Terra Firm no.25: Spectacularism, Zionism, Greens, Wildlife, and Bse.

The conservation of resources by itself cannot reduce overall Carbon emissions and combat global burning because consumers/businesses spend the money saved on other resources. It has been argued, "Most industrial nations are still hugely wasteful in their use of energy and have great potential both to conserve energy and generate it in ways that are less damaging to the environment."[3] If industries make more profits by conserving resources they’ll just spend these profits on more Earth wrecking activities.

Similarly, energy efficiency by itself cannot combat global burning because the money saved will also be spent on other pollution emitting commodities. If individuals increase their domestic energy efficiency, they will use the money saved to buy bigger cars. If the world’s biggest Earth-rapist corporations become more energy efficient this enables them to make bigger profits and invest even more resources in the destruction of the Earth’s life support system, “Using energy more efficiently, however, may not be enough. As john houghton says .. “our energy use itself would also have to go down enormously over the next fifty years.”[4] Even amory lovins admits that energy efficiency alone cannot combat global burning, “Even the factor four transition in energy productivity will not be sufficient to halt global warming.”[5] The only circumstances under which the conservation resources/energy could work is when the global economy is in recession.

Many blues support the introduction of pollution-reduction technologies but, in many cases, such technologies do not reduce pollution. Many only ensure a greater dispersal of pollution e.g. smokestacks. At worst, they increase pollution e.g. catalytic converters.

The money raised through environmental taxes to curb Carbon emissions has to be spent on reducing atmospheric pollution (or restoring the Earth’s life support system) or it will end up being used to promote policies that increase pollution or ecological devastation.

In brutland in the 1990s, the tory and labour government raised environmental taxes but spent the money on non-environmental issues. It seemed as if the labour government was getting away with this fraud until, in the late 1990s, pharmers, and their blue allies, triggered off widespread opposition to fuel taxes forcing the government to abandon the fuel duty escalator. The legacy of such protests is that the prospects for new environmental taxes are now very bleak, “The protests may not lead to any fuel tax reductions, but they have certainly driven a stake through the heart of any new proposals for British, or indeed European, carbon or energy taxes. This is causing consternation among Britain's environmental organisations, which have long been wedded to the belief that only dramatically higher energy taxes could save the planet from the ravages of climate change. They have praised Brown's green credentials, and relentlessly criticized Blair for his lack of interest in environmental matters. Much of the British environmental movement's political strategy has been based on working with Brown to promote a shift from taxing "goods", such as capital and labour, to taxing "bads", such as pollution and resource consumption. This strategy now lies in ruins. As the public has quite rightly discerned, the fuel duty escalator was always a revenue-raising device. It might have helped to maintain the green fig leaf for this tax had any of the £10bn in additional taxes extracted from us actually been spent on the environment.”

Recycling by itself cannot create a sustainable planet. Indeed, if an attempt is made to recycle the currently excessive amounts of commodities being consumed and dumped around the Earth this will cause additional ecological damage to the Earth’s life sustaining processes.

It is quite true that green energy does not release the same quantities of greenhouse gases as fossil fuels but it does cause a great deal of geophysiological damage to the Earth’s Photosynthetic capacity which also boosts global burning. It is possible that green energy could be as geophysiologically damaging as fossil fuels. Basically a society which relies solely on green energy is just a fossil fuelled society without the fossil fuels.

One of the main aims of the Earth summit meetings since 1990 has been to persuade all countries to stabilize their greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels. Very few countries have achieved this. Even worse is that, "Stabilizing global emissions would not prevent disruption of the climate. Emissions of CO₂ are already higher than the forests and oceans can absorb. According to John Houghton .. "stabilizing emissions of CO₂ is of little help in the critical task of stabilizing concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere. To do that at current levels would require an overnight cut in emissions of 60%."[6]

Reducing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere would reduce the increasing rate of climatic destabilization but it would not stabilize the climate. This policy can’t halt, let alone reverse, global burning because it can’t remove the Carbon currently in the atmosphere. Indeed, if Forests continue to be chopped down or razed then reductions in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions wouldn't even slow the momentum of global burning.

None of the above blue policies is going to stop pollution nor the damage being inflicted on the Earth’s Photosynthetic capacity both of which are destabilizing the climate and undermining the Earth’s life support system. Reforestation is imperative for combating global burning and stabilizing the climate. Although it cannot stabilize the climate by itself, without such a policy there is no chance of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Without Reforestation, carried out in conjunction with some of the policies highlighted above, there is no chance of stabilizing the climate. The main priority is getting Carbon out of the atmosphere.

The most critical of the policies needed to stabilize the climate is the abolition of the Animal exploitation industry because this would:-

The biggest contributor to the devastation of the Earth’s life support system, and thus the destabilization of the climate, is the Animal exploitation industry. It is far and away the biggest contributor to global burning. As a consequence, there is no other single act which could make such a profound difference to restoring the Earth’s life support system and thus stabilizing the climate, than the abandonment of the Animal exploitation industry thereby allowing pastureland to revert back to Forests. Forget about alternative/green energy, recycling, the conservation of resources, energy conservation, energy efficiency, pollution reduction, environmentally-friendly catalytic converters, green transport, green cars, biodegradable materials, living in harmony with nature, etc, because there is absolutely no point in pursuing any of these policies unless society bans the exploitation of Animals. They are all insignificant policies which could be implemented, at leisure, after the abolition of the Animal exploitation industry.

Correspondingly, by far and away the single most important measure any individual can take to save the Earth is to give up eating meat. 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.”[7]; “Getting rid of cattle is one of the most important Gaian steps of all.”[8] Even non-geophysiologists such a krause, bach & koomey point out that, "The greatest change in the terrestrial biospheric carbon reservoir occurs through human agricultural activity. This activity can be broadly defined as the transformation of forests into non-forests for pasture or crop production purposes."[9] The Animal exploitation industry’s destabilization of the climate is so substantial there is no point in individuals doing anything to ‘save the environment’ if they don't give up eating meat.

The touchstone for any government policy purporting to save the planet is the degree to which it dismantles the world’s Animal slavery industry and allows the land to revert back to Forests. All else is irrelevant. All other environmental policies are so superficial they cannot provide any protection for the Earth’s life sustaining processes. The only purpose of such policies is to enable so-called greens i.e. blues, to convince people they are doing something to protect the environment when all they are doing is covering up the damage which the pharming industry is inflicting on the Earth's Photosynthetic capacity and thus destabilizing the climate.

In order to create a sustainable planet fundamental social, political, and cultural, revolutions need to be implemented:

Oomans are currently acting like eco-nazis consuming products derived from the world's concentration and extermination camps. They are expropriating all Wildlife habitats around the Earth leading to the extermination of more and more Wildlife species. The expropriation process has become so destructive it is causing the sixth biggest, mass extermination of Biodiversity ever witnessed during the planet’s four billion year history and, in the process, destroying their own life support system.

* they refuse to overthrow the ruling, landowning, pharming elites which dominate the domestic political systems of virtually every country around the world. The world's pharming elites use their political power to steal taxpayers' money, in the form of public subsidies, which are used to finance pharming methods which further exacerbate global burning and increase the devastation of the Earth. One of the reasons the so-called green movement refuses to expropriate big landowners is because leading greens belong to the landowning elites.

The creation of a sustainable planet requires fundamental economic, social, political, and cultural, revolutions the likes of which have never been imagined before let alone tried. But, oomans will fail to bring about any one of these revolutions. There are a multitude of obstacles in the way of oomans bringing about any of these revolutions. Perhaps the biggest is the fact that the time needed to re-educate corporate livestock consumers into becoming planetary beings is now greater than the time left before a major geophysiological disaster. There is no point in carrying out environmental reforms to this system other than as stepping stones to the even bigger revolution that is needed i.e. the overthrow of the ruling, domestic, landowning, pharming, elites. There is no way of reforming oomano-imperialists to take care of the Earth.

The scale of the revolutions needed to create a sustainable planet are so wide-ranging, and oomans’ ignorance of, and opposition to, such revolutions are so deeply entrenched, there is not the slightest prospect of oomans creating a sustainable planet. The vast majority of landowners and the global rich have a vested interest in maintaining their privileges which means the continued devastation of the Earth’s life support system. They would oppose such revolutions. They prefer to profit from oomans’ wrecking of the Earth’s life support system for oomans, rather than relinquishing their vested interests. There is no hope of creating a sustainable planet when the Earth is dominated by eco-nazis.

There is only one possibility for creating a sustainable planet and that is after a geophysiological crash which sweeps away capitalism, national/global institutions, and wipes out vast numbers of oomans. It is possible this crash could be so severe it would lead to the annihilation of all oomans. If it doesn’t, the oomans who survive will need to dramatically transform their attitudes if they are not to repeat the same mistakes. They will need to learn from this geophysiological disaster. However, it is all too likely they won’t. It is much more likely that oomans will continue to act like the terrorists they have always been. Dr strangelove’s military advisors, living safely deep underground in huge bunkers, warned that after the first nuclear war with russia, the only people likely to survive would be those living in mineshafts. They were worried that the russians had more mineshafts than the americans and that as a result a 'mineshafts gap' was opening up between the russians and the americans which would allow the russians to continue waging nuclear war against america. Perhaps it might be as well to bring this story up to date. As global burning causes the melting of glaciers so new Grasslands are beginning to emerge. Rather than learn from the damage that global burning is causing, people are all too likely to exploit these new opportunities by promoting the industry that is primarily responsible for global burning, "Europe's biggest glacier is about to disintegrate. The mighty breidamerkurjokull in southern iceland is breaking apart and will slide into the north atlantic in the next few years. Researchers' discovery of the imminent destruction of this gigantic river of ice demonstrates starkly that global warming is now making a serious impact on the northern hemisphere , threatening to melt ice caps and raise sea levels around the world. Breidamerkurjokull is the main glacier emanating from the massive vatnajokull ice sheet that covers much of southern iceland, and has been studied intensively for the past century .. In the past 30 years, old farmlands have reappeared around breidamerkurjokull .. Local people have already moved on to this land and begun cropping grass and grazing sheep."[10] When are these livestock loonies ever going to learn? What is so remarkable about oomans, given their inordinate capacity for learning, is their total inability to learn anything.

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8. The Realities of Sustainability.