The Caldera Environment Centre
The CEC is a serious environmental organisation and is concerned with tangible environmental issues such as land-clearance, illegal development, and enforcement of environmental regulation. The current energy being devoted to issues such as geo-engineering, chem-trails, fluoride and other conspiracy theories is not something we support in any way at all. The CEC was embarrassed to learn that our latest World Environment Day event we had people promoting these ideas, they were not invited and applied under false pretences and will be excluded from future events.
Ultimately, the issues of fluoride, vaccines and geo-engineering are a DISTRACTION and saps the energy of people on the left. If we united behind a common cause and became motivated we can move mountains. We proved this with the anti-CSG campaign. However, while we chase red-herrings with issues like Fluoride as a collective movement we will achieve nothing but ridicule.
These conspiracies are a distraction, probably funded by the fossil-fuel lobby to keep people distracted and chasing phantoms instead of focusing on real environmental issues.
Did you know the North coast has no environmental protection? Planning laws are being rewritten to favour developers, the threatened species act is about to be re-written by the conservative government (who took away our meagre environmental protections in the first place). Koala’s are going extinct… and we worry about vaccines.
This is the formula of the Tobacco industry and other multinational industries when confronted with overwhelming opposition. The divestment movement is gaining momentum. Renewable energy is becoming more and more widespread, the science of climate change is irrefutable and the effects are now noticeable. What does an industry do when confronted with a changing social reality?
Step 1: Create doubt, obfuscate arguments about climate change with
straw men and red herrings.
Step 2: Attack opposition, discredit politicians and scientists and citizens working on real change,
Step 3: DIVIDE THE OPPOSITION- having everyone on the left united against the fossil fuel industry would be/could be the basis of legitimate social revolution. Why not use a few millions of their petro-billionaire fortunes to create misinformation and distractions for gullible types to make them stare at clouds, protest fluoride, vaccines, EMR or other stuff instead of focusing on the main game i.e. positive change and taking out the fossil fuel barons?
The idea that there may be some form of geo-engineering happening that is responsible for the climate-change signature is a nonsense. It is just another excuse for inaction, akin to the argument “my (personal/national) footprint is so small it doesn’t matter if I change while there is this other stuff going on”. By dispersing the people on the left, we waste time debating unprovable stuff like this instead of doing something meaningful with our lives. Now we have protests about fluoride! Buy a water filter and let’s all move on with our lives.
And while this nonsense dominates people’s minds koalas are going extinct. There is No Local Environmental Plan for the north coast, no regional environmental Plan, state planning laws about to be re-written, state environmental laws about to be rewritten, sustainability has been redefined in economic connotations, the
federal government pushing dams… THESE are the real conspiracies.
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