Listen Once More, Greenhouse Gasbags
Next to nuclear war, the greatest dangers to the biosphere.
This is the third of my series on threats to our living environment, real and phoney. First I disclosed the bogus nature of global warming. I exposed the real driver of climate variations on earth and the driver of false perceptions about climate. Find that here.
Next I covered the most serious danger to the continuance of a habitable planet; a nuclear war. I showed that the same people who are threatening us all with nuclear war also drive the fake warming hypothesis, and why. Find that here.
Now I will show that these same people are often a cause of, or are at least complicit in, many of the other real threats to the biosphere. All these causes could be gathered under the heading of one cause; uncontrolled capitalist industrialism. They could then be divided into three headings; the nuclear industry, industrialized agriculture, and the chemical industry.
But there is one other menace which sits above even these; the crippling of government. A democratic government is the organ of civil society to insure that productivity is organized to meet human needs, and that the environmental basis for prosperity is not degraded. Oligarchy is not going to allow democracy to get in the way of its aims.
So increasingly, the ability of public government to carry out its functions regarding management of natural resources is compromised. The results, of course, are attributed to ‘global warming’. For example, forest fires are increasing not because the weather is hotter or dryer than before, but because the systems of forest management have broken down.
the nuclear industry
Nuclear power plants are not a very efficient way of generating electricity. They have two advantages which globalist financial capitalists like very much. One is that it enables tight control of the electricity supply through a centrally distributed system.
The other is that it enables production of quantities of plutonium. Good old element 94 is the material of choice for making the triggers of hydrogen bombs. It does not occur in nature. It is produced from the breakdown of uranium when used to power nuclear plants.
The global warming trope originated with the nuclear industry. The idea was that if burning coal and gas for electricity were restrained, demand for nuclear plants would increase. It was presented as the safe and clean alternative.
It has been well demonstrated that nuclear power is in fact the most environmentally damaging and dangerous of all forms of electricity production. From the production of the fuel through to the disposal of waste products, nuclear is bad news. It is really more expensive in the long run than other modes.
We now have large swathes of the planet’s surface which are permanently uninhabitable due to meltdowns at nuclear plants. The radioactive contamination spreads over a much larger area. There are possible scenarios in which a really bad breakdown at one of these plants could render not just districts, but whole countries or continents uninhabitable.
industrial farming
The next threat to the environment after nuclear power is the commercialization of farming; mainly cash cropping and factory production of livestock. The damage from this comes under three headings; misuse of insecticides and herbicides, misuse of antibiotics, and degradation of soil.
The threat to pollinating insects is particularly frightening. Many of our most important food crops need insects to pollinate them. Already, many farmers are having to go out with brushes and pollinate their crops themselves.
Herbicides are usually counterproductive over the long run. They usually produce more aggressive weeds. They are used by people focussed on quick profits, or too lazy and stupid to manage fields on their properly. All this inevitably ruins good soil.
Battery farming of meat animals is really frightening. Animals are not made to live their lives cramped up in cages. Huge epidemics develop among them, and huge amounts of antibiotics are used to prevent them from dying and to make them grow quicker.
The infectious microorganisms develop immunity to all antibiotics, then go on to infect humans. New antibiotics are not being developed because they are not sufficiently profitable. As for viruses, these places are breeders for new strains which will transfer to humans.
What is needed is close regulation of farming practices. Cash crop monoculture farming and battery raising of livestock needs to be broken up. Proper farming needs to be relaunched. This needs to happen soon.
the chemical Industry
The headings here are; overuse of plastics, toxic effects, and lack of control. The underlying problem is the need to maximize profits, thus maximizing through-puts, resulting in overuse and careless handling. In other words, industrial capitalism.
Hysterical claims are made about single use plastics, especially about their effects in the oceans, and it is hard separate out the facts, but they have definitely become a huge problem. They cannot be recycled, they do not break down well and they keep building up in the environment. We need to move to reusable plastic goods.
There needs to be a tighter control over new chemical products being allowed into the market and the environment. Nothing should be produced until there is a way to dispose of it. This includes the byproducts of its production.
Nothing should be produced until its toxic properties are known, and until procedures for its safe handling can be devised. Nothing should be released for public consumption until it has been fully tested and shown to have no effects in living organisms. That includes any breakdown byproducts.
Chemical contamination of our food and our lived in environment must be taken very seriously. It is causing reproductive rates for men and women to decline. If it is not also causing the steady increase in numbers of autistic children, it is hard to imagine what is.
conclusion
So there is what is available to those who want something real to worry about. CO2 gas from burning fossil fuels will not harm you. The degradation of your living environment, mostly by the same people blowing the “warming” hot air, will harm you.
I think this thread needs at least one more article in it. I will explain exactly what I mean by neoMalthusian. I will concisely recount the history of the “warming” hysteria.