Addressing the United Nations, in New York, in 1989, British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, pronounced a "threat to our global environment”, a matter of such “urgency and importance” that there would be no time to speak about anything else on the day.
She continued her speech with a story of British scientist - Charles Darwin, landing at Tahiti, in the year 1835, eating breakfast, then climbing a hill to survey the coastline, whereupon he had a scientific revelation and began to formulate a coral reef theory. Mrs Thatcher then took her turn to theorise - what if Darwin could orbit the earth in a space shuttle? What would he think? This was a well-crafted speech. She had already suggested what was real and what was not.
Back to 1989 reality, as it were, and the prospect for mankind did not look good. He was burning a hole through an ozone layer by adding Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. To make matters worse, tropical rain forests, which were uniquely able to remove CO2 from the air, were being destroyed at an alarming rate. Polar caps could melt, hurricanes and droughts could be “often and severe”. “It was a prospect of “irretrievable damage to the atmosphere, to the oceans, to earth itself”, she warned.
“As well as the science”, she went on, “we need to get the economics right. We need to generate the wealth in order to pay for the protection of the environment”. She elaborated “We must resist the simplistic tendency to blame modern multi-national industry for the damage which is being done to the environment….far from being the villains, it is on them that we rely to do the research and find the solutions. The market itself acts as a corrective. The new products sell and those which environmental damage, are disappearing from our shelves". The economic and industrial powerhouses of the world would must have been pleased.
She asked for a “strong framework for international action”. Frameworks and protocols had already been created a few years earlier with the Vienna conference on Climate in 1985 and the ‘Montreal Protocol’ in 1987. She was requesting these be binding for every nation with “effective regimes to supervise and monitor their application”.
A new religion was launched that day. A new construct to control the little people of the world - to penalise them for not using the latest environmentally-friendly products, to add to their debt burdens. Governments were told what they must do. Today 195 countries are signed up to the Montreal Protocol. That is one world government.
You must have an environment friendly home, fridge, car, light bulb, phone, TV, and don’t be surprised to learn that the product does not meet environment friendly standards in a few years’ time. Countries are penalised for their ‘carbon footprint’. In 2016, Ireland had to pay €400 million. Little Ireland, up to our necks in debt and we have to pay for this bullshit? Speaking of which, more recently, cows are also being blamed. Farming schemes are in place to reduce their natural emissions. Dr Juergen Voegele of The World Bank lauded Ireland’s “good cows” at a conference in 2015. They are mocking us.
Hyperbolic language is abound on the subject. Barrack Obama talked about “war on climate”. Noam Chomsky says we are “racing to the precipice”. Leonardo DiCaprio fights back the tears at the United Nations and on National Geographic documentaries. Regular summits on the matter. Urgency growing by the day.
It is a scam on the population to belittle, frighten and en-debt them. The idea that mankind is responsible for increasing temperatures on earth to any significant degree, by burning oil is a lie. Earth has been cooling and warming since year dot.
There is little to no critical thinking in the world today. It seems if people are informed through their favourite broadsheet or what they consider a reputable TV channel, then it must be true. Should we be cutting down tropical forests and polluting land and oceans? Of course not. But these things need to be put into perspective. Relatively local pollutant issues are being deliberately conflated with the general idea that mankind is responsible for warming up our environment and putting fear and burden on an already indebted population. Shame on those who understand the scam and perpetuate it.
In the 1970s we were apparently heading for an ice age, now we are going to fry. If we are in a warming phase, then no one can predict when that will change. As it goes, the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.3 °C in 1887 and some of us would not mind seeing it beaten sometime soon.