12 ways to cash in on the 'collapse of Eaarth'

MarketWatch ^ | May 18, 2010, 12:01 a.m. EDT | Paul B. Farrell

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Commentary: Our 'hot, flat, crowded' -- and dying -- planet is the next 'big short'

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Imagine a secret society, code name "Avatar 2154," based on the date of the "War of 2154" between the "Sec-Ops" armies from "Eaarth," funded by the "Resources Development Corporation," against the "Na'vi" indigenous tribes on the Pandora moon.

The war is over mining rights to Pandora's unobtanium, a powerful new energy source needed back on Eaarth to save our planet, where rapid population growth is exhausting limited natural resources, resulting in a dying civilization. Obviously this is a metaphor for today's global threats.

The goals of Avatar 2154: Maximum security and wealth preservation for future generations of members from the elite of Wall Street, Washington, Corporate America CEOs and the Forbes 400. Avatar 2154 secretly supports climate-change-deniers in think tanks, academic research and politicians who negate the impact of scientific facts. This effort is necessary when high-profile voices like Al Gore and Bill McKibben surface and new propaganda is required to attack their efforts stirring global climate initiatives.

For example, McKibben, an environmental economist, recently published "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet." Tough? Worse. Earth is dead.

And McKibben's vision for the new Eaarth we created is bleak. No upbeat high-tech hope for a "green revolution" as in Tom Friedman's "Hot, Flat & Crowded." Remember, two decades ago McKibben's "The End of Nature" was one of the first books warning of global warming, climate change, a dying planet. His new Eaarth is a funeral dirge. In Foreign Policy magazine last year, McKibben summarized his relentless message:

"Act now, we're told, if we want to save the planet from a climate catastrophe.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We’re doomed....well...maybe.

[SierraWasp]

Money panic I can understand!

Enviro panic is purely a odiferous PANT-LOAD!!!

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes,...but he is delivering it...see the comments....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Did you see this:

Ted Turner: Is God speaking in Gulf Coast spill?

Some of the elites are going over the edge....

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Ted Turner wasn’t going over the edge. He was mumbling insanities up at incredulous gawkers while he plummeted further down... down... down...

And these people make real decisions about our lives.

[Marine_Uncle]

Gotta hit the rack. 3:30AM will come soon enough for me to then trod on weary feet back into the pit.

[SunkenCiv]

He’s just another global warming demagogue. Thanks Ernest.