ECOLOGICAL MELTDOWN EVEN WORSE THAN FINANCIAL ARMAGEDON

A number of experts in the area of ecological apocalypse are pointing out that as bad as the economic meltdown could be the ecological situation is even worse. So as priorities go we cannot ignore the ecological meltdown just to pump up the economy.

In other words a lot of the so-called "green solutions" in energy are not green at all. This includes ideas like "clean coal", biofuels and anything else that still produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases but calls itself "green".

Big Oil is in a fight for its life and these folks seem to have little understanding of the science of human survival.

If the last decade teaches us anything it is that big oil and fossil fuel interests are running the United States energy policy. It may have been a meeting of these energy giants and Cheney that led to the most recent invasion of Iraq! Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Natural Gas have a stranglehold on the economy and politics of the United States.

If the fossil fuel industry continues to dominate the United States our ecological catastrophe will only be accelerated and certainly not prevented or ameliorated.

EXTREME MEASURES MAY SAVE HUMANITY AS WE KNOW IT

With the recognition that global warming is about twice as bad as we thought due to the phenomenon of "global dimming" we must come to terms with the fact that commonly circulated facts about global warming understate the problem to a significant degree.

Global dimming is the result of particulate matter in the atmosphere and aerosols the former which is certainly due to hydrocarbon combustion causes global dimming. Global dimming reflects a significant amount of light back into outer space. So average temperatures are going up even though more radiation is being reflected back into space than without carbon emissions.

So the various parties and classes upon mother earth might consider working together to save our common home, earth itself!

Otherwise it looks like the capitalist system is going to finish off the natural world and make life on earth a living hell. Temperatures will challenge the survival of human beings. Earth may end up too hot for us to handle.

So wise heads must arrange for the end of hydrocarbon combustion as principle means of transportation and energy production.

Who will lead the world to survival? Will it be the impoverished billions? Or will they simply perish as global warming destroys crops? Captitalist development, having forced so many into the working class. With no means to support themselves workers must either suffer and perish at the hands of a profit crazed capitalist system or take history into their own hands. Of course all classes, creeds and cultures will perish if global warming goes too far. Of course we hope to transcend this capitalist system and/or abolish any energy production that endangers our common heritage and our biological network, the living world around us.