Marti
Oakley, Contributing Writer
After decades of allowing industries to pollute at will all
in the name of those handy dandy “free markets” that are wrecking economies
around the world, and with a cacophony of individuals from all levels of the
economic spectrum crying out that those of us who objected to the rape, plunder
and devastation of everything in sight in the name of “profits” was just because
we didn’t want them to get rich, it comes as no surprise that the devastation
has reached a critical level. Only we aren’t allowed to blame the core
polluters, instead, the general public has been targeted.
As the level of
pollution of air, water and food along with the land became more obvious a new
movement appeared claiming that man-made global warming was the cause of
everything. Man-made was of course, you and me. Our very existence was what
was causing the claimed drastic change in the environment. Along came Al gore
and his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that although was quite alarming in its
assessments and predictions, turns out wasn’t really quite the truth at all.
But it was a tremendous catalyst for not only the global warming myth, but also,
just the right piece of propaganda to launch the new Cap & Trade (CONTINUE READING)
