Sowing the wind
by nano Tuesday, May 20 2008, 11:04pm
international /
environment /
opinion/analysis
Over twenty years ago (take note Al) an Australian commercial channel aired a program on the impending destructive effects of pollution on the climate and the environment. It was a measured, rational, non-sensationalist but heavily supported with scientific data presentation. It detailed the effects of global warming on major ocean currents and the dire consequences for North-Western Europe; it highlighted the potential wholesale destruction of sensitive coral reefs and the maritime ecology. It referred to biological indicators, stressed amphibians, frogs and the disturbed migration pattern of birds. All evident at the time – 20 years ago! But the most alarming indicator was accelerated glacial melting/receding -- high mountain glaciers feed the world’s largest food producing river systems!
Twenty years later all of the forecasts and more have come to pass! In hindsight the program was impressively accurate though, in typical scientific fashion, understated.
Why did the world fail to listen and ACT on the very clear evidence presented at the time? How is it humanity failed itself and the planet? The answer is simple yet speaks clearly of the malevolent forces that continue to rule today.
The Corporate juggernauts of the world, particularly the oil and petro-chemical companies, embarked on a concerted propaganda and disinformation campaign to discredited or otherwise refute and neutralise the case for immediate remedial action. This they did for the sake of short-term profit, make no mistake, these reprehensible and criminal mass murderers were/are willing to jeopardise the future of a sustainable world for selfish, short-term gain! I need not labour the point; it is clear and irrefutable!
George Bush and other conservative leaders favoured and in some cases legislated to assist the criminal, polluting companies that contrived to purchase disreputable ‘scientists’ to write reports countering the warnings of the reputable and SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE scientific community.
Another revealing event took place approximately 15 years ago. The major banks and financial institutions of the West decided (together) that the most efficient and economical method of profiteering and managing the people was to implement a credit based economy -- I was fortunate to overhear a banking executive reporting to his religious seniors on that decision.
Today’s Sub-Prime mortgage ‘melt-down’ and the CREDIT CRISIS is NO ACCIDENT; it is not even the result of incompetence, instead it was a DELIBERATE STRATEGY by Bankers to enslave the public with debt while allowing banking interests to continue to profit from DEBT! A clearly flawed plan from the outset; but life in boardrooms and the ivory towers of the world is far removed from our daily reality! Corporate CEOs and directors display little concern for anything other than the corporate bottom line – the least consideration is given to humane and/or socially responsible, environmental issues.
Today we enjoy the handiwork of these corporate criminals and their puppet governments. For those who imagine that positive action is occurring, think again. The new Australian Rudd government, elected on the promise that it would address the above issues, water, the environment and tackle the economic slavery model of unscrupulous bankers – HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but talk, prance and spin and we see that same pattern repeated around the globe by other national governments!
The world’s largest mining corporation, BHP Billiton continues to extract millions of litres of high quality drinking/irrigation water from Australia’s artesian basin – for filthy mining purposes -- FREE OF CHARGE, while farmers and the public are ruined by the economic and environmental forces that water shortages incur.
It is clear the destructive STATUS QUO remains INTACT; criminal proceedings are avoided by placing puppets in government – that simple -- that is how it functions! An extremely uncomplicated methodology utilised by organised crime for decades. The difference today is that the organised criminals are executives who function with impunity regardless of the degree of havoc their policies inflict on society and the world!
Remedial action was required yesterday, it may be too late to avert all major crises in the future; nevertheless, IT IS TIME TO DRAG THOSE RESPONSIBLE INTO THE STREETS AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE! Failing to act now will seal the fate of all humanity and that scenario I would not wish on anyone – it is nightmarish!
George Bush, his neo-cons, Tony Blair and John Howard are KNOWN war criminals – their immediate arrest would catalyse a movement in the right direction. Arresting all government lackeys and puppets would expose the criminal machinations of their Corporate Bosses; it’s never too late for justice or to set in motion forces that would reverse our course to certain destruction!
We are ONE or we are nothing!
Peace.
