In a detailed letter dated October
30, 2018 to the faculty members of the MIT Program in
Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, a natural science faculty that
appears to be among the prominent stewards of the idea of putting
imperial science in the service of empire, I had briefly outlined the
common man's commonsense thusly:
Of course, no sensible person, let alone a science professor at MIT,
will think not to first massively plant new trees and replenish
Rainforests and jungles on urgent war footings; not to first stop
cutting down trees for housing for the Western world that principally
uses timber for structures, and not to first stop clearing forests
for cattle-feed farming and agriculture, especially in the Amazon
basin and the Americas, that has pretty much drained the primary
cleansing sink of human generated CO2 in the delicately balanced
human-plant natural eco-system of earth.
Also, no sensible person will think not to first cut down on the
pollutants created by heavy industries and multinational
corporations; and not to first stop discharging pollutants into
rivers and streams in the developing nations where regulations are
not as strong as in the developed nations, whereby profit-optimizing
multinational corporations headquartered in the West, easily get away
with cost cutting short cuts of simply dumping many pollutants
outside their factories untreated that they can't do in developed
nations due to stricter laws and their stricter oversight.
If China is filling the air with industrial pollutants more than the
United States today, the bulk of the end products of that pollution
are still exported to the United States and Western countries. All
the iphones are made in China but the biggest market and beneficiary
is in America. The stock of the most valued company on earth, now
surpassing one trillion dollars, and headquartered in California,
USA, is traded on Wall Street USA. It goes up or down depending on
how many iphones will be sold.
So, what sensible person will not think of first enforcing
regulations at the parent source commissioning that pollution in
China, before the pollution even gets manufactured downstream and is
discharged into the environment 7,000 miles away?
What sensible person will not think that first all multinational
corporations manufacturing or harvesting in developing nations for
their lower labor costs and resource-richness, bear the cost of
discharging their environmental pollutants and waste byproducts as if
they were manufacturing in the advanced developed nations of the West
where they are headquartered, and pay for the cleanup cost for their
past sins?
After all, it is the same earth's atmosphere whether it is over
China, Bangladesh, or the United States of America.
MIT in its LEES Lab under the directorship of the late Professor
James R. Melcher, had focused on research and development of advanced
technological devices that clean up industrial effluents and air
pollutants before these are discharged into the oceans and
atmospheres, like the electrostatic precipitator, etc.
These high technologies take investment on the part of multinational
corporations to develop and deploy even after these have left the
research labs years ago, and why should they do that when they are
not forced to, due to the weak regulations and special concessions
under which they usually operate in poor nations? The burden then has
to be carried by the common man in these impoverished nations who
must suffer that cost in all its human and national dimensions, while
the stock prices of the multinational corporations go up when their
profit margins are higher, and the developed nations rejoice in their
economic success. That success, of greed and primacy, creates a
self-fulfilling prophecy for creating more environmental pollution –
why alter the recipe for higher profit margins, and economic hegemony
which comes with it, when one is not forced to?
Therefore, which sensible and moral human being concerned about the
environment would not address that most significant bit of the
matter first, by creating regulations for responsible manufacturing
and subjecting all multinational corporations to these standards
regardless of where they operate their industries, manufacturing
bases, and agricultural farms for global food production,
irrespective of whether manufacturing and work is subcontracted to
other local corporations or not, and irrespective of what local
incentives they might get from tin-pot governments and banana
republics who help in the rape and exploitation of their own
resource-rich and yet continually impoverished nations as surrogates
of the Economic Hit Men who craft these mega deals?
Which sensible intellect will not first institute accountability for
this mega corruption and exploitation upon the multinational
corporations by the fiat of new regulatory laws that define standards
for how multinational corporations must operate anywhere in the
world, despite these corporations also being the backbone of the
advanced military-industrial complex of the West that lends the
Global North its supremacy and primacy over the Global South?
All commonsense and goodness first principles for having a cleaner
global environment for all its peoples and future generations
regardless of any existential crisis today including global warming,
global cooling, climate change, or aliens landing.
But, just as no sensible person would think of living in a police
state just because it makes the most stable system of governance and
offers the most safety from common criminals, no sensible person will
also think to put human beings in growth chains and to enslave
mankind to the agendas of the elites in a global police state just to
get rid of the high levels of CO2 [ under the presumption of latter
day imperial science that uncontrolled and unregulated Green House
Gas emissions is the first cause of Global Warming ].
Well, I am happy to see that the UK Independent headlined on
Saturday
16 February 2019, the commonsense observation above of
planting trees to replenish rainforests on urgent war footings before
human beings are put into growth-chains and the world is turned into a
global police-state:
“Massive restoration of world’s forests would cancel
out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests!”.
The new
scientific discovery being: “New findings suggest trees are
'our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change', says
scientist”.
And the punch line being: “Trees
already store an enormous amount of carbon, and planting more would
suck more CO2 from the atmosphere”. Duh!
That needed a scientific study to conclude?
When will imperially funded scientists pick up on the rest of the
commonsense of the common man?
Oh, only after endless time spent in more scientific studies has
ceded a fait accompli!
The real impact of imperial science on both brilliant as well as daft
minds, is evidently to co-opt their commonsense.
Unless science is funded, great scientists evidently cannot even
think in commonsense terms. A well funded scientific study is needed
to conclude even the most obvious. And ten more studies shall
inevitably be funded by imperial science to conclude exactly the
opposite.
For more of the common man's commonsense unmasking imperial science
in the service of empire, see: Global
Warming / Climate Change has Become a New Religion - What's it all
About?.
A comprehensive Primer
on Global Warming For Intelligent People gets
into even greater depth of the common man's commonsense on science.
That this co-opted behavior, of Summun,
Bukmun, Umyun, is all pervasive wherever and whenever science is
put into the service of empire by hook or by crook, and not just in
this domain of earth and planetary science to diabolically orchestrate an earth-wide,
planetary level, one world government using fabricated global crises and fear-mongering as pretexts, see: Letter
to Editor Defending Science: Truly, the “hegelian mind fck”
is endless! .
Sigh!
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