PROOF:The Right’s Denial of Climate Change is a LIE.

In doing research for my Bucky book I found this quote from The Energy Task Force report to (corrected) President George Bush in 2001 (Wikipedia showed it as 1981):

“Given the magnitude of the potential threat represented by global climate change, it is equally in the strategic interest of the United States to identify and implement cost-effective measures at home and abroad to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gasses at levels that will not lead to catastrophic climatic change.”

It goes on to say:

“Many different constituencies within the U.S. government will need to work together to develop a unified and integrated energy policy framework with well-defined and orchestrated goals—a policy that addresses not only today’s energy bottlenecks, but also will seek to provide affordable, clean, and reliable energy supplies five to fifteen years into the future, in order to underpin long-term economic growth in an environmentally acceptable manner and to promote the security of the United States, and its allies” Here’s the LINK to the PDF Go to page 35, and please let me know if you go there and it has been taken down. (It wouldn’t be the first time.)

So just to review, this republican task force sponsored by the James Baker Institute and the Foreign Affairs Council from 2001 said they knew and understood that we had a serious problem. At the time, they said it would take 5 to 15 years to provide alternatives, which would, in their words, promote the security of the United States. That should have meant we would have made the transition by now, at latest.

What the heck happened?

Have they known all along that they were throwing all Americans and every living thing on the planet under the bus?  Just for their own measly little careers and fortunes, they have been forsaking the future for the rest of us? Since 2001?

How did we come to “unknow” what we already knew in twelve years ago?

When will it be time for torches and pitchforks in the streets?

What are we going to do, Mr. Obama?  What are we going to do?

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Author: Patricia Ravasio

I love speaking about ideas for achieving humanity’s success, which were passed on to me in 1982 by American genius Buckminster Fuller. Bucky’s ideas and integrities reflect subtle shifts in thinking necessary to help humanity find a more sustainable path to the future. Or at least to know we were leaning in the right direction.

13 thoughts on “PROOF:The Right’s Denial of Climate Change is a LIE.”

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    1. Thank you so much Meridith, for your nice comment and for sharing Buckyworld!
      I tried to find your Turning Leaves blog but it says the link is not active.
      Could you resend it to me? Thanks, Pat

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  3. On page 13 there is a reference to “early 2001” in the past tense, so it would have to have been finished after spring 2001.

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    1. Thank you Jean. Maybe all this good thinking got buried after what happened in the Fall of 2001? If only we knew what was really going on throughout all those years, when they knew there were serious problems developing but still didn’t take action (and still aren’t, for the most part).

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  6. It’s the second Bush (W. as noted in first paragraph of the foreword), probably 2001 before 9/11 due to the lack of any reference to it, the reference to the California energy crisis and per this passage on page 5:

    “Their energetic participation in three complicated video conferences and teleconferences from diverse locations and time zones offered invaluable insight, suggestions, and advice during December, January, and February in 2000-01.”

    So summer 2001 would make sense.

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  7. Looking at the linked document is appears to be from the early 1990s under the first Bush presidency. Looking for the 1981 document.

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    1. The document itself wasn’t dated. It was Wikipedia which listed the release date of May, 1981.
      Where did you see the date? It is so interesting to reconstruct the history of this. I wish there
      was a way to follow the money — that would probably reveal why they were willing to ignore their
      own warnings….
      Pat

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