Deforestation is the second largest human contributor to global warming, accounting up to 17 percent of all green house gas emissions. Forests are important in reducing these pollutants. They “soak up” all the carbon dioxide that the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation produces. Trees act as safety nets, absorbing about 300 billion tons of carbon in the atmosphere released from these greenhouse gases. But every time trees are cut down to produce paper, furniture, roads, homes, or make room for cattle ranching they release toxic pollutants into the air. Image . . .
Project 2025: The earth is theirs to plunder again and rid a citizen’s want to see the stars
They will inundate the ranks with incompetent individuals, fools, and criminals, and contaminate the water and air, enriching the harvests of the Earth for a select few. — TJ Douglas
Henry Clement – Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, August 2023
By Henry Clement
If ancient times, hoards burned, pillaged, and raped their way through Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. It unsettled Indigenous people, but vastness absorbed the changes.
The extraction industry hoards of near yesterday and today have been low-teching their way through any coordinate unlucky enough to hold valued minerals, combustible materials, or consumable fish and fur to a conclusion that leaves lands the size of countries and ocean patches the size of provinces extirpated of an ability to function.
What does it look like?
Climate cycles speed up, and weather upends habitation, creating mass migrations that flood borders and invite chaos that ends in hatred and civil disobedience.
Deforested lands bleeding toxic waste into once-pristine rivers, whole regions of a self-balanced predator-prey stock destroyed, and democracies without institutions and checks and balances give way to anarchy, and the center cannot hold.
In the business of conserving our children’s heritage, we cannot afford to lose
For the big players in the extraction business—oil, gas, ores, clear-cut logging, minerals, coal, fisheries, and so on—the financial rewards are so great, and the technology so low-brow that all that has to be done is employ (old now) exploration geophysics technologies to find your treats. Big money from Moscow, Beijing, Malaysia, New York, and London, all wanting “more, more, more, more, more, more,” line up, drooling at the prospects.
An applied branch of geophysics that long ago mastered seismic, gravitational, magnetic, electrical, and electromagnetic waves at the surface of the Earth to measure the physical properties of the subsurface and the anomalies in those properties has guided the Robber Barons since the Industrial Revolution.
Our waste dump will always be reliable; you can count on us, sir.
We can all survive Captain Stupid, but not one of us without clean, drinkable water.
There has never been a mindful thought given to extraction mishaps like fouling water for centuries, destroying fisheries, destroying first peoples’ hallowed grounds, or stealing away life from millions of people.
In our common oceans, drones, spotter planes, and long lines empty entire coastlines from Africa to Virginia without care, devastating the economies of whole regions and leaving behind millions scratching the ground to produce protein for their children.
The plunderers take joy in destroying a habitat that took millions of years to perfect – liquidated in just a few short years – a cause for celebrating and bringing around drinks at the club.
Most Americans know that waste and corruption exist in our government and our capitalist society.
Clean coal burns with barely a wisp of smoke.
For example, New Jersey Congressman Menendez and Congressman Matt Gaetz, a past President and our current President, are guilty of criminal behavior. Some police officers are planting evidence and beating innocent people to death, HOA boards are robbing their neighbors, and not so remarkably, incompetence creeps into our society.
This small, rich city loves conservatism so much that it is bloated
Take Sandy Springs, Georgia’s overstaffed and underskilled Architectural Review Board. This board robs homeowners and contractors of millions each year by making unnecessary construction plan changes and inventing new building requirements that contradict already accepted standards.
Like bad referees in a game, they must intervene and spoil the experience for those who bought the tickets.
Based on a review of more than 1,200 peer-reviewed scientific studies and the input of hundreds of stakeholders, the Obama-era regulation was meant to protect our nation’s waterways from pollution and determine which water bodies were subject to federal oversight. A 2015 survey found that 80 percent of Americans, including 94 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of Republicans, supported the rule. Image credit Surfrider Foundation.
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