Via Earth Insight by Nafeez Ahmed hosted by The Guardian:
The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could
provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in
coming years. The revelations on the NSA's global surveillance
programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual
creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the
status quo escalates, Western publics are being increasingly viewed as
potential enemies that must be policed by the state. [Keep Reading]
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So we get told the science isn't settled, that it's not worth taking any steps to try and mitigate potential future outcomes. But the military knows that's bullshit, and the superstructure in general, is already taking the safeguards to save itself. While at the same time making inevitable that it will need to employ those methods because it has done nothing to address the actual problem.
That's it exactly. They can use crises to their advantage, consolidate power and force their agenda on the populace. Its the epitome of the shock doctrine. Corporations and The State are the only parties that stand to actually benefit from planetary disaster. For both corporations and the state, its the bottom line; achieving total control.
On a hopeful note; the military has been driving innovation in alternative fuel and off-the-grid technologies. Re-purposing those achievements for use in peace-time would mean the dawning of a new era.
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