{"id":191957,"date":"2025-04-19T02:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/scientists-who-know-climate-change-and-those-who-defy-them\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T02:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T02:39:56","slug":"scientists-who-know-climate-change-and-those-who-defy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=191957","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Who Know Climate Change and those Who Defy Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-image-45664\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scientists Who Know Climate Change - Cooking Up a Story\" class=\"wp-image-45664\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/12\/Scientists-Who-Know-Climate-Change-9167-720x405.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/12\/Scientists-Who-Know-Climate-Change-9167-720x405.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists Who Know Climate Change - Cooking Up a Story\" class=\"wp-image-45664\"\/><figcaption><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The Man<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cCiting financial inequality, the risks of nuclear arms and the mounting effects of climate change, Brown said, \u201cwe\u2019re facing far more than one or two or even thousands of politicians. <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We\u2019re facing big oil, we\u2019re facing big financial structures that are at odds with the survivability of our world. It\u2019s up to you as truth tellers, truth seekers, to mobilize all your efforts to fight back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The above quote from California Governor Jerry Brown just about says it all.<\/p>\n<p>We are living now in a period of oligarchy. Billionaires and powerful vested interests largely call the shots and are able to stack the economic deck in their favor. The steady rise of extreme income inequality over decades of time (a term that can make your eyes glaze over but essentially means the few get most of the pie while the rest of us are invited to the leftover scraps) attest to their undue\u00a0influence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIf the world\u2019s billionaires got together to form their own super country, their $7.05 trillion combined net worth would be eclipsed only by the national economic output of China and the United States.\u201d \u2014source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/data-mine\/2015\/03\/02\/behind-the-numbers-in-forbes-billionaires-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nowhere is the disparity of the common interest as clearly recognizable as from the threat posed by climate change and the orchestrated campaigns by those who wish to delay or destroy any effective response. Quite literally, the billionaire class* and their unquenchable thirst for \u201cmore\u201d inflicts a cancer upon society and lowers the collective fate for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Think that sounds a bit extreme?<\/p>\n<p>Consider this. Two Princeton researchers issued a 2014 report titled <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.princeton.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/mgilens\/files\/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups and average citizens<\/a>\u00a0(pdf) that measured the relative power of special interest groups versus the broad public interest. Their report summarizes, in part, as such:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Democracy is a participatory sport. There is no substitute for an engaged citizenry. Otherwise, as for sport, we\u2019ll know the outcome before the game even begins.<\/p>\n<p>Read the post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/dec\/15\/climate-change-conference-agu-san-francisco-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inside the largest Earth science event: \u2018The time has never been more urgent\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* I get nervous about\u00a0singling out a class of people\u2014as in this case\u2014the billionaire class. Even though in fairness to this exclusive group, there\u2019s a diverse range of interests (and behaviors)\u00a0from the Koch Brothers to George Soros to Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Bloomberg who cover the political spectrum from arch conservative to liberal. Regardless, the larger point is that all billionaires (even those who may wish to do good for society) pose an unique threat by virtue of their extreme wealth and capability for undue influence. The adage, absolute power corrupts absolutely applies to wealth, as well. At some point in our future, we will need to address this unhealthy (and dangerous) phenomenon of absolute wealth. Not only does it inevitable lead to concentrations of political power, it takes away from those truly in need. For the record, I harbor no personal envy or jealously toward the billionaire class. I have no contact with them or know first-hand\u00a0about their lifestyle and lavish existence. I just believe that gorging oneself at the table while the person sitting next to you goes hungry goes beyond poor table manners. Maybe we can decide how much an individual can make in a lifetime and beyond that point (call it, <em>\u2018the gold ceiling\u2019<\/em>) it goes into the general pot to serve the public interest. Broad-based prosperity promotes longterm survival and stability of a people and for civilization. \u2013 Fred Gerendasy<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See related videos:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/david-korten-the-capitalist-threat-to-democracy\">When Corporations Rule the World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Man \u201cCiting financial inequality, the risks of nuclear arms and the mounting effects of climate change, Brown said, \u201cwe\u2019re facing far more than one or two or even thousands of politicians. We\u2019re facing big oil, we\u2019re facing big financial structures that are at odds with the survivability of our world. It\u2019s up to you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[7001,12647,12916,45766,74747,12961],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-191957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-defy","tag-income-inequality","tag-scientists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scientists Who Know Climate Change and those Who Defy Them - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=191957\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scientists Who Know Climate Change and those Who Defy Them - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Man \u201cCiting financial inequality, the risks of nuclear arms and the mounting effects of climate change, Brown said, \u201cwe\u2019re facing far more than one or two or even thousands of politicians. 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