| Towards
the Pentagon's new "Dream Scenario": Climate Wars |
After Iraq, who is
next? Venezuela?
By: Jutta Schmitt 24/02/04 As the pyramid of lies regarding the Bush administration's "war on terrorism" is falling apart, from the “failing intelligence” of September 11th to the “false intelligence” of Iraq's “weapons of mass destruction”, with not even the orange colour code being able to paint over the public credibility fiasco and with only those lacking “central intelligence” still falling for the stimulus-and-response psychological operations game, the Pentagon has now come up with what can be considered a somehow more "convincing" idea to justify “America´s new wars” in the near future: climate change. In the face of the catastrophic consequences of climate change expected to happen anytime within the next 20 years and given the prospect of a world wide scenario where "disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life" (1), the enticing opportunity of going to war without even the slightest need for justification, rises like the sun from behind the horizon. Far from proving “humiliating to the Bush administration”, the Pentagon's latest findings are likely to become the necessary background for a new kind of wars, substituting the somewhat gone awkward “war on terrorism” and guaranteeing the continuity of the bellicose world-approach of G.W. Bush's and that of any future US administration to come: climate wars. Elevating climate change “beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern” (2) will thus constitute the cornerstone of a new national security strategy (and the Pentagon's very dream scenario), where - other than mere survival - no further, onerous justification for war will have to be invented. “Sheer survival” makes the case for itself and justifies all measures and means, including the physical annihilation of international competitors for air, water, energy, food and, most importantly, profits - as long as the human and environmental, planetary catastrophy can be profited from. “Survival” is also and finally the most brilliant and convincing argument as to why a good deal of the world's population – the superfluous, manual and mostly third world labour force, that has fallen out of the production process and become meaningless both for production and consumption - has to be eliminated: to not further put a strain onto the planet's capacity of enduring the freedom of the world's economic, financial and military tyranny to wreak havoc on the vast majority of its human population as well as its natural environment. Instead of leaving an option for international co-operation and a commonly, rapidly and rigidly implemented solution of the problem of climate change, let alone of tackling the root cause - a literally suicidal mode of production or rather destruction - the Pentagon, in unison with its corresponding political outlet – the respective US administration in power - , will enthusiastically embrace “climate wars” in a double effort of using climate change not only as the reason to go to war for whatever objective it deems worthwhile and with whatever competitor/enemy concerned, but for developing and introducing a new generation of geophysical weapons, “capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications”, with the declared objective of “owning the weather in 2025”. (3) After Iraq, who is next? Venezuela? (1): Mark Townsend/Paul Harris: Now the Pentagon tells Bush: Climate Change will destroy us”; http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4864237-102275,00.html (2) ibid. (3) Col. T. J. House et al, “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025” (research paper presented to Air Force 2025); http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm Sign Guestbook View Guestbook ********************************************************************* |