Occupy Corporatism
by Susanne Posel
President Barack Obama spoke to the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) warning that with new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, electricity prices and the cost of fuel will rise which should be a concern for Americans.
Obama said: “People don’t like gas prices going up; they are concerned about electricity prices going up. If we’re blithe about saying, ‘This is the crisis of our time,’ but we don’t acknowledge these legitimate concerns — we’ve got to shape our strategies to address the very real and legitimate concerns of working families.”
The president pointed to other nations like India and China who are riddling the atmosphere with pollution and sinking in social poverty.
Obama asserted: “The trade-offs for them are tougher than for us unless we describe how development should leapfrog the old sources of energy. The United States should take the lead in developing low-carbon sources of energy that would give poorer economies better access to electricity without increasing their carbon pollution.”
While a global carbon emissions cut accord is being drafted for signature in 2015, “nations would be lured to the negotiating table if the United States managed to cut carbon pollution without hurting the domestic economy. When America proves what’s possible, other countries are going to come along.”
The battle with climate change has resulted in “about 200 municipalities” named in a class-action lawsuit initiated by Farmers Insurance Group (FIG) for “failure to prepare for climate change.”
Trent Frager, spokesperson for FIG said : “We hoped that by filing this lawsuit we would encourage cities and counties to take preventative steps to reduce the risk of harm in the future. Going forward, [we will] continue to work with the cities to build stronger, safer communities.”
Michael Gerrad, director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University (CCCL) explained: “One could easily imagine architects and engineers being accused of professional malpractice for designing structures that don’t withstand foreseeable climate-related events.”
In 2013, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he would champion a $20 billion dollar project to combat climate change and the threat of rising sea levels with the construction of flood gates and levees.
Bloomberg said : “Whether you believe climate change is real or not is beside the point. The bottom line is: We can’t run the risk.”
The document outlined the assessment made by Bloomberg’s office on how to properly combat climate change which includes:
• Rewriting existing building codes
• Structuring public transportation, hospitals, water treatment plants and communities to meet the challenges of global warming
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is in accord with Bloomberg to create digital cities that are climate change friendly. Construction will withstand extreme weather, reroute power during outages, be protected from flooding and assist residents in transportation out of devastated or affected areas.
Bloomberg and Lee attended a summit to discuss these schemes for their cities that will bring together residents in conjunction with learning to live sustainable lives.
Rosina Bierbaum, presidential science adviser of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) said: “It’s quite striking how much is going on at the municipal level. Communities have to operate in real time. Everybody is struggling with a climate that is no longer the climate of the past.”
Bierbaum asserts that: “Many of the other developed countries have gone way ahead of us in preparing for climate change. In many ways, the US may be playing catch-up.”
In the report entitled, “Risky Business”, climate change is viewed as a catalyst of a coming financial crisis.
Contributor Hank Paulson, former Secretary of the US Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs said: “The good news is if we act immediately we can avoid the very worst outcomes. So a huge takeaway here is that taking a cautious approach, waiting for more information, a business as usual approach, is actually radical risk taking. It is very important that government and business act soon.”
Because of the necessity of preparing for climate change, corporations can see an increase in profits by billions of dollars for the building of sea walls, infrastructure and investor funding of projects that claim to protect the nation from the effects of alleged rising sea levels and future “superstorms”.
Over the next 25 years, corporations can increase profits by $12 billion through government schemes to funnel taxpayer money to energy industry giants companies such as Koch Industries and Halliburton.
In 2013, Obama unveiled his plan to combat climate change which includes:
• Regulation of coal plants
• Building sea walls for defense against rising sea levels
• Energy efficiency for residences and commercial buildings
• Governmental permits for energy efficiency on governmentally owned lands
The 3 part plan Obama announced was in response to the threat to American cities against the ravages of storms and droughts that have altered the landscape of the US.
The Obama administration would take out an $8 billion loan with federal guarantees to invest in “green technologies”.
Using the The fear of rising sea levels has prompted a drastic goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 17% by 2020; although alarmist scientists claim this will not be enough.
Claims based on predictive models states that actions taken now will not avert the expected global warming catastrophe that will come to pass in the next few decades.
According to Climate Action Tracker (CAT), current policies will not lead to the halting of the effects of global warming because governmental response across the globe has been too slow and not stringent enough.
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