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If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. — Prince Phillip, speaking for the World Wildlife Fund The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States — Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund. We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion — guilt-free at last! — Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue. Capitalism is destroying the earth — Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental — David Foreman, founder Earth First! If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy — Amory Lovins The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. —Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. —David Foreman, Earth First! Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. —Pentti Linkola The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. —John Shuttleworth What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. —Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. —John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. —John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing….This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run. —Economist editorial We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. —David Foreman, Earth First! Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. —Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First! If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS —Earth First! Newsletter Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. —David Graber, biologist, National Park Service The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. —Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.” —Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995 Poverty For “Those People” We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels. —Carl Amery Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. —Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem. —Lamont Cole If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered. —Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online magazine The Edge The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. —Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971) The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer. —Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968) I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. —Paul Ehrlich in (1969) In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. —Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970) Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity…in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion. —Paul Ehrlich in (1976) This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. —Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976 There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. —Newsweek, April 28, (1975) This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. —Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976 If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. —Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970) There are too many people. We ought to have a lottery where you have a 50% chance of drawing the short straw. If you draw it….you are offed. —Don Zobel ( 2007) Comment by author: This last one I term the Environmental Death Lottery.

My obvious reply " is there any way we can send him??? "  It would be a minimum of 16 months he would be gone. Obvious followup #1: Can he take Barack and Michelle with him?  Michelles tin foil hat will surely ward off cosmic rays Obvious followup #2: Better take Hillary too!  I can see her hitting the big red self-destruct button at NASA.  Mmmm…that gives me an idea. The confluence of mars mission crewmember list and Staples big read easy button makes it a no brainer to design the mission self destruct button.

There is one salient point you need to know.  America needs to drill drill drill everywhere there oil is suspected to be.  Oil supplies are tight in this world but it only takes a few million barrels of oil per day to make the difference between 150 dpb and 75 dpb.   Drilling in coastal waters and in Alaska in ANWR would make that happen easily. Some say well its too late the delay in getting the oil online would be 10 years.  Uh well yes the actual oil but what is driving prices up so rapidly now is oil FUTURES.  This you could affect instantaneously by letting it be known America is going to drill for oil with no holds barred. It appears it is going to require some time to convince the people that their current situation is self induced.  By electing politicians who champion fantasy causes like global warming they clearly state they are in a condition of extreme psychological denial.  Like Little Lord Fauntleroy’s they appear to think their special place in this universe is guaranteed by good looks alone.  They think by stomping their feet we can get the engineers to magically pull alternative energy sources out of their asses. The problem is if we have an alternative solution today it will take 10 years to implement in a meaningful way.  If its a dilute source of energy like windpower then its not going to affect oil futures contract prices. America is in for a long hard slog.   Here is an approximate time table. -1- Early 2009 - Barrack Obama is sworn in - dollar goes even lower. Oil goes higher -2- 2011 - Barrack Obama is shown to be the Jimmy Carter he is.  Impractical solutions leave the USA with conditions unimproved and 2 years have passed.  Oil is now at 300 per barrel.  Recession has already set it. Oil does not go down in price for Americans because they are using weak dollars to buy it. -3- Since 2008 there has been a growing crescendo to allow drilling anywhere and everywhere.  The electorate lets it be known no place is sacred we need the oil. -4- Oil starts coming online in 2016.  Serial hybrid cars are maturing to the point they are widely adopted into heavy user societies.   Oil prices  moderate to 150 dpb. -5- 2018 …by about 2018 an out of the blue energy development that NO bureaucrat could ever predict and no global warming religious adherent could ever force with a carbon tax will appear.  -6- 2020 Oil is made irrelevant by biotechnology and nanotechnology. The only problem is you have to hold your breath for 12 years.  We could reduce this by 2 years if we just as a people got smart about the situation.  What is the likelihood of that if we are set to elect a leftist as president.  No its obvious the suffering has only begun and it appears the american people will only be shed of the global warming fantasy only after much suffering.