Your Questions About Green Living

Why do righties always go ape over George Soros?

What has he done? Certainly not all of this.

The Koch brothers’ influence empire
A list of right-wing action groups and think tanks
This list of organizations is long but they have one common thread: promoting an antitax, antiregulatory ideology that will ultimately gut government’s ability to
ensure markets functioning properly for everyone and protect consumers against abuses in the system. In addition to promoting this right-wing ideology, some of the
groups on this list, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, seek to undermine the science behind climate change. Indeed, many of the policies these organizations
promote not only further a right-wing ideology but they also increase profits for Koch Industries.
Cato Institute—$13,887,640 Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research—$300,000
Citizens for a Sound Economy2—$12,356,712 Environmental Literacy Council—$287,516
George Mason’s Mercatus Center—$9,674,500 Property and Environment Research Center—$258,144
Americans for Prosperity Foundation—$5,610,781 Center for Equal Opportunity—$240,000
Heritage Foundation—$4,115,571 Institute for Energy Research—$237,000
Institute for Humane Studies—$3,630,091 Atlas Economic Research Foundation—$221,100
Bill of Rights Institute—$3,070,909 Ethics and Public Policy Center—$190,000
Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas—$2,617,842 Citizens for Congressional Reform Foundation—$175,000
Institute for Justice—$2,615,000 Frontiers of Freedom Institute—$175,000
Reason Foundation—$2,516,521 Texas Public Policy Foundation—$174,500
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship—$2,481,786 The Phillips Foundation—$165,000
Federalist Society—$2,058,999 John Locke Foundation—$134,472
Institute for the Study of Human Origins—$2,035,912 Fund for American Studies—$133,650
American Enterprise Institute & Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory
Studies—$1,979,400
James Madison Institute—$121,924
Manhattan Institute—$1,575,000 John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy—$120,086
Washington Legal Foundation—$1,457,500 Young America’s Foundation—$107,500
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education—$1,400,000 Leadership Institute—$101,500
Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment—$1,385,500 American Council on Science & Health—$101,000
Competitive Enterprise Institute—$700,499 Laffer Center for Global Economic Growth—$100,000
National Center for Policy Analysis—$672,000 Association of Private Enterprise Education—$98,500
American Legislative Exchange Council—$668,858 Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives—$93,903
Capital Research Center—$665,000 Center for Independent Thought—$92,500
Tax Foundation—$637,369 National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Legal Foundation—$88,000
Independent Women’s Forum—$485,000 Carbon Dioxide & Global Change Center—$85,000
International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics—$440,000 Mackinac Center for Public Policy—$84,151
Acton Institute—$416,250 Market Based Management Institute—$82,500
Fraser Institute—$373,721 Media Institute—$80,000
Pacific Research Institute—$370,000 Heartland Institute—$77,578
American Council for Capital Formation—$325,000 Goldwater Institute—$75,000
George C. Marshall Institute—$310,000 Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation—$65,000
10 Center for American Progress Action Fund | The Koch Brothers
The Koch brothers’ political-influence empire
A list of right-wing action groups and think tanks
Libertarian Review Foundation—$60,000
Americans for Tax Reform—$60,000 Students in Free Enterprise—$30,000
Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions—$55,946 Center for Excellence in Education—$27,500
Center for Freedom & Prosperity Foundation—$54,266 Ayn Rand Institute—$25,000
National Tax Limitation Foundation—$50,000 International Policy Network—$25,000
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law—$50,000 Becket Fund for Religious Liberty—$20,538
Free Enterprise Education Institute—$45,000 Atlantic Legal Foundation—$20,000
South Carolina Policy Council—$45,000 Institute for Political Economy—$20,000
Center for Individual Rights—$40,000 Media Research Center—$15,005
Texas Justice Foundation—$40,000 Future of Freedom Foundation—$10,000
Foundation for Economic Education—$38,267 Pacific Legal Foundation—$10,000
National Taxpayers Union Foundation—$37,500 Foundation for Human Development—$5,000
Institute for Policy Innovation—$35,000 American Spectator—$4,500
Critical Review Foundation—$33,000 Galen Institute—$3,590
Hudson Institute—$32,650

So I guess I’m saying you really have no right to bring Soros up.
Oh please, who are you referring to and yes the Koch’s have their influence peddlers permeating everything.

FDR’s WPA: What should Obama do?

Millions were unemployed in the 1930s. FDR instituted the WPA – a U.S. government employment agency that helped build infrastructure across the country. Los Angeles’ Colisseum was built by the WPA.

Obama should institute something similar, both to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure (e.g., the fallen bridge in MN) as well as in alternative energy.

The Oil Crash: Who’s prepared?

The latest measurements confirm that the world’s oil and natural gas supplies are running out too fast. At some time between 2010 and 2020 the world’s supply of oil and gas will fall below the level required to meet international demand.

The US government is aware that we are about to endure a disastrous international energy shortage. According to Dr James McKenzie, a senior member of the climate change programme at the World Resources Institute in Washington, USA: “That’s why we went to war in Iraq.”

We always knew the world’s oil reserves would run out eventually. The oil was formed by natural geological processes which occurred over millions of years. Oil consumption presently exceeds 25 billion barrels a year and demand continues to spiral upward, out of control. The outcome is inevitable.

In the 21st Century we rely on oil (petrol) and gas for transport – cars, lorries, ships, aircraft – as well as electrical power. We cannot survive without oil and gas, and when the supply runs out the great engine of Western civilization will finally grind to a halt. We are heading for an event that will be remembered as one of the great disasters of human history, and life is going to get harder for everybody as the day of reckoning draws nearer.

In the years ahead, wars will be fought over oil and fuel as the oil-dependent superpowers struggle in vein to preserve our unsustainable way of life. We are entering a period of great change and there are be difficult times ahead. The process has already begun. Students of prophecy will be familiar with certain relevant verses from Christian scripture concerning the signs of the end times (Matt. 24.8; Mk 13.8, Rom. 8.22; Rev. 12.03, 21.1-4). As it was translated in 1961 in the New English Bible: “With these things, the birth pangs of the new age begin” (Mt.24:8; Mk.13:8). Whether you are religious or secular, you should be aware that the tide of history is turning.

In North America, where we use far more oil than anywhere else on Earth, the vast majority (71%) of electrical power generation is entirely dependent on fossil fuels – coal (52%), gas (16%), and oil (3%). The world’s natural gas is running out along with the oil, and the coal supply is not unlimited either. Nuclear energy contributes only one-fifth to the US power network, and 7% of power is hydroelectric. Only 2% of US electricity production is from renewable sources. As we continue to burning up the world’s dwindling fossil energy sources at a terrifying rate, we simultaneously unleash catastrophic damage to the natural environment.

The Insider recently reported a wave of four major electrical power outages which struck the US; then the UK; followed by Denmark and Sweden; and then Italy, Switzerland, Austria and France. The effects only lasted a few hours, but each case was the biggest power failure in the history of the affected country. These massive power cuts were separated by a matter of days. The governments were only practicing this time. This is just the beginning.

It would be prudent to pursue alternative energy sources before it is too late, but the oil corporations will never allow this to happen. So important is oil as a resource that it brings great wealth and power to those who control it. Consequently, our corrupt politicians, whose power is lavishly funded with oil money, prefer to serve the short-term interests of greedy oil executives than the long-term interests of ordinary people like you. But as long as we have food in our bellies and entertainment to keep us busy, why should we care? Thus, it is the immorality and indifference of our species that ultimately leads to our own demise.

Nothing lasts forever. Like all the great civilizations in the past, ours has a limited life-span. A few years from now the Westernized world will reach the point where there is no longer enough fuel to sustain civilization in its present form. This will literally be the end of civilization as we know it.

Is climate change really even an environmental issue?

I didn’t source these quotes because they are freely available all over the Internet. I also didn’t check every one to see if it’s authentic. However, just based on how often they show up, I’m going to assume that at least the large majority are and that’s enough for you to answer the question.

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“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme

“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment

Quote from Club of Rome: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention….and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself….believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose.”

Quote by Al Gore, former vice president: “Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.”

Quote by Maurice Strong, a primary power behind UN throne: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

Quote by Jeffery Sachs, Columbia University, Director of The Earth Institute: “Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments…free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to ‘tell us what kind of car to drive’. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do…and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.”

Quote by Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth: “A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.”

Quote by David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!: “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 acres of presently settled land.”

Quote by Louis Proyect, Columbia University: “The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now.”　

Quote by Michael Oppenheimer, major environmentalist: “The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”

Quote by Barack Obama, “All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster”.

Quote by David Graber, scientist U.S. Nat’l Park Services: “We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.”

Quote by Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC: “Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen.”

Quote by Al Gore, former vice president: “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

Quote by Stephen Schneider, Stanford Univ., environmentalist: “That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”

Quote by Amory Lovins, scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute: “Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a

Is this why Democrats want to push through cap and trade before the end of the month.?

Cap and Trade is being shoved through because of “man made” global warming. Al Gore has refused to debate this theory (yes, I know what a theory is) and told Congress last month that “this is the single most important piece of legislation ever.” Of course, Al Gore’s business has invested over 1 billion dollars in “clean” technology and carbon credits so he just may be “wishful”, if not just greedy. (My opinion)

However, the Earth actually appears to be cooling and the man made global warming “theory” is being questioned by more scientists everyday. Of course, the liberal media machine of NBC (who is owned by GE, who will benefit from this bill as well…….) keeps the fear rolling, refusing to debate the issue, let alone question it.
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· Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren’t quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.

In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

I know this goes on to say that the Earth can cool for a few years, even in a cycle of global warming. (Imagine that….weather cycles!) I am all for alternative energy, as well as clean air and water. What I am opposed to is this cap and trade that is being shoved through under the guise of “man made” global warming, which will cause increased prices on everything from gas to food, and of course energy costs.(no to mention job losses)

This is even better……
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/09/arctic_aerosols_goddard_institute/

Is this the right time for this? What do you think?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25348657-401,00.html
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