Have you ever heard of Americans for Prosperity? AFP is an organization that wants to: “expose the ‘hot air’ in global warming.”
Here’s a little diagram I drew to help you understand why Americans for Prosperity the Continued Prosperity of Koch Industries and Other Big Oil Outfits would invest heavily in “hot air.”
You’ve been duped. AGAIN!
From the diagram, you can see that Americans for Prosperity the Continued Prosperity of Koch Industries and Other Big Oil Outfits was founded by David Koch.
Americans for Prosperity was founded by David Koch, the billionaire co-owner of Koch Industries, the largest privately owned company in the United States (Georgia-Pacific became part of the family in 2005), and this country’s leading corporate environmental criminal.
Faulty Koch pipelines resulted in more than 300 oil spills in five states during the 1990s, which led to the corporation paying landmark penalties. A pipeline explosion in Dallas in 1996 that killed two teenagers cost the company more than $300 million.
Facing a 97-criminal count indictment and possible fines in the hundreds of millions for knowingly releasing large amounts of the carcinogen benzene at its Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery, in 2001 the U.S. Justice Department under George Bush II dropped all but one charge – concealment of information during a three-month period in 1995. The company was fined $10 million and ordered to pay another $10 million for community service projects in Corpus Christi.
If you only understand only one thing about industry propaganda, please understand this:
If you are curious about the truth, you will click over and read Blowing hot air about Global Warming.
The article’s closing is a question I’ve asked many times:
“Frankly, I’m concerned that the common sense of all this is not immediately apparent to the majority. Suppose climate scientists are wrong but we do something about global warming anyway. What will we have lost? Nothing. We will have gained. We will leave a smaller environmental footprint and enjoy cleaner technologies. Cleaner air. Cleaner water. Less cancer. And so forth. But suppose the climate scientists are right and we do nothing or fail to do enough. Then we are in a deep, dark hole.
“Of course, we’re already in a hole. Best to stop digging and find a way to climb out.”
More on Koch Industries:
Irony Alert: Bill Peacock, Paid Shill for Koch Instructs Us on Clean Air
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Anybdoy who believes in Gullible Warming and yet still lives in a house connected to the electrical grid, uses any transportation that uses carbon fuels, or consumes any products that come from fossil fuels can't be considered as anything but political pawns. If eradicating fossil fuels from society is something they really believe in, they should show us how it is done.
How ridiculous! We must all conserve as much as we possibly can but, the way society is currently set up, our choices are few. Just because we are forced to consume some fossil fuels, doesn't mean that we can't shine a light on people who promote their own interests by using propaganda or that we can't insist extraction of fossil fuels be conducted using the safest, cleanest methods possible.
You don't have to eliminate the use of fossil fuels; You can use them much more wisely than what we are doing now.
Fuel cells produce only about 25% of the CO2 as a gas turbine does per kWh of electricity produced, and only 1% of the NOX per kWh. Gee, reduce 2 important pollutants at once.
You can also use things like LEDs for more lighting.
You can also mitigate fossil fuel usage by using public transportation. Since Texas has a deregulated electric system, you can call your provider and opt to have 100% green energy from either wind or water. So being connected to an electric grid doesn't mean you're using fossil-fueled power. Using LEDs like Mike said is an amazingly simple, efficient way to help (my family did it and really did notice a reduction on our bills). Pretty much if everyone did little things, instead of thinking it's all made-up scientific mumbo-jumbo, then like Sharon said, we all benefit from cleaner air, water, and land. And it's not propaganda, using past cycles of the Earth, we should be trending towards a global cooling, not a warming. The sheer fact that we're rising by a degree a century is appalling when a normal cycle for a degree of change is a thousand years. Isn't it just a little more than coincidental that the "storm or disaster of the century" is starting to happen more than once a year? The environment is obviously telling us something is wrong. It wasn't like this 150 years ago before industrialization, so it seems that WE are the problem. Thankfully, we can also be the solution. Oh man, that was a rant and a half, hahahaha.
Sharon, you do such a great job at showing what things like Americans for Prosperity are really about. And you're right. They will do ANYTHING to have a get out of jail for free card. It's shameful.
Hey, thanks! =)
I can't get green energy or select my energy provider. It's all Wise County Co-op and coal generated electric. I stopped using gas to heat a long time ago. I don't use much energy in my home and, I've started buying the LED lights. Drive a Honda Fit too.
Oh, and…if you read much at all about Koch Ind. you'll need brain bleach. It's hard to believe anyone could be so psychopathic.
@Mohunch: The idea, (born of diseased minds, that [if an American (or anyone), purchases a product or service in good faith, that he or she then is culpable as an individual, for any illegal or socially harmful acts which said manufacturer is committing] well…the purpose of such a statement is to completely 'dispose of' the idea of accountability by attempting to bring everyone i on the crime. It's the equivalent of a rapist defending himself by stating 'It isn't rape- it's sex. You all have sex- what's the big deal? You think sex should be less violent? Then show me how it's done. And hey- she was in the room when the act occurred so isn't she partially responsible since she took part?' As a country we do not lack examples of progressive energy efforts- is Mohunch blind as well as dumb? We don't lack progressive energy solutions just as we do not lack examples of industry stifling such progressive efforts at every possible opportunity. The energy cartels would gladly sacrifice 'Mohunch' and his family for a healthier profit/bottom line- and this is something he will enthusiastically support. Why do such simpletons, merely because they don't understand the same science which industry utilizes to make us sick, feel that they must worship the energy cartels as 'Gods'? (Maybe that's the case?)
Super comment.