We are Victims of a Campaign of Systematic Misdirection
Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet? Even if every person in the United States did everything the movie suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75 percent worldwide.
A great sentiment in that paragraph, but a little hard for me to stomach because the advocacy of the man-made global warming scam is at the forefront of the global governance movement(along with the economy- see previous post).
A great part of the scam these days is to divert time energy and resources into fighting non-issues like AGW, issues that are seen as a ‘global crisis’ requiring ‘global solutions’.
Or let’s talk energy. Kirkpatrick Sale summarized it well: “For the past 15 years the story has been the same every year: individual consumption—residential, by private car, and so on—is never more than about a quarter of all consumption; the vast majority is commercial, industrial, corporate, by agribusiness and government [he forgot military]. So, even if we all took up cycling and wood stoves it would have a negligible impact on energy use, global warming and atmospheric pollution.”
Great sentiment in the article, author just needs to be brought up to speed on the various scams that are corollary to the thesis that we are being diverted.
The author says we are being misdirected with non-solutions, I say we are being misdirected with non-problems.
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