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“Global Environmental Movement”. It was then they
decided to very quietly change the name of their International Earth
Day celebration to “International Mother Earth Day”. Any old counter-culturist will tell you, Mother Earth is a code name for the worship
of the goddess Gaia, a strange subterranean cult that reverences the
mythical goddess of creation. Today, at this annual U.N. celebration,
they begin by honoring the goddess Gaia with the beating of Native
American drums, the chants of Buddhist holy men, the pipe playing
of Asian musicians and the dances of African tribes. All of that would
strike a happy chord for us counter-culturists of the 60s and 70s. We
loved Buddhist meditation, embraced African folk dancing and beautiful Asian pipe music. And though we liked Ravi Shankar’s sitar music,
Mother Earth and the goddess Gaia were a bit much for our crowd.
In the early 70s, we gave up life in the crowded and polluted cities
of America and became “back to the earthers”. We formed communes
throughout America, with some very large ones in Tennessee and
Kentucky. Voluntarily, we wanted to live close to nature and unplug
from the constant drone of advanced civilization. But today, the new
environmental movement does not embrace those desires in the same
way.
Today’s global environmentalists are demanding the global population (especially the voracious American consumers) to leave the rural
lands, return to the cities, walk, ride bikes or use public transportation
to lower our dependency on fossil fuel. We must depend on windmills
and solar panels to keep our complex civilization moving forward.
We must all learn to live like the Amish and return to a much simpler
lifestyle.
The global elitists proclaim none of us need live in a power-gobbling, 2500 square foot private home. If we are truly environmentally
conscious, we can pare down to an 800 square foot apartment, one
stacked on top of the other, and all located within walking distance
of a nearby public transportation stop. By doing all of this, (we are
assured by the smirking new environmentalists), life will be good.
In fact, as this environmental movement has advanced into the new
century, the economy, especially in California where my wife and I
live, has turned very badly.
“Environmentally sensitive” politicians and venture capitalists learned there were huge profits to be made in a wide variety of
California’s “green energy” schemes. Windmills were among the first
to be introduced, but these mammoth, garish skeletons of steel, fiberglass, and cast iron have not only tainted the pristine beauty of the
land, but are found to be massive bird killers that includes hundreds
of the Gold and Bald eagle species.
Today, the California deserts, once off limits to any kind of development and patrolled by armed agents of the federal Bureau of Land
Management, are home to massive solar power plants. When seen
close up, the size and scope of these gargantuan solar plant operations
boggle the mind.
As aggressively and environmentally sensitive was the government’s
search for ways to replace fossil fuels and reduce air pollution, there
began bio-fuel experiments of adding ethanol to gasoline. However
like so many government programs, the “law of unintended consequences” soon raised its nasty head. The new ethanol was made from
corn, corn that could have otherwise been used in the food supply.
Perhaps, the most under-reported news story of the 1990s was the
“tortilla riot” in Mexico. Here folks took to the streets protesting the
high price of corn tortillas; still the basic food staple for the majority
of Mexicans.
After investing billions of government dollars, corn ethanol was
quietly abandoned in California to create new ethanol made from
the stalks of sugar beets. Unfortunately, California doesn’t produce
enough beet sugar for the 27 million vehicles registered in the state,
but the state government