By Alan Caruba,
of The National
Anxiety CenterPerhaps the only good thing to come out of the real threats to our nation has
been a reduction in the media coverage of the endless end-of-the-world scenarios
put forth by the vast network of environmental organizations, the Greens.
On March 22nd, buried in those newspapers that published the story, was an
article by Paul Recur, the Associated Press science writer. He reported that
scientists at the Lament-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York had teamed with
colleagues from the Swiss Federal Research Institute to publish a study that
noted that whatever warming is predicted is perfectly natural.
The report stated that the Earth is "capable of rapid changes and long
periods of above-average warmth on its own without greenhouse warming." The
report noted a previous weather event known as the Medieval Warm Period some 800
to 1,000 years ago. This occurred, of course, prior to any so-called man-made
greenhouse gas because the Industrial Age hadn't even begun. Does mankind have
anything to do with the weather? Simply stated, there is no global warming. The
overall, average temperature of the Earth has not increased in more than a half
century since the 1950s.
The next time you read that the Earth is severely threatened in any way,
remember that the Earth is a marvelously self-adjusting mechanism that has been
around for some 5.4 billion years, most of it without the presence of humans.
It is the human population that needs our attention and our protection. We
need to insure that farmers and ranchers can grow their crops and maintain the
herds and flocks that feed Americans and others around the world. We can do that
with genetically modified food seeds that will produce more crops that can
resist blight and insect predation. These new GM seeds will insure that more
forestland is not destroyed to grow more food. We need to provide farmers with
the pesticides they need to protect those crops against insect predators. We
need to insure they receive the herbicides and soil enrichment chemicals to help
grow abundant fields of wheat, soy, rice and other food sources.
We need to end the UN ban on DDT so that millions around the world will not
die needlessly every year from Malaria and other insect-borne diseases. We need
to rescind the bans on insecticides so people here and around the world can
eliminate the many insects and rodents that spread disease and destroy millions
of dollars in property every year. An estimated one third of the Earth's food
supply is destroyed annually by rodent predation.
We need to understand that environment groups are not our friends, trying to
save fuzzy little animals, but rather that they are funded by corrupt
foundations like Ford, Rockefeller, and Pew so they can continue their assault
on our economy, our nation, and our lives. They contribute to a huge
"environmental" program run out of the United Nations, the single
greatest enemy of freedom in the world.
We need an open war on the animal rights lunatics who are responsible, not
just for millions of dollars of damage to commercial enterprises, but to
university laboratories working on new cures for disease and ways to aid our
agricultural communities. The Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation
Front must be hunted down and jailed before they do more damage. They are the
equivalent of Islamic terror organizations. Our government has to investigate
the way People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has supported these
groups and, if proof is found that they are aiding and abetting them, it needs
to be brought before the bar of justice.
We have to end government policies that have led to more than 73 million
acres of America being put off limits to the use of Americans, whether it is for
recreation, to properly manage our vast national forests, or to develop the
housing a nation that has taken in ten million new immigrants in the past decade
requires. These policies threaten private property rights, destroying the
keystone of the Capitalist system that has given this nation its wealth.
We need to be more energy independence and that means ignoring calls for
"alternative" energy sources, such as thousands of windmills, instead
of the use of coal we have to generate electricity, the lifeblood of our nation
and our economy. Forty percent of our electrical energy utilizes coal and we
have centuries' worth of coal.
We need to get into the tiny part of the Alaskan reserve so that can reduce
our dependence on foreign oil and we need to make it easier to drill in the Gulf
of Mexico where there are millions more barrels for our needs.
We have to be realistic about nuclear energy, understanding how safe it is
(it does not pollute) if we can solve the problem of storing its waste.
Meanwhile we have site ready to do that. Right now, the government is too
involved with attacking our nation's utilities in the name of
"pollution" when those facilities have mostly been technologically
upgraded to eliminate the pollutants produced in the process of providing
electricity. Instead, the entire mining industry, not just for coal, but all
other vital minerals, has been deliberately handicapped, often driven to other
nations.
The Greens stand in the way of all of these needs and fight them in the
courts of our nation using laws imposed in the name of the environment. More
than a third of all the laws and regulations the Federal government has
published since 1970 are devoted to the "environment." We need to free
America to grow and prosper.
We need to get out of the United Nations before it succeeds in imposing taxes
on worldwide energy use, air transportation, and currency transactions. If the
UN achieves its goal of "global governance" the US Constitution will
not be worth the paper on which it is printed. Only Congress has the right to
tax Americans.
This will not happen if Americans continue to be victimized by the scare
campaigns of the Greens. There must be a new American Revolution, based on real
science, not junk science, to save ourselves and to insure democracy in the
world.
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Alan Caruba is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse
for information debunking environmental and other claims that lack scientific
merit. The Center maintains an Internet site at www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2002