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Scholars for 9/11 Truth: What is Happening to Our World?

Global Warming [Heating]
The temperature is rising; the ice and mountain glaciers are melting; sea levels are rising; destructive storms and floods are devastating our lives.

Annually we are pumping more than 14,000,000,000,000 pounds of carbon [6.36 billion metric tons - more than 30 times the combined weight of the world population] into the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production.

Global Warming, the chief legacy of industrial civilization, threatens the fabric of life on the planet. If global temperature continues to rise at currently predicted rates, our remaining life support systems will start collapsing like dominos in our lifetime.

The biggest challenge facing our generation now is how to save our life support systems from the looming cataclysms caused by Global Warming [Heating]. Our primary (and secondary) efforts must be focused on ways to stop or substantially reduce the emission of green house gasses (which are causing global warming) into the atmosphere. Doing anything else would be tantamount to misplaced concreteness.

How can the emission of green house gases to the biosphere be prevented (or substantially reduced) in the current milieu?

[Comment] Peak oil means rising oil cost.  Rising fuel prices will increase demand for more fuel-efficient cars. Which makes alternatives more competitive.

[Reply] In the Wall Street chrematistics that formula might appear to be correct; however, in reality we depend on the ecosystem to sustain life. Everything we do is governed by time, and we haven’t got much time left. To wait for the invisible hand to correct the energy market (while we continue to pump 100 million tons of green house gasses into the atmosphere each day) is simply not an option.

[Comment A] We can promote production of hybrid vehicles and reduce the appeal of gas-guzzling vehicles.  Visually stimulating, strong-impact television ads portraying the fragility of Earth and our responsibility to "clean up our act" can be more effective than the multitude of consumer ads.  

[Comment B] The Honda and Toyota Hybrids are back ordered 6 months already.

[Reply] There are some 600,000,000 cars registered worldwide. Tremendous quantities of energy are used to manufacture this horrendous industrial apocalypse. More energy is used to ship the cars to every corner of the globe, produce spare parts, and service them. Millions of trees are killed making room for thousands of miles of roads, streets and highways.  Millions of acres of land are spoiled building parking lots, garages…  

Then there is the issue of disposal: millions upon millions of used tires, old batteries, car bodies, doors, panels, axels, engines... litter the planet poisoning the ecosystem. So the issue is not just that of the gas guzzling cars versus the hybrids; it is the sheer number of vehicles that are choking the planet both on and off the road.

[Comment] We are starting to see the impacts of Global Warming in your communities (4 year in a row of record low production of Maple Syrup in Vermont).  This raises peoples awareness and motivates them to change.”

[Reply] Unfortunately, people have short memories, and the ability to "ignore, marginalize, or otherwise disregard unhappy facts that contradict a lifetime of mythical attachment to a satisfying dream."  [TM Smith, Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse.]

Q. Is there any hope for the future?

A. The issue is not whether there is any hope for the future, but that the future is the only one we've got and must reclaim it TODAY.