Mr. Brown’s -This day in history-

November 4, 2057

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On this date fifty years ago the world was in peril. Americans were a year away from electing a new President, a Black candidate was said to be too white, and a female candidate was deemed too male—but there was little discussion about whether any of the people seeking office had the qualities to lead (but we know how that turned out). The Iraq War was waged on, gay politicians were outed, and celebrities were using rehab like it was a vacation get-away. Not much has changed has it?

Why does your writer choose this date to pontificate on? Well reader, at this time in history the effect of man on global warming was at its fever point. This is when people were encouraged to buy “carbon off-sets”, a scam in which you would calculate your green house emission profile, and then purchase from an off-set to compensate for your footprint. Now we know global warming was indeed happening, the cyclical nature of this massive blue ball in the heavens has its own way of sweating, breathing, and recycling. Although the evidence was already there in the geological data, which covered millennia, the pop scientists of that day found it more dramatic to base their assumptions on 200 years of weather data for a planet that was 4.5 billion years old. Any high school math student could tell you that 200 years out of 4.5 billion is a rather poor sampling for any sort of conclusion. So why did they buy into it? What pushed the general public to accept such absurdities as fact? The key word here is in fact “buy”, and why I chose this date to illuminate for you.

A network television station called the National Broadcasting Company or N.B.C., yes that N.B.C., the station that later lost its own broadcasting licenses when they ran the President sex tape in 2012 on prime time television. “Chief on the staff” as it is referred to now seems tame in comparison to the Iptv we enjoy night and day, but they did not have the sensitivity brain chip in law yet, so millions of Americans had to actually turn their set off if they did not want to see the image. Can you imagine a world without the black bar tech we have today? On this date fifty years ago, N.B.C. launched it’s going green campaign and it started with an American football game. They sent a host to the arctic to report on the ice that was melting, and then had the lights turned off in the studio to show they too could conserve energy. One of the football commentators could be heard chuckling throughout the game coverage, as the sheer lunacy of it all could not be contained in reverence. You see it is as this point when the color green more than ever before meant money. The corporations and politicians of the day figured out that global warming could be used as a potent marketing force. First you tell the people they are all going to die because of what they have done to the planet, then you say it might be able to be stopped, and then you show what you are doing to protect the Earth. Do you see the brilliance of this? They had not just the common man, but everyone believing that they were going to die because of their own hubris, people in this situation spend more money, go into debt even further since they figure they will not be around anyways to have to pay it off, and all the while the doomsayers have a rosy, err, green fuzzy image of trying to help. It was this date, November 4, 2007 when, to use the parlance of the times, the man-made global warming lobby jumped the shark—and Americans became evermore as Lenin once put it, useful idiots.

Now it is easy for this commentator to take such a brash stance on a time much different than our own, with hindsight on my side. How could they have known what was before them? They were right of course; dependence on a fossil fuel driven engine was an era that needed to be put to bed like the steam engine of the 19^th century. Even the holders of the rich oil fields in the Middle East knew it, the clues were all there. The United Arab Emirates had begun to purchase mass interest in the American stock market, land and commodities were being acquired because they knew the value of the black stuff in the sand would soon no longer be of any value to the world, certainly not at prices that were entertained “per barrel” in that day. One might even draw a certain amount of irony, or a hint of conspiracy that an Arab scientist cracked the hydrogen fuel code. Near free energy has propelled our society’s development in a measurement of inches rather than feet. We thought that getting off of oil would be the utopian bliss we needed, that near free energy could solve the world’s problems. Instead it just made new ones like an explosion in population growth. If I may draw a financial analogy, the more money you make, the more you spend. Our world is full of energy, but droughts lead to disputes over river tributaries in the most remote areas of the world. It seems only where those precious caustic metals for batteries are mined, does the World League intervene. No blood for storage they say, something familiar about that. I have high hopes for the S.O.A.P. (Solar Orbit Array Project), which will finish its final launch platform in the spring. 24 hours of sunlight to be harvested from 20 miles up, and transmitted down to the junctions across Earth, let’s just keep those things in geo-sync boys, I cannot help but to think of the ant under a magnifying glass.

So today we laugh at the commercialization of the green movement by our parents. A time when savvy marketing saved a day of make-up for a crew of football commentators. We can laugh at yesterday, but thank them for today. As ridiculous at the decade looks through the eyes of history, no matter how miss-guided they were, concepts such as conservation, being a better steward of the planet, and living *gulp* green made for us to have a clearer looking future in the present.

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