Die, Citizen Consumers, die!

2011 Wikileaks docs reveal major countries are ready to do battle over the oil and gas in the Arctic…they actually can’t wait for the ice caps to melt…

Clearly, banking on the melting of the polar ice caps has taken priority over halting or even reversing the catastrophic effects of climate change. The Arctic contains as much as one quarter of the world’s gas and oil reserves, once hidden under huge masses of ice and inaccessible through frozen seas. However, ice is melting faster than predicted, presenting profitable business opportunities which are leading the Arctic countries to lose sight of longer-term climate issues.

I have a friend,  Rand Clifford, a novelist, out near Seattle.  He’s been doing a series of articles for the past year — thoroughly researched; he’s a “classical” sci-fi writer, i.e. gotta be based on scientific fact, not fantasy — on how the methane released by melting ice caps will mean certain, and perhaps near-immediate extinction. 

They’re “getting ready to do battle.”  That is, the corporate interests (I guess the half a dozen conglomerates that own all mainstream-media and all mainstream-everything-else are fighting over resources in the various countries they own) are programming their respective operating systems to produce citizen/consumer/cannon-fodder.

Or, as Lenin (Trotsky? Molotov? I forget) said, “The Capitalists will sell us the guns we’ll shoot them with…”

Or, as X sang in the glorious Punk Year of 1978, “The television rang and it rang off the wall/that was the preacher-man making his call/He said, “Kind friends, this may be the end, this may be your last chance for salvation from sin”/…so he folded his bible and took up a collection…