Originally written and posted on Mother Jones about Fiji Water

Green? Greenwashing? Carbon? Carbon Negative? And people believe these marketing terms? You have got to be KIDDING!! It is astronomically amazing the level of intelligence some people seem to have until they open their mouth about the environment. There are 2 kinds of people in the "green" industry: the faithfully uninformed, and those who profit from it.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is what gives this planet life, LIFE! This planet started with an earth's atmosphere of 97% CO2, a rich environment for life. The first life on earth was plants, and plants thrive on CO2. Eons of time of a rich plant based planet sucked the CO2 down to trace levels leaving a byproduct, oxygen. A rich environment of O2 made it possible for animal life. Eons of time pass and Earth finds homeostasis with some minor fluctuations that put rich forests north of the Arctic circle for some eons (look it up), and freeze it solid and cover Kansas in glaciers for other eons (look it up).

The modern day "green" industry was started in Germany in the late 80's by underemployed physicists attacking the competition, the much cheaper oil and gas industries. The physicists wanted to push nuclear energy as the alternative by publishing an extensive and threatening "greenhouse gas" report that would cause catastrophic global warming. It was a great strategy to attack big oil and reign them in a little. Too bad Chernobyl happened 4 months later. However, the then divided Germany's government used the physicists report to get back at the U.S. for decades of occupation and war reparations (look it up). The German government's plan was an extremely profitable wealth transfer strategy from the U.S. that benefited most all of Europe, but especially Germany.

Eventually the physicists report became the basis of the Kyoto Treaty via the U.N.s Environmental Development Summit in Brazil (look it up). What does Environmental Development mean? The only good way to develop the environment is letting Mother Nature work things out. Maybe if the word "Industry" were inserted in there it would make more sense. Environmental "Industry" Development. Ah, but that would give away the true agenda.

The Kyoto Treaty is the leading economy's of the world (except the U.S.) trying to "Marshall" money from the rich U.S. ATM (American Taxpayer Machine). The worldwide green industry has been built up and built up and built up pending the opening of the U.S.'s ATM (look it up). All the windmill companies, solar companies, geothermal companies, recycling companies, blah blah blah are frothing at the bit waiting for this wealth transfer to become law so they can cash in at the American taxpayers expense.

In the meantime, the environmental industry keeps conducting impossibly inconclusive studies, and getting caught lying and suppressing contrary evidence in the process in the name of science (look it up)! The science has got so bad hundreds and hundreds of physicists, geologists, meteorologists, and (collectively) scientists are dissenting and claiming its not science (look it up). Its a lot like cigarette companies continually funding research on smoking and lung cancer. Its not good for the environment. Its good for the environmental industry's pocketbook and that's about it (look it up, look it up). Wait, what? Its not global warming anymore? What is it? Oh, "Climate Change". You mean the climate is going to change? Just like it has been for eons? Right, but this time its alarming. Gotcha.

The environment has been taking care of itself for hundreds and hundreds of millions of years long before humans crawled out of the ice age 11,000 years ago. For even the above average mind this is too big of a concept to grasp. If the earth's environmental time were a football field, the time humans have would take up less than the thickness of a blade of grass at the end zone. Its amazingly arrogant to think that humans are having a meaningful impact on the environment. Especially considering recorded history has no record of a forest north of the Arctic circle , or a glacier in Kansas. Yet there is evidence of both before we existed in present form. Who on earth is responsible for that climate change? Is it presumptuous to guess it was the climate that killed them? Climate change legislation is about as arrogant as the U.S. government making marijuana illegal, as if that were going to save humans from themselves. No, it is not about saving humans. It is amazingly profitable to make it illegal! There seems to be a great business model here. Step 1: Legislate. Step 2: Profit!

Throughout human history, belief has always been found just past the limits of human understanding. Galileo was convicted and sentenced to death by a jury of his peers for having calculated that the earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact, traveled 'round the sun. His peers were unable to comprehend the possibility, let alone understand his observational astronomy and mathematical proof. Keep in mind this wasn't long ago. Columbus was dead and both New York City and Boston were on the map already (look it up).

The environmental industry is nothing more than the next religious industry, with varying faiths and denominations (geothermal, solar, wind, death by trash, recycling, warming, cooling, and finally "climate change" is the boogyman that will smite you.). The environmental industry claims to to comprehend something that is beyond comprehension. Which is why the word "belief" and "believes" comes up so often in conversations about the topic. Followed by the more dangerous cousin, "faith".

The hidden agenda? Well, that's hidden. But if you think about it, you might be able to figure it out. Its not easy to make a profit when everybody has so much freedom and personal responsibility. If freedom and responsibility could be reeled in a bit, it just might make sense. Step 1, Step 2. Legislate profits. The faithfully uninformed are the perfect tool of the environmental profiteers. Until there's another glacier in Kansas or a forest north of the Arctic circle the only environment that needs to change is the green one.