Reply #19: And none of them telling the truth

[bread_and_roses]

...that absent near-magical technological break-throughs it is the very "American way of life" they all promise to preserve that is the root of the problem.

"Clean coal" and Ethanol are the Corporate "answers" because they promise to preserve the status quo while preserving Corporate profits.

from: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/06/2334/

...we in the Global North are continuing to consume way beyond the means of the earth to sustain itself, all the while telling the rest of humanity that with enough hard work, World Bank loans and inducements (complete repatriation of profits, lax labor and environmental laws) to Western corporations to invest in their countries, they too can join the global consumer paradise. We seem always to forget to mention that if Americans, at six percent of the world’s population, needs to consume about a quarter of its wealth and resources to maintain our standard of living, the idea of the rest of the world even approaching our levels of consumption, energy usage and exploitation of land, water, resources and people would mean the end of civilization, if not most life on the planet, in a very short period of time...

...The simple but profoundly depressing fact is that the entire world economic and political system as it exists today is based around practices that are destroying the planet slowly but surely. The corporations, political elites and others who benefit from the existing system are ...will do whatever is necessary — lie, cheat, steal, oppress, exploit, murder and wage war — to maintain control of a world economy that sees half the world living on $2 per day or less while inequality and poverty increase in line with the amount of CO2 in the air, in order to continue to reap their huge salaries and bonuses and maintain their stranglehold on power.

Which of them will tell us that? Hillary? In the language here, BWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Right.