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''' THE ECOLOGICAL JIHAD '''
The Historic sweep::
He's battling the flames as a wildcat well explodes and threatens the ecology of Alaska's North Slope. Now he's blowing the whistle on his vile employers and being hunted down by their goons.
Good! Good! The tables are turned! He has blown their whole evil petrochemicals complex right off the face of the earth! No more waste in the water, nor in the air, no more solid waste. Blah, blah, blah.
At the time, the folks at NBC, were loath to tell viewers, On Deadly Ground, was really a commercial, dramatizing almost word for word the United Nations sponsored Zero Emissions Research Initiative, ZERI for short.
ZERI aims at a global industrial policy with heavy industries centralized to maximize recycling. In late 90s, its ''charter'' cited ''Vice President AI Gore's proposal for a Global Marshall Plan'' and his book, more sermon than science, The Earth in the Balance.
At the Second Annual Congress on Zero Emissions research held in Chattanooga, Tenn, a galaxy of academicians, including the leading lights of Indonesian and Nimibian science, read the riot act to technical civilization.
The conference's declared goal: ''Eliminate all forms of waste from industrial processes. All waste is to be converted into value.''
Garbage in, nothing out? Whatever the U.N., and makers of On Deadly Ground and AI Gore thought, this initiative couldn't pass peer review at Astounding Science Fiction. It takes a load of power to make cold air come out of smokestack.
Or freeze carbon dioxide out of the sky. Anyone bent on thus confronting the laws of thermodynamics has a duty to explain where the extra power will come from.
Perhaps fossil fuels and nuclear power will be ZERI's thermodynamic salvation? No way! No way! Winding down combustion is the slip side its environmental agenda. And no new nuclear plants are on the books.
The conference papers of the time -you can look them up on the Web at www.zeri.org- show a whimsical taste in energy technology, ranging from photovoltaic greenhouses to ocean thermal power platforms. All are discussed without mention of their voracious capital requirements.
Ironically, the only industrial nation with the sort of power surplus to make these zero emissions projects possible is France. And France has the surplus because it derives most of its electricity from advanced nuclear power.
Laughable or not, On Deadly Ground and zeri are part of a trend that must be watched carefully. Saving the world is providing a new pretext for those disposed to government intervention.
One ZERI working paper puts its socialism in mystical terms. ''It is physically no longer possible to externalize the environmental costs..........and allow them to be borne by nature........the technology based arrogance of the west must be tempered with.........the ancient values that have survived modernization in the East.''
It may seem comic to find the United Nation and the Administration at the time embarking on a crusade against thermodynamic reality that would leave MIT freshmen rolling on the physics lab floor.
But ZERI means business. The first victim of this ecological jihad would be homo faber.
We have met ZERI's enemy and he is us: man the maker of things..
With most respectful dedication to the Students, Professors and Teachers of India: See ya all on the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless:
''' !!! Making Time And Space Disappear !!!'''
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SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless
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