by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Stupid question, some people may want to scream at me right now, and wishing to add “the President and his team” but readers may be surprised to know that there are others that really pull the strings.
It used to be said that the oil business was in bed with the government of America but ever since the number of decades at the end of the twentieth century the fact is not just that the oil business is in bed with government; it in fact is the government of the Unites States.
That is the very reason that nothing significantly is being achieved as far as actions against climate change are concerned.
Another very strong lobby is the other fossil fuel industry, the one that deals with the rocky version of oil, namely coal.
The oil industry and to a degree the coal industry not only run the USA; the oil industry is also deeply involved in the running of other countries and in fueling wars all over the place.
It was Alan Greenspan who openly said sometime back what everyone but those too blind to see because the do not want to see already knew and that is that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with any WND but with the other three-letter word, namely OIL.
He war mongers who led the USA and the UK into this war are also the very same that became rich from this war; W Bush and Dick Cheyney. The former the then president and an oil magnate and the latter the vice-president and owner of KBR-Haliburton, who also are the power behind the mercenary outfits that ran riot in Iraq. Nice work if you can get it.
Is it therefore surprising that as far as climate change action is concerned absolutely nothing is happening and being done in the USA bar counter lobby after counter lobby funded by the oil industry and, to some extent, the coal one? The answer is a deep and resounding No.
Ands it is this lobby that is telling lies to the people as to, for instance, clean coal; a total oxymoron.
There is nothing ever clean about coal and even a child would known and understand that if he has ever seen and handles coal. Coal is dirty and stays that way and even more so when it is burned.
However, the people will not be told that because the lobby runs the country, in the same way as Americans are being denied decent universal health care by a similar lobby. Namely the health insurance one that is having so many senators and congressmen and -women in their pay.
Think you have a say in your country, Americans? Think again.
The current President, Barack Hussein Obama, who promised so much under the “yes, we can” slogan even does not consider the Copenhagen Climate Conference important enough for him to attend.
This is the same president who also has just given a load more permits for mountain top removal mining in the Appalachians in order to get to the coal.
The White House vegetable garden is not cutting it, Mr. President. A lot more action is needed; real action.
© 2009
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