This book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets out in stark and unvarnished terms most of the world's major problems. The Human Species is hell bent for extinction unless we change our attitudes and actions with an urgency appropriate to impending disaster. Paul Hellyer suggests that we have about ten years to wean ourselves from the oil economy and profoundly regrets that the Copenhagen Conference reflected little progress in that direction. The whole atmosphere was one that reminded him of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned. World leaders simply have to do better! The book outlines the three monumental changes required to accommodate the miracle. First, the book claims that exotic energy sources already exist. They have been developed by the U.S. "shadow government" at the massive underground "black operation" installations in Nevada and Arizona using technology borrowed from visitors from other planets. Yet they remain secret for the alleged benefit of the privileged few. Second, the money has to be found to subsidize poor nations and facilitate major changes. This can be accomplished by a fundamental re-working of the monetary and banking system. Bank leverages must be dramatically reduced and the percentage of virtual money they create as debt strictly limited so that governments can gain the financial flexibility to finance the transition to sustainability. Finally it will be necessary for all countries, races, faiths and colors to drop their antagonisms and work together in common purpose to save the heritage they have in common. -- · -- "Paul Hellyer's story is an important contribution to the literature of modern western civilization. His experience in government, his interest in exopolitics and the issues of sustainability of civilization are significant areas of current discourse." Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D, Apollo 14 Astronaut
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
A SURVIVAL PLAN FOR THE HUMAN SPECIESBy PAUL HELLYERAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2010 Paul Hellyer
All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4490-7612-2Contents
Acknowledgments.....................................................................ixIntroduction........................................................................xi1. We Are Hell Bent Toward The Extinction Of The Human Species.....................12. Exploring The Middle East - 2006................................................153. We Are Not Alone In The Cosmos..................................................394. The (Political) Gospel Of John..................................................815. Writing History Years After The Events Occurred.................................1016. A Religious Agenda..............................................................1177. Mammon Rules The World..........................................................1558. Unless We Repent And Change Our Ways, We Are Doomed.............................1839. Ending The World Financial Crisis...............................................21110. A Political Agenda..............................................................239Notes...............................................................................273Bibliography........................................................................285Index...............................................................................291
Chapter One
WE ARE HELL BENT TOWARD THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES "We're all doomed! 40 years from global catastrophe - and there's NOTHING we can do about it." James Lovelock
Put another way, we have about ten years to turn the situation around and invalidate the above prediction that is based on our present trajectory. The possibility of saving the planet as a hospitable place for human life is real. But the probability, based on our track record to date, is not good.
James Lovelock is a maverick to some but his views are increasingly gaining credence in respectable circles. He has been proclaiming his Gaia Theory for a generation. This states that the Earth is a living, self-regulating system and that by filling its atmosphere with C[O.sub.2] (carbon dioxide emissions) we have destroyed the balance and overheated the planet. We are in the phase when the thermometer suddenly shoots up.
The scientist's predictions of what this means in real terms are so dramatic that I am reluctant to repeat them here. Two or three examples will suffice to give the magnitude of the pending catastrophe. Over-industrialization will make it impossible to grow food in China. Consequently the Chinese will relocate in Africa. They are already there preparing a new continent. "The Chinese industrialists who claim to be out there mining minerals are just there on a pretext of preparing for the big move." Central London would be inundated by water and the Parliament Buildings would have to be moved to higher ground. Many, if not most, Americans would move to Canada and not much of a rise in the sea level is required to wipe out Bangladesh from the face of the earth.
"Crackpot or visionary, the fact is that more and more people are paying attention to Lovelock, and that he, himself, supports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the influential group who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former American vice president Al Gore for their campaigns on global warming."
A full-page article in the Toronto Star entitled "Grim prognosis for Earth: The World in 2050," almost echoes James Lovelock's grim predictions. 'It's a useful year to focus on,' Matthew Bramley, director of climate change at the Pembina Institute, which does environmental policy research, said in an interview from Ottawa. 'It's far enough away to be a year when real change is both necessary and possible.'
A subject that should be close to America's heart is BREEDING PERFECT STORMS: A Canadian researcher has demonstrated how global warming has widened the spawning grounds for hurricanes by hundreds of square kilometres since 1970, explaining for the first time why recent storm seasons have shattered one record after another. "Canadian researcher Robert Scott is the first to offer a physical explanation - backed up by statistics and measurements spanning decades - linking the Earth's warming to increased hurricane activity and intensity. Hurricanes are not entirely natural disasters. Humanity has had a discernible impact on hurricanes, Scott, a 40-year-old oceanographer at the University of Texas, said in an interview."
The sky-high cost of global warming witnessed following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is just the tip of the global cost iceberg.
A lead editorial in the Toronto Globe and Mail had this to say about conclusions reached by Sir Nicholas Stern, the World Bank's former chief economist.
"A comprehensive study by Britain's top government economist has helped to fill that gap. It provides some hard truths about the enormous costs to the global economy if governments worldwide fail to take drastic measures to tackle the problem. It also provides an important counterweight to those who argue that such action would carry too high a price tag and pose too big an economic risk for an uncertain result.
"In fact, Stern argues that the opposite is true. It is doing too little too late that would have by far the more devastating impact on the global economy. He says that a weak global response to climate change in the next few decades could cause economic and social disruptions on a scale similar to those triggered by the world wars and the Great Depression, but at a far higher cost than all of them combined. He calculates that the cost in lost output could reach $7-trillion. What's worse, it will be hard, if not impossible, to reverse such changes."
The evidence of the effects of global warming are often dramatic and quite overwhelming. An article by Jessica Leeder in the Globe and Mail reported the reality of why the Inuit people are so concerned about their traditional habitat and hunting ground.
"A four-square-kilometre chunk has broken off Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic - threatening the future of the giant frozen mass that northern explorers have used for years as the starting point for their treks.
"Scientists say the break, the largest on record since 2005, is the latest indication that climate change is forcing the drastic reshaping of the Arctic coastline, where 9,000 square kilometres of ice have been whittled down to less than 1,000 over the past century, and are only showing signs of decreasing further."
It appears that Antarctica is not immune from the global trend even though some weather stations, including the one at the South Pole, have recorded a cooling trend. This anomaly provided some comfort to the skeptics and contrarians. An article by Kenneth Chang entitled "Study Finds New Evidence Of Warming in Antarctica" gives a more comprehensive view.
"In the new study, scientists took into account satellite measurements to interpolate temperatures in the vast areas between the sparse weather stations.
"'We now see warming is taking place on all seven of the earth's continents in accord with what models predict as a response to greenhouses gases, said Eric J. Steig, a professor of earth and space sciences at the...
