"When considering a problem as large as the degradation of the global environment, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, utterly helpless to effect any change whatsoever."

"In the modern world it is human society that dominates nature rather than the other way around, and modern society changes very rapidly owing to technological change. Thus, there is no stable framework."

First, of course, you have to believe that human beings actually do have any real impact on the actions of volcanoes, the oceans, weather conditions such as blizzards, hurricanes, floods, et cetera. You need to believe that Americans who live on three percent of the entire landmass of the nation actually control the quality of all the air that passes overhead, are destroying all the forests, and poisoning all the water.

The two quotes cited above are from two men who do believe this. One is Vice President Al Gore and the other is the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, a former resident of Montana, who spent 17 years killing and maiming complete strangers, as he explained it, "In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people."

Which, then, is the quote from Al Gore and which is the Unabomber's? The first quote is Al Gore's and comes from his bestselling book, Earth in the Balance. The latter is from the Unabomber's famed manifesto, published in The Washington Post under the threat that he'd kill again.

What is the most striking about both the Unabomber's manifesto and Gore's book are the similarities between the way they both see the world. Which of them, for example, wrote, "Meanwhile, civilization now rushes ahead with tremendous momentum, even the individual who believes we are on a collision course with the global environment will find it difficult to separate his or her course from that of the civilization as a whole"?

Or "Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and the breakdown of natural smallscale communities such as the extended family, the village or the tribe"?

Both appear to be a perfectly rational comment on the perceived helplessness of individuals in nations around the world presumably destroying the environment in their pursuit of economic development. Which quote represents a U.S. Vice President intensely concerned with the effect of modern civilization, i.e., industrialized society, on the environment or the hermit who eluded the Federal Bureau of Investigation until his brother turned him in as the likely bomber?

The author of one of these two statements might be considered a certified lunatic. Again, Gore's quote leads off, followed by that of the Unabomber.

And, if the Vice President's viewpoint prevails, how does that translate in terms of public policy and legislation to curb development? After all, they both believe that the earth's environment is on the verge of total meltdown due to things like the global warming theory, assertions that the ozone layer is endangered, that population is exploding worldwide, that entire forests are being cut down, and countless species are in danger of extinction.

The Great Green Propaganda Machine keeps telling us we're doomed, but what evidence is there to support this? There is no empirical, scientific evidence that the global warming theory has any validity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a leading advocate of the theory, itself states that "it is not possible to attribute all, or even a large part, of the observed global-mean warming to the enhanced greenhouse effect on the basis of observational data currently available." In other words, there is no global warming. Or cooling. The earth has warmed barely one degree Fahrenheit since the 1850s, with that warming trend ending in the 40s. Presumably Al Gore knows this, but continues to warn of catastrophe. Why?

In Latin America, where one third of the population still lacks electricity and many lack clean drinking water, the representatives of several nations either cancelled their attendance at a December conference on "sustainable economic development" or left early because, while Al Gore insisted the meeting focus on the environment, they, according to a Reuters report, "argued that poverty and economic development should take precedence." Gore addressed the conference saying that "organized citizens and the private sector should help preserve the environment."

This is the Green Movement's Party Line. Non-governmental organizations such as the Sierra Club have been establishing a status through the United Nations that would grant them a status equal to and above sovereign nations in order to determine property rights and other issues.

As just one example, in 1996 the Clinton-Gore administration called upon UN officials to intervene on a decision to deny the mining of gold in Montana because the mine was located close to a UN-designated "World Heritage Site," the Yellowstone National Park. Thus, the natural resources of the "Treasure State" will remain in the ground, minus the revenues, taxes, and jobs they represent.

Later in 1996, President Clinton ruled a huge portion of Utah off-limits to millions in coal mining, unilaterally declaring the area a national park. Goodbye jobs. Goodbye tax revenues. Goodbye to a natural resource which could have competed with a comparable grade coal mined in Indonesia, a source of foreign political funding of the recent campaign, now under investigation.

Gore insists that the ozone layer is endangered by man-made greenhouse gases. Thin areas of the ozone were discovered back in the 1950s, well before the widespread use of air conditioning, which is dependent on the CFC freon. Yet Al Gore insists that the U.S. and the rest of the world ban freon, thus rendering hundreds of millions of air conditioners and refrigerators obsolete. No comparable refrigerant is available, and what does exist represents significant manufacturing problems. Meanwhile, a black market in freon is flourishing.

Are we running out of forests in the U.S. or worldwide? Fully two-thirds or all the U.S. forests that existed when the pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock still exists. In the northeast and elsewhere, forests are expanding. While Al Gore claims that 51 million acres of rainforest are annually being lost, fully 90 percent of the Brazilian Amazon remains untouched. As to endangered species, well, 95 of all species that ever existed are now extinct. Darwin was right.

"Throughout the world, we are witnessing the first stirrings of a new political will to slow down our momentum toward environmental catastrophe," says Al Gore. Clearly, he and the Unabomber want this, as do the many environmental groups calling for a "sustainable environment."

"Whatever kind of society may exist after the demise of the industrial system, it is certain that most people will live close to nature, because in the absence of advanced technology there is no other way that people CAN live. To feed themselves they must be peasants or herdsmen or fishermen or hunters, etc." Can you see the entire earth's population ditching modern technology in favor of being peasants? The Unabomber does.

So, too, does the inner circle of leadership of the worldwide environmental movement, among which Al Gore is most certainly a member. That's why he advocated that the U.S. sign the Biodiversity Treaty cooked up at the Rio Earth Summit. It would, among other things, divide the U.S. and Canada into 21 "ecoregions" from which all human activity, i.e. development, would be banned. Then, too, the United Nations has a "Commission on Global Governance" (Our Global Neighborhood, Oxford University Press, 1995) that's working to eliminate the concept of national sovereignty, imposing a single, centralized world government.

Al Gore says he favors establishing a United Nations "Stewardship Council to deal with matters relating to the global environment…" In point of fact, the UN already has a huge, multi-million dollar Environmental Program which has sponsored conferences on women's population, urbanization, and food issues, all of which have produced a demand for more international treaties devoted to slowing down economic development wherever it may occur.

"The edifice of civilization has become astonishingly complex, but as it grows more elaborate, we feel increasingly distant from our roots in the earth."

"We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence. Its object will be to overthrow not governments, but the economic and technological basis of present society."

"In one sense, civilization itself has been on a journey from its foundations in the world of nature to an ever more contrived, controlled, and manufactured world of our own imitative and sometimes arrogant design. At some point during this journey, we lost our connectiveness to the rest of nature."

"The only way out is to dispense with the industrial-technological system altogether."

Which is Al Gore speaking? Which is the Unabomber?

 

Incredible observations!WOW

 

Incredible observations!Hopefully more people will read it !

 

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