Neo-Contentions III
Talking about “Out of the mouths of babes”… Now, for the second time, Vanity Fair Magazine—generally perceived to be the place where the rich and shallow ponder, parade and pursue their affluence, trivial pursuits and…babes, has provided us a virtual fountain of truth.
In July 2003, VF Editor, Sam Tanehuaus researched and recounted the story of the neo-con’s covert coup of the Pentagon giving us the Bush Doctrine of “preemptive war” on nations “harboring terrorists” (see “Bush’s Brain Trust, Vanity Fair, No. 515, July 2003, pp. 114-119, 164/169). This article continues to be the definitive authority on how the Zionist-run A.E.I. seized the coinciding opportunities of 9/11 and an incumbent imbecile in the White House to execute a war of Zionist ambition on false pretenses, and using other peoples money…and soldiers.
If you don’t have this article, don’t look for it on line; It’s only in two places: (1) In your public library, (2) In a word file available to the B.E.A. (Barristers et al.), the foreign-policy think tank founded by Democratswrite editor, Dusty Schoch.
Amazingly enough, Vanity Fair has this month produced for us another keeper: In its April issue, VF has published a thirty-page article which is today’s noblest memorial of environmental movers and shakers—the world’s avante-guarde revolutionaries in the war to “green” (save) our warming planet.
A few days ago, I sent a local neo-con Republican (who remains nameless to spare me the reputation of publicly debating “informationally-challenged” men) copies of environmental articles on this site (“Bush Lies…We Die”, and “The Warning Canary of Global Warming”) along with the suggestion that he buy a copy of April’s Vanity Fair, to educate himself on how relatively vital this global warming issue–rather this global warming reality-is.
Typical of his neo-con ilk, my correspondent wrote back words to the effect that I was—once again—simply indulging myself in “Bush bashing”.
It occurred to me that what I wrote him in response, I need to share with everyone whose attention I can muster. It occurred to me that, considering all the political issues out there that will bear significantly on the next election, there is another issue which is in a class all by itself. And I’m not talking about Mexican or other immigration; in fact, that problem to me has significance mainly because of another issue of indisputable primacy – global warming. It won’t matter a hoot whether Hispanics outnumber Anglo- and/or Afro-Americans at next century’s turning if within the next 10 years we have failed successfully to institute and consummate a Manhattan project to reduce CO2 emissions and end our dependence on fossil fuel.
Finally it occurred to me that the issues/problems of (1) immigration and (2) global warming were but secondary manifestations of the core problem at the base of all forthcoming catastrophe and calamity: 8 billion people. Overpopulation.
No one talks about it.
So I will. What he (the no-named neo-con) actually said to prompt my little rant to follow was :
“I think you might get more lights turned on during your environmental midnight ride if you would just give out what Sgt. Joe Friday asked for and leave off the ‘Bush dunit’ BS.”
To the Neo-Con, I replied:
“Maybe, but the truth is Bush did do what I said he did: He CHANGED NASA’S REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING. This (my opinion) is the most egregious act of bio-terrorism since he withdrew the U.S. from Kyoto’s protocol in violation of that international law we sponsored and drafted. ”
The Neo-Con then said to me:
“ I’m just getting my feet wet on the environmental thing so cut me a little slack while I catch up but, it seems to me that what we have here is the good, the bad and the ugly. The bad part seems to be that due to a virtually smaller world from globalization, the negative impact of environmental turmoil in relatively remote areas can have a major influence on the world as a whole. The good part is that, also through globalization, we should get the benefits of quickly learning of our mistakes as they occur, and we also have a historical record from past developments. …..if we have the intelligence, or care, to act on it. The ugly? Well, I think Vanity Fair has dealt with that for this month. And, if you don’t mind, how about sharing some info on your 10 year plan of urgency. Believe it, or not, I do try to be a good steward of the earth and I promise not to try and take your credit for saving the planet. Big Al will do that for you.”
My response to the Nameless Neo-Con and the finale to my present essay is this: “Some valid points and thinking. But we don’t have time for nice polemics in this environmental thing. The situation is desperate. Civil disobedience (on a large scale) will certainly be necessary.
Corporations run all nations and corporations are vampiric. Not just parasitic; vampiric. Ten years probably to tipping and the neocons likely have 3 more. That leaves 7 with no head-way in the first 3. The global weather will come to cataclysm faster than the twin towers collapsed. Not as fast as in the movie—“Day After Tomorrow” maybe, but in less than a decade. The “day after tomorrow” scenario is probably around 2100.
The worst-case scenario is a humanly-induced ice age. The world has survived them before. But this one will kill 10 to 20 billion souls. It’s not , to me at least, a thinkable thing. And that’s just the human suffering. Thousands of species have already died and under the existing NASA and international scientists’ model, most all (saving lobsters and roaches) will die unless we can generate revolutionary change, and within the course of the next decade.
The problem is totally globalized. You’re right. The good thing is that even with most of the neocons, we’re through the denial period. Bush is covering up the science to further dumb-down the red states and salvage just one more election for the Republicans. The cat will soon leap out of the bag. Katrina was a faint meow next to what’s next. Arial photos show 24 percent of the frozen Arctic gone in the past 5 years.
When huge, continental-size chunks of glacial ice break away and float into warm currents, we’ll learn the meaning of mayhem. Humans have never seen momma nature truly pissed. NY and all coastal cities will become stalagmites in the sea. Twin Towers times 10,000.
The angst-fueling element is that there is still probably time to hit reverse. I think America, under Democratic steerage, might well heed the warning. Then we’ll face the insurmountable problem of trying to get China and Russia to follow suit. That’ll probably be the showdown facing the next Democratic majority. But I can spy no Democrats alive and on deck capable of the diplomatic machinations that situation will call for.
China and Russia are already conducting military maneuvers together. Russia can’t afford and China won’t consider implementing environmental changes that retard their pursuit of American opulence. The irony is that while we’re wising up, China and Russia will be busy replacing us as plunderers of the globe, and global warming accordingly looks more inevitable than ever. China’s flattening population means nothing. When three previously third-world billion humans become addicted to American consumption levels, there’s nothing the U.S will be able to do short of preemptive nuking that’ll stave off the testing of the NASA doomsday model. Sure hope they’re wrong.
The U.S. has got to make itself again the “model” for global environmental citizenship and stewardship. 70 MPG cars; reversing urban sprawl; 98% insulated houses; Manhattan project for producing cheap hydrogen; Manhattan project for nuclear fusion; closing all borders to all immigration; making all the above look right, noble and “fun”. Make movies about environmental leadership that make us the envy of the world for reasons other than exercising totally unfettered rights to rock, roll, hyperbase, steroidize, American idolize and survivor-screw, suck, sodomize and porn ourselves into narcissistic hedonist heaven.
The ecology of the world is dying because of the way we humans are living and replicating ourselves. Start your studies, Mr. Neo-con, why don’t you by just Googling the word “gaia”. When you understand the gaia concept (reality of earth’s unitary ecosystem), you’ll see that there is only one real ecological problem to which all others are derivative. Just one. It ain’t America’s love of SUV’s, or CO2 emissions, or dumping mercury in the rivers and seas, or having too-big houses with thermostats turned up too high. There’s nothing our gaia globe couldn’t endure if it weren’t for one thing: The world has cancer. Part of its tissue is growing at a rate it’s consuming the vital and finite resources of the macro-body. Sperm. Human sperm. 7.5 billion too many humans.
Follow Kyoto, develop wind and solar and hydrogen hybrids and the world’s still going to hell in a handbasket if we have 8 and then 16 billion people. Make 8 into sub-one and there are no critical ecological problems. Man would be no more a lethal threat to the gaia than the that irksome fungus that no doctor on the globe can rid my left big toenail of.
Do yourself a favor, Mr. Neo-con: Re-read July, 2003 Vanity Fair, and then go out and buy April’s VF while it’s still on the shelf. The story of the neo-cons’ rise to power (2003 VF) is only the second scariest story ever told. April’s Vanity Fair outlines the enemy that will make the neo-con fascists seem puny by comparison. Human overpopulation is the prime mover of every geo-political problem facing, and now threatening the continuity of our global existence—our mysterious and wonderful—and possibly solitary and unique—trip through eternity on our spaceship… earth.
Dusty Schoch April 27, 2006
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