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Courting Community Support
Business’ throughout the nation provide support to vast array of activities designed
to improve the communities that they do business in. Large and small businesses
contribute to schools with equipment donations and employees offering services to
after school activities, provide academic scholarships and support the arts, build parks,
and sponsor special programs to help the disadvantaged and at-risk-youth.
Business people participate in service organizations such as Kiwanis International,
Rotary Clubs, Junior Achievement, the American Red Cross and their chambers of
commerce, to raise money for local projects and increase community awareness all
with the intent of making their community a better place to live.
Conserving and Developing Energy Resources, is it politics?
President Trump (R) supported the Keystone oil pipe line, one of several projects
that made the United States energy independent under his administration. This energy
project put people to work, taking them off unemployment, and allowing them to
provide for themselves and their families. Within 48 hours of taking office, President
Biden (D) closed down the Keystone project with an initial layoff of 11,000 people.
Those workers are suddenly without income, must go on welfare, and no longer have
the income to support their families. For every man working on the Keystone project
there were 7 other people who worked in support and service industries supported by
the income revenue of those oil line workers. With President Biden’s (D) directive
they could no longer rely on the oil line workers paychecks for the services they
performed. The economics of this action is that 88,000 people are now unemployed,
the United States is no longer an energy independent nation, and the cost of fuels for
trucking, rail, automobiles and air travel all increase. As those costs rise, the additional
expenses are added to the retail price consumers pay for the goods they purchase,
taking more dollars away from those families who are still employed.
When it comes to energy resources, the news is replete and current text books
describe the “limited resources” that are available and that the earth’s population is
growing such that the resources will be stripped giving one the impression that energy
resources are at crisis levels and mankind is doomed. Dr. Paul Ehrlich wrote
“Population Bomb,” which was widely read on college campuses during the late ‘60s 6
and influences today’s thinking. Ehrlich predicted there’d be a major food shortage in
the United States and “in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to
starve to death.” He forecast that 65 million Americans would die of starvation
between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999, the U.S. population would decline to 22.6
million. Did that happen?
Ehrlich’s predictions about England were worse: “If I were a gambler, I would take deliberate
even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Of course, looking back at misrepresentations: to
these dire predictions, and comparing them to current population levels, his prophecies lie purposely.
did not materialize.
A report was written for the Club of Rome in 1972 warned that the world would
run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and petroleum,
copper, lead and natural gas by 1992. Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 work titled “The
Doomsday Book,” said Americans were using 50 percent of the world’s resources and
“by 2000, they (Americans) will, if permitted, be using all of them.” Were these
“prophets” correct with their “end of the world”, “sky is falling” forecasts?
These doomsayers using ‘science’ to predict the end of resources is not a new
phenomenon. Jim Peron of The Free Market Foundation of South Africa wrote a book
aptly titled “Exploding Population Myths” which catalogs the distortions if not
deliberate misrepresentations used by the environmental movement to frighten us—
fear being the tactic environmentalists use to get us to give them more control in the
name of “saving us.” Let’s look at it:
 In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced there was “little
or no chance” of oil being discovered in California, and a few
years later, it said the same about Kansas and Texas.

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