NOTHING, ON THE AVERAGE (C)1998 Alan M. Schwartz Environmentalism is philosophy and dialectic howling in sworn opposition to progress in its every form. Luddites rioted to destroy power looms. Locomotives, fiery confirmation of Lucifer Himself, threatened to sunder the human body to splinters with prodigal velocity. Eco-priest prattle anon embraced nurturance. Ditzy Leftist zealots skulk as social engineers to orchestrate destruction of First World grandeur (after their expense chits are reimbursed). It is inefficient to condemn infrastructure. Blackball its inexpensive power supply - fossil fuels - hence the Greenhouse Effect (for your own good) and the Carbon Tax on Everything (to compensate Liberal do-gooders for their efforts). Earth's atmosphere masses 5.136x10^21 grams (sea level air pressure times planetary surface area). Carbon dioxide runs 380 ppm by volume or, given its molecular weight of 44.01 daltons versus dry air's nominal molecular weight of 29 daltons, 577 ppm by weight. Atmospheric carbon dioxide sums to 2.96x10^18 grams, or 388,380 cubic miles at 20 C (room temperature and sea level). December 1997 Kyoto, Japan is technically itemized as low level conflict, the process of being nibbled to death by ducks. Third World slash and burn agriculture, acclaimed as ineffably ethical Gaian ethnic interaction, contributes 23% of all carbon released into the atmosphere by man - 1.6x10^15 grams of the 7.1x10^15 gram annual total (Science 277(5330) 1205 (1997)). Political correctness is the subjugation of objective observation by Left Wing political canon. Environmentalist cowboys want the First World gelded, branded, and put out to slash and burn pasture. Vice President Al Gore patronized the 1997 Kyoto Global Warming meeting to barter America for a mess of Environmentalist pottage. Chemical & Engineering News 75(48) 8 (1997), Global Climate Change: "China aims to build an average of one 1000-MW power plant every month for the next four years. Under current policies, most of these would be fueled with coal. India has similar plans." China and India are Kyoto-exempt nuclear states. Environmentalists - by their own admission - lose track of 1.8x10^15 grams of anthropogenic carbon/year, or 6.6x10^15 grams of CO2, or 865 cubic miles of CO2 (at room temperature and sea level). This exceeds by a factor of five the total Kyoto target anthropogenic carbon rollback aimed at destroying the First World. Therefore, by doing nothing we are in fat statistical capitulation to their best numbers. Don't take my word for it, run the Official Truth yourself: Science 281(5376) 504 (1998). A problem with literacy and numeracy is that erudite folk, as lawyers cross-examine perjurious witnesses, contrast various flavors of Official Truth and ferret internal disparities (lies). 1.8x10^15 grams of anthropogenic carbon indetectably added yearly to the biosphere is shockingly nostalgic of 1.6x10^15 grams of Third World anthropogenic carbon very detectably added yearly to the biosphere. Either slay the First World by heinous jackbooted enforcement of international legislation or abort the Third World by neglect, to save the Earth! I vote for turning our backs on dusky troglodytes and thereby casting a vote in favor of the future. The United Nations would be put out of its blue-helmeted military incursion business by such thoughts, and its freeloading international aid budget whittled to dust. This 1.8x10^15 grams of carbon glut sloshing among First World, Third World, and consummate propagandistic confusion is a sparrow fart in a windstorm, being one part in 450 of total atmospheric carbon inventory (especially allowing for methane and other carbon-containing chemical species). Plants crave even trifling CO2 boosts. The less plants open their stomata to breathe in the stuff, the less water they lose to transpiration. More CO2 minimizes drought effects, reverses desertification, and eases worldwide famines. Who would want any of that? Enviroweenies condemn burning garbage and dumping its 95% volume- reduced ashes into deep sea trenches for disposal. Fragile and endangered species are harmed by returning calcium and silica plus essential trace elements to the ocean, whereas commercial waste dumps (landfills) fuel the Super Fund and its monstrous pecuniary confiscations. Enviroweenies propose pumping gigatonnes of liquefied CO2 into these same oceanic ecological niches for sequestration, namely moving the problem into the future, with interest. How can this be? (Science 281(5376) 505 (1998), "A Way to Make CO2 Go Away: Deep-Six It") Collecting, compressing, liquefying, transporting, and high- pressure pumping CO2 into deep ocean are estimated (Liberally, as Ebonics is a good idea) to consume 30% of net fuel energy. Fuel consumption and your electric bill go up 43% to run in place (plus amortized infrastructural costs, plus safety overhead), otherwise called the Red Queen gambit. Fly ash and sulfur scrubbings get landfilled, because ocean dumping is wrong. Are you compassionate or an eco-terrorist? Follow the money.