Since the EU had already built their industries to meet the new standards, they stood to make a great deal of money selling their carbon credits to third world countries who couldn’t afford the install the kinds of technologies that would make them CO2 efficient. And the US would have had to either invest trillions of dollars in its old industrial infrastructure in order bring our CO2 emissions into compliance with the treaty or we would have had to pay trillions of dollars to European countries to keep our economy going. So the EU stood to become the new economic powerhouse of the world to replace Wall Street because everyone would have to pay them for everything produced.
The EU has only ever been able to survive riding the fruits of its colonialism era to maintain a rich quality of life that demands little effort for them to produce. Riding the backs of cheap third world labor and easy to harvest natural resources from lands it had conquered throughout history has afforded them the ability to maintain a competitive lifestyle to ours, a nation of real working men and women. But most of the states under their rule won independence over the past few decades as colonial treaties expired giving them the right to self-rule. So the EU’s economic future is threatened unless they want to support themselves by doing actual work, which most of them believe is beneath them and something the unwashed masses are supposed to do for them, an attitude we’ve slowly adopted over the past few decades.
The Kyoto carbon trading index was supposed to save Europeans from having to get real jobs but the US never ratified it. We still however paid a great deal of lip service to CO2 being the cause of climate change. This has served to keep the green movements in the EU in the dark about what really causes weather pattern changes. Now we’re beginning talking seriously about cap and trade programs within our own borders as we see more and more evidence that climate change is real. Surely if we’re dumb enough to believe the CO2 theory over proven science that is now part of our government’s policy on anthropogenic short-term gases, the world will follow us in creating similar CO2 policies. This will result eventually in a worldwide index for trading carbon credits that will be paid for though taxing everything we use while raising trillions of dollars a year for programs to stop us from emitting a gas that isn’t causing climate problems.
Since we actually wouldn’t be paying them that money in order to fix a real problem, it could be used any way the receivers of it wanted. And since there is a real cause of weather pattern changes that we’d be ignoring, we would continually witness an ongoing change in climate that would support the notion that we needed to pay these taxes.
At the heart of the CO2/short term gas debate
So really the problem boils down to the EU needing to find a way to make money without taking it from the third world peoples they left destitute with their colonial policies of the past. These days, the people who make that money want to keep more and more of it everyday so they can try to rebuild the damage Europe’s abusive history has caused them and their homelands.
You would think that the simplest answer would be for Europeans to invest not just the money they took from these distant frontiers back into the people that live there so they start producing efficient enough economies that can support Europe as well as their own people, but also to blend with their cultures so they become more closely connected with the people they used to rule so they can better solve their problems together. But that isn’t how Europeans have historically looked at the world, something I believe there’s still time to change.
Many Europeans adhere rigorously, religiously even, to long held traditions that center around royal loyalties and adherence to wealth controlling protocols that are handed down from generation to generation within particular family circles, white family circles. So they’re is a double separation of European elite from their working classes, one being race and the other being royal heritage, which really turn out to be the same thing, that they are inherent bigots, something I believe electing Barack Obama has helped us get one step closer to ridding from much of our mindset. Really I think it wasn’t so much the election but Barack himself, a Black man whose father is from Kenya, a nation whose borders were decided by European dictators.
A lesson in colonialism
The way colonialism worked was that Europeans with superior military capabilities invaded uncivilized tribal lands and took control. These were lands where its human inhabitants had lived the same for thousands, even tens or hundreds of thousands of years. Then they established borders they chose themselves while appointing minority factions from within these ancient culture as rulers. They did this knowing they would have to rely on European military the support to stay in power because the majority of the citizens under their rule would want to remove them from leadership. This meant their governments always had to answer to their colonial masters in Europe.
This allowed for an atmosphere of easy to harvest economies where the wealth produced by the majority populations was divided amongst themselves and their distant rulers in Europe. That’s is why the third world’s economies are so corrupted that they do not function in any other way but to create a small population of rich leaders who rule over a labor force that lives in abject poverty. It’s because their economic systems were designed to support Europe’s economy, not their own.
European royalty has never favored work while with each new generation, their numbers grow larger as they keep with their royal traditions of handing down the wealth of the third world to their offspring. Now that these former colonialized countries have started to take their economies in directions that more and more have to support their own populations, Europe is losing control of the source of its very survival.
Carbon dioxide taxing programs are designed to insure that as third world countries economies grow, they continue to kick back payments to their historical masters in Europe so wealthy Europeans don’t have to work to survive. They often have fight, kill, and steal to survive. But they’ve grown more towards refusing to work to survive over the past few centuries. I think it’s because their water is polluted, ironically with the same kinds of chemicals our is from MTBE. Only theirs comes from coal mining over the past millennia.
Does Al Gore know the truth about what causes climate change?
I have a personal story about Al Gore that the telling of suggests he knows the truth about climate change. In 1998, I drank well water polluted with an additive to gasoline called MTBE. It made me sick. After I was healthy again, I started getting sick whenever I breathed MTBE coming from exhaust fumes. It had been making me sick for a few years before I drank the well water coming from my living in a highly trafficked region outside Washington DC. I didn’t know what was causing my health problems until I drank the well water.
Drinking the polluted water made me so sensitive to MTBE in the air where I live that I had to wear a charcoal filter respirator most of the time I was outside and sometimes even inside my home. I found that on cold days, a cloud of MTBE hovered compressed near the ground where I could go outside and not be affected as long as I kept my head out of it. When it warmed up a little, it filled my house. On hot days, it rose up in the sky. I still had to be carful in the summers heat because MTBE emissions cause low level ozone. But low level ozone was not as bad for me as when mild weather. It made the gases expanded but without rising into the sky so the neighborhood I live became like a stagnant polluted pond of MTBE gases. On those days, I had to stay indoors wearing a respirator. Sometimes I even had to wear a respirator while using an oxygen concentrator at the same time.
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