Posted by
grad_1986 on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:22:03 PM
Last night I happened to watch the environmental show called: The World: 2100. Not only was I aghast at the large number of lies this program promoted as "truth", but also at the over-the-top scare tactics that were used. My hope is that children under the age of 12 were not up to late watching it. It could easily be the cause of nightmares and depression in young children (I found it funny that one of the advertisements was for an anti-depressant). It might even be a good case for a lawyer seeking a class-action-suit as one could argue the show created undo stress on young children and a general loss of hope for a future.
When Bush was in office, the left argued that the right was using "scare tactics" related to 9-11 to get us to go to war against Iraq and Afghanistan. But now the left is using even worse scare tactics to get us to "go green" and "consume less", by showing a hypothetical world of: no water, no food, no clean air, no borders and rampant chaos. It literally advertised for various solar and wind technologies being developed today as viable solutions when in fact they are not even close to filling our needs. No mention was made during the entire show of real solutions like nuclear fission or fusion. It was like they didn't even exist.
Another thing that bothered me greatly abou t this program was how they re-wrote the history of both the Myan and Roman empires. So called "experts" claimed that the Myan's fell apart because they out grew their resources when in fact many do not know what caused the extinction of the Myans. Some suggest it was disease that destroyed their people and not famine. We really don't know. Later another expert claimed the Roman Empire collapsed due to it exhanding beyond what their resourses could handle, when in fact any person who has read anything about the Romans' knows it was the relentless attack by northern barbarians who eventually saw Rome's Achilles' heel was its aqueduct system bring water into the city and disrupted their flow. For without water, Romes' population quickly shrank from over a million down to a few thousand. It was terrorism and weaker and weaker emperors that sought to negotiate with them, that destroyed the Roman Empire and not some environment collapse as claimed by this show. But now millions of people have been MIS-educated by this program for years to come.
Fear has been used for generations to rally the "uneducated masses". Hitler did by making people fear the Jews and their corruption of the german gene-pool. By using the pseudo-science of eugenics, Hitler was able to create the illusion that the German race was under attack and that in some future point in time it would be too weak to sustain itself. That fear made millions of Germans do unthinkable things against millions of Jews, elderly, mental and physically disabled people, for there is no greater fear than the fear your future family will not be able to live on. Now some are using the pseudo-science of climatology to scare our children into believing thar we are on the brink of disaster.
Now I am not saying that we shouldn't try to conserve more and recycle what we have. I, myself, was raised in a Midwest-Lutheran-German family and the word waste was not in our vocabulary. But we do not need to whip our children into a frenzy like a bunch of cattle. For no decision made in a state of fear and anxiety is ever a good one. We have all experienced those poor decisions in our lives before such as when we are sitting in the car dealers showroom and the good deal is going to vanish in minutes if we don't sign now (or the car will magically disappear tomorrow off the lot). We regret those decisions for years mostly because we eventually wake up and see that we were duped by slick salesmen only interested in lining their pockets with our hard earned money.
And who are these "salemen" or "fear-mongers" today who are saying we are all going to go to hell in a handbasket? Could it be "General Electric" selling us windmills and solar panels? One has to wonder....