A Copenhagen Agreement Would Seal Our Fate

I don't know how many people really pay attention to what goes on in all of the various levels of government throughout the world. It is truly impossible to keep up with everything going on, and with the rapidity of change we have seen over the last few years, I think that even the people who care are overwhelmed with the information that we are all immersed in.

When most people hear about Copenhagen, they can't even figure out where it is located on a global map. Copenhagen is in Denmark. Denmark is a Constitutional Monarchy like most of the countries in Northern Europe, with a figure head Monarch and a Parliament that is elected by the people. Denmark is also a member of the European Union, which is composed of 27 sovereign Member States which include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Currently Global leaders are meeting at the Copenhagen Environmental Conference. The conference is being controlled by the force of the United Nations along with the European Union. They are hoping to form a treaty that is basically an extension of the Kyoto Protocol treaty (initiated in 1997) and they want to create enforcement criteria that would mandate control over human activity as we know it.

The criteria set forth in this treaty are based on Carbon Dioxide emissions, otherwise defined as the primary cause of greenhouse gas. This is being done under the auspices of what Environmentalists term "Climate Change." Personally, I feel that anyone can see how an ambiguous term "Climate Change" can lead to measures of control that are unreasonably arbitrary in nature and only designed as a malevolent action towards the United States of America -- the most productive industrial nation of this era.

The notion of a term defined as "Climate Change" is silly on its face. The climate changes every micro-millisecond of what we define as time. I know that I woke up this morning to freezing temperatures that warmed up by about twenty degrees this afternoon, and now here after midnight we have cooled back down below freezing again. And I remember it being hot last summer. Yes sir, I would have to agree that the Climate has changed a lot in my life.

When we boil it all down, we see that the rest of the World (and many people within the U.S. borders) want to clamp down on the Economic Growth of the United States. And a blind person can see that these forces have been highly successful at doing just that. Instead of trying to increase the Standard of Living of the rest of the world, these forces have chosen to pull the U.S. down into poverty. In my opinion, the results that the forces are trying to achieve date back to the old European systems that revolved around status. This was the system that Europe lived under until World War I.

The irony is that World War I was a war that revolved around what were considered to be the Noble structures of Europe. The trigger of the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was the culminating event in a procession of antagonistic feudal foreign and domestic policy relationships that had prevailed in central Europe for centuries.

What history shows, is that World War I was by all accounts a stalemate. In the end the war ended because the German people tired of the War and began revolting against Kaiser Wilhelm II's government. The Central Powers (consisting mainly of The Prussian Empire (Germany) and the Austro-Hungarian Empire) were forced to capitulate and accept all blame for the war.

In accepting the blame, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up into several nation states and territory was ceded to other nation states. This meant the end of the empire, so that was their punishment. Basically, they no longer existed.

Germany on the other hand faced the same type of punishment in having to cede territory to other nation states, but their worst punishment was the reparation penalty that was placed on them at the Treaty of Versailles. The "war guilt" clause declared Germany and its allies responsible for all "loss and damage" suffered by the Allies during the war. The Germans were asked to pay the equivalent of $32 billion ($400 billion in 2009) in reparations, in payments that would go on for decades. Paying for this along with other economic problems led to the Weimar Hyperinflation of the 1920s. This destabilization of German currency led to further political instability, which led to German National Socialism and thus the roots of the Second World War.

Where I am going with this, is that the United States is being pushed into a corner, where global forces are trying to force us to pay a form of reparations. We have been made out to be the scapegoats of the world, because we dared to push the envelope on progressive industrialization. The world is jealous of the United States and they want us to willingly lower our standard of living. And the worst part is that we have already virtually de-industrialized our country.

If one looks at the Kyoto Protocol agreement, then you will see that we have not signed on to that treaty. There is a good reason why, because we are expected to pay the lion's share of economic resources to satisfy all parties, and therein lies the problem. The United States is, and always has been, expected to foot the bill when it comes to these global initiatives.

Look at the big picture. We are expected to further reduce our tattered industrial base, we are expected to make enormous financial contributions towards the implementation of these criteria, and we are expected to further erode our sovereignty for a global body that seems to carry a certain level of antagonistic animosity towards the United States. No thanks!!!

It is time that the United States starts looking out for the good of its people. It is time that we reassert our sovereignty. It is time that we start taking steps towards rebuilding our productive capacity. It is time that the United Nations takes a back seat, instead of our country. It is time that we quit throwing good money after bad towards these ridiculous schemes. The egg heads that have created this global bureaucracy have their minds set on destroying the United States of America and it seems that our Government, be it Federal, State, or Local is bent on allowing our country to be pulled asunder by these external forces.

It's already too late to not feel any pain, but it is time to start picking up the pieces. Oh, it's hip, to be an environmentalist, even when you don't have a clue about any of the real issues. As long as the talking heads are talking it up on the Boob Tube, the intellectually lazy will buy in. The implications are that many of the actions that we have taken are going to prevent us from creating the technology that can help solve the energy and environmental issues that we face. Openness leads to creativity, problem solving, and eventually a good economy and living standard. Overzealous, autocratic control leads to dark ages with no development and bad economics. There are people at the top who could care less how much the average person suffers as long as they are in control and unaccountable for their actions. And that lack of accountability is what has led us to where we are today.