Excellent post. Keep it up!

Climate Change and Peak Oil
http://www.oilempire.us/climate.html

The mass media, politicians and most environmental groups do not want to ask why our society largely ignored the warnings about climate change. Few of them also consider how Peak Oil and global warming are two ways of looking at the same problem of overconsumption, since our monetary system is predicated on ever increasing growth.
The best analyses of Peak Oil and of global warming each conclude that the problem would have to be addressed a decade or two before it manifests at full strength – yet both problems are here, now. Perhaps the truth is that the shadow government (corporations and the military industrial complex) did not want to deal with these problems because the solutions are inherently decentralized and would require relaxation of centralized power control systems. Since we missed the opportunity to solve these issues as gently as possible, governments are instituting a global surveillance police state to suppress dissent as the oil that runs the show becomes more scarce and expensive, and climate change reduces available food and water supplies.

http://www.oilempire.us/gore.html

“Al Gore, Read Your Book”
– chant at White House protest, November 1993 by environmental groups opposed to the WTI toxic waste incinerator turned on in March, 1993 (Gore’s first broken promise as Vice President)

“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
– Edward Abbey

related pages:

Hillary Clinton worked for WTI’s funder Jackson Stephens and was on the Board of Directors of LaFarge Cement toxic waste incinerator
http://www.oilempire.us/hillary.html

Waste Technologies Industries (WTI), East Liverpool, Ohio: the Clinton / Gore toxic waste incineration scandal
http://www.oilempire.us/wti.html

The real issue is how and why the industrial system we are all a part of was unwilling and unable to make even modest shifts away toward efficiency (let alone toward sustainability).

Time’s Up?
We will always have “ten years” to solve climate crisis
Why Al Gore won’t admit the time for easy mitigation is long past

A Gorey Timeline

1973: Nobel Prize awarded to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for allegedly stopping the War on Viet Nam. Le Duc Tho declined to accept the prize since the war was still underway.

1979: Representative Al Gore votes to exempt the Snail Darter from the Endangered Species Act (a law signed by President Nixon) to get the Tellico Dam built in Tennessee.

1980: Jimmy Carter implicitly threatens nuclear war over Persian Gulf oil fields (the “Carter Doctrine”). Despite this, the shadow government undermined Carter’s re-election campaign via a secret deal with the Iranian government to delay the release of the US Embassy hostages until after the election (the “October Surprise”).

1988: Senator Gore holds Congressional hearings on global warming with NASA scientist James Hansen

1988: Senator Gore was the only Democratic candidate for President to support Reagan’s invasion of Grenada, promotes increased spending on nuclear weapons and foreign interventions

1988: Corporate funded environmental groups (NRDC, EDF) agree with Reagan/Bush administration to deregulate certain chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and rename them HCFCs not covered by restriction on ozone layer destroying substances.

1989: Senator Gore writes about the ozone layer destruction that “We cannot afford to wait another 15 years to clean it up.”

1990: United Nations Environmental Program warns we have a decade to address the environmental crisis. Smithsonian Institution’s Thomas Lovejoy and ocean expert Jacques Cousteau make similar warnings.

1992: Union of Concerned Scientists World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity states “no more than one or a few more decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost.”

1992: Al Gore published “Earth in the Balance,” which states “Modern industrial civilization, as presently organized, is colliding violently with our planet’s ecological system. …. we must take bold and unequivocal action: we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.”

1992: Al Gore elected Vice President, first promise after election is to block the opening of the Waste Technologies Industries (WTI) toxic waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio.

1993: Al Gore becomes Vice President, allows WTI incinerator to be turned on (March), promotes NAFTA Treaty instead.

1993: Environmental groups picket White House, chant “Al Gore, Read Your Book” to protest Gore sell-out about WTI toxic waste incinerator

1994: Clinton / Gore administration declines to promote environmental agenda while Democrats control both houses of Congress. A bill to protect the largest private old growth redwood forest passes overwhelmingly in the House, but is blocked by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) in the Senate. This bill would have protected all six old growth groves in the “Headwaters” forest, about 40,000 acres of second growth and clearcuts, and had money to hire unemployed loggers for reforestation and restoration.

1996: Before the election, Clinton / Gore made a deal with Charles Hurwitz, the corporate raider who owned Headwaters Forest (via his buy out of the Pacific Lumber Company). The Clinton/Gore Headwaters deal only protected two of the six old growth groves, a few thousand acres of buffer around the old forest, and no money for reforestation and restoration. Pacific Lumber was granted exemptions to environmental laws to destroy the rest of “their” forest.

1997: Vice President Al Gore attends Kyoto Treaty negotiations, refuses to push the United States to enact requirements to reduce pollutants.

1998: Clinton / Gore open up the Naval Petroleum Reserve on the Alaska North Slope to oil extraction (just west of Prudhoe Bay). Clinton/Gore pass the “TEA-21″ transportation bill, the largest expansion of the interstate highway system since Eisenhower.

1999: Clinton / Gore administration drop depleted uranium weapons on the former Yugoslavia.

2000: Presidential candidate Al Gore declines to stress environmental concerns during Presidential campaign, challenges vote counting in Florida but declines to demand a statewide recount and disenfrachisement of African American voters.

2001: Vice President Al Gore tells Congressional Democrats not to challenge fraudulent “Electors” from Florida, endorses the Bush / Cheney coup d’etat. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus dispute legitimacy of Florida Electors, but fail to attract a single Senator to co-sponsor their objection, so no debate about the fraud takes place.

2005: Department of Energy contracted “Hirsch Report” states industrial civilization would need two decades to be able to mitigate the impacts of Peak Oil. 2005 was the peak for “conventional” oil. In other words, despite his many flaws, Jimmy Carter was right – but the elites who run the show did not allow him to cope with the energy crisis.

2006: Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” states “we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe” from climate change. The film barely mentions his energy policies as Vice President.

2007: Al Gore awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his film.

Still, those of us like myself that have never owned a car, are playing our part. The more of us who do such the better, we can also slowly convince others to join us…

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer

There is a book I’m waiting for through my local library entitled, “In praise of slow : how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, by Carl Honore.

I saw Honore speak briefly on TVO, a programme called “Big Ideas”, I think.

He spoke of the the very same things as you – revitalizing alternative forms of cheap, non-polluting transportation and settling for a little bit less of the all that “stuff” our commercial society offers us.

We should “stop and smell the roses” more often, realizing that perhaps this is important as stopping to fill up with gasoline.

Why can’t our kids be happy unless they have the most recent video game version of NHL Hockey, when they already have versions of the previous four seasons?

Why do we have to eat a little more, drink a little more, travel a little more? Do things a little more?

Why can’t we just slow down and relax for a bit? I remember as a boy in smalltown Oshawa, Ontario, the place was locked down on Sunday. It was the day of rest, obviously stemming from religious tradition, but looking back I realize it was not such a bad thing.
Sunday was a day you didn’t worry about work or shopping or anything commercial. It was a “recess” from the “real” world.

The world needs to slow down its consumption…

Look at the old age, the old times. See the modes of transport available then. Maybe we need to revitalise them. We need to move backwards in order to stop the emission of carbons.

We need to advance in some areas, while we need too, in other areas, to go backwards. In this manner, we might be able to bring about a better balance in the use of all amneties and facilities and delay the causes of Global warming. We should not enjoy the best of both worlds. Give up some comforts and allow the benefits of a clean environment to come about.

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer

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