by Warren Duffy
The Green Tsunami
A Tidal Wave of Eco-Babble Drowning Us All
Warren Duffy
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A Tidal Wave Of Eco-Babble Drowning Us All Copyright © 2013 by Warren Duffy
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to those who seek and stand for truth; and to those who recognize that our American inheritance is born of 2,000 years of martyr’s blood and 200 years of patriot’s dreams. May our generation not squander such a treasure.
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
The Beginnings:
1970, The First Earth Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The United Nations:
A World Body Seeks A Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 The U.N. — Assorted Scandals
And Creepy Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Creeping Globalism: The Brave,
New, Very Green World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 ICLEI: The Big Bad Wolf Huffing
And Puffing At Your Door. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Al Gore’s Road Show:
An Environmental Snow Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Green Backs Invested In
Green Energy Disasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 California Green Dreamin’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Stop The “Green Tsunami”:
Your Personal ‘To Do’ List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 Late Breaking Environmental
News Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Epilogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Information Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Acknowledgements
First and foremost, this book would not be possible without the collaboration and support—wisdom and love—from my wife, Pam. Without her encouragement and steadfastness, you would not be holding this book in your hand.
Second, I express my gratitude to Darrel Trulson for the cover art, design and other great contributions. He took the concept from the drawing board to publication. You can contact Darrel at [email protected]
Third, to my many friends and colleagues, who have encouraged, helped and supported my journey along this path. To acknowledge them all by name is impossible but you know who you are and I thank you—each and all.
Finally, I thank my Irish parents—William and Nelly—who taught me to always stand up to bullies, no matter the cost.
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Forward
I believe there are three great threats to America today. Any one of them could cause the demise of our nation and an end to the freedoms and way of life that was passed on to us centuries ago.
One such threat, and it tops the list, is Islamic Terrorism. Strangely our government seems to be unwilling to admit, that in the name of a narrow interpretation of the Islamic religion, there are groups of individuals around the world and nation-states that have embraced the goal of imposing their beliefs on the rest of the world. Since 9-11, Al-Qaeda is one such Islamic Terrorist organization we have all come to know quite well. Unless we wake up now, as Islamic Terrorism spreads its tentacles around the world, the fear it creates, the death and destruction it causes, will soon overtake Western civilization. As a result of the “Arab Spring” and Egypt’s election of a new president, “Sharia Law” is now the law of their land; however, for years it has been functioning in many other nations around the world. Should this movement spread through America, it will cost our nation dearly. We must recognize Islamic Terrorism as the great threat it is to America today.
The second threat operating within our borders is Communism. Over the years, the term “communism” has been given the various labels of liberalism, progressivism, the “left” and socialism. Today these terms are virtually interchangeable because they all embrace a similar goal of an ever growing central government dictating to the rest of us how we must live our lives. The government will tell us what we can and cannot do and what we say and think. From this bloated government will flow expansive federal and state bureaucracies with endless costly programs adding to the nation’s generational debt. This inflated size of government stifles an economy that once made America the most prosperous nation in the world. It not only controls us but saddles you, me, every American citizen and future generations with an annual tax bill that, to our fathers and forefathers, was unthinkable.
The third great threat, equally as destructive to America and our freedoms, is Globalism.
This threat has many labels as well; the New World Order, One World Government, Global Governance or a One World Economy. In the past, this threat was usually tossed onto the ash heap of conspiracy theories, but I contend this threat is operating completely in the open today. Over the last 40 plus years, “Globalism”, under the banner of the United Nations, has crept into our society by creating a labyrinth of agencies and organizations actively functioning in every capitol city of every nation in the world. The march to global governance is propelled by a small group of people who believe they have all of the answers to all of the world’s problems. Since 1970, their primary point of entry has been through the environment—“a global problem that requires a global solution”. The desire of the globalists is to impose their will, their way of life and their view of how the universe is to function for the rest of us.
Marcus Cicero, the Roman philosopher, wrote: “Not to know what happened before you were born, that is to be…forever a child”. If you were not yet born when the first Earth Day was held and the modern day global environmental movement began, this book will help you grow in a more factually based understanding of the global world around you. And, if you were part of the “Me Generation” of the 60s and 70s or just wondering why all the environmental hand wringing is happening, this book will provide details you may have never known or perhaps just never connected with the U.N.’s global agenda and today’s environmental movement.
This book has been forty plus years in the making. The research and thoughts are mine, but every claim made in this book is verifiable by a simple click of your computer mouse and a search of the subjects via the internet.
x the green tsunAmi The goal of my book is to educate, motivate and activate you. Consider it also a warning. A giant
“Green Tsunami” is gathering power on the distant horizon. Once it crashes on America’s shores, “Globalism”, under the guise of modern day environmentalism, will sweep away our individual freedoms and drown our greatest inheritance, American liberty.
To save our nation from the threat of “Globalism”, you must do your part. It is a significant part to play in saving the American Dream for your children, grandchildren and great grand children. If you consider yourself a true, American patriot, read on…this book was written just for you.
Warren Duffy
Huntington Beach, California United States of America
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke
CHAPTER 1
THE BEGINNINGS: 1970, THE FIRST EARTH DAY
A friend once told me, “Before you can connect the dots, you must first collect the dots.” Connecting the dots of the Globalist Environmental Agenda is not an easy task, but the sorry state of our nation and world, complex as it is, suddenly becomes much clearer once all the dots are collected and connected.
How has mankind been convinced that Planet Earth is in grave jeopardy because of the advances of the Industrial Age? This is the era of man’s history that has given us so many incredible discoveries in manufacturing, transportation, communication, science and an extended life expectancy beyond anything man ever imagined possible. Is that time period now really causing our planet’s imminent demise?
To answer that question and to collect and connect the dots is to retrace a 40 plus year journey that began quite innocently in 1970 and has evolved into a web of international intrigue and cast of incredibly diverse and sometimes rather loony characters. But, with the help of a willing global media, a handful of culpable globalists have convinced
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the world that a series of almost laughable, impending disasters are actually about to happen.
Let us begin collecting the dots by tracing the history of the very first Earth Day in the spring of 1970.
In the late 60s, the man in the above photograph was the Program Director of an “underground” radio station in Los Angeles, California known as “the Mighty Met”, KMET-FM. That man was me. I headed a small group of committed hippies who all loved music; cutting edge, hard rock, underground music. The Who, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were all included on our daily play list.
In those heady days, part of being an underground radio station was to be a very active component in the “counter culture” movement, a younger group devoted to a new way of living that was the antithesis of our parent’s materialistic, post-World War II generation. The goal in life wasn’t a house in the suburbs with two cars in the driveway and a TV in the living room. Our generation wanted “Peace, Love, Flowers and Beads”. We created alternative lifestyles and gathered together in small communities in out of the way places like the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco or the East Village in New York City.
We had an “underground” system of communication to help organize demonstrations against the Viet Nam War, “love-ins” and music festivals (Woodstock on the East Coast or the Altamont Rolling Stones concert on the West coast), while we “got high with a little help from our friends”. Our clothing was somewhat mismatched and we went barefoot most of the time.
At the beach, we sprinted across the sand to the beautiful Pacific Ocean invariably stepping on discarded pieces of metal from soda and beer cans known as “pop tops”. Jimmy Buffett summed up our mutual predicament of those days in his “Margaritaville” classic, “Took off my flip flop, stepped on a pop top—cut my foot had to hobble back home….”
All of those elements, simplistic, though they may have been, contributed to the fertile soil for the first “Earth Day”.
During this same time period, an agile L.A. newspaper reporter observing the poor condition of L.A. air combined two elements clouding the skies, “smoke” and “fog”, to create the word “smog”. That expression soon became a favorite joke among late night television comedians, “Los Angeles, the city where you can see the air you breathe”.
As a side note; do you know how “smog” was cured in the City of Angels? In the 1970s, someone invented the Catalytic Converter. It was a relatively simple car repair that cost little to install and fixed the problem of fumes leaking into the L.A. skies. In 1977, L.A. reported one hundred and twenty-one Stage One Smog Alerts. Since then, there have been none, zero—zip—nada—not one, Stage One Smog Alert.
In the late 60’s, Los Angeles was not the only city in America dealing with foul air. Sadly, industrial pollution was also a serious problem for municipalities across the country. As giant steel mills belched smoke and cinders on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it became yet another American town experiencing serious air pollution problems.
There were other environmental problems back then as well. In Southern California, a massive Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969 fouled our beaches, our fish, and our birds with slime and goo. Admittedly, though it was not as bad as the oil spill of 2009 off the Louisiana Gulf Coast or the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, it was, nonetheless, a significant event. The new “Surf Culture” was taking hold in Southern California and oil was washing onto the golden sands of its beaches.
In Ohio, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted with industrial waste it actually caught fire and burned for two days. Among the television pictures of 1969 was a river burning in Ohio, soot darkening the skies of Pittsburgh, smog blanketing the L.A. Basin, and the beaches of California polluted with oil. America was ripe for a more thoughtful approach of caring for the environment.
The youthful generation of “under-30-somethings” was ready to pledge ourselves to a new way of thinking about pollution. It was time to start leaving the camp site in better shape than we found it. No longer would we tolerate cigarette butts or litter being thrown out of car windows. We were committed to no smog, no water pollution and above all, no pop tops discarded on the beaches.
We resurrected an old biological word, “ecology” and branded our new crusade “The Ecology Movement”, a word most people over 30 didn’t even know how to pronounce.
Then an unlikely champion for our cause appeared in Washington, D.C. His name was Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin who organized a nationwide ecology “teach in” day that fit perfectly with the counter-culture crusade of the 60s. Senator Nelson named the big event “Earth Day”; in part because it sounded like ‘birthday’ that, in turn, sounded like a nationwide party. As news about the big event spread, the Senator encouraged local celebrations. Our counter culture radio station took the bait and organized Southern California’s celebration of the first “Earth Day” on April 22, 1970.
As the much-anticipated day dawned, our listeners dutifully took their trash bags to tidy up the beach, giving extra attention to those irritating “pop tops” buried in the sand. We wagged our fingers at drivers who tossed litter from their car, cleaned up trash along the waterline and went to parks removing litter from parking lots and walking paths.
At the end of the day, we returned home feeling wonderful about our day long event. After inhaling suitable refreshments, we turned on the television news to watch the national news coverage of the big “Earth Day” celebration. Our collective jaws dropped as we saw and heard the network news from Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and the beloved CBS anchor, Walter Cronkite.
First, from Washington, D.C. our super-hero Senator Nelson appeared in a blazer, shirt and tie and spoke passionately to the crowd in our nation’s capitol. Imagine my bewilderment when the Senator began his speech with a warning that mass extinctions on the planet were about to happen because of a coming environmental catastrophe. The Senator announced, “Doctor S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years 75% to 80% of
all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
Really? Smog was going to cause massive extinctions? The fate of our planet would be decided by people who tossed cigarette butts out of their car windows or “pop tops” in the sand at the beach? I was a shocked and surprised counter-culturist!
The news coverage then moved to a huge Earth Day event on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Here, a well-known biologist, Paul Ehrlich, author of the best selling book “The Population Bomb”, was addressing the crowd. Ehrlich made no mention of “pop tops”, nothing about cleaning up trash or keeping rivers and streams clean.
Instead he passionately expressed, “Populations will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increase in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100 to 200 million people per year will be starving to death in the next ten years.” Many years later, Ehrlich wrote the foreword to Al Gore’s scary, environmental, blockbuster book, “Earth in the Balance”.
In 1970, Ken Watt was perhaps the best known and most respected environmental activist of the era. Shortly after the first “Earth Day, he made his “global environmental” claim that I think you will find humorous. “The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years. If present trends continue the world will be about 4 degrees cooler for global mean temperatures in 1990, but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an Ice Age.”
It turns out all those gloomy predictions at the 1970 “Earth Day” were the genesis of the doomsday prophesies that continue today. From Watt’s “Ice Age” to the latest prediction that “Global Warming” caused by greenhouse gases trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere are resulting in “Climate Change”, the list of imaginary disasters is continually perpetuated and yet to date, not one, has ever happened.
