The End of the World as You Know It
…and the Rise of the New Energy World Order
Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Klare also resides on the boards of directors of Human Rights Watch, and the Arms Control Association. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation, Tom’s Dispatch, Mother Jones, and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.
He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. (Wikipedia)
That is a huge issue, but until then we need to find a way to be more equitable with the fossil fuels we do have. Ethanol obviously doesn’t work and is hurting the world’s food supply, and many of the solutions offered by environmentalists seem to make things worse. Policy makers need to find a way to do this without destroying our economy and forcing us to live in the dark ages. I am all for helping animals and the environment, but it’s not fair that Al Gore to ride around in Jets while complaining about “carbon footprints.” He can afford the extra costs to make his
house(s) “green” while the rest of us are forced to pay for those changes through excessive taxation, higher food prices, and expensive “alternative energy” products.
There has to be another way of going about this than giving the central government more control over our lives. I do believe the earth’s temperature is changing, but I don’t believe that humans are 100% responsible for it. People are treating environmentalism like it’s a new fad, like the Ipod, or an HDTV, so they can preach to others about how the way they live their lives is so much better than the people who don’t or can’t afford to.
One of the best examples of why I think global warming and other eco-scares are at best theories are here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910467,00.html
(time magazine 1972, “Another Ice Age?”)
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20080428,00.html
(Time Magazine, 2008 “How to win the war on global warming”) ***Please note the extreme disrespect to IWO Jima veterans (2 of wich were my great uncles) here.
Pardon my outright disgust.
That’s the conundrum here, both political parties (socialst workers party and democrat), there are no republicans running, and barack and hill are socialists, will give the central government more control over the people. What’s the solution? Vote libertarian? (or the libertarian running as a rep, Ron Paul?) I don’t know, I wish I knew.
Comment by Myles — April 25, 2008 @ 3:07 pm |