Our Plan For Suicidal Extinction

Imagine stopping our irrational march to suicidal extinction 50 years too early? Our risk would be having clean water, clean air, less cancer and completely free power from God. The Environmental Forum completely misled its audience by hiding the march toward suicidal extinction.

There were very distinguished speakers who addressed the forum on the impact of the world wide climate change, its impact on our lives, and the economic problems and opportunities that will affect Bridgeport and the State of Connecticut.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch stated, “There will be a 50 to 100 year window to remedy the climate change risk.” He also promoted the reading of Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman. Of the 200 reviews on Amazon there were 106 - 5 star, 34 - 4 star, 17 - 3 star, 20 - 2 star, and 23 – 1 star.

Here is an example of a 1 star comment, “Corporate innovation is one of the main ingredients of Friedman's "solutions," so he goes out of his way not to offend any corporate decision-makers, even though it is these folks who are real Earth-destroyers.”

Here is an example of a 5 star comment, “The world is increasingly crowded, he asserts, due to worsening overpopulation crisis. By 2053 global population expected to top 9 billion people from 6.7 billion today, and just 2.7 billion in 1953. If basic needs for food, shelter, education, employment are not met, increased violence and conflict, and even more cases of genocide could arise.”

I was trying to find comments that focused on the 50 to 100 year window Mayor Finch mentioned and I couldn’t find any.

There are two observations I know to be accurate. Americans are terrible at risk management. The mortgage meltdown proves my point. The second observation is I have searched for a scientific prediction as to how long we have to remedy the climate change suicidal issue without success.

My search to get a scientific prediction to learn how long there will be before it is too late to remedy the world’s march to suicidal extinction has gone unanswered. The Mayor Finch assertion that there is a “50 to 100 year window” has the validity that his promise to lower Bridgeport property taxes before he got elected Mayor.

What I have heard from scientists who testified to Congress is that the acceleration of environmental damage that they have studied during their careers is far worse than any prediction they ever made. It wouldn’t surprise me that it is too late for any remedy to work. That leads me to conclude that if it is too late for any remedy to prevent the extinction for God’s critters then there’s no purpose to waste any effort. Eat, drink, and be merry.


Suppose we take the threat of suicidal extinction seriously right now, today. We need to do the following:

1) Mandate a vasectomy for every male age 15 to 40.
2) Erect solar panels on every roof in the world.
3) Erect tidal power generators in the mouth of every river in the world.
4) Mandate only building hydrogen powered vehicles and hydrogen fuel stations.
5) Phase out all coal power generators worldwide by 2015 or America will use its multi-trillion dollar military to blow them to smithereens worldwide.
6) Erect electric wind generation to power the electrolysis for hydrogen production from water and also erect piping to transport the hydrogen to fueling stations throughout the world.
7) Outlaw long-line fishing worldwide to be enforced by the Navy immediately.
8) Weatherize all buildings throughout the world.

When the risk of calamity is suggested to be 50 to 100 years away, we will continue to fiddle and diddle. When people are starving 10 years from now, there won’t be a second chance to start building wind turbines and an electric grid.

Returning to the forum, HCC student, Josh Roe pointed out the mountaintop coal recovery method that has poisoned the water supply up and down the Appalachian mountain range. Josh claimed those rivers were covered up with dirt. A Google search of mountaintop coal recovery will reveal a much worse predicament than Josh explained. The mining companies reduced their workforce by 90% when it was replaced by using dynamite to blow off the mountaintops.

Jacqueline Rowland from the University of Hartford recommended “idealism” and taking showers with friends to conserve.

Andrea Salzburg spoke about grants to fund environmental projects and scholarships for student activism.

And Attorney General Richard Blumenthal opened the program by explaining his successful litigation that prevented a natural gas pipeline from being built in Long Island Sound.

The downside of the Environmental Forum is its assertion that we are in no immediate danger. Risk management for the potential suicidal extinction of our magnificent planet when measured in comparison with the hysterical daily fear of terrorism was like a 450 pound individual who only ate half a cheese cake instead of eating the entire cake.