The Big Day For the Most Important Number on Earth

One of the stunning, mind-bending scientific findings supporting the vital, world-threatening issue of global warming turns out to be that a temperature monitoring station that's painted a darker color, say, brown, records a higher average temperature than a lighter colored one, which tends to reflect more sunlight, and hence record a lower average temperature. But whether global warming is fiction or fact, one thing's for sure, the United States is going to end up foreign-owned unless we do something about the daily rate of consumption of imported petroleum-derived fuels in this country. We are very definitely petroleum-dependent, and if it's not the economic aspect of that situation, then you get into the political aspect, where people in oil-bearing third world countries are frequently the victims of some kind of politically related violence, or have to put up with government that's less-than-democratic which is in turn funded by the proceeds from oil sales revenues. Trees, flowers, and chirping birds are important, too, but in the macro-economic context, there's bigger fish to fry, there, in my view.

Oil companies are also going 'green', which in one way is a good thing, but there's always the question of motive, the oil business is pretty lucrative and that leave spare revenue laying around to spend on things like political action committees, so forth, and so on. What'd REALLY be great is if we figured out how to put a hydrogen car on the road, and retire gasoline, which has been in use now for something like 120 years or so, and prove we're smarter than an oil embargo. You could theoretically have a self-serve Mr. Hydrogen or somesuch, either at the town pump, or at your house, or for that matter, build one into the next-generation cars that run on hydrogen, and just have a water tap, and a 110V drop available for public use. But, cars that run on water, basically, spell curtains for the oil business in its' entirety, because people don't use that many garbage bags or plastic forks and knives anymore, or those novel-smelling storage bins(barf).

I think it's a great thing that we're researching new forms of energy, figuring out how to implement them in lieu of gasoline and diesel fuel, but you figure that in one way, it's also a moneymaker for the flourescent lightbulb factory, the auto industry, and, when it comes right down to it, the environmental movement is about politics, which generally pertains to two subjects, controlling the actions of other people, and (wait for it)......MONEY. Yes, the almighty dollar bill raises its' ugly serial-numbered head, and says: green is good. Enviro-politics and the legislation its' given rise to also gives government an overarching heretofore-unparalleled authority to impose ecological correctness on individuals and businesses, opening up a brand-new revenue stream for government in the form of fines and forcing the purchase of enviro-technology. Indeed, 'green is good' for some businesses, bad for others. The Environmental Protectionism Agency never had it so good, nor did the recycling companies. 'Yuppie' disposal services, though, aren't always what they claim, but, jobs for America...

An alternate viewpoint: If you pan back to the 'world view', and the Big Blue Marble sits and spins in all its' glory before you, envision what it'd look like with more resource wars, more smog, and about 13 billion people fighting over the last scrap of food, and, finding none, start in on each other. Kind of a vision of what would happen if the Orcs of 'Lord Of The Rings' took over, and I think most people would agree that that would be 'bad'. Maybe not as bad as the bad cinema that was AlBore's Inconvenient Powerpoint Presentation, but, right up there in the top 5.

I think, though, that anything that increases people's awareness of things like rapid resource consumption, pollution, so forth and so on, is a Good Thing. When people start paying more attention to things like fuel mileage, traffic congestion, whether or not they left the lights on before they left the house, how many appliances they're running at once, food waste, that kind of thing, if enough people do it, it can have a very positive impact on the situation overall. However, there's still kind of the issue of intellectual honesty, and I'd like to see more efforts from the other side, to go ahead and kind of challenge some of the findings, because again, with politics you are also talking about money, and factories need raw resources to produce hard goods for commercial and retail sale, and we've seen what various political lobbies have already done to the US employment outlook, and just because a bunch of sandal-footed collegiate illuminati declare this or that jaw-dropping 'fact' doesn't mean it should be automatically adopted as the Indisputable God's Gospel Truth. A lot of college types smoke a lot of dope, play around on the stock market, might have secondary motives for the contents of their findings, or just want to test the range of their PoliSci B.S. powers, so, let's keep one eye open, here, as it were.
Healthy skepticism is, in my belief, called for on this issue. That's my view, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

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