It's into this landscape that Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" adds another perspective about the enviro-movement. It is a novel and it takes poetic and plot license to make its case. But he tells his readers in the introduction that is has footnoted his claims and assertions and has researched extensively to support his protagonists' conclusions. This unusually detailed research for a novel separates it from often selectively documented "science" distributed by enviro-extremists and politically cleansed researchers.
Crichton tells his readers that the enviro-movement gained its footing at the end of the Soviet Union and the cold war. He asserts it filled the void of fear that seemed to fade once multiple nuclear warheads were said to no longer be pointed at most major cities of the world. Fear is what he believes allows elites and government types to control the masses. And he may be right.
My view is more complex. I too feel that fear is required to keep the masses from feeling independent enough to take responsibility for themselves. A good example is the fear of poverty at retirement. So the government takes almost 20% of our income for social security and Medicare/Medicaid. Yet more than 6 million government employees opt out of social security to benefit from the stock market for their retirement investments. And millions of the opt-outers will retire with as much as 7 times greater distribution than the rest of us while they then enter the workforce for a decade to be able to double dip from our social security. But they keep us believing in social security due to Fear!
And there's more. The strengthening of the enviro-movement at the end of the cold war was no coincidence. We all love conspiracies so this one gives me the chills. When you dissect the enviro-coalition, you find a preponderance of politically motivated groups. There are the socialists; the communists; the greens; the anti-corporation crowd; the anti-private property crowd; and more. These groups never paid as much as an iota of attention to the environment. In fact, socialist and communist movements have for a century forsaken the environment to gain military strength. Can you spell Chernobyl? Yet, most established enviro-organizations are today controlled and managed by mostly recreational socialists, communists, and especially atheists.
What took place was a shift of paradigm from world socialism at the point of the gun to world socialism by envirowars. What better way to disrupt an exploding global economy where as many as 4 billion persons are participating in improving their lives. In fact, the end of the cold war unshackled a slumbering US economy so that it has since almost tripled in GDP. The US expanded it's economy by over $500 billion in 2004 while France struggled to reach a $1.8 trillion GDP. Just imagine that America's economic growth was almost equal to one third of the total French productivity. No wonder they hate and fear us.
The liberal elite of America and of the old Europe joined to craft a strategy of slowing economic growth in the United States by creating an environmental crisis affectionately calling it Global Warming. And what do they attack first? Carbon Dioxide! It is the building block of life itself. And as every pot grower can tell you, it spurs plants to grow like weeds. That's why I hear growers buy CO2 cylinders to feed their plants that then explode in size. Yet while CO2 is critical to our planets very existence, the enviro-warriors decided to select it as the cause du jour for climate change. Why? Because it is created by power plants and cars. Both are tools of the economy that must be diminished.
The fact is when CO2 increases in the atmosphere, plants worldwide grow faster; they grow stronger; they resist infection and insects better; need much less fertilizer because CO2 is plant food; and most of all require as much as 50% less irrigation. Greater CO2 increases plankton growth in the oceans which starts an explosion of sea life up the food chain. This then leads to healthier forests, greater crop production, fewer insecticides and much less fertilizer use. And the animal world explodes with greatly expanded food supplies that strengthen species and assist them resisting disease.
Crichton explains the CO2 myth very well. He analogizes that the atmosphere is a football field 100 yards deep. After nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases are accounted for, carbon dioxide amounts to less than an inch of field. And the recorded increase in CO2 accounts for less than a quarter of an inch OUT OF 100 YARDS. I calculate that increase to be about 1/14,400th of the atmosphere.
So why would the enviro-crowd want to hurt our planet? I say to slow the economy. This strategy doesn't veriate much from keeping the poor, especially minorities, from participating in the economy. They did that through controlling education and welfare. We saw what happened on the west coast when state governments choked the growth of electricity supply. And how California, Oregon, and Washington, spiraled into that period's worst state recessions. This mid-nineteen-nineties small scale test worked better than anyone believed. And there will be more.
The Kyoto Protocols are the foundation for slowing world economic growth and returning order to controlling the masses. And they lay the groundwork for world wealth redistribution through pollution fees and carbon trading. This is needed to appease nations that will then not show economic growth as they try to redistribute taxes and wealth to the poor today in America.
One sidebar is that State of Fear is not anywhere to be seen or heard about on the "has been" media or in newsprint. Why? I say it's because this book just might signal the first shot of a counter attack on the enviro-warriors and their campaign to slow economic activity.
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