Inside Bonner's Climate Letter Forgeries

If you want to trace back the environmental movement, you have to shift your view to a couple different countries, including Russia, Germany, Japan, and, of course, the United States, because we're pretty much at the top, globally, in terms of energy consumption, although China's rolling right up behind us. People got tired of 3-headed fish, spontaneously combusting watercourses, buildings and clothing and everything else covered in coal dust, acid rain burning the leaves off the trees, and carcinogen-laced drinking water.

For a long while, nobody really understood, hence cared much about The Environment. Now, everything's got a 'green' label, you've got green cars, green parties, green government, so forth, and so on. And, now that we're on this national/global environmental guilt trip, and realize what eco-criminals we truly are, raping the earth, and all, then all's well with the world, right? Riiight.

I think there's 3 different environments to consider, here, the physical, the one with the 3-headed fish and all that, the political environment, and the economic environment.

The human 'load' on the environment(physical) isn't going to go away tomorrow. There's approximately 6.8 billion of us, as of this writing(29 oct), everyone would like to consume about a pound of food per day, charge the cellphone, run the fridge, and have gas to put in the Lexus. Well, not everyone, because not everyone has a cellphone, or a lexus, or a refrigerator, but most people have become accustomed to eating on a regular basis, some have become VERY accustomed to that, sort of well-rounded, in that department, while others are rail-thin, doing without, can't read, have no future, so forth and so on(when you get done with your eco-guilt trip, you can start working on world hunger, there).

Can we make it all better, try though we might? Well, it's a tall order. We can do some basic things, like conservation, like education, like alternatives development, but most people are generally resistant to having The Government(or anyone else) lecture them on how to live. You can't wave a magic wand, and make countries that treat their citizens in despotic fashion immediately start instead treating them with respect, or caring for the needs of their public, you can't ever hope to feed a world that's still following a very Catholic, very archaic 'go forth and multiply' family ethic, despite strong evidence that it's time to drop that down to incrementing by one, and you can't stop folks from living the high life they're accustomed to. It's not gonna happen. The world is full of problems and iniquities and inequalities, but there's also smart people that are passable problem-solvers with a little ingenuity up their sleeves, and a willingness to help. Ah, but the road to hell is PAVED with good intentions, and the bodies of people that tried to thwart social progress, and there's nothing worse for the environment than people that've decided to take the law into their own hands, and implement their own personal brand of social change.

I think the people that deserve the most credit are the folks that try to blunt the impact, or to put back in exchange for that which has been taken away, to wit, plant a tree for each one that's cut, better yet, plant two, and tomorrow, there will be trees. For every fish, hatch ten more. For every gallon of water polluted, purify ten, that kind of thing, meaning that you'll never probably really get rid of pollution, but you can drastically curtail its' impact, and that's the whole thing they talk about with carbon, and, in this story, talking about coal. But, everytime we walk, we leave a carbon footprint, for we ourselves are partly composed of carbon, and we exhale CO2 each time we breathe. Should we stop breathing, stop moving, ro save the enviornment, do you REALLY see that happening?
I don't, I think some part, at least, of the environmental movement is nothing more than some emotional and political chic, meaning that basically, it's the latest fad, but when it comes right down to it, everyone wants everyone else to stop what THEY are doing, to make it all right.

Now, after the 3-page preamble, let's talk about money. Pollution is primarily the byproduct of industrial production. Industrial production translates into english as people making stuff, and earning money doing it, typically in some kind of factory setting. And that, Billy, is why your socks were Made In China, because the folks in China aren't complete idiots, and they know a good deal when they see one, and just because the NIMBY's in the US don't want to look at smokestacks is no reason for them to shut down THEIR economy. Lobbying for pollution-free production of commercial retail and industrial goods is asking for something for nothing, and there's no such thing as a free lunch. Take one average household item, say, a pen. Ok, what is it, it's a piece of plastic, with the middle hollowed out, and there's another piece of plastic in the middle, with ink in it, and a metal tip with a ball on it, and with one of those, you can deface a thin sliver of nature's beauty, you heartless eco-criminal, you. What had to happen, what had to be built, in order for you to commit that unspeakable act? Well, someone had to buy a barrel of oil, refine it, purify it, extract out the hydrocarbon components necessary to make plastic, finally heating it up, pouring it into a mold, allowing it to cool, then repeating the process to make the ink reservoir, and then there's the manufacture of the ink itself. Sounds like a lot of industrial activity, and we only have a pen, no paper, yet. In that situation, you're stuck with your 'redneck PDA'. Now, to get you that piece of paper, someone's got to cut down a tree, transport it a fair distance, then feed it to a sawmill, which feeds it to a pulp mill, so forth, and so on. Then there's the packaging, shipping, fuel for the truck, power for the store, yep, you haven't even written anything yet, and they've already deforested 56 third-world countries. You are SUCH a criminal. Oh, wait, everyone else is doing it, and they write notes all the time, and they live their lives, and don't give a tinker's dang, because that's the way it's been all their lives, and that's how you make money, by selling pens, notepads, computers, cars, and and and...and I don't believe a word out of anyone's mouth on the issue of the environment, on simple account of all the money involved. To REALLY 'go green' is to commit economic suicide, nationally, for the sake of some little bird. Everyone wants super-clean air, pristine clear sparkling water, but the reality is, people also want paychecks with which to buy their daily bread, for lack of room to grow the wheat to harvest and process and bake for themselves. Here we are, in an industrial society that was started hundreds of years ago, and sure, we could forswear this, that, and the other, but the wiser choice would probably be to simply be much more shrewd in how we consume what we consume, and conserve when possible.

There, lecture's over, politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths, it's a job requirement, and we're talking about billions of dollars here, carbon credits and cap-and-trade and bait-and-switch, and the whole 9 yards. Keep one eye open, and one hand on your wallets, kids!

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It is absolutely unforgivable that any nation should have its policies, economy and its people manipulated by special interest groups. By acting in these ways these groups have, in my opinion, demonstrated criminal intent. Free speech is one thing, but these underhanded tactics deserve nothing less than to be treated as treasonous criminal acts.