What If "They" Are Prepared To Sabotage Climate Efforts For Religious Reasons?
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So when President Obama convenes his summit, the best strategy for him to take would be to do an emergency intervention with the fossil fuel industry. Which is not unlike those practiced with alcoholics. This would also mirror the types of actions taken by FDR as the country went into crisis mode in WWII. It is time to put them in executive-ordered treatment for their denial, and finally get their full and hearty cooperation with an all-out effort to completely transform the way we produce energy. Scientists have spelled out the consequences for the Earth and humanity should we fail to stop the use of fossil fuels as quickly as possible. Scientists need to be in the same room with the shareholders, the oil men, and anyone else who profits from the industry. This needs to happen until these people are convinced that their grandchildren will already be in dire circumstances at the rate things are going, and heaven help their great grandchildren. Given the time frame we face all of our available resources should be invested in new forms of energy. Which if the fossil fuel industry bothered to consider the business model, would eventually provide a profit to them. Even if it didn’t, humanity and the state of the Earth are at stake.
Tragically, there is a big reason why such an intervention might not work, and it’s not just about the huge profits of the fossil fuel industries. The oil and coal men need to be convinced of the need to make change and these are the American ones. As we all know, they control the behavior of the United States government through their blatant control of bought-and-paid-for legislators. These legislators then work strenuously to legislate only inaction on climate change by the world’s superpower. And the world waits for the United States to engage with them on tackling climate change. Why won’t these American oil men and their lackeys ever “respond to treatment” and break free of the delusion that there is no global warming, or that if it is happening, humans are not causing it and will adapt to it? Is it solely profit?
Perhaps not. As it happens, the majority of these oil and coal barons come from families in Texas, the Deep South, and, originally, Appalachia. A good many of them are and always have been evangelical Christians who likely believe we are in the End Times anyway. Some may even believe that if they can hasten that Armageddon, then the sooner the better. The more the scientists describe the floods; disease, drought, battles for resources, widespread extinction, destruction of the very ecosystems we need to live, and our possible extinction then it sounds to this crowd like a prophesy.To this crowd every apocalyptic prophesy come to fruition. Without the means to study the religious beliefs of the fossil fuel titans, this remains a hypothesis, but a compelling one.
Obama faces the greatest challenge a President has ever faced because humanity and the planet itself are both on the line. He needs the country and the world behind him. Instead, he faces a recalcitrant and ignorant blockade in order to progress. Could it be that beneath the surface these people are even hoping that these catastrophes will be realized in order to satisfy their fundamentalist beliefs about the second coming of their Messiah and the end of the world?
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http://www.politicususa.com/obamas-climate-change-strategy-thwarted-religious-fundamentalism.html
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