Commentary: Out of environmental ‘crisis’ came New World Order

For those of us who were there to bear witness, the 1960s and 1970s were contentious times. It was the era that birthed the anti-war, anti-establishment generation, bringing anarchy and change to America. After the war ended and the protests ceased, some of the most extreme elements of that “hippie” culture gradually morphed into the radical environmental movement of today.

Little did we know then that some 50 years later the environmental movement would become the predominant political power of the day — a politicized influence masquerading as science that would replace traditional common sense with political correctness, where nothing makes sense anymore, as “climate deniers” are now victims of the prevailing madness and are being blamed for causing the recent hurricanes.

Back then we recall hearing about the Amazon rainforests. The “lungs of the planet” were allegedly being destroyed by man. Coral reefs were dying and air pollution was causing ozone holes in the atmosphere, including acid rain. Species were becoming extinct and eco-systems were dying, so they said.

By 1976 an ice-age was imminent, but when that failed to happen, we were warned of a “global warming crisis.” “Climate scientists” blamed this on excess amounts of carbon dioxide, a harmless trace gas, exhaled by all living creatures, and absorbed by plants and trees to produce oxygen, the gas of life. They said carbon dioxide created a “greenhouse effect” allegedly polluting the atmosphere. This calamity would cause floods, fires, famine, plague, pestilence, mass extinctions, rising seas and death if government didn’t do something to stop it, so they said.

We were warned that cow flatulence was adding abnormal amounts of dangerous methane to the atmosphere causing global warming; therefore we must stop eating beef and get rid of cows. The United Nations recommended that we eat bugs instead. They said within 10 years the polar ice caps would melt and coastal cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle would be submerged under 20 feet of water. Almost everything was blamed on global warming, or caused global warming, so they said.

We must reduce man’s “carbon footprint” on Earth. Books were written and movies made supporting environmentalism. Governments needed to establish international control of the planet’s resources to save it from being destroyed by man, so they said.

Al Gore proclaimed “the Earth had a fever” and some people were terrified because, even though this was a preposterous and unsubstantiated claim made by an opportunist politician, they believed it anyway, especially when he assured them “the debate was over and the science was settled.”

These ominous predictions were being blamed, not on the ordinary evolution of nature and climate, but on man’s alleged disregard for the environment, especially due to gas guzzling SUVs; therefore we must use electric cars run on batteries charged by “renewables” such as windmills and solar, so they said.

Authorities claimed the world was becoming overpopulated and said something must be done. Thus we began to realize that it wasn’t the wrath of nature itself, as it had always been, but it was man himself that was being depicted as the environment’s worst enemy. These ominous predictions were very upsetting to many people, making them fearful and guilty because they were now unfairly being blamed for the planet’s alleged demise, all based on trumped up theory.

Soon, a new faction of “climate warriors” and eco-lawyers was born, leading to a massive growth in the environmental movement. Many of the most intense activists became deep-rooted within government as well as in academia, education, entertainment, the news media and the United Nations. Their influence became overwhelming. Soon we began hearing about “Global Governance” and a “New World Order.”

Then the U.S. Supreme Court reached well outside its legal authority and entered the climate arena by ruling that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses were “pollutants” that contributed to man-made global warming, thus handing the EPA a blank check to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide.

“Sustainability” was needed to save the planet, including “Climate Action Plans.” Then we began hearing about “Agenda 21” and a great variety of environmental programs with vague and confusing names such as: The Wildlands Project, U.N. & U.S. Man and Biosphere Program, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), Kyoto Climate Protocol, the Paris Climate Accord and many others.

A new strain of “climate scientists” competed for lucrative government grants in order to produce temperature data tying carbon dioxide emissions to the “greenhouse effect” and thus theorize that carbon dioxide created by humans, and not variations in the sun (or natural climate change), was responsible for man-made global warming. Climate scientists then presented their theories to fellow climate scientists to gain their acceptance and approval through impressive “peer reviews” as a means to provide a façade of legitimacy.

In a desperate search for climate change justification, several research vessels were dispatched to the Antarctic during polar summer to seek proof of global warming but unfortunately they got stranded in heavy pack-ice and the crews had to be rescued in the infamous “ship of fools” polar expeditions.

Anybody who mocked or questioned this climate folly or doubted the unconfirmed theories emanating from modern “climate science” was called a “denier, skeptic or climate heretic.” Moreover, when “climate deniers” were blamed for hurricanes and other natural disasters, some climate activists even demanded that climate deniers be punished and put in jail, similar to the incidents of mass hysteria occurring during the Salem witch trials of Colonial America in the 1600s.

And if this wasn’t enough to terrify the people, the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking recently made the highly politicized and hypothetical claim that “we are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus; with temperatures of 250 degrees and raining sulfuric acid…….the best hope for survival of the human race might be independent colonies in space.”

Finally, we wondered when and if any of these catastrophic forecasts were actually going to happen. Would climate scientists and politicians ever answer for their failed predictions and theories? What is Agenda 21? Who are “they” and what gives “them” the authority to override the sovereignty of nations? Where do unelected non-governmental organizations (NGOs) get their power and why do they have so much influence? How will this invasive international power-grab affect our lives and our property and our sovereignty? What is the true agenda at the United Nations?

So what better way (other than all-out warfare) to control nations than by predicting an environmental Armageddon, playing to human emotions and fears by fabricating “evidence” without providing answers or proof, and then imposing global governance to allegedly solve the alleged crisis, thus robbing mankind of its last vestiges of freedom?

Darrell Beck is a Ramona resident.