Elaine Meinel Supkis
The Japanese bribed a number of countries into voting for killing whales while a USA court prevents the Pentagon from torturing marine life to death with high volume screeching sonar. The empire's military/industrial wing is at war with all marine life. Meanwhile, yet another pundit claims we can't change our ways so why bother dealing with global warming even if it is killing all marine life. Sigh.
Pro-whaling nations have won their first vote towards the resumption of commercial whaling for 20 years.
The International Whaling Commission meeting backed a resolution calling for the eventual return of commercial whaling by a majority of just one vote.Japan said the outcome was "historic", but it does not mean a lifting of the 1986 ban - that would need support from three-quarters of the commission.
The sea is our cornucopia and we intend to raid it until there is nothing left except a hot, acid bath peppered with vicious typhoons and mega-waves. Why humans think we can devour everything and anything in our paths and still survive baffles me.
This war on sea life is really a war. And as we set up systems to protect ourselves from each other as all military systems race to make it possible to make sneak attacks since WWIII will last only a few hours, everyone is developing nasty security systems that kill marine life.
Blasting out the ears of all marine life is deadly and should be outlawed.
By ROBERT McCLURE
P-I REPORTERThe Navy is forbidden to use an intense form of sonar -- known to have spooked Puget Sound orcas in the past -- during combat exercises this month in the Pacific, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Environmentalists suing to halt the sonar use offered "considerable convincing scientific evidence" that the exercise would harm or even kill whales, porpoises and other marine creatures, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled in Los Angeles in granting a temporary restraining order.
The powerful military/industrial complex managed to get themselves out from under many EPA laws. The excuse, they are protecting America, is hollow. As previous news stories here on this blog has clearly shown, there is little, nay, vanishing interest in protecting the USA but immense interest in protecting the military/industrial complex's profit margins. Any protection system that kills what it is protecting isn't protection, is it?
Namely, saving America by making it and the planet uninhabitable is stupid. There is no point to being safe if you die! Just this last month our government practiced going into deep caves to see if they could still control the government after annihilating the planet in a nuclear war. Whoopee. That fatal war will pretty much eliminate humans except at the most remote corners where they will revert to stone age conditions.
This sonar business is very annoying. If we seriously were against NK shooting rockets that make a red glare as bombs burst in the air, and if we were really serious about Iran having what we have, we would disarm ourselves. And China and Russia. Then there would be no need for super-duper sonar that even fishermen can hear as it blasts away, fish flipping out of the water in agony, sea mammals screaming and dying. If we got rid of nukes there is no fear of nuclear subs shooting nukes, right?
Right! But America loves power and wants it even if it means death. And our lust for endless power so we can live comfortable lives inside of elaborate technological bubbles means poisoning the entire planet.
Well, so it has. In three decades of columns, I've never quoted myself at length, but here it's necessary. Al Gore calls global warming an "inconvenient truth," as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. That's an illusion. The real truth is that we don't know enough to relieve global warming, and -- barring major technological breakthroughs -- we can't do much about it. This was obvious nine years ago; it's still obvious. Let me explain.
The rest of this column is drivvel. One of the most curious things I encounter is the fatalism of those who are destroying the planet as fast as possible. They just don't want to stop. Even knowing they are killing the planet, they whine that there has to be some technological system set up so they can use infinite energy and resources on themselves or they won't stop destroying the planet.
This childish attitude is a strong part of our personalities. The entire Samuelson column never mentions resource limits such as the Hubbert Oil Peak and how world energy prices will go up and up and up as more and more people are shipped down into the lower depths to live without anything even as the elites squander energy upon themselves. The common American assumption is, if it costs too much to put in solar energy panels or wind generators then we will just burn coal and the climate be damned. And we will drive fat SUVs even if this means burning the world's food crops. We want to drive in comfort, so what if we starve people to death.
So we cling to our fateful lifestyles and cling to our fatal nukes and continue to destroy the only planet we live on: earth.
And this is a most inconvenient reality.
"If we seriously were against NK shooting rockets that make a red glare as bombs burst in the air, and if we were really serious about Iran having what we have, we would disarm ourselves."
To what end? "Hey! We're all disarmed now! You can attack us if you want to - after all, we deserve it!"
Posted by: JSmith | July 05, 2006 at 10:17 AM
So, you scared of NK? Heh. Meow.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | July 05, 2006 at 01:32 PM
It's great to hear from you and see what you've been up to. In your blog I feel your enthusiasm for life. thank you.
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