Why do environmental issues exist?
And by that I mean, why are they in the forefront of the news?
Why does Corporate America care so much about the environment, when they were the ones who polluted the environment in the first place?
There’s no question that Corporate America spearheaded the environmental catastrophe in which we live.
It wasn’t regular people who were clamoring for plastic bottles. We could’ve done just fine with glass bottles which are recyclable.
No, it was Corporate America that foisted all that plastic crap upon us.
They did so because they wanted to save money on breakage and theft.
Plus they wanted containers that would help preserve food for long periods of time.
It was all about the Benjamins.
So, given that, why has Corporate America gotten behind the environmental movement which threatens their bottom line?
It seems paradoxical does it not?
Well, there is a reason for this, and it’s not even my reasoning. And it goes something like this..
Elite people are in control of industry, its expansion and its means of production.
They prefer the world to stay as it is because they are the winners.
They’re not interested in any challenge to their rule.
They prefer a monopoly.
In that regard, they are no different than the pharaohs of Egypt, the Emperors of Rome or the monarchs of western Europe.
To enforce this monopoly, these leaders of Corporate America must resist change.
They must also resist other people possessing the same means and control that they do..
This necessarily results in an opposition to uncontrolled innovation and expansion and sharing of resources.
The rich and the wealthy elite centuries ago, and today, found a companion philosophy in the thoughts of Thomas Malthus which gave them a comfortable philosophical foundation to which they could retreat and hide behind.
The extension of Malthusian thinking blames not the industrialists for the problems of the world, but the people themselves.
The people are overpopulating. They are breeding like rabbits. They are consuming resources. They are the problem.
As such, measures must be put in place to curtail their consumption and to reduce their numbers.
This results in abortion, family control, war, rationing of resources, stringent epa guidelines, fines on excessive carbon production, and so forth.
Putting forth an agenda of environmental control would seemingly be paradoxical to the interests of the wealthy industrialists, but it is not.
It is not paradoxical because the wealthy industrialist have no intent or desire to follow any of the restrictions and laws that they set for others.
That is to say the restrictions exist for others.
The goal is to keep Third World nations as Third World nations.
If Third World nations fail to industrialize, they can only serve as repositories for exotic crop production, mineral extraction, and sweatshop labor. This is the essence of neo colonialism. This philosophy was best prosecuted by the BritishEmpire which has now transmuted itself into the American Empire.
While various rules are placed for others the elites, through their clever lawyers and lawmakers are able to award themselves an escape path via carbon and plastic credits.
In this way large companies can make money through tax savings and production of bogus credits.
Electric battery makers reap large amounts of money because batteries are considered to be green.
Yet production of these batteries requires lithium, coltan and other minerals the mining of which causes harm to the environment.
And what powers these batteries?
Wind turbines whose used fins are now cluttering up our landfills?
Natural gas?
Fossil fuels?
Corporations who ship plastic waste to Third World countries where it is merely stored also come out as winners.
It’s a form of greenwashing.
The end result is a First World that continues to pollute the planet with impunity while appearing to be saviors, and a Third World unable to industrialize because of First World restrictions.
Hey Third World, you’re not going to get any loans from the IMF and the World Bank unless you comply with our guidelines.
Tighten your belt, implement austerity standards, live as paupers, continue to export minerals that we need, employ child labor, grow crops that we can’t grow in the Fist World, and stay poor.
You are the problem, Third World.
Not us.
Sincerely,
Archer Crosley
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