Smith Richardson Foundation Funds Climate Change Denial Propaganda

As discovered in an article entitled Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement in the Smithsonian, , Greensboro's very own Smith Richardson Foundation has spent $13.5 Million Dollars to promote anti-climate change propaganda.

This is how the money produced by the workers of the Vick Chemical Company, now a part of  Procter & Gamble, Inc.is being spent, to protect the interest of the few while the many suffer, unlike the legacy left behind by H. Smith Richardson and his wife Grace Jones Richardson.

" I believe the need for the time and thought of able men is that they be applied to the increasingly weighty problems of government and the serious social questions which now confront us and will continue to press for solution in the future…the greater the material wealth of the citizen the greater are his obligations to the State and Nation…the obligations to give his time and thought to these public and social problems." -H. Smith Richardson

These are the people who pull the strings in Greensboro and beyond. They live in the shadows hiding behind the legacies of great men like H. Smith Richardson spending fortunes on political outcomes while our veterans and children live on Greensboro's streets.


And they claim to be working for the good of humanity. Even if climate change isn't real that $13.5 Million could be doing lots of better things.

Global Sea Ice, 2016; Would you rather be happy or know?

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Elie Wiesel

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2016/12/debt-rattle-december-6-2016/

With the merits of the debate for or against climate change set aside,

is it plausible that some who believe Earth isn’t warming are subconsciously in denial 

that their actions may have contributed to the potential extinction of our species, 

while some who think the world is warming feel culpable 

and want to rescue their offspring or legacies, as most are apathetic either way?

Need = Thought, sustenance and a temperate climate

Want = Everything else

People who have what they want

are fond of telling people who haven't what they want,

that they really don't want it.

Ogden Nash

Over-prioritizing want sacrifices need.

If want depends on not understanding need,
what looks obtainable may not be.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe

is that none of it has tried to contact us

Bill Watterson

Want can be eliminating unneeded

The less you think you need, the easier it is to take care of

If want is not how much but how happy,
Wealth = Happiness

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill,

keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt,

chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench,

care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Tao Te Ching

Everything you want you already have and are,
if you think so.

If thought is both logical and emotional,
what you do is too.

Egotism

is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

Some of what you think you know
you don’t.

If nothing doesn’t change,
not making a move is making a move.

Threatened need alters thought.

Lives based on having

are less free than lives based either on doing

or on being.

William James

Could living for the moment
be the only way to live happily ever after?

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant

I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

But when I got to be 21,

I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Do some interest groups exaggerate while business interests
belittle the threat of climate change?

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees

Revelation 7:3

Can some believe what isn't or refuse to believe what is?

Too many people and at some point, not enough food

Two fundamentally different stories have been enacted

…during the lifetime of man.

One began... some two or three million years ago by the Leavers,

and is still being enacted by them today, as successfully as ever.

The other began to be enacted here some ten or twelve thousand years ago

by the Takers,

and is apparently about to end in catastrophe.

Ishmael, a wise fictional gorilla

"...global abundance of food depends on weather extremes remaining rare. If extremes of weather become commonplace, global food surpluses will turn into shortages.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/hottest-year-on-record/2015/embed/

In the larger context, the global food supply chain is a real-world system that cannot be "fixed" with financial gimmicks. No amount of money-printing will replace crops lost to weather extremes, replenish depleted fresh-water aquifers, magically rebuild top soil lost to erosion or repair the environmental ravages of industrial pollution.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization

in which people have dared to think it practicable

to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Arnold Toynbee

...we have created a global ‘landfill economy’ that is stripping the natural resource base to the bone and creating pollution on a scale that our increasingly resource constrained future economies will find difficult or impossible to ameliorate.

If arable land, fresh water, irrigation, genetically modified seed

modern equipment, pesticides and fertilizers

convert fossil fuel into enough food to keep pace with population growth,

is the populace dependent on ever increasing supplies of finite resources?

...we had both the coldest winter day (first frost I’ve seen in my 12 years living in my current home) and warmest winter day (practically a summer day) in the same week in mid-winter.  This weirdness, if it continues (let alone gets worse), has an immense capacity to crimp food production.

The major advances in civilization

are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead

Most people don’t appreciate that it takes six months to grow a wheat crop and only a single extreme weather day to wipe out a large part of its yield potential...

...A single hard frost can decimate yields in a day or two just as effectively as drought can devastate crop that are not irrigated.

Exponential growth is a phenomenon that occurs

when the growth rate of the value of a mathematical function 

is proportional to the function's current value, 

resulting in its growth with time being an exponential function.

...If weather extremes become more common, it will follow like night follows day that agricultural yields will plummet accordingly.

Why have so many people shown up in the last 262 years?

In 10,000 BC there were about 1,000,000 people

In 8000 BC there were about 5,000,000 people, or about x5 more in 2,000 years

In 6000 BC, there were about 10,000,000, doubling again in 2,000 years

In 4000 BC, 20,000,000, or +10,000,000 more in another 2000 years

2000 BC...35,000,000...  x1.5 2,000 years before

Year One, 200,000,000...  x5.7 in 2,000 years

1750...    791,000,000...  x3.95 in 1750 years

1900...    1,650,000,000...

2000...    6,070,581,000... x30.35 in 2000 years

2005...    6,453,628,000... +383,047,000 in 5 years

2008...   6,700,000,000...  x33.5 in 2008 years

November 2011...  7,000,000,000... +929,419,000+ in 11 years

April 2016...  7,416,900,000... +426,900,000+ in less than 5 years

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

...Let's suppose extremes of weather decimate yields globally for a few years in a row. What happens to prices of basic foods? They skyrocket, of course, pricing out the poor. The poor then demand subsidized food, and fearful governments either supply the subsidized food or they risk outright rebellion from hungry desperate people.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race

is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Dr Albert Bartlett

In a real global food crisis, there won't be enough to go around. Those nation-states with surpluses to sell will be able to dictate whatever terms they choose...

The potential for a global food crisis is heightened by the confidence that such a crisis could not happen in the era of modern high-yield agriculture...

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-odds-of-global-food-crisis-are.html

If fossil fuel, pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified seed, 

irrigation, exponentially productive technology, arable land and fresh water

created enough food to keep pace with population growth so far,

is Earth’s industrialized civilization dependent 

on ever increasing supplies of what appears to be finite resources?

Normal Oil Production Peaked around 2005...

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/08/normal-oil-production-peaked-around-2005.html

There are too many people

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/there-are-too-many-people.html

"Helicopter money" = Default

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/07/helicopter-money-default.html

Humans have overpopulated Earth.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/syria-paris-and-terrorism-etc-cause-and.html

"The Earth is warming so fast that it's surprising even the climate scientists who predicted this was coming."

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-earth-is-warming-so-fast-that-its.html
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Why have so many people shown up in the last 262 years?

10,000 BC...1,000,000...
8000 BC...5,000,000...  x5 in 2,000 years
6000 BC...10,000,000...  x2
4000 BC...20,000,000...  x2 +10,000,000 in 2000 years
2000 BC...35,000,000...  x1.5
1...             200,000,000...  x5.7
1750...    791,000,000...  x3.95 in 1750 years
1900...    1,650,000,000...
2000...    6,070,581,000... x30.35 in 2000 years
2005...    6,453,628,000... +383,047,000 in 5 years
2008...   6,700,000,000...  x33.5 in 2008 years
November 2011...  7,000,000,000... +929,419,000+ in 11 years
April 2016...  7,416,900,000... +426,900,000+ in less than 5 years

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

All progress

is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism

to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

If resource consumption, food production, population, and fiat money creation,
all rose faster in the last 50 years than the preceding 5,000,
are we consuming more than replenishing?

Think of the Earth as a living organism…being attacked by billions of bacteria,

whose numbers double every forty years.

Gore Vidal

If mold continues to multiply after eating half a piece of cheese,
what happens when demand exceeds supply?

If we’re the mold and Earth is the cheese, how many need and/or want how much,
where is half way, who’s got what’s left, who gets cut off when,
who will compete with who for what’s left, and how is who most likely to win?

Can mold collectively prevent the procreation of a larger generation
that can’t be fed by the remaining cheese?

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

Suggested populations could increase faster than food supplies

Did increasing supplies of money, fossil fuel and food

contribute to Earth’s human population rising

from 1.6 billion at the beginning of the 20th century,

to more than 6.8 billion in a little more than 100 years?

You're captives of a civilizational system

that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

Daniel Quinn

Postulated correlations between population growth

and natural resource consumption

If technological civilization 
advanced more in the last 10,000 years than the previous 1,000,000,
the last 1,000 than the preceding 10,000,
and the last 100 than the prior 1,000 and the last 10 compared to the last 100,
what could happen if many come to believe Earth’s population is unsustainable?

Only seven meals separate civilization from potential anarchy.

Josette Sheeran

UN World Food Program

If need is sustenance and a temperate climate,
should you not do what you don’t want done to you unless you need to?

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson