"It's The End of The World as We Know It (And I don't feel fine)" With apologies to REM

Current Texas Drought

I'm thinking we should give a general heads up to stockholders of the worlds fossil fuel companies. It's possible they don't know that their money is being used to build the world's largest implement of mass destruction. I don't think we can call the giant greenhouse that fossil fuel has built anything else - it really is an implement of destruction that threatens us all.

The Fossil Fuel Industry denies culpability, of course. The have, like the Tobacco Industry before them, hired tame scientists to claim that they not only didn't cause the problem, but that the scientific community and the rest of us are wrong and there is no problem with the climate. My guess is that the management of these companies hopes to squeeze a few years of extra profit out before the real destruction hits home.

This is a pretty gutsy plan. If it works they will be able to pull out their profits and head for high ground before the shareholders and the general public notice that they have been left holding the bag. If they wait too long they, like the rest of us, will be up to their necks in rising seawater and degraded habitat. There will also be many that would like to "string the bastards up" or at least sue their pants off.

If it's not your neck the water's up to then what?

Don't you think that the shareholders should know about the giant mess the management of these companies is making? Fossil fuel companies have made billions in profit and have failed to look to the welfare of those shareholders. If I owned a share of Exxon or Shell, you can believe I'd be in their face yesterday. Managers and executives in major corporations are for the most part well educated and understand that they are on a path to destruction. What they haven't understood is that this is world wide destruction and they will have to leave the planet or share in "the end of the world as we know it" and no I don't feel fine.

I just received a post by Bill Moyers that agrees with our contention that climate change is an implement of mass destruction. Since Bill is a much better journalist you should read what he has to say:

The 95 Percent Doctrine: Climate Change as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/23/the-95-doctrine-climate-change-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/