6. The Differences between the Greens and the Blues. |
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6.1: Introduction.
A decade ago the mundi club started promoting what
it innocently believed to be the common sense policy of Reforestation
as a means of combatting global burning. It gradually became obvious that,
despite their attempts to cover up such views, the overwhelming number
of greens were opposed, in varying degrees of intensity, to such a policy.
That greens opposed the greening of the Earth was something of a shock
and the mundi club eventually referred mockingly to them as 'the greenless
greens'.[18]
Over the years it has become apparent that much more is involved in this
dispute than different tactics over climate change. Beyond this dispute
are two opposing philosophies. This article explores the differences between
on the one hand gaians/geophysiologists/geocentrics who, in this work,
are regarded as greens and, on the other hand, the greenless greens who,
as this article explains, ought to be referred to as 'blues'.
6.2: A Blue Planet not a Green One.
One of the fundamental
differences between the greens and the blues concerns their understanding of
the critical factors influencing the Earth's climate. The blues believe the
Earth is a blue planet not merely in the literal sense that, when seen from
outer space, the predominant colour of the Earth is blue but in the sense that
the water cycle is the dominant phenomenon influencing the climate. The blues
believe the water cycle stabilizes the Earth's climate.
Bell, Art & Strieber, Whitley.
“The way that the oceans circulate, distributing
heat across the planet, is what determines our weather. When the great
oceanic currents change, climate changes with them.”[19]
Bunyard, Peter.
“The continued function of the oceans as a net sink
for atmospheric carbon dioxide is of critical importance for a stable
climate.”[20]
Global International Waters Assessment.
“The character of our planet, physically as well
as biologically, is shaped by water. Without water all life ceases.”[21]
Nasa.
Nasa quotes arthur c clarke approvingly, "As
the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once pointed out, "How
inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.""[22]
Understanding Global Issues
“The oceans are, on average, 3,800 metres deep,
compared with the average height of the Earth’s land mass at about 840
metres. The huge volume of water on the earth’s surface acts as a giant
stabiliser of climate, preventing warming or cooling from getting out
of hand.”[23]
The blues dismiss the gaian idea that Photosynthesis is responsible
for stabilizing the climate and is therefore the essence of the Earth’s
life support system. Gaians point out that if Photosynthesis hadn't been
around for a couple of aeons then there would be no water left on Earth
and the Earth would now be just like its neighbouring planets venus and
mars. More fundamentally, gaians believe that without Photosynthesis there
would be no life on Earth and that the Earth would be as lifeless as its
neighbouring planets.[24] Gaians deem
Photosynthesis to be the engine of life on Earth whereas blues believe
it is just a pretty adornment to industrial, retail, or housing, estates.
It is surprising that blues suggest that the main factor stabilizing the
climate is dead, inorganic, matter such as water rather than a living
phenomenon which is highly responsive to change. It seems almost logical
to propose that the factor stabilizing the Earth's climate must be something
that is alive rather than inert. Photosynthesis is the lifeblood of this
living planet so it seems irrational to suspect that it doesn't play,
at the very least, a major role in influencing the climate. How is it
possible for something inert like water to be a dynamic, responsive force
stabilizing the climate and keeping the planet alive? Such a view seems
to assume that life on Earth has no connection with the life of the Earth.
It is as if for blues, life consists merely of actors on a pre-prepared
stage which is kept in a livable state by the water cycle's lifeless processes.
6.3: The Blues want to Combat Global
Burning Technologically.
Following on from these
differences over the main agent stabilizing the climate, are differences over
global burning. The blues believe that global burning is a problem caused by
the burning of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
They demand reductions in greenhouse emissions - some even want the abolition
of fossil fuels. They believe that global burning can be solved only by
technological means i.e. pollution reduction technologies and the introduction
of alternative energy such as solar power, hydro-electric power, wind power,
etc because these forms of energy do not release greenhouse gases.
In contrast, greens believe global burning is caused primarily
by the pharming industry's devastation of the Earth’s Forest cover. They
blame both traditional organic pharming and modern, capital intensive,
factory pharming for destabilizing the climate. As lawrence e joseph has
argued, “The most important practical difference between Gaia and mainstream
environmental policy is in its emphasis on the evils of agriculture over
those of industry, since deforestation for the purpose of food cultivation
is what most immediately threatens the tropical rainforests and the warm
coastal seas that surround them.”[25] Greens insist that global burning is a geophysiological
problem which has to be solved both by Reforestation and by reductions
in greenhouse gas emissions carried out by Carbon debtor nations. The
urgency is to get Carbon out of the atmosphere.
Geophysiologists point out that the blues,
rather bizarrely, have not ecologically costed their alternative energy
policies. The blues just assert that alternative forms of energy are
sustainable and expect the rest of the world to accept that they know best. The
blues denounce the fossil fuelled industries for refusing to ecologically cost
their policies but then refuse to cost their own. Greens are also wary of
alternative forms of energy because they are likely to cause as much ecological
devastation as fossil fuels.
6.4: Blues Promoting Deforestation as a
Means of Combatting Global Burning.
The blues only proposal for
tackling global burning is technological reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions. They dismiss Reforestation and the restoration of the Earth's life
support system as a means of combating global burning. As has just been
suggested, they do not believe that Photosynthesis has any major part to play
in stabilizing the climate which forces them to ignore the close relationship
between Forests and the water cycle.
The blues are so opposed to Reforestation they even criticized
one of the most important climate scientists of our time. James lovelock
had demanded that blues attach more importance to the destruction of Forests
as a cause of global burning rather than continuing to focus on reductions
in Carbon emissions, "To me the vast, urgent and certain danger comes
from the clearance of the tropical forests. Greenhouse gas accumulation
may be an even greater danger in time to come, but not now."[26]
The blues attacked lovelock because they believed his criticisms dissipated
the pressure they were exerting on the over-industrialized countries to
reduce their Carbon emissions. It was stated, “The irony was that the
green guru had given an opening to those people who wanted the global
warming issue to go away. It was a perfect excuse for western leaders
to stall action. Their priority was a buoyant economy. They reopened the
battle with the ipcc.”[27] -
thereby ignoring the fact that if blues hadn't ignored Reforestation for
the last decade or so then such an opening would not have been possible.
Blues do not merely dismiss Reforestation
as an unimportant means of combating global burning. Nor do they merely oppose
Reforestation. Even worse, they believe that deforestation is a good way of
combating global burning:-
Gordon Bonan.
“Gordon bonan and colleagues .. have simulated the
effect of removing all the forests north of 45N and replacing them with
bare soil. Because forests with stable snow cover reflect almost half
the sunlight falling on them, whereas open areas covered by snow reflect
more than two-thirds of the sun’s rays, chopping down boreal forests has
a cooling effect in the winter half of the year. The resultant cooling
is startling. At 60N the average fall in temperature is 12C, and even
in late summer when there is no snow and the soil absorbed as much sunlight
as the forest it replaced, the cooling was still 5C.”[28]
Nasa.
"Similarly, forests may influence the climate
in more complicated ways than previously thought. For example, in regions
with heavy snowfall, reforestation or afforestation would cause the land
to reflect less sunlight, and more heat would be absorbed, resulting in
a net warming effect despite the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere through
photosynthesis during the growing season. Further, reforestation could
increase transpiration in an area, putting more water vapor in the air.
Water vapor in the troposphere is the biggest contributor to greenhouse
gas warming."[29]
The blues believe the oceans carry out more Photosynthesis
than terrestrial Plants. For instance, greenpeace argues, “Around twice
as much Carbon is emitted by fossil fuel burning and deforestation as
ends up in the atmosphere. Some 7 billion tonnes of Carbon comes from
fossil fuel and forest-burning, and we know that only 3.4 billion tonnes
of Carbon stays up in the atmosphere as Carbon dioxide each year. How
much of the rest goes into the land-plant sink, and how much goes into
the ocean sink, has in detail always been a mystery. A new estimate for
Carbon uptake suggests 2.1 billion tonnes of Carbon goes into the oceans,
with a billion tonnes of Carbon going into the land sink. This new estimate
differs with earlier studies which estimated that only a billion tonnes
of Carbon are being taken up by the oceans, with more than two going into
land plants. This new study uses Carbon isotopes. Both fossil fuels and
plants are lighter in Carbon-13 than atmospheric Carbon dioxide, so that
the decrease in Carbon-13 over time in ocean waters gives a measure of
how much anthropogenic Carbon dioxide is being taken up by ocean waters.”[30] The blues
believe the Earth has a constant level of Photosynthesis so that even
if oomans chopped down the Earth's Forests, this wouldn't lead to a reduction
in the Earth's Photosynthetic capacity because the nutrients would end
up in the oceans stimulating marine Photosynthesis. This is another reason
why blues believe that the water cycle is more important than Photosynthesis
in stabilizing the climate.
6.5: The Blues blame Urban people for
causing Environmental Damage.
The blues believe it is possible to create an environmentally
friendly planet only if oomans go back to living on small scale, family,
pharms. They believe it is when people live on the land that they protect
the soil because, so they argue, it is in the best interests of those
who pharm the soil to protect it. They thus regard pharmers as ‘custodians
of the countryside’. Correspondingly, the blues tend to blame urban people
and urban industries for wrecking the environment. Blues always blame
urban people/industries for environmental damage whilst looking to pharmers
and rural people to repair such damage - despite the fact that most environmentalists
live in cities. Michael jacobs is one of the few commentators who has
taken up the mc's insight into this contradiction within the so-called
green movement, “It is one of the curiosities of the british environmental
movement that although 80% of british citizens live in towns and cities,
a disproportionate emphasis is given by environmental pressure groups
to protecting various aspects of the countryside. This is one of the hidden
issues of contemporary politics.”[31]
6.6: The Blues want to disburse Urbanites
into the Countryside.
The blues' belief that an environmentally
sound way of life is possible only in rural areas means they support the
idea of sending millions of people back into the countryside to become
small scale pharmers. The blues want to depopulate urban areas, “City
life is marked by consumption and waste. Cities, however small, have always
been parasitic on the countryside around them, not least because the majority
of their inhabitants must rely on farmers in the countryside to provide
them with food. Where cities are small, and the demands of their citizens
limited, the degradation caused need not undermine their viability. But
the demands being made by city-dwellers today, particularly in the industrialized
countries are global in their reach, and global in their implications.
Meeting even the demands of present day cities is placing an intolerable
burden on the environment and society as more and more resources are sucked
into urban conglomerations.”[32] Norberg-hodge defends the mass movement back into the countryside,
“An equally common myth that clouds thinking about more human scale rural
economies is that “there are too many people to go back to the land”.
It is noteworthy that a similar scepticism does not accompany the notion
of urbanizing the world’s population. It is considered ‘utopian’ to suggest
a ruralization of america’s or europe’s population; but china’s plans
to move 440 million people into the cities during the next few decades
hardly raises eyebrows.”[33] Of
course, once again, the blues have not ecologically costed their proposals.
Gaians believe the movement of people back
to the countryside would lead not to a sustainable way of life but the
urbanization of the countryside. They believe people can minimize their impact
on the environment by living in towns. The greater the concentration of people
in urban areas, the greater the ecological savings.
6.7: Blues support for Organic Pharming.
Whilst gaians condemn the global
pharming industry for devastating the Earth’s Photosynthetic capacity and
destabilizing the climate, the blues promote organic pharming as a sustainable
form of agriculture. Unfortunately, it has to be suggested that if the blues
succeed in replacing modern, highly-intensive, industrialized pharming with
small scale, family-owned, organic pharming this would lead to an even greater
decimation of the world’s remaining Forests in order to maintain the current
scale of meat production. Whilst modern factory pharming is highly intensive,
organic pharming is highly extensive requiring far more land in order to
provide the same number of corpses. Once again, the blues have not ecologically
costed such a policy.
6.8: To Understand the Earth you’ve got
to be a Tribalist.
Some blues suggest that even
support for organic pharming may not be enough. They take the view that people
should return to tribalism and graze on the Earth's resources. Wolfgang sachs
believes tribalists' dependence on their local ecologies leads them to protect
such habitats. They know everything about their local ecologies to ensure their
survival and the survival of such habitats. Sachs believes that if all oomans
were tribalists, living in harmony with their local ecologies, then the overall
effect would be to create a healthy, climatically stable, planet.
Sachs criticizes ‘global environmental managers’ or ‘global
ecologists’ such as the Earth scientists working for nasa, the scientists
on the inter-governmental panel on climate change, and geophysiologists.
He dismisses them for being the antithesis of the tribalist way of life.
He accuses them of aiming to control the Earth’s entire life support system
for the benefit of oomans - as if the same effect wouldn't also be achieved
by a planet of six billion tribalists, “Environmentalism is being framed
through an astronaut’s perspective. The blue planet, suspended in the
dark universe, has become the object of science and politics. Without
the photographs of the earth it would scarcely have been possible to view
the planet as an object of management. But there is a political, a scientific
and a technological reason as well. Only in the course of the eighties
- with the ozone hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect - did the
global impact of pollution by industrial societies force itself into the
foreground. Scientists have made enormous headway in representing the
biosphere as an all embracing eco-system. And a new generation of instruments
and equipment has created the possibility of measuring global processes.
During the past decade, satellites, sensors, and computers have provided
the means for calibrating the biosphere and displaying it in models. Research
on the biosphere is rapidly becoming big science.”[34] He fears environmental managers will try to manipulate the Earth’s
climate thereby causing so much disruption they could make the Earth uninhabitable.
Sachs’s criticisms of nasa’s Earth scientists aiming to control
the planet for the benefit of ooman interests are fair. However, his criticisms
of geophysiologists for wanting to pursue the same objectives are not.
It is true that geophysiology is what could be called the first science
of the Earth. It makes use of satellites, computer models, and takes an
archimedean perspective by looking at the Earth from outer space. But
whereas Earth scientists want to refashion the Earth in oomans' interests
and treat it like a global national park, this is not true of geophysiologists.
The only influence that geophysiologists seek to exert is ensuring sufficient
Forest cover to stabilize the Earth’s climate. Geophysiologists would
not interfere in the Earth's life sustaining processes in order to stabilize
the climate.[35]
It is ironic that sachs categorizes
geophysiologists as 'blue' when this article is trying to show that nasa,
global environmental managerialism, and tribalism, are blue because of their
opposition to Reforestation. Tribalists do not support Reforestation because
they believe that tribes will exploit whatever their local ecologies may be,
whereas nasa-ites and global mangerialists have no intention of wasting good
land on Forests when they could be suffocated by industrial developments,
housing estates, supermarkets, or hospital complexes. Only geophysiologists
support Reforestation. They demand such a policy to stabilize the climate and
to provide oomans with the renewable resources they need for their survival.
6.9: Blues Defend Pharmers’ Interests.
In brutland, as is all too
likely in other countries around the world, the blues have helped to protect
pharmers’ interests and values - even when pharmers have been ecologically
destructive:
* when rachel carson highlighted
the damage being caused by the extensive use of pesticides, the blues blamed
the chemical industry for producing such chemicals rather than the pharming
industry for using them. It might have been thought that, at the very least,
the pharming industry ought to share some of the blame but blues insisted it
was all the fault of the chemical industry for forcing pharmers to use such
chemicals. This was despite the fact that pharmers were continually demanding
that the chemical industry supply them with as many pesticides as possible;
* the blues also blamed the
chemical industry for bse rather than the pharming industry’s cannibalistic
practice of recycling Animal protein - this is a practice common to both modern
and traditional pharming;
* the blues supported the
pharmers when they triggered off the fuel tax insurrection in september 2000;
* the blues refused to blame
pharmers for the floods which inundated 11,500 homes during the autumn-winter
2000-2001;
* the blues refuse to condemn the
massive welfare benefit subsidies being given to pharmers;
* the blues refuse to condemn the
massive frauds perpetrated by pharmers to boost their welfare benefit subsidies
- one such fraud resulting in the f&m epidemic which eventually cost the
country £4-5 billion. Instead the blues blamed the government’s and the
european community’s abolition of the country’s grossly unhygienic local
abattoirs because of the longer distances that Animals had to be transported to
centralized abattoirs. The blues are currently demanding the construction of
large numbers of local abattoirs. Who would have thought that the blue movement
and the blue party, seemingly devoted to love and peace, would end up demanding
local concentration and extermination camps? The european community ought to be
congratulated for abolishing the localized hell holes the blues called local
abattoirs. The blues ought to pay one way visits to their local abattoirs.
* the blues refuse to
acknowledge that the global pharming industry is the biggest contributor to
global burning.
6.10: Blues' support for Animal
Exploitation.
The second fundamental
difference between blues and greens is that blues support the Animal
exploitation industry and the hunting of Wildlife whereas greens do not. The
blues' support for organic pharming means the continued exploitation of
livestock (slave) Animals and the slaughter of Wildlife i.e. Fox hunting, both
of which contribute to environmental devastation. The slaughter of livestock
and Wildlife legitimizes whaling, Elephant culling, bush meat, etc. It also
means the perpetuation of anthropocentrism i.e. oomans’ belief that they are
masters of the Earth. It could be argued that if the blues supported only the
hunting of Wildlife rather than livestock grazing then there might be less of an
incompatibility between Animal exploitation and Forests but the only blues who
support such a line are tribalists.
The following sections look at the
differences between blues and greens as regards the exploitation of livestock
Animals and the relationship between oomans and Wildlife.
6.11: Compulsory Integration - Even if it
Costs your life.
The blues support the notion of
oomans living in harmony with Wildlife whilst greens advocate that Wildlife
ought to be allowed to live in ooman-free Wilderness areas where they will be
free from ooman persecution. Blues promote an integrationist ethic whereas
greens advocate segregation. Blue integrationists are opposed to what they
laughably refer to as "the false separation between humanity and all other
life". They are opposed to any barriers between oomans or Animals.
Blues' opposition to barriers between oomans and Animals is
part of a general philosophy opposing all barriers not only those between
oomans and Animals but those between oomans. Thus blues denounce national
borders between countries; the separation between people brought about
by private property; the reluctance of the young and old to live alongside
each other. However, opposition to barriers goes even deeper than this.
They believe that nobody should need to lock their front doors; that banks
should operate without any barriers between themselves and their customers;
that there should be no barriers down the middle of motorways; that everyone
ought to love each other; that oomans ought to all share resources, etc.
Even charles windsor, who has brilliantly managed to segregate himself
and his vast land holdings from the great mass of people around the country,
has been reported as supporting this barrierless society, “Charles called
for the development of new towns with young, old, rich and poor living
side by side.”[36]
It has to be suggested, however, that such views are quintessential anarchistic
juvenalia - the absurd idealism of adolescents who refuse to accept the
dirty, gory world as it is. The blues' opposition to barriers leads them
to envisage a global blue village where all oomans are entitled to go
where they want, when they want, and how they want. They believe oomans
should be allowed to live, work, and travel, wherever they want around
the world and that Wildlife should happily co-exist alongside them. It
should not take too much imagination to appreciate that these anarchist
principles are almost exactly the same as capitalist principles.
Greens, on the other hand, believe that
oomans ought to segregate themselves from Wildlife. Firstly, as a form of self
defence since living in proximity with wild Animals can often be extremely
dangerous. Secondly, because all the major diseases that have afflicted oomans throughout
their history have come from Animals - the latest of which is bse-cjd. Thirdly,
ooman-free Wilderness areas would play a vital role in helping to stabilize the
Earth’s climate. Such a segregation would also be good for Wildlife since it
would prevent oomans from killing them for food, fun, or profit.
Greens acknowledge that the integrationist
ethic, oomans living in harmony with Wildlife, sounds alluring. In reality it
is a euphemism legitimizing the hunting of Animals - and, indeed, the slaughter
of livestock Animals - ‘let us live side by side until the time comes for me to
slit your throat’. The last thing that blue integrationists want is for
Wildlife to live in ooman-free Wilderness areas beyond the reach of the
cut-throat army of oomans. It has been argued, "Conservation by
segregation is the Noah's ark solution, a belief that wildlife should be
consigned to tiny land parcels for its own good and because it has no place in
our world." (‘Do or Die’). These objections are irrelevant to the idea of
ooman free Wilderness areas. Their purpose is simply to disparage the idea
without examining it. Firstly, Wildlife need not be confined to small parcels
of land. On the contrary, they should be able to enjoy massive Wilderness
areas. Secondly, if people want Lions and Tigers wandering through their
villages then that is up to them but such integration would be in addition to,
and not a substitute for, ooman free Wildlife areas. The idea of ooman-free Wilderness
areas is designed to protect Wildlife from oomans and also oomans from
Wildlife.
The blues belief in the principle of
‘living in harmony with nature’ is the clearest example of blue-wash. No matter
how attractive such a principle may seem to be, it's just a propaganda slogan
for oomano-imperialists who enjoy killing Animals.
Advocates of the Integrationist Ethic.
Do or Die.
Not surprisingly for an organization which implacably
supports an integrationist ethic, these anarcho-juveniles insist on segregating
species at its meetings, “Mass trespass in commemoration of the diggers.
Meeting saturday, 12 midday for mass trespass to mystery site (no Dogs).”[37] Could you trust integrationists who can’t even
live in harmony with their Dogs?
Global Commons
A number of greens support the idea of the global
commons i.e. that the air, sea, and land, should be free for anyone to
use. This is the martini brand of blue politics: oomans can go wherever
they want, whenever they want, and in whatever way they want. It’s promiscuous
and irresponsible. This is a philosophy of perfection where everyone loves
the Earth and its Wildlife. But, when people don’t, it’s a disaster because
they soon exhaust the Earth’s resources. To give one small example of
what happens where there are global commons/common lands. In a jeremy
clarkson programme on cars there was an article about the popularity of
4-wheel drives in iceland. Because 80% of iceland is common land, people
have the right to drive all over the ice sheets acting like overgrown
yobs .[38]
6.12: Living in Harmony with Wildlife is
just an Excuse for Colonizing Wilderness Habitats.
The integrationist ethic is not
merely a rationalization of hunting and carnivorism, it is being used to
promote oomans' invasion and colonization of conservation areas and the
remaining wild areas of the Earth. The blues believe that conservation, or
‘Wilderness', areas originally created to prevent oomans from decimating
Wildlife, should be turned into game reserves so that local people can return
to live in these areas and exploit both the Wildlife and the resources on which
they depend. Such a policy puts Wildlife under a triple threat. Firstly, from
hunting. Local people can hunt Wildlife to obtain resources for their own use
or they can make large profits by inviting wealthy international hunters to
shoot Animals for trophies. Secondly, the profits from trophy hunting are used
to construct community facilities which gradually leads to a population
explosion and further expropriation of land from Wildlife. Thirdly, local
people graze their livestock in conservation areas thereby consuming the
resources previously used by Wildlife. The consequence of these threats is
invariably a considerable diminution in the number and variety of the Wildlife
living in these former conservation areas. The blues believe this
integrationist policy will provide permanent protection for Wildlife but since
there is nothing to stop ooman expansionism it will invariably result in the
eradication of Wildlife. The basic assumptions of blues' policy for colonizing
Wildlife reserves are firstly, that all Animals on Earth have got to learn to
pay their way, just like oomans. And, secondly, that hunting is necessary to
control burgeoning populations of Wildlife species - although, strangely, they
see no harm in oomans having as many sprogs as they want. Theoretically, there
could be harmony between oomans and Wildlife if oomans agreed to limit their
numbers and the area of land they can expropriate but this they refuse to do
because their real intention is oomano-expansionism.
The euphemisms surrounding blues'
integrationist ethic are prolific. The ethic of oomans’ living in harmony with
Wildlife legitimizes oomans killing Animals. It suggests that only by killing
Animals is it possible to save them. When oomans kill rare and endangered
Wildlife species this is to done with the intention of preserving such species.
It is not difficult moving on from this position to arguing that Fox hunting is
vital because Foxes like being chased and mauled to death by packs of savage
Dogs. However, when Animals kill oomans all hell breaks lose and gangs of
pharmers roam the countryside slaughtering any Animal suspected of conspiring
in such a deed.
Even radical blues, such as so-called green
anarchists, are oomano-imperialists in the sense that they too demand that
oomans ought to have the right to go wherever they want and to live wherever
they want and yet they refuse to give these same rights to Animals. As far as
they are concerned the only species on Earth which ought to be free are oomans.
Gaians believe that Wildlife
is never going to be safe if oomans are allowed anywhere near them. The
integrationist ethic is destined to lead to the total eradication of all
Wildlife on Earth. The only way to protect Wildlife is to create ooman-free
Wilderness areas in all countries around the world.
6.13: The Blues believe all Land was at
one time or another Occupied by Oomans and that now Oomans want it back.
Another justification for blues'
expropriation of conservation areas is that, at one time or another during
ooman history, the entire Earth has been occupied by oomans and that today,
this gives oomans the right to reclaim those areas not yet ruined by oomans'
presence. As far as the blues are concerned, there is thus no such thing as
Wilderness areas. By implication, what they are also suggesting is that there
is no such thing as Wildlife.
Blue Advocates of Oomans' Colonization of
Wilderness Areas.
Athanasiou, Tom.
“In the ongoing debate about saving the african
Elephant from ivory poachers, proponents .. of hunting bans are under
attack by third wavers who believe as the ‘economist’ (sic) wrote, that
conservationists would be wiser to “set up a toughly controlled trading
system to market a limited quantity of sustainably harvested ivory” than
they would be to attempt to prohibit its use altogether. Third wavers
have a point. The ivory ban campaign does not even begin to address the
social conditions that engender Elephant poaching in the first place.”[39]
This is a bit like saying
that there's no point trying to stop the nazis from exterminating jews until
oomans have banished nazi tendencies from their souls. It would be wonderful if
oomans could banish such evil tendencies in their souls but by then most jews
would be dead. It is a little difficult to appreciate why, if oomans can’t
organize a decent society for everyone to live in, that this entitles them to
try and solve their problems by slaughtering Animals.
Chambers, Nicky; Simmons, Craig; &
Wackernagel, Mathis.
Quite unusually for blues, these
authors stress the need for land to be put aside for Wildlife. However, they want
to confine Wildlife to a mere 12% of the Earth's land surface even though it
was Wildlife which created the Earth’s habitability. Quite what the authors
mean by ‘putting land aside for Wildlife’ is not discussed. Presumably it means
12% of the land in each country around the world? It is not known whether their
plan would mean that oomano-terrorists would be prevented from trespassing on
this land.
Unfortunately, doubts about the authors’ seemingly
impressive commitment to Wildlife begin to surface when they condemn the
situation where oomans are prevented from exploiting Wildlife in so-called
Wilderness areas .. “such as in the case of some wildlife conservation
projects where the development needs of local people are ignored.”[40]
Do the authors believe that in Wilderness areas, Wildlife ought to ‘pay
their way’ by offering themselves up to be shot by rich hunters to enable
local people to earn enough money to trigger off a local population explosion?
People who might be attracted by the slogan of local people taking control
of local resources ought to appreciate that what blues actually mean is
oomans exploiting Animals .
Colchester, Marcus.
“For, despite the prevalence of myths about .. ‘virgin
forests’, the forests have been inhabited for thousands of years. Few
areas of forest are unused or unclaimed by local communities.”[41]
According to this anthropocentric logic, even when there were only two
oomans on Earth they still owned all the Earth’s Forests.
Conservation Action Network.
“The decision eight years ago to ban the ivory trade
has created a deep and lasting schism among the convention’s signatories.
The split is manifested in two lobbying caucuses: the species survival
network, under which conservationists and Animal rights groups have united,
and the conservation action network, which represents the rights of people
to exploit local wildlife. (One of the members of the can) is eugene lapointe,
secretary-general of cites until he left in 1990 following allegations
that ivory traders were funding his cites ivory unit. (There is a swing
of opinion to the exploiters). The world conservation union, a swiss based
body, the world’s largest grouping of environmental scientists, argues
that where possible cites “should avoid blanket trade bans” because they
create conflicts and, notwithstanding the recent successful crackdown
on ivory trading, are unworkable in the long run. Indeed, most cites insiders
and their scientific advisers favour co-operating with hunters and traders
rather than outlawing them.”[42]
Easterbrook, Gregg.
Easterbrook has argued, “Officially enviros want
a lower human population so that humankind will ‘tread lightly on the
Earth’. The subconscious motive is the desire to be alone with nature:
to have entire vistas of the natural world to yourself. But in the end
the desire to control human numbers so that areas of the Earth might remain
bereft of people is not a modest urge, but a self-centred one. This is
best seen in nature preserves that have been established in the past decade
or so in several developing nations, often in conjunction with western
environmental groups. In most respects such preserves are excellent ideas.
The exception is their effect on human beings. To establish the
royal chitwan (national park) the nepali government expelled some
20,000 indigenous peoples from the territory they had occupied for centuries.
Soldiers of the nepali army patrol royal chitwan, authorized to shoot
on sight any peasants suspected of poaching. That means that in royal
chitwan, as in several third world wilderness preserves, people may be
hunted but not animals. Nepal is hardly the place where the desire to
be alone with nature blinds environmental orthodoxy to the condition of
the indigenous poor. At kruger national park in south africa,
an important elephant preserve, wardens are authorized to shoot on sight
natives gathering fuelwood. When kenya established amboseli wilderness preserve it first drove out the indigenous masai,
promising compensation that was never delivered. Today the masai, a cattle grazing tribe that for
centuries lived in reasonable harmony with amboseli wildlife, dwell in
poverty on the park’s outskirts. When ethiopia founded bale mountain national park as a preserve for the endangered simien
jackal, local peoples were barred from using the area as grazing grounds,
as they had done for centuries. When the hated government of mengistu
mariam fell in 1991, locals entered the park and began shooting the jackals,
exacting revenge on animals that had been treated better than them.”[43]
Easterbrook believes that, in
ethiopia, the simien Jackal was
treated better than local people. But locals/tribals had been killing so many
Jackals the only way to preserve them was by creating a Wildlife refuge. When
the government collapsed it is hardly surprising these so-called Wildlife
lovers resumed their hunting spree in order to sell Animal products for nike
boots and pornographic mags of blonde bimboes - usually whilst their wives
slaved away in the fields all day growing crops with screaming children on
their backs. The arrogance of locals who believe they can just engage in
wholesale over-population and then take over whatever bit of land they want in
order to further boost their profligacy is incredible. They are just exercising
the usual oomano-imperialist prerogative, ‘might is right’. They wouldn’t like
it if Jackals started over-breeding and tried to take over land occupied by
oomans.
It’s funny how
oomano-imperialists like easterbrook think it is perfectly acceptable for third
world governments to relocate millions of people in order to build motorways,
dams, hydro-electric power stations, etc and yet find it unacceptable to put
aside any land for Wildlife. Easterbrook lavishes praise on the creation of
massive dams in canada and yet still quibbles about the creation of Wilderness
areas to preserve Wildlife. The main problem entailed by relocation is that
those relocated are not given sufficient land in compensation for their loss.
According to easterbrook, the indian army protects
Tigers in the sundarban Forest
preserve in west bengal, “Not protected are the impoverished peasants
who enter the sundarban to collect honey from its thousands of natural
beehives. The soldier-guarded bengal tigers spring on and kill at least
50 honey-seekers per year; poor, unarmed people risking their lives to
gather something they can sell to feed their children. Orthodox environmentalism
considers the preservation of bengal tigers a priority, the deaths of
peasants a distraction better left unmentioned.”[44]
As soon as these .. “poor,
unarmed people risking their lives to gather something they can sell to feed
their children” are allowed to exploit Wilderness areas there will be a ‘once
and for all’ ransacking of resources which will ultimately lead to an explosion
in the numbers of oomans. As a consequence, more and more Trees will be cut
down until, eventually, the entire Forest will be reduced to a desert and mass
starvation will ensue. And then how are these people going to feed their
children?
It is not true as easterbrook
argues that the masai .. "dwell in poverty on the park’s outskirts."
Some masai own huge areas of land and are very rich. The reason all the masai
cannot find land to live on is because some members of their own tribe have far
too much land for their own benefit and because of the masai's huge increase in
population over the last few decades - exacerbated by the numbers of white
women tourists trying to turn black men into sex objects4 .
According to easterbrook, the
desire to provide Wildlife with ooman-free Wilderness areas in order to allow Wildlife
to live with the dignity they deserve, and the critical role that such
Wilderness areas would play in combatting global burning and stabilizing the
climate, are both self-centred motives. Presumably, then, allowing oomans to
trample over the Earth like an invading army of ecological terrorists is the
epitome of selfless, altruism?
Meldrum, Andrew.
Meldrum paints a rosy picture of the campfire programme
in some third world countries which enables local people to benefit from
the slaughter of Animals in safari game parks. Whereas in the past local
people used to slaughter Wildlife in order to survive, they now encourage
rich hunters to fly around the world to do the killing for them and thus
make substantial profits from blood sport tourism. Whereas in the past
the area would never have been able to sustain anything more than tribal
lifestyles, the money from tourism is allowing local people to urbanize
Wilderness areas. If las vegas was built in the middle of a desert by
criminal organizations, campfire villages are springing up as a result
of the criminal destruction of Wildlife, “The (zimbabwe) government has
set aside 10,700 square kilometres in northern zimbabwe to form the zambezi
valley wilderness complex, an area which boasts the 2,196 square kilometre
mana pools national park. .. the dande safari area - the 520 square kilometres
set aside for hunting. “Hunting is the only hope for game to survive in
africa,” says harry. “Wildlife must pay its way or humans will take over.
We hunt a sustainable quota of 3% per year. And that earns a great deal
of money used to preserve the Wilderness needed by the Animals.” Zimbabwe
attracts about one million tourists a year and hunting brings in about
2,000 clients, who spend a total of $20 million. The Dande area is part
of zimbabwe’s Campfire programme, which channels a significant proportion
of the money earned from hunting to the rural people who live among the
wildlife. (The meat from hunted Wildlife is shared amongst) 210 families
registered with the local Campfire programme .. Far more significant to
the masoka community is the money earned from hunting. “We have earned
Z$500,000 (£31,250) each year for the past three years,” says joseph chisunga,
masoka’s wildlife committee treasurer. “We have used that money to develop
our community. We have built a new school block and a health clinic, we
have purchased a tractor for tillage. We erected a solar-powered electric
fence to protect our agricultural land from the Wildlife. Gift Zirota,
the wildlife chairperson, explains how the programme has changed the community’s
attitude towards wildlife. “Ten years ago, the animals destroyed our crops
and attacked us. Now with Campfire, we get meat plus money from hunting.
The wildlife is now an asset and we look after them. We do not allow poachers.
We welcome hunters because they help us to improve our community. Campfire’s
pioneering concept, to balance the needs of africa’s rural people with
wildlife, has already spread to zambia, namibia, and south afriuca. Throughout
zimbabwe, Campfire schemes last year earned more than Z$13 million (£812,000)
for rural communities. The number of communities participating has grown
from 15 in 1989 to more than 100 in 1996.”[45]
Monbiot, George.
Monbiot, a member of the brutish
landowning aristocracy, condemned the ousting of masai from a safari park.
Pretty, Jules and Pimbert, Michael.
“From 2,000 protected areas 20 years ago, there are
now 8,600. They are to be found in 169 countries, covering 792 million
hectares - nearly 6% of the world’s land mass. But the global expansion
of national parks has been accompanied by a powerful ideology that people
are bad for nature, and so the wider public good is best served by keeping
them out. As a result, millions of people have been resettled or prevented
from using what were once their resources. In africa, two thirds of all
protected areas (equal to five times the size of great brutland) exclude
people, allowing no use of wild Plants or Animals. In india, where the
number of sanctuaries and national parks has grown from 65 in 1960 to
530 today, some 600,000 tribal people have been forcibly removed and resettled
elsewhere. In laos, some 900,000 people will be removed from upland Forests
by the end of the century, mostly in the name of conservation. What is
often forgotten is that these people also value the flora and fauna. In
ghana .. a farmer selling bushmeat can make more in a day than a civil
servant. It is often forgotten or not appreciated that the very ecosystems
deemed worthy of protection from people have been shaped as much by human
action as by any other factor. Some “pristine rainforests” assumed to
be untouched by human hands, are now found to have once supported thriving
agricultural communities. This concept of the Wilderness is an urban myth
that exists only in our imagination. Open protest and rallies against
protected areas, attacks on guards, poisoning of Animals and deliberate
burning of Forests have now become common. When namibia became independent
in 1990, ovambo tribesmen living on the boundary of etosha national park
celebrated their freedom by cutting the game fence and driving into the
park to hunt game for their families to eat. In madhya pradesh and assam
in india, local resentment against the Tiger and Buffalo reserves has
been readily harnessed by insurgency movements. In south india, some 20
square kilometres of the nagarhole national park were recently burned
as a protest. As a result, the cost of enforcing park regulations has
spiralled. In many countries, the bulk of the budget for protected areas
is spent on aircraft, radios, machine guns, vehicles, armed guards and
anti-poaching equipment. Emerging slowly from this mess, however, is a
strengthening alternative vision that is putting people at the centre
of conservation; it recognizes that humans and Animals can live in symbiotic
relationships. When people are fully involved in conservation, the change
can be remarkable. etc etc.”[46]
Rowell, Andrew.
“Northern environmentalists were primarily concerned
about the fate of the Forest and were slow to realize that people lived
in the amazon who were also an integral part of the eco-system. Around
86% of the protected areas in the region are inhabited. Traditionally
it had been up to groups such as Survival International .. to champion
the cause of the Forest dweller in the northern hemisphere. Thankfully,
some environmentalists have started adopting a more realistic, holistic
approach. Rubber tappers, on the other hand, were initially interested
in land reform and social justice, and only later recognized the importance
of the forest ecology. This said, some of the policies that northern environmentalists
have advocated have been totally ignorant of forest dwellers and have
done more harm than good. There are, for example, still problems where
northern environmentalists have advocated the setting up of northern parks
where the traditional forest dwellers have been excluded and expelled
from their land. .. the policies have also actually increased deforestation
as ranchers and industry have invaded areas previously protected by the
evicted inhabitants.”[47]
Worldwide Fund for Nature and the World
Conservation Union.
“The wwf and the world conservation union, an alliance
of ngos and government agencies, both agreed new policies on indigenous
people last year. For the first time, the two organizations explicitly
recognized the rights of indigenous people to control their land.”[48]
Worldwide Fund for Nature.
“The largest environmental group in the continent
(africa), the world wide fund for nature, is pulling out of the region’s
game reserves and national parks. Senior wwf officials have admitted the
organization’s traditional role in wildlife preservation is no longer
tenable. The wwf’s idea, shared by many other conservation groups, is
to integrate wildlife management back into the community and stop it being
seen as the sole preserve of white men. The new york based conservation
society now lists its prime activity as supporting african-based field
scientists and works to tear down the fences between people and animals.
In zambia, for instance, it aims to “help communities make informed decisions
about the sustainable use of wildlife.” It is a strategy that claude martin
has pursued since taking over in 1994 as director general from the more
traditionally minded south african charles de haes.”[49]
6.14: No Geophysiological Analysis; No
definition of Sustainability; No Vision of a Sustainable Planet.
Another major difference
between the greens and the blues is that, quite remarkably, for all their
claims to care about the environment, the blues have no geophysiological
analysis that:-
* shows the way the Earth works;
* highlights the biggest
contributors to global burning i.e. the global pharming industry; nor
* ecologically costs blue
policies.
Surprisingly blues have no definition of
sustainability. What this also means is that they have no vision of a
sustainable planet. But, rather than seeing this as a liability, blues believe
this is an enormous advantage since they can denounce policies they don’t like
as being unsustainable without having to provide any evidence to back up such
an allegation.
The mundi club invented the phrase 'the Earth's
Photosynthetic capacity' in order to describe the totality of the
Photosynthesis taking place on Earth. Scientists and so-called greens have not taken
up such a concept. This suggests they have little interest in the role of
Phytomass in shaping the Earth's history, its relationship to the climate, or
its role in stabilizing the climate. This is not merely more evidence of the
bankruptcy of the so-called green movement but the ease with which oomans are
slithering towards ecocide without any voices being raised in warning. The mc
has often argued that so-called greens have no concept of sustainability and no
vision of a sustainable planet but to find they do not even have a concept for
the totality of the Photosynthesis taking place on Earth is remarkable. It
could be argued the best way of determining whether someone is a real green or
a 'greenless green' is to ask them for their definition of sustainability. If
they don't mention the Earth's Photosynthetic capacity then they are a
greenless green.
6.15: Oomans are Eco-Terrorists.
Blues believe that oomans are
members of the master race on Earth who are entitled to go where they want and
to colonize any habitat they want. Greens believes that oomans are terrorists
whose oomano-imperialist excesses need to be curbed as much as possible not
merely by drastically reducing their numbers but by forcing them to live in
restricted areas of the Earth. In the film 'Planet of the Apes' the Apes were
wise enough to set aside a large area of land which they called the forbidden
zone. There need to be vast stretches of forbidden zones on Earth. Oomans are
such virulent terrorists the only way of creating a sustainable planet is by
curbing oomans’ imperialist pretensions. And this requires oomans to renounce
anthropocentrism for a theory which puts the Earth first i.e. geocentrism.
6.16: Collaborating with the
Earth-Wreckers by trying to win their Votes.
Politically, many blues are
little different from liberal democrats. They believe the best way of advancing
blue politics is through winning local, regional, and national, elections.
Unfortunately, once they enter electoral politics they are faced with the
inevitable temptation of trying to win the votes of the Earth rapists they went
into politics in order to oppose. Instead of criticizing, challenging, or
condemning, Earth rapists, the blues seek to boost their interests by promoting
Earth wrecking policies in the hope that one day they can persuade all voters
to vote blue. But, of course, after implementing Earth wrecking policies in the
hope of winning Earth-rapist votes, their chances of protecting what is left of
the Earth’s life support system are negligible.
Anyone who joins the green
party in the belief that it will provide them with a platform to criticize
Earth rapists; expose their evil activities; and tell the public how grim the
ecological situation is in order to encourage them to act, etc; will soon find
they have made a serious political mistake. The blue leaders of the so-called
green party do not believe the party ought to be run along such lines. They
argue it is vital for blues to collaborate with the world’s biggest Earth
rapists i.e. multi-national corporations, the landowning elite, the Animal
exploiters, etc, in order to save the Earth. Indeed, many devote their whole
political careers to lobbying multi-national corporations like enron to accept
their planetary responsibilities. The blue party seems to believe that if it is
to win elections then it needs to win the votes of Earth-rapists and the only
way of doing this is by putting forward policies which appeal, not to the
Earth, but to those who destroy the Earth. To discover that the main
responsibilities of the blue party are:-
* formulating Earth-wrecking
policies to win the votes of Earth rapists;
* ignoring the damage that Earth
rapists are inflicting on the Earth;
* overlooking the scale of the
global ecological disaster; and,
* pretending that what the
Earth-rapists have done wasn't their fault;
is demoralizing and is not
going to do anything to save the Earth. Radicals ought to be willing to talk to
Earth rapists, and try and persuade them they have to stop what they are doing,
but designing Earth-wrecking policies that appeal to them isn't going to do
anything other than wreck the Earth.
The blue party not merely wants
party members to woo the Earth rapists, it wants them to:-
- woo fishermen decimating the
world’s Fish stocks;
- woo whalers decimating Whale
species;
- woo big game hunters
devastating Wildlife;
- woo cereal pharmers devastating
the land;
- woo livestock pharmers
devastating the land and slaughtering livestock.
6.17: Conclusions.
Life exists on Earth solely because of Photosynthesis.
Without the ability of Micro-organisms, fungi, and Plants, to carry out
Photosynthesis there would be no life on Earth, and the Earth itself would
not be alive. Without Photosynthesis there would be no water left on Earth.
Photosynthesizers are the foundation of the food chain on which all Animals,
including oomans, depend. They also make the Earth habitable for Animals
by providing habitats such as Coral reefs, Forests, Grasslands, etc. They
provide environmental services which make it possible for life to flourish.
But, most startlingly of all, Photosynthesizers help to stabilize the
Earth's climate. Photosynthesis is the primary life-sustaining process
on Earth and Photosynthesizers constitute the core of the Earth's life
support system.[50]
Most blues don’t understand the history of
the Earth’s climate nor the role of Forests in cooling the Earth’s climate and,
as a consequence, they aren’t interested in Reforestation as a means of combating
global burning. If you ask a blue ‘what is the basis of the Earth’s life
support system’, or ‘what is the key to the Earth’s sustainability’, or even
‘what is the nature of a sustainable Planet’, most of them will drive off in
their lightweight aluminium, energy efficient, lead-free, catalytic converted,
recycled glass, recycled plastic, recycled rubber, recycled metal, free range,
robot manufactured, cars with fake fur trims and nodding dogs in the back
window, complaining about the need to curb greenhouse emissions with new
technological gizmoes. The blues aren’t green. They are a threat to oomans’
life support system.
The fundamental difference between environmentalist/ecologists
in the blue movement and geophysiologists in the green movement is that
the former use the concept of sustainability without any reference to
Photosynthesis (and thus invariably promote policies which destroy Photosynthesis)
whereas the latter believe the concept is meaningless without Photosynthesis.
As lynn margulis has stated, “The only ultimately productive beings are
the cyanobacteria. Ultimately, a nation’s gross national product can only
be biological, not industrial.”[51] To all intents
and purposes, the Earth’s Photosynthetic capacity is the Earth’s climate
stabilization system and thus the basis of the Earth's life support system.
Geophysiologists therefore use the concept of sustainability as a means
of justifying the protection of Photosynthesis.
The Earth's life support system is facing
meltdown under the vast tide of oomano-expansionism in the form of the
near-exponential increase in the numbers of cars, kids, Cattle, capital, or
carnage. The blues regard themselves as environmentalists trying to stop such
devastation but they are so ooman-orientated that all they do is promote
policies that boost this devastation even further. The greenless greens are a
front organization covering up for the Earth-wreckers, lulling the public into
believing that something fundamental is being done to protect the environment
when nothing is being done. With the greenless greens aiding and abetting the
Earth-wreckers, there is less and less chance of stopping oomans from
committing ecocide.
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