Question Earthority!

“Agribusiness and Big Energy exploit the slogans of the Sullivans of the world to rip off the world’s poor, drive up food prices and starve the developing world while pocketing billions in subsidies as profit for themselves. The amount of money to be had selling ‘climate change’ snake oil is astounding. The reason is simple: politics. If climate change were simply an issue people wanted to ‘do something’ about there would be some profit in it but not as much as there is when politicians get involved. Politicians use the panic they help create in order to redistribute wealth to groups that help politicians. So big business gets lots of money. And certain academics rely entirely on the funding to ’study’ the issue. And the way funding goes, the academics who are in panic mode get lots of state funding, and those who aren’t in a panic get little or none. After all politicians want to solve ‘problems’ and studies that indicate the problem is either not solvable or not a problem strips them of their power.” (12/01/07)