Convential Wisdom Bought and Paid For

Conventional wisdom can be a death knell for us all.  Special interests like big oil and gas can use it with deadly effect.

Right now we watch in horror as one hurricane after another explodes through the southeast.  We watch in horror as wildfires destroy hundreds of square miles, fed by temperature levels in the 100s.

We watch in horror as Africa and the Mideast struggle with violent upheavals fed by drought and famine.

And we elect a climate denier.  That’s right the United States, in a classic example of special interests (and I’m counting Russia here) went exactly the wrong way in combating global climate change, setting any kind of real effort to save the earth back dozens of years.  When Russia interfered in the election, by helping Trump, it did so for a purpose...Russia’s economy depends on oil and gas production even more than we do!  Global warming gets you arrested in Russia!

It is the same thing as electing Reagan whose first thing was to take the solar panels off the White House.  The message was clear:  coal is king...and global warming accelerated. 

He did that, like Trump pulling us out of the Paris Accords, because he was paid to do it. 

Both were paid in a manner of speaking by the oil and gas cabals, both here and overseas, that sees profit above everything.  Who knows, and they know, that global warming is a real man made thing, their fuel is what is doing it, but they don’t care….they will all be dead when it really kicks into high gear.

Only problem is, it is kicking into high gear RIGHT NOW!

So Trump, now becomes hurricane Donald, trying to show how well prepared we are, as global warming super storms virtually destroy the economy.

The hurricanes and the fires will cost trillions...the rise the the sea levels will be more...and we will soon join Africa and the Middle East and India; etc., in mountains of debt, and financial ruin.

And it will happen right now...Our debt ridden economy that cannot afford decent medical care, is being blown up right now by hurricanes, tornadoes, and fires.

But will we get out of our cars?  Will we demand mass transit and pay for it?  Hell no its all about me!

ME….ME….ME...ME….ME...ME...ME..

In football, where I  played and coached, that attitude has one result:  you get beat!

NO, because conventional wisdom, bought and paid for by oil and gas and coal, dictates that this is all a ruse, a China conspiracy according to Trump who destroyed American leadership in this battle for survival, by voiding the Paris Agreement.  Right there he probably doomed our grandchildren!  We do it everyday when we jump in our cars and drive endless miles to work.

It was not fair;  Trump lied. “I won’t be the mayor of Paris but the mayor of Detroit”...(Hell he won’t dare go to Detroit).

In fact it was fair, it did admit to the “developing nations like India” that the industrialized west had cheated and contributed the bulk of CO2 to the atmosphere, and now sanctimoniously wanted to curb emissions...so language was put into the agreement pledging help to quickly change to clean energy production for India and other “emerging nations”.  That “compromise” might of saved us…..until Trump voided the Agreement!

And Solar City and other clean energy companies led the charge.  The oil and gas companies pledged quietly that they would kill the Paris Accords PRECISELY because of the clean energy aspect, the compromise that got the Paris Agreement passed by all but two nations!

Killing the Paris Accord had everything to do with big oil, coal and gas!

Trump is a shill of oil, coal and gas.  He is owned by them.  The Secretary of State is a former CEO for Exxon for God’s sake.

And if you talk to the ordinary American they will tell you, with conviction, that the global warming thing is overblown, that conventional wisdom and common sense dictates that we are exaggerating.

Tell Texas that...tell Florida that.

Florida right now has to pump water off city streets in Miami everyday at high tide, because the ocean levels have raised so much due to global warming.  The Republican Governor of the state has kept this quiet, even threatening all state employees with being reprimanded if they even utter the words “global warming”.

And today, he is pleading with his citizens to basically evacuate the ENTIRE STATE!  How is he going to hide this?

And you, you keep driving...you keep ignoring the bus...you even make sure junior gets their car so they can drive to school like the “cool kids”...as parking lots burst and commutes go up to 100 miles one way everyday.

Try highway 80 lately from Sacramento to the Bay Area...try the Altamont Pass lately?

So we keep pouring CO2 into the atmosphere, at it was  106 in San Francisco and you are putting a gun to your grandchildren’s heads.

We can fix this...but we can’t do it until we stop electing Republicans….they are bought and paid for by oil, gas and coal…..

Some Democrats are too, but the clean energy industry has had to go Democratic because the Republicans are OWNED by big oil

And we can’t do it with Trump as President.

The Reckoning!