GREEN BUSINESS VIEWS

A decade of hopeful promotion for Green jobs and Green industries reveals some ugly facts about how we erect sacred cows that may not be as sacred as we though.  As one who considers himself a pragmatic environmentalist, I have some very bad feelings about the path some have taken to promote the dire straits of the world.  Solyndra seems to be just the tip of the iceberg as two other solar panel companies have recently gone under as well.

Here the unspoken truth, many environmental causes have learned the “Squeaky Wheel” routine.  Of course, Al Gore may be the epitome of the squeaky wheel having argued loud and hard about global warming only to find that his predictions, science, and arguments where more passion than substance.  The way to get noticed and get funding is to create an impending crisis built in hypothesis that no one is supposed to challenge.  The environmental loyalists are like flat worlders, who dare not defy the theory of a flat world no matter how much their science lacks in fact.

Solyndra came into existence because of political expedience and the belief that we were running out of fuel to run the country.  We later found out that there is enough gas and oil in America for the next one hundred years or more.  The graphs and charts were wrong as new reserves were found and more economic systems were brought into place.  And, no one thought to check that the Chinese were beating Solyndra to death in solar panel production.

I feel betrayed by the naive or ideology-driven policies of President Obama and his crew.   I also feel that I have been hoodwinked by money-driven environmental programs that hype the realities in order to get funding and contracts.  This is reminiscent of the secret emails that finally revealed the global warming scientist did not want to let the real facts get out, but skewed the numbers in order to drive governments to adopt aggressive environmental programs that perpetuated their careers.

Bad science, false claims, and outright deceit will ruin the environmental cause, and it seems that none dare say this too loudly.  The truth is scary enough.  I do not think that we need to perpetuate a doomsday approach to every environmental issue.  If the world is millions of years old, then we have managed to make it through more than a few crisis problems.  The Black Death of the Dark Ages wiped out millions.  Wars have done the same.  Even Hitler’s genocide  did not end the Jewish race.

It is well past time to stop the lying no matter how much some cause might conjecture about a holocaust scenario.  I wonder if there isn’t some perverted death wish for those who would rather be right about the damnation of the earth than to work on its salvation.  How many lies are yet to come forth from the doomsday environmental prophets?  How many embarrassments will eventually be revealed before environmental programs are dismissed like the idiocy of the town drunk?

Obama’s Green jobs is likely made of the same ingredients as Jim Jones’ Koolaid.   If we drink from this poison fountain, we will kill ourselves in blind allegiance to a misbegotten cause.  Honesty can not be displaced by expediency, but this has become the standard today.  Lying is justified by self-serving loyalty and an unspoken agreement to support an environmentalist agenda that paves the way for a new control group.

As one who believes in a pragmatic environmental approach, I am upset and appalled at the wholesale acceptance of false and skewed science as the device that brings us to these kinds of embarrassing revelations.  Honesty is not just the right thing to do.  It is the only way that we can find our way to the real tomorrow that we must all face.

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