Recommendations
Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the
Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, and temperatures are rising globally due to these activities. There are plenty of observable effects of the global
warming. And certainly this ridiculous and false solution of buying environmental credits from each other should not be considered as a way out of resolving the problem.
The ratification the Kyoto Protocol is only a beginning to protect the global life-support systems. There is much more to do!
It is OK to be more energy efficient for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
It is also OK to build new cars with engines that do not emit greenhouse gases.
Global Community has seen oil companies improving a lot on many important aspects of their business. And that is OK!
A lot of new solutions to resolve the problem of global warming are welcome and certainly are OK.
But none of them tackle the problem head-on! None of the solutions make a dent in resolving the problem. None are significant solutions!
None of the solutions truly show any significant cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
None of the solutions tell us that producers of the deadly gases are the problems and so are consumers.
Producers of the deadly gases are fooling themselves first and then they fool the consumers of their products of mass destruction,
the greenhouse gases.
Global warming is the highest threat to Earth security and is everyone's business. Terrorism was, and still is, a problem humanity needed to
tackle head-on and resolve the best we could, but global warming is by far the greatest threat to the security of all people on Earth and to life itself.
We have never tackle the problem head-on. We played around the problem and its solution. We know the solution to the problem of global warming, we know what we
need to do to make this generation and future generations safe and secure, but we just never do what we really have to do to resolve
the problem.
Why?
What will it take to make us act on the problem of global warming?
What will it take to make the North American Way of Life safe and secure to humanity?
What will it take to make Canadians and Americans understand that it does not matter how many guns we have, how many weapons of mass destruction we
have hidden everywhere, or how good a 'Star War System' could be, and how many nations we invade, and how big is our GDP and how good is our
economy.
None of that matters! None!
The biggest problem to security is smaller than anything we can see, smaller than the smallest particle we can breathe, and it is a trace
element in the air we breathe. A deadly gas, the greenhouse gas!
We all know the problem, and we also know the solution. We can stop creating greenhouse gases. So now what is the problem?
The biggest problem is the North American continent Way of Life, consuming too much of the wrong things.
The biggest problem is too much freedom of doing the wrong things.
The biggest problem is our own weaknesses and helplessness in tackling the problem head-on and solve it.
The biggest problem is that Canadians and Americans are getting too proud about things that are completely unimportant and missing out on the things that
are truly important, and we have been left behind by most other nations on those things that are truly important for the generations
to come and to life itself.
Global Community is asking North Americans and everyone else on Earth to tackle the problem head-on. We must solve the problem we have with global warming.
Producers of the greenhouse gases tell us "we are energy efficient" but the truth of the matter is that they are producing the deadly
gases of mass destruction, and those deadly gases are killing us all, and all life on Earth. It does not matter how smart you may be
in fooling yourselves in accepting a slow death, a suicide in a way, you are still killing yourselves and the people of the next generations. That
is a crime against humanity. You are criminals.
An oil company is proudly telling us with all sorts of gifts, grants and awards to the community that every year they have 'given' to
their customers trillions of litres of the deadly gases. And, their customers, very proudly and carefully burned all of those litres. That is the biggest problem. We are told that we should be proud
of burning the deadly gases. Americans invaded the Middle East to take over OPEC and their oil and burn trillions of barrels of oil. That means
trillions of litres of the deadly gases entering the atmosphere of the Earth. The best and cheapest oil in the world being
taken over by the worst consumers of the world. Just how mad are we? How insane are we getting to be? How can anyone be proud
of thenselves about such an invasion? What is it? We enjoy driving with freedom on the highway?! We enjoy driving and to forget
completely that we are actually killing ourselves and taking away the lives of people of the next generations. We want to forget
we are destroying all life on Earth.
And please dont even mention the 'carbon emission trading permits' (a mechanism by which oil companies could buy and sell
greenhouse gas emissions trading permits) as a possible solution. You are just extending the death of all lives by a few years, and you are not tackling
the problem head-on.
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from
beginning to end. At the end the product becomes a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global
concepts of Global Community. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and
accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste).
This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products. All medicinal
products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person becomes responsible and accountable for anything and everything in his or her life.
As a business you may be using standards of operating and managing that are similar to the ISO 14001 environmental
management plan (internationally recognized standards that provide guidelines to reduce environmental impacts). ISO 14001 provides a framework
for continual improvement to mitigate potential environmental impacts from operations and businesses dealing with your company.
The problem is not so much how good is your environmental management plan. The problem is the product you produce and put on the market
to consumers. The problem is your product, a deadly product of mass destruction. It is worst than all known weapons of mass destruction as
it kills by making consumers believe it is good for them. Like smoking cigarettes! Companies making cigarettes have for long told
their consumers that a longer filter would not affect them so much and they would not get cancer and die of it. Whether or not you use
the most energy-efficient machines and the best management team, and ISO 14001 for that matter, at the end it does not matter. You are still
producing the deadly gases and consumers are still burning them. Consider the long filter for cigarettes as an illusionary solution
to the problem and so are carbon emission trading permits.
Oil companies are responsible and accountable of their products from beginning to end. The 'end' for an oil company does not
end at the gas pump where a consumer buy your refine products. No! The end for you goes all the way to global warming, to pollution
of the environment, to the destruction of the global life-support systems, to taking away lives of future generations, to the destruction of life on Earth.
Very much so!
Global Community proposes to ask you to pay a global tax on your products. The tax would be high enough to discourage consumers
from buying your products and force you to use viable alternatives. The Governments of the United States and Canada should put a high tax on all oil based products and their derivatives and certainly gasoline should have the highest tax possible.
The tax would be a carbon tax allocated for the protection of the environment and the global life-support systems.
A workable type of Tobin tax should also be in place as it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force shareholders in moving away from
producing oil.
Global Community also proposes to develope a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and
developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards.
The WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, the EU and the UN are worldwide organizations that can and should be used to raise global taxes to redistribute to the poorest and
developing nations.
Losses of biomass through deforestation and the cutting down of tropical forests put our supply of oxygen (O2) gas at risk.
The Earth's forests did not use to play a dominant role in maintaining O2 reserves because they consume
just as much of this gas as they produce. Today forests are being destroy at an astronomical rate. No O2 is created after a forest is put down, and more CO2 is produced in the process.
In the tropics, ants, termites, bacteria, and fungi eat nearly the entire photosynthetic O2 product.
Only a tiny fraction of the organic matter they produce accumulates in swamps and soils or is carried down the rivers
for burial on the sea floor.
The O2 content of our atmosphere is slowly declining. The content of the atmosphere decreased at an average
annual rate of 2 parts per million. The atmosphere contains 210,000 parts per million.
Combustion of fossil fuels destroys O2. For each 100 atoms of fossil-fuel carbon burned, about 140 molecules of
O2 are consumed.
A typical American uses 15 times as much lumber and paper
as a resident of a developing country. Reducing wood consumption in the industrialized world is unlikely to stop forest loss in developing
countries however, since most of the wood consumed comes from trees in the industrialized countries themselves. Nevertheless, the consumption
model offered to the rest of the world threatens accelerated forest loss as both populations and economies grow in developing countries.
Scientists will need to become more involved in assessing the viability
of response options aimed at storing excess carbon in terrestrial or ocean
systems. Land use changes from agricultural to forest ecosystems can help to
remove carbon from the atmosphere at rates of 2 to 20 tonnes of carbon per
hectare per year for periods of 50 years or more, until a new ecosystem
equilibrium is reached. Similarly, soil conservation practices can help
build up carbon reservoirs in forest and agricultural soils. Proposals to
extract CO2 from smoke stacks and dispose of it in liquid form in
underground reservoirs or deep oceans also need careful evaluation in terms
of long-term feedbacks, effectiveness and environmental acceptability.
However, much remains to be learned about the biological and physical
processes by which terrestial and ocean systems can act as sinks and
permanent reservoirs for carbon.
We need to improve on our ability to:
* predict future anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. While demographic, technological and economic factors
are in many respects inherently speculative, better observations and
understanding of the processes by which human activities directly or
indirectly contribute to emissions are clearly required. These in
particular include emissions from deforestation and agricultural
activities;
* obtain more data on the effect of human emissions on atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse gases. Not only do we need to reduce the uncertainties about
past and current sinks for emitted greenhouse gases, but we need to
better understand and quantify the long term feedbacks such as CO2
fertilization and physical and biological response to climate change if
we expect to improve our confidence in projections of future
concentrations.
* measure direct and indirect effects of radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and aerosols.
* measure climate sensitivity to changes in radiative forcing.
* measure the response to climate change of biological and physical processes
with the terrestrial and ocean systems
* obtain an early detection of the signal of human interference with the climate
system against the change caused by natural forces or internal system
noise is important in fostering timely and responsible coping actions.
* develop actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and prepare to
adapt to climate change. However, stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions will not stabilize
greenhouse gas concentrations and climate but only slow down the rates
of change.
* live with the facts that climate change is unavoidable, atmospheric greenhouse
gas concentrations are already signficantly higher than pre-industrial
levels, and that aggressive efforts to reduce their anthropogenic
emission sources would only slow down the growth in their concentrations, not
stop it. Therefore, policy response to this issue must also include
strategies to adapt to the consequences of unavoidable climate change.
Individuals, too, can help bring about a world that is more secure and more supportive of life, health and happiness. They
can educate themselves on population dynamics, consumption patterns
and the impact of these forces on natural resources and the environment. They can be socially, politically and culturally active to elevate
the issues they care about. They can become more environmentally responsible in their purchasing
decisions and their use of energy and natural resources. And individuals and couples can consider the impacts
of their reproductive decisions on their communities and the world as a whole.
What is needed is for government and the private sector to make reproductive health services available to all who seek them, to
make sure that girls and boys can go to and stay in school, and to make economic opportunities as accessible to women as to men.
Combined with improved energy and natural-resource technologies and saner models of consumption and the “good life,”
these strategies can bring humanity into enduring balance with the environment and the natural resources that people will always need.
Nationalization of natural resources
As defined by the Global Community, the concept of ownership states that land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, as a birthright. Products and services created by individuals are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property. Only the Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth. October 29 is the day to celebrate ownership of our natural resources.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay. Use that property, share it or lose it. The Global Community stipulates that land ownership is no longer a problem. The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" contained therein. A village, or a city is "a global community" and owns the land around its boundaries. Along with the Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries. So, by definition, land here, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, the air, minerals deposits,
fossil fuels, water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. As mentioned above, land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fishes in the seas, lakes and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labour. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to such natural resources.
In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government, but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities, of everyone, to take upon themselves this defense and this recuperation of natural resources.
Nationalization is a necessity because American corporations have been buying local corporations to acquire natural resources of a country. This state of affairs has been going on ever since WWII. Over the past decades, the US national debt and annual deficit have been out-of-control because of a complete business freedom of the US corporate world. No taxation! When a large corporation is about to go out of business, the White House intervened with a bail out.
For example in Canada, the property of the hydrocarbons, the oil and natural gas, and tarsands, have mostly owned by American and other foreign corporations. Our natural resources have been bought out by foreigners. Pipelines have been built to transport the oil and natural gas to the customers in the United States without paying taxes to Canada. Canadian corporations that have been taken over by American corporations with bankrupted money, paper money, Stock Exchange money, money that Americans dont even have. The White House prints dollar bills by the trillions and give them to corporations to buy more Canadian corporations. This is no longer a fair exchange of something tangible with something else of an equivalent value. We have natural resources and Americans have bankrupted money to exchange with. That's not right! How can we let that happened? It is time to nationalize Canadian natural resources.
From this point onward, with the nationalization of our natural resources, those Canadian natural resources will be under control of the Canadian people, for Canadians, and help resolve Canada's economic and social problems. Nationalization is not new. The global financial crisis is good example of nationalization. When Wall Street started to crash, the US Government thought it would be wise to nationalize key financial institutions, even partially nationalized, so why not natural resources? They are in great danger of being destroyed (forests, oceans, fresh water, soils, air we breath, electromagnetic spectrum) or destroying all life on Earth (petroleum rersources). Once Canadians have recovered these natural resources, it will generate employment.
Today here in Canada, the new P.R. b...s... the conservative government uses to promote the development of the dirty tar sands oil of Alberta and of its transportation through pipelines to the West and East coasts of Canada and, from there by ships to places such as China, is:
"It is good for all Canadians and economic development. More taxes will be coming to Ottawa for every baril of oil sold overseas."
What a monumental lie once more! For one thing, the conservative government uses tax money to promote the dirty tar sands oil development. No other industry has this kind of attention by the hundreds of millions of tax dollars. And secondly, this project will make very rich
the following terrarist
businesses and major partners in producing the dirty tar sands oil
Suncor, Syncrude, Shell, Chevron, Marathon, BP, Oxy, ConocoPhillips, Cenovus, CNRL, Devon, Statoil, Nexen, Imperial Oil, Petro Canada, ExxonMobil, Laricina Energy, OSUM and KNOC.
Most of those businesses are owned by foreign corporations. CEOs of those corporations and their shareholders have no problems
transfering their money to offshore bank accounts so as to avoid paying taxes to Canada.
And thirdly, just the greengase emissions from the burning of the dirty tar sands oil will bring up the overall emissions in the air we breathe to 600 ppmv and that means the end of civilization as we know it, and the end of most lifeforms on our planet.
And again let us mention that while this is happening today, the conservative government is shoting the Canadian manufacturing industry.
And they have the guts to tell us that this is all good for Canadians. There is so much corruption in the Canadian conservative government and in the oil and gas industry of Alberta it supports by the billion of dollars of Canadian taxpayer money that no one understand what is happening. A normal person understands
losing let say fifty thousand dollars because of some climate change disaster. But when it comes to losing or wasting several billion dollars of taxpayer money in supporting the oil and gas industry, everyone dont understand what is happening, and it seems unreal, and we keep hearing in the news a message from
the conservative government that is good for all Canadians, and therefore corruption stays unpunished.
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