"The Earth Is Not 100
Years Old"
From "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart, President of the
National Association of
Rural Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues
Ó Copyright
Sunday, November 9, 2014 - All Rights Reserved
NOTE:
We had no way to determine the outcome of the
November 4th election before the Wednesday after the election when the
following article was first published. This article therefore is a
substitute for what we would have written if we had known the outcome. We
will take up the results of the election in our next article and ask the
question, "Has Anything Really Changed?" However, the
substitution should not detract from the huge importance of this
article.
As published on
Newswithviews, November 5, 2014
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Although there were some good sides to
environmentalism, the truth is, environmentalism was created by the world elite
to enslave a planet for the purposes of controlling the population with millions
of environmental regulations and re-distributing the wealth from the rich
countries to the poor countries. This is the dream of those who promote
social justice, like Obama and the progressives, but social justice cannot be
realized without imposing the cult of environmentalism on all the people.
Environmentalism is imposed on the people through the policy known as the United
Nations Agenda 21 accord, established at the Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio de
Janeiro. President George H. W. Bush signed that accord, as did over 100
other countries. To learn a lot more about Agenda 21, log onto: http://www.narlo.org/agenda21.
Here are some excerpts from the Agenda 21
Preamble. Some of the passages are highly suspicious.
"Humanity stands at a defining
moment in history. We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities
between and within nations, (it's America's fault) a worsening of poverty,
hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the
ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being. However, integration of
environment and development concerns and greater attention to them will lead to
the fulfillment of basic needs, improved living standards for all, better
protected and managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. No
nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can - in a global
partnership for sustainable development.
Agenda 21 addresses the pressing
problems of today and also aims at preparing the world for the challenges of the
next century. It reflects a global consensus and political
commitment at the highest level on development and environment
cooperation. Its successful implementation is first and foremost the
responsibility of Governments.
The developmental and environmental
objectives of Agenda 21 will require a substantial flow of new and additional
financial resources to developing countries, (wealth
re-distribution) in order to cover the incremental costs for
the actions they have to undertake to deal with global environmental problems
and to accelerate sustainable development. Financial
resources (read from America) are
also required for strengthening the capacity of international institutions for
the implementation of Agenda 21.
In the implementation of the
relevant programme areas identified in Agenda 21, special attention should be
given to the particular circumstances facing the economies in
transition. (poor countries)
From the UN Conference on Human Settlements held
in Vancouver, BC Canada in 1976. (http://habitat.igc.org/
"Social, economic, ecological and
environmental deterioration which are exemplified at the national and
international levels by inequalities in living conditions, social segregation,
racial discrimination, acute unemployment, illiteracy, disease and poverty, the
breakdown of social relationships and traditional cultural values and the
increasing degradation of life-supporting resources of air, water and
land."
From that same conference the conferees
wrote:
"Land...cannot be treated as an
ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and
inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal
instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes
to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the
planning and implementation of development schemes. Public control of land use
is therefore indispensable...."
The UN meets all the time on the issue of Human
Settlements and their plans are diametrically opposed to the foundation of
American freedom and sovereignty. The UN met again in 2001 and produced a
policy paper that would curl your hair. It's hard to believe that the
Democrats wanted to pass this policy into American law. (see: http://www.narlo.org/
If you aren't getting the theme laid out here,
you aren't paying attention. To control the population on a planet-wide
basis, you have to create a crisis and you have to name the culprit that caused
the crisis. The alleged crisis is environmental degradation of the planet
and the guilty are all the people of the world, but especially Americans.
The goal is planet-wide control of everything by a so-called international
enlightened elite few. In order to lift up the rest of the world to some
arbitrarily acceptable living conditions, as defined by the international
enlightened elite few, it is absolutely necessary to confiscate the wealth of
the richer countries. In order to get the richer countries to willingly
give up their wealth, they have to be convinced that they are guilty of harming
the environment (global warming, etc.) and must pay
for their transgressions. The whole concept is ingenious. But it is
the greatest con ever perpetrated on mankind since the dawn of time, but
especially on Americans where property rights are the very roots of their
freedom.
The basic socio-environmental premise is, humans
are harming the environment and they must be severely regulated and the rich
countries heavily taxed. So let's examine the premise of the
environmentalists, as exploited by the so-called international enlightened elite
few. The question is, are humans irreparably harming the environment, or
is their negative contribution to the land, air and water miniscule in
comparison to what the earth can do and has done to itself? In order to
make this examination, you have to know a little about the life of the earth in
its 4.5 billion year life span. Remember, the earth is not 100 years old.
In a previous article we wrote:
"The Earth has endured sunspots,
reversing poles, shifting magnetic fields, drifting continents, asteroid and
comet collisions, and ice ages in its 4.5 billion-year history. It has
experienced the wondrous 165 million-year dinosaur experiment. Six hundred
million years ago, the "Cambrian explosion" occurred, when life almost magically
erupted, emerged and evolved at a pace never seen
before."
"Over its lifetime, the Earth spun,
tilted, heaved, shifted, rose and shrunk, drastically changed, expelled gases
and molten lava, grew hot and then cold. Continents drifted first toward each
other (Pangea) and then away. Polar ice caps and glaciers melted and sea
levels rose and then lowered."
"About 12,000 years ago, one-third
of the Earth's surface was covered in a layer of ice more than one mile
thick. During that ice age, which lasted longer than civilized man has
lived on Earth, there were no animals, plants, insects, or eco-system that could
survive in this harsh environment. But life on Earth still survived in
other places less hostile. The ultimate thaw and the rushing torrent
carved deep gouges and massive channels in the Earth's surface. It created
riverbeds and dry falls and lakes and inland seas and other features in the
Earth's crust, not there before. Now that was global warming on a grand
scale."
"Whole forests grew and then died
out. Mountains rose out of the bowels of the Earth, pushed up by
continents in collision and then flattened back into the crust. Rivers
changed direction. Monster lakes were formed. Giant meteors struck
the Earth at galactic speeds, carving massive holes in the crust and sending
continent-size clouds of sunlight-dimming dust into the atmosphere. The
atmosphere became opaque and cut off the life-giving sunlight, rendering
lifeless enormous parts of the planet. Millions of species of plants and
animals evolved, survived, reproduced and then died out, to be replaced by
entirely different species of plants and animals."
"However, major changes seldom
occurred in cataclysmic events. They almost always took place agonizingly
slowly, over eons of time, through the tedious, grinding, random, chaotic,
disorganized process of natural evolution. The variables were almost
infinite and still are."
"And today, those same agonizingly
slow processes are at work. We are an integral part of those processes but
we will have little or no effect on any final outcome. We will but only
tickle the grander elements such as the sun, the moon and the Earth itself, none
of which is predictable, much less measurable to the degree necessary for
accurate predictions."
How long has civilized man (now
there is an oxymoron) lived on this planet? About 5 to 6,000
years. How long is 6,000 years to the life of the planet ….. an
infinitesimal 0.0001333%? What has the earth been doing for the last 600
million years since the Cambrian Explosion? It has been dumping its own
biological excrement (garbage) on the sea floor and all over the land for 600
million years. In other words, the earth is creating and has created its own
garbage and then re-cycling it. But in earth terms it takes thousands and
sometimes millions of years to recycle that garbage. In fact, the earth is
its own garbage recycler.
Man has been polluting the air and dumping
garbage on the land and sea for about 150 years. Yes, some of that garbage
could take a considerable amount of time to recycle, but the earth will recycle
it in time.
The environmentalists, as exploited by the
so-called international enlightened elite few, would have you believe that today
we must freeze time. Every wetland and every species must be preserved as
it exists today, at great cost, even though 99.999% of every species that ever
lived have gone extinct. In addition, the so-called elite few and the
environmentalists believe that man's contribution to carbon dioxide (CO2) must
be scaled way back in America, no matter what happens to our standard of living,
to save us and the planet from man-caused global warming, a man-contrived fraud.
Meanwhile, China and India are dumping several
orders of magnitude more pollution into the atmosphere than is
America.
We ask, what makes the 20th or 21st Century
sacrosanct at this particular time? The earth does not exist in time
increments of 100 years. For the earth, deaths, new life and extinctions
are constant and time scales are in increments of tens of thousands of years, a
million years, or even a billion years.
Eventually, a partial or full human extinction
is inevitable. Humans, in an alleged civilized fashion, have been around
for about 6,000 years. Those 6,000 years have been a relatively quiet time in
earth's history. The fact is, man's days on earth are probably
numbered. If the earth itself doesn't send man back 100,000 years, some
extraterrestrial object probably will. Never has an unchecked species with no
known predators ever survived on earth for very long. Mother Nature has a
way of balancing the scales. If the earth or a comet doesn't send man to
extinction, some microbe like Ebola will. Man has no chance of lasting as
long as the dinosaurs because a mass extinction is on the horizon, maybe in the
next million years. All this hype about social justice and
environmentalism will be moot if the Yellowstone super volcano ever comes to
life. The scientists tell us it's long overdue.
Or man himself might do the trick. The
fact is, you are in imminent danger from environmental cranks. Take the
case of one Professor Eric Pianka (University of Texas
evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert) who believes that Ebola is
a good way to eradicate 90% of mankind on earth and bring man to a manageable
level. So he said at a 2006 conference and his ideas received a standing
ovation from the audience of Texas Academy of Science members. Millions of
people, especially environmentalists, think this is a great idea ….. except for
them of course.
After man is gone, the earth will clean itself
up but it will still go on belching its own excrement into the environment and
then recycling that excrement over millions of years. The earth will heal
itself from man's presence in less than a 1,000 years, even if he annihilates
himself in a nuclear holocaust. 1,000 years is nothing to the life of the
earth. Right now, the earth just tolerates man's presence.
Americans, especially Americans, are being
conned on a grand scale in the name of social justice and radical
environmentalism, as defined by the so-called international enlightened elite
few. America's individual freedom, liberty and sovereignty are in grave
peril from this threat. The environmentalists and the elite few would have
you believe that the earth is only 100 years old and must be preserved in its
present state. But then "ignorant people will buy into an irrational or
fraudulent premise every time" ….. unless someone educates
them.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and speaker on
freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column, "In
Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National Association of
Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org),
an advocate and consultant for urban and rural
landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington
State. He can be reached for comment at info@harlo.org.
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