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| Nov 03, 2009 9:54 pm |
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re: re: Scary Treaty On Global Warming |
Thomas Holford
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James Booth sayeth:
> At the same time, China has become THE most monumental environmental catastrophe of all time.
It finally dawned on me that China's reason for controlling Tibet is so simple it escapes all those who prefer to overintellectualize whatever comes their way: within Tibet are the sources of the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong Rivers.
China's population (if I remember the numbers correctly) represents about one-fifth (20%) of humanity and is dependent on only seven (7) percent of the world's water (if Tibet is controlled by China).
James:
I think you are really on to something, which the utopian political navel gazers do not have a clue about.
Some of the most productive agricultural land in the world is California's central valley. It is the food basket of America.
Unfortunately, it is a semi-arid region and the agricultural bonanza requires irrigation and lots and lots of water.
In the past, the federal government built great dams and canals to supply that water. But the era of radical environmentalism has brought that to a halt, and in fact politicians are actually advocating the destruction of existing dams.
As a result, California is only utilizing probably ten or twenty percent of it's agricultural potential. Most of the central valley is dry, unirrigated sparse pasture lane.
California is also very rich in oil and gas potential. The coastal shelf of California has been proven to have vast potential. This potential has also been put off limits by radical environmentalists.
A friend of mine is a Taiwanese entrepreneur and businessman. He has given me a very astute insight into China's cultual and world view.
China has enormous reserves of U.S. currency, over a trillion dollars. China is a very ancient and self-centered civilization. The Chinese word for "foreigner" is the same as the word for "barbarian". China has billion people to feed. China understands and has been employing agricultural irrigation for thousands of years.
The Chinese mentality is to save what it has and use other peoples resources.
Chinese investors have been investing significant amounts of their wealth in the western U.S. and Canada, particularly in California land and real estate. The Chinese business community is also very powerful in places like Vancouver, Canada.
From the perspective of Chinese leaders, California and Canada are just provincial, third world backwaters run by corrupt, local capitalist plutcrats.
The potential wealth of California is ripe for the plucking.
It would simply take an act of will and conscious decision for China to employ is vast wealth and influence to gain economic control of California and Canada, brush aside all the environmeltist concerns of pampered trust fund children at the Sierra Club, build vast irrigation projects from Canada and the Sierra Nevada, and turn California into an engine of agricultural productivity and wealth not seen seen the era of Babylon and the Egyptian Nile culture.
And California's vast oil wealth could become China energy colony for hundreds of years, and make China energy self-sufficient.
Americans are blind and stupid, and China is holding just about all the high cards.
T. Holford
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