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PROFITING
FROM GLOBAL WARMING AND OIL
POLLUTION by Robert Carl Cohen
(Up dated June 17,
2010)
Enough
of the growing cacophony of ineffective whining by misinformed
do-gooders. Global warming is not only unavoidable, it's the best
thing for big business since the Serpent convinced Eve of the benefits
of the pleasures of population proliferation. Why? Because
unless one
has one's head buried in the sand, the opportunities it provides for
increased profits are virtually unlimited:
1. The warmer the climate and the heavier it rains and snows, the
greater the demand for insulation,
air conditioning and heating - a boon to the manufacturing and
construction
industries.
2.
The increase in demand for electricity required for both cooling and
heating leads to
ever-increasing prices, and profits, for all sectors of the energy
industry.
3. The melting of the polar ice caps and continental glaciers both
opens up the seas to commerce, as in the case of the long sought
Northwest Passage, and frees vast areas of land, such as Northern
Canada, Siberia, Greenland and the entire continent of Antarctica, for
development and exploitation.
4. The resulting rise in sea levels will necessitate the construction
of enormous levees and dams, such as those which have already been been
built in the Netherlands, in order to prevent the inundation of
coastal regions, especially major cities, throughout the entire
world.
The increased demand for construction materials - cement, steel, etc.,
will be unprecedented. Protecting New York, New Orleans, London,
Bombay etc from flooding will require vast quantities of raw materials
and machinery, and provide employment for construction
workers.
5. Even in the higher, less prone to flooding areas, the violent
weather resulting from increased evaporation and precipitation mandates
new building codes including the use of stronger materials and the
reinforcement and replacement of presently existing structures with
those better able to withstand the increase in rain, snow and wind
loads.
6. The forced displacement of hundreds of millions of people from both
coastal and interior lowlands will, as is already the case in China,
not only lead to the building of new cities, roads, etc., the resultant
unrest necessitates huge increases in police and military budgets,
increased spying to detect potential dissidents, and a boom in the
building and maintenance of prisons and detention camps.
7. The transfer of weight from the land to the oceans, as in the
melting of the Greenland ice cap, is causing shifts in tectonic
pressures, resulting in increasing seismic activity, earthquakes &
volcanic eruptions; and might lead to an eruption of the Yellowstone
magma pool - which has devastated one third of the continental United
States six times during the last one million years.
8. It is increasingly evident that "Terraforming" - intentionally
causing or assisting the alteration of the
atmosphere, climate, etc., of an entire planet - is being accelerated
in order to both promulgate profitable economic activity and make vast,
relatively uninhabited, areas suitable for development and exploitation
by the technically
advanced.
Just as nations, ie: Afghanistan and Iraq, are presently being
restructured by force in order to provide a more favorable environment
for global business, the Earth itself is being reshaped. For it
is the very same corporate behemoths which derive vast profits from the
continued use of the oil, coal and nuclear energy polluting the planet,
who also gain from its effects. Simply put, it is in their
economic best interest to, first, help cause global warming, then
profit from the resultant increase in demand for cooling and heating
energy and protective structures. Every degree of rise in global
temperature means
literally trillions of dollars in profit. If you believe that
making
money for the fortunate few at the expense of the less-fortunate many
should be the ultimate determinant of human activity, forget all this
"environmentalist" nonsense; move to a relatively safe location away
from coastal areas, flood plains, and industrial or population
concentrations; build a sturdy home equipped with the latest in solar,
wind, or other independent power source, air and
water filtration and intruder-detection technology - and invest in the
energy, heavy construction
and security and prison industries. While those possessed by the pioneering spirit, and ready to brave the rigors of frontier living,
will be able to immigrate to the new "New World(s)" of Siberia,
Northern Canada, and the vast continent of Antarctica now being opened
up for
exploration and exploitation by 21st Century land grabbers driving GPS
guided ATVs.
June 17, 2010: Millions of tons of raw petroleum bursting forth from
the deep ultra-high-pressurized submarine field punctured by the BP
drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico are being carried by the Gulf
Stream into the Atlantic, from where they will pollute the East Coast
of the USA from Florida to New England, then contaminate the beaches of
Spain and Portugal before being returned to the Gulf to create an
enormous swirl of poisonous petrochemical substances. The
increased water temperature caused by the presence of the oil will
accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, diverting the Gulf
Stream to the south, and transforming the climate of the British Isles
and Northwestern Europe into that of Siberia. The Atlantic Ocean
and the coastal areas it borders are being terraformed, in a period of
months rather than thousands of years, destroying the commercial
fisheries which provide food for tens of millions. In
addition to the negative effects on both animal and human populations,
the release of pressure may weaken the geological strata underlying the
compromised oil deposits sufficiently to enable the emergence of magma
- creating an active submarine volcano only 45 miles from the coast of
Louisiana. The avaricious nihilism which is destroying the
lives of tens of millions, however, is not without its bright
side. Thousands
of miles of seacoast in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres will
have to be cleaned and protected for decades to come, a task involving
hundreds of thousands of workers. Port cities, from New Orleans
to New York to Lisbon, will have to be protected from the polluting oil
by the construction of huge sea walls far sooner than would have been
necessitated by rising sea levels alone. Hundreds of billions of
dollars will be spent. Healing the wounds which their
irresponsible lust for profit has caused creates vast new business
opportunities for those with the proper connections.
As J.P. Morgan is reported to have
declared: "The public be damned."
