I am beginning to get the feeling that the EPA Libraries fiasco, like so many other vital services and issues that are in dire straights in our country, will not be resolved until the the cancerous Bush administration is removed or leaves office.
From a July 17th Press Release by the ever so important Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) :
“Even as Congress moves to reverse EPA’s library closures, the agency is now racing to cement new procedures restricting the ability of the public to locate or read technical documents in the agency’s possession. A new proposed policy circulated internally for comment on July 11, 2007 provides: ‘Repository libraries are not required to provide public access to their collections…’ The EPA is “finalizing procedures that may lock away a large portion of its library collections from access by the public.”
Why is it so much trouble to get these libraries open again?
We have an oil cartel running our government and there is just way too much damaging information to their oil soaked pockets in the EPA libraries to allow them to function normally. The truth hurts and the more we learn about the realities of global warming the less likely it becomes for fossil fuels to be the dominant form of energy on this planet.
Let’s look at the tobacco industry for some comparsion. For years smoking was the farthest thing from a health risk. It was a prime social activity. Eventually the pendulum swung and it became clear that tobacco is an addictive drug that has tremendous physical consequences. The tobacco companies have been on a disinformation campaign ever since either by wielding their tremendous political power up and down the streets of Washington or in their tremendously effective and deceptive ad campaigns. It also doesn’t hurt that they can pay out billions of dollars in fines and keep on ticking. We can’t beat them that way.
The oil industry is facing the same the challenge. They 2 car family, everything made somewhere else philosophy is unsustainable. The environmental costs and hence the physical costs of such a lifestyle are too high. Unfortunately, for the people in charge it is the only philosophy they know and it is the only way they know to make money. They have perfected the art of pumping every dollar out of a fossil-fuel based economy leaving the environment and the middle class in their wake. They are addicted to the power and wealth in much the same way a smoker is addicted to tobacco. Obviously they will go to any means to sustain their grip:
-They have altered the outcome of two elections to get their man in there.
-The have lied through their teeth to get us into Iraq.
-They have turned our holy creed, the Constitution, into a mockery so they can further their cause.
So why wouldn’t they keep a few libraries closed and destroy all the potential damaging information?
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