the earth hour conspiracy
Hey, did you know that the recent campaign asking people to turn off their lights for an hour was actually an evil ploy by the UN to set up a powerful One World Government which seeks to dismantle American industry and redistribute the world’s wealth though an insidious campaign of fear and disinformation about the state of our environment? I certainly didn’t catch on to this nefarious scheme but apparently the fine folks at Fox News are looking out for all of us which is why they devoted some time and attention to it while many of us went on about our day, not suspecting the sinister horrors that will one day befall us all.
No, April Fools didn’t come early to Weird Things. Fox News really did feature people who took the issue of global warming and deep suspicions of any global organization to concoct a conspiracy theory. It’s not very elaborate, just a lot of vague and ominous threats that use the typical red- baiting techniques of the Cold War and 1950s style Red Scares. If you believe them, the whole global warming thing was dreamt up for the UN so it can dictate how many polluting gases a country can emit and enforce environmental protocols all over the world. Why? The UN is expecting to make money form these edicts and reorder economies by using credits, tariffs and taxes as carrots and sticks. Doesn’t that just send shivers down your spine? Really? Not at all? Yeah, me neither since this conspiracy doesn’t make any political or economic sense.
The idea that the UN would create a global system of tax credits and tariffs would mean that an international body with no power to regulate or charge other nations, just pressure them when it gets enough support from its members, would all of a sudden be able to not only dictate the trade laws of every country in the world but also enforce them. With no legal authority or some sort of supervisory agency that has real power to punish violators, the UN would have a rather tough time doing that. How exactly do you impose taxes when you’re not allowed to collect the receipts? And what do you do when nations don’t comply? Let’s remember that the right wing decried UN as weak and for all intents and purposes useless, for many years. Now, after a documentary about global warming by Al Gore, they’re a New World Order.
I’m not a huge fan of environmentalism being used to further the personal agendas of certain green groups and I’m even less thrilled about a heavy injection of politics into science. But the notion of the UN magically gaining incredible legal powers out of thin air to assault economies of the U.S. and its allies for a nefarious socialistic scheme on the sole basis of environmental issues in the media seems rather far fetched. However it does illustrate the different styles of the old One World Government conspiracies from the left and from the right. Liberal conspiracy fans tend to cast multinational corporations, military actions and neo-conservative leaders as their villains. Conservative conspiracy theorists will look towards globalization and their fears of almost anything that can be branded with an “-ism,” other than capitalism of course, hence an international organization is the culprit in their New World Order theories.
When it comes to global warming policing, there is something that we should be wary of, and this is no conspiracy. Eco Police, and perhaps Eco Armies could very well enforce laws and penalize the majority of us for crimes that we may seem as harmless or misdemeanor in contemporary times.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/eco-police-officers-environment.php
It’s kind of like saying, “Careful what you wish for”. As this could get out of hand depending on the severity of the situation. The thing about the UN, is that it really is corrupt. Being financed by international bankers, it’s in their interests more than the majority of the world’s.
New World Order is real, that’s something we’re seeing as nations start to talk about a one world currency of sorts.
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSTRE52T64520090331
Depending on how the UN deals with the situation, it can be a good or bad thing. Nazi Germany had Green Police, and they weren’t very nice.
The first link was about federal police officers who work for the EPA and look for conduct that breaks laws. Not exactly linked to the UN or some nefarious global organization. Just the US government.
The second talks about a currency to replace the U.S. dollar as the dominant denomination for global business. Again, nothing to do with a New World Order. And since you mention international bankers as well, you may want to see a pair of previous posts on this blog about banking and the Taxil Hoax and its influence on NWO theories.
That is pretty hilarious, except that unfortunately a conspiracy theory doesn’t need to make political or economic sense for people to believe it! The kind of people who’ll believe it and repeat it won’t know that the UN has no powers.
And eco armies? Wow. We can’t even get countries to agree to step in and stop things like the Rwandan genocide. No chance whatsoever of anyone cooperating to commit troops to an eco army.
Good points Greg, but you forget about the power of intent.
The richest people in the world, and most of them are bankers, know about conspiracy theories that permeate the public memestream and use them to great advantage.
By the funding of powerful lobbies, who then influence political agendas and the politicians running for and entering office, they are able to get what they want most of the time as you well know.
Don’t kid yourself by poo-pooing conspiracy theorists left or right, rich and powerful people do run the planet via their pet politicians.
It is only because of what one commentor stated about the very ineptitude of these same politicians who inspite of being bought, can’t agree on anything but their own self interest that’s slowing down a one world government, no matter what form it eventually takes.
Just for the record, I’m all for alternative energy sources, it’s long overdue here.
And yes, the UN is as toothless as my Aunt Pat!
Yes, there are a lot of bankers and CEOs who pay great deals of money to make politicians do what they want them to do. However, let’s keep in mind that these people and the lobbyists who work on their behalf are also only interested in what benefits them directly.
Quite a few bankers and people in the world of high finance are nationalistic and ascribe to many red-baiting theories of those who just can’t stop fighting the Cold War and the culture clashes of the 1960s. They’re just as afraid of a New World Order and watch Fox News in terror that the “evil socialists from the UN” are coming to take their posessions in the name of environmentalism.