At 09:43 AM 10/26/97 -0500, "Thomas Lunde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The question that occurs to me, is what piece of information has been put
>on President Clinton's desk that caused him to venture into the minefield
>of the Environment? Sure, fringe groups and authors have been screaming
>for years and have tons of stats and they have not moved the government to
>act except to deny. It was only a few years ago, that President Bush
>refused to commit the US to reducing emission targets in Rio. (I'm going on
>memory here) Business is still against it claiming it will ruin the
>economy, the Republicans are against it and promise to hold it up in the
>Congress and the Senate. What does Clinton know that would cause him to
>get involved in all the political flak?
It is perceptive of you to see that apparent paradox in Clinton's
actions. Let's speculate a bit on what might be behind it.
AMERICAN POLITICAL FUNDAMENTALS
America's so-called political system is based on money. Large
corporations now have the best government that money can buy.
Presidents ARE NOT elected because they give a damn about either
environment or posterity, they are elected because BIG MONEY wants
them elected so BIG MONEY can make even more BIG MONEY.
So the obvious question is "Which BIG MONEY money interests want
President Clinton to curtail our present energy orgy?"
If that's the right question, then aside from the insurance
companies, it seems unbelievable that ANY individual BIG MONEY
interests would want to end our present energy orgy. ( Remember,
this would terminate our shop-till-you-drop theory of life. )
So the obvious question, is obviously not the correct one. The
next place to look is an energy-something that ALL BIG MONEY
interests are deeply concerned about -- concerned enough to put
the whole enchilada on the table ...
I think BIG MONEY sees an apparition so terrible that neither
governments nor oil companies are allowed to even breathe the
word: PEAK
In his new book, the Coming Oil Crisis, C.J. Campbell makes two
points very convincingly:
#1: That global conventional oil production is going to "peak"
within a few years: "At the time of writing in late 1996,
there are still three more years to go until the end of
the transition." [p. 59]
#2: That energy experts have known it for a long time:
"Already by 1908, the world's largest petroleum system,
the Middle East, with about forty percent of the world's
ultimate endowment, had already been found". [p. 77]
Americans will not be surprised, it's just another "gate" --
it's FOSSILEGATE.
FOSSILEGATE remains a secret because if it became widely known,
the stock market would hit the cellar. BIG MONEY's BIG QUESTION
is "How do you convince people to accept drastic energy cuts --
and a drastic cut in our all-time favorite euphemism: standard of
living -- without scaring them out of the stock market and into
a depression?"
[ I just noticed the stock market went down like a rock today.
Perhaps the word IS getting around ... ]
GLOBAL WARMING
Don't get me wrong. I believe that global warming is actually
occurring, and that we should do something about it. But I don't
believe for a second that BIG MONEY (the corporations) would
willingly cut profits because of global warming. Corporations
routinely kill people for money:
"Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over
the long term we must get our share of the youth market. In my
opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth
market." [ RJ Reynolds ]
Corporations can't CARE about global warming any more than my
automobile can CARE about global warming. Corporations are
machines designed to convert the entire planet into industrial
garbage. However, the corporate "survival instinct" demands
that they remain viable long enough to see it through to the
very end. In other words, they have to hold the economic system
together long enough to kill that last endangered species, dam
the last river, chop down the last tree, addict the last human
to booze and cigarettes, catch the last fish, pump the last drop
of oil out of the ground, and so on ...
AND IT'S ANOTHER "GATE"
Clinton has already had an administration marked by scandal.
Ask yourself, would he rather be remembered as the man who led
the crusade against global warming? Or the man who presided
over FOSSILGATE -- the biggest cover up in history?
So I think that's what's really going on under the covers.
It's true, politics DOES make strange bedfellows. <G>
. . .
I loved Campbell's new book. The only thing wrong, is that
it's hard to get. (Are we surprised?)
THE COMING ENERGY CRISIS, by C.J. Campbell;
Multi-Science Publishing Company & Petroconsultants, 1997
ISBN 0 906522 11 0
http://www.petroconsultants.com/book/book.htm
I ordered my copy through Petroconsultants:
"Robert.Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you are interested in this issue -- and you should be because
your very life depends on it -- visit my FOSSILGATE page at:
http://dieoff.org/page122.htm
Jay
