern standards, pre-industrial America was not a pleasant place to live. In all but the largest cities, the streets were not just dirt, but a filthy amalgam of both human and animal waste, and soil. In an effort to avoid the dust of summer and the mud and muck of winter, town homes of the better sort had their first floors built well above ground level. In the cities, where at least some of the streets could be cobbled with stone, the clatter of wooden wagon and carriage wheels was deafening. Defecating and urinating animals, whether pulling wagons or being driven to market, filled the streets. Beasts of burden often died in harness and so were simply cut out and left to balloon up on the side of the road. With the many animals came flies and other insects that could not be kept out of the home because window screens had not yet been invented. Cities in particular were known for their stench. Rural life was not much better. Without modern equipment and agricultural chemicals, farm life was one of intense manual labor. Weeds had to be hoed, and pests had to be quite literally removed by hand… if they could be removed at all. In all places daily life was a struggle. Without refrigeration, food spoiled literally within hours so perishables had to be gathered each day, prepared, and cooked. Laundry was not a choice of “permanent press” or “gentle cycle”, it was back breaking hand scrubbing and open air drying. These things, along with child rearing, kept women largely tied to the home. Beyond the westward migration, travel was the domain of the well to do. Infant mortality was extremely high. It was not uncommon for men to have more than one wife in a life time for all too frequently pregnancy was a death sentence. Surely, you may ask, with all the scientific discoveries and inventions over the last 200 years, we couldn’t possibly go back to those “halcyon” days, could we? The answer is: Not exactly. While progress has never been totally thwarted, America could be forced to take on many attributes of a third world nation, at least if some environmentalists had there way. Imagine an America where half the land mass of the contiguous 48 states is classified as wilderness and no one, other than research scientists, are allowed to enter it. Further imagine that around the wilderness is a buffer zone where entry is by permit only. This would force nearly 300 million Americans, and the necessary agriculture to sustain them, into a space perhaps one third of what we have now. In such a country, living would be almost exclusively high-rise. Travel of any kind would have to be largely done by mass transit. Energy usage would be strictly regulated so gone would be powerful cars, bright lighting, and home air conditioning. The cost of everything would be very expensive. Little bits of just about anything left over would have to be horded. If an immediate use for it couldn’t be found, it could always be sold for scrap. Such a grim picture of an alternative America couldn’t possibly become a reality, could it? Wouldn’t that take a drastic change in our Constitution? Does the Government have the power to make such sweeping socio-political changes? While it is quite unlikely any new “scientific” revelations would spark such a upheaval, there is considerable evidence that incremental steps are being taken in that direction, including the building of legal environmental precedents through a combination of governmental regulation and the manipulation of common law. Its All About Power And Control At the fall of the old Soviet Union, then Premier Mikhail Gorbachev concluded that environmentalism would make a fine new home for communism. In 1993, he founded Green Cross International, a non-profit organization dedicated to “cultivating harmonious relations between humans and the environment”. Although well camouflaged, global warming is near the top of Green Cross’s agenda. Its place is just beneath the two primary objectives of “eradication of poverty and overcoming the growing gulf between rich and poor”. Owing to the many on-going ecological disasters Russia suffered during Gorbachev’s watch as the Soviet premier, a neutral observer might be surprised at the former premier’s new interest in the environment. But if you research his many public quotes you will come across these telling ones: · “I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.” · “I am a convinced Communist. For some this may be a fantasy but for me it is my main goal." Mikhail Gorbachev once described the state of Soviet affairs, at the time of his ascension to power, as one where Soviet central planning was vitally concerned with the availability of toothpaste, laundry detergent, and women’s pantyhose. Yet, he clings to communism. Carbon Dioxide: The Perfect Tool For A Social(ist) Change As a diabetic, I am all too cognizant of how insidious this disease can be for, food wise, carbohydrates are in everything. When I enter a grocery store I am literally awash in a sea of carbs. For the most part, my shopping must be limited to the store’s outer edges; lean protein, low carb vegetables, water, and diet this and that. Carbon is just like that. Energy-wise, it is into everything. And this fact makes it the perfect tool to effect socialist change. If America is the biggest, most economically productive nation on earth it only follows that America would consume the most energy. And, if practical, non-carbon based energy is restricted, it would only follow that America would be the world’s leading consumer of carbon containing fuels (read fossil fuel: oil, natural gas, and coal). Furthermore, if that carbon containing fuel is otherwise made in short supply or otherwise difficult to extract, then America will not be able to economically meet all of its energy needs and therefore would not be able to sustain its prosperity. And a loss of prosperity could only lead to social unrest. Enter the socialist-environmentalist alliance. In the next
installment, we will detail the United Nation’s 1972 Conference on the
Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden and how it was the foundation for
later environmental organization. Click Here for Part II -Don’t Confuse Me With The Facts -The Environmental Movement Has Abandoned A Sound, Scientifically Based, Debate In Favor Of Radically Partisan Politics - By Perry Hicks Perry Hicks is a former Mississippi Coast resident and was a correspondent for the old Gulfport Star Journal. He has appeared on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” Perry has also hosted his own radio talk show on the auto industry with a mix of politics, and is a former Ford Motor Company technical trainer. He currently works as an Associate Professor of Automotive Technology at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, VA. Contact the Author: royalenfieldcrusader@hotmail.com |
