Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Blame
Sentence in NPR's daily report on the Durban Revival Meeting of the Gaian Church:
"Countries are jockeying to avoid blame when the talks collapse...."
Think about that for a minute. Who wants the talks to collapse? Who wants the talks to succeed? Who will blame countries for failure?
The people and small businesses of Western countries would be deliriously happy to see the talks collapse. We are blaming governments for running the greatest crime in history for 20 years without cease. We are blaming governments for wasting trillions that could have helped people and businesses. We are blaming governments for killing millions of people by banning useful chemicals and diverting food into fuel.
Well, cui bono? Who would be pissed if the talks collapse?
China comes first to mind, but China has been ignoring the treaty anyway. China has rationally proceeded to build the power plants and dams that it needs. The hippieshit solar and wind "industries" have added to China's profit, but they're not big enough to matter much.
Those small Pacific island countries want this particular set of talks to give them unlimited and undeserved welfare payments, but are they really important enough to create the sense of guilt evident in the reporter's voice? Dubious.
Nope, the only big and unambiguous beneficiaries of the treaty are multinational corporations and speculators. The treaty gives corporations leverage to create more regulations to kill small competitors, and the treaty gives speculators plenty of chaos, unrest, suffering, starvation and death to bet on.
"Countries are jockeying to avoid blame when the talks collapse...."
Think about that for a minute. Who wants the talks to collapse? Who wants the talks to succeed? Who will blame countries for failure?
The people and small businesses of Western countries would be deliriously happy to see the talks collapse. We are blaming governments for running the greatest crime in history for 20 years without cease. We are blaming governments for wasting trillions that could have helped people and businesses. We are blaming governments for killing millions of people by banning useful chemicals and diverting food into fuel.
Well, cui bono? Who would be pissed if the talks collapse?
China comes first to mind, but China has been ignoring the treaty anyway. China has rationally proceeded to build the power plants and dams that it needs. The hippieshit solar and wind "industries" have added to China's profit, but they're not big enough to matter much.
Those small Pacific island countries want this particular set of talks to give them unlimited and undeserved welfare payments, but are they really important enough to create the sense of guilt evident in the reporter's voice? Dubious.
Nope, the only big and unambiguous beneficiaries of the treaty are multinational corporations and speculators. The treaty gives corporations leverage to create more regulations to kill small competitors, and the treaty gives speculators plenty of chaos, unrest, suffering, starvation and death to bet on.
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