An inconvienient truth....

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Global warming has been issue that has been largely ignored for decades. This a movie a trailer for "the inconvienient truth". It will be released this summer. Take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiP6dqPynE

In BC 80 percent of our trees are being killed by the pine beetle. Scientists have established that the pine beetle moved in with global warming. The BC economy relies on the lumber industry as the backbone of its economy. Right now there is a boom because sawmills are cutting down all infected trees. The boom will be very short lived because it is predicted that in a few years almost all the trees on our side of the Rocky Mountains will have been killed off.

Ironically, studies by the conservative Fraser Institute have shown that the largest agricultural crop in BC is marijuana, or as it is known by its scientific name 'Cannabis Sativa". Cannabis brings in even more money to our economy than any other agricultural crop. If Cannabis could be legally grown for fuel, textiles, and medicine our economy would be much healthier and we would not have this reliance on dying trees that all acknowledge is a very short term solution. The fuel produced from Cannabis is the most effective biomass fuel known to humankind and does not contribute to global warming. Henry Ford built the automobile to run on fuel derived from Cannabis and with very minor adjustment any car can still run on that very environmentally friendly Cannabis fuel.

Jello Biafra has an interesting report on growing more pot:

http://www.truthtree.com/Jello_Biafra.shtml

Oh! Yes! By all means, grow more pot!

Global warming is not going to be resolved under a capitalist society, because it can't. There are more profits to be made by ruining our lives and choking our future, than there are to be made by saving the planet. The best we can do is to jump on the bandwagon and protest the injustices of the corrupt economic structure that has invaded America. Resolving problems associated with global warming take changes, drastic changes, in our every day lives, right up to the sorts of stuff we use right in our very own households. This is not to count that the biggest opponent would be the industrial culture itself.

I support the Kyoto Protocol. It's not a be-all-end-all solution, but it's a step in the right direction. It's ironic that the many of the countries that signed on to this protocol are the same ones that the US elite thinks are supporters of terrorism. I never knew that supporting the Kyoto Protocol meant supporting terrorism, but I guess we learn new things every day.

- Ray M -

The report by Jello Biafra seems to try to distort the facts. The drug marijuana and hemp used for paper and things like that are different plants, the best plants for biomass make horrible marijuana and as such we could totally dissociate the different plants for legal purposes. Also, the idea of using military force on people inside the US is not something really new, George Washington raised a bunch of milita men to crush the whiskey rebellion in 1794 which was about taxation and Andrew Jackson threatened to invade south carolina for trying to nullify tariff laws and to execute his Vice President for supporting this nullification.

However, we should support some long-term environmental plans. Capitalism does not preclude us from helping the environment, the Soviet Union had horrible pollution that terribly damaged the environment and poisoned cities so much that it drastically increased chances of retardation in children, as well, most economists believe that in a capitalist society people should account for externalities like pollution and make those polluting options undesirable for business. The individual has always been responsible for society, it is just that most individuals are stupid and cannot make educated enough decisions for their own lives and definitely not good decisions for the entire society. However the economists when looking over the matter generally decide this "Still, the estimates so far generally indicate either that Kyoto Protocol is more expensive than the state without Kyoto Protocol or that Kyoto Protocol has a marginal net benefit which is lower than the net benefit of simply adjusting to global warming." However, Kyoto is disputed by economists, some who support, others that don't.

It does not seem ironic at all that the US claims some of the countries that signed the document support terrorism. There is probably not a big relationship between the document and the view of terrorism(no causation relation). The Kyoto Protocol was signed by the EU and we don't consider them terrorists and it was signed by Canada and we don't consider them terrorists either. Also, poorer countries had incentive to sign the document anyway as it did not affect their pollution due to their position as developing nations and allowed for greater foreign investment and technology exchange, that was the reason that India signed the document and they aren't considered terroristic by the US either.

Cannabis Sativa is hemp and it is also marijuana. The two products come from the same plant, but whether or not the plant turns into hemp or marijuana depends entirely on how Cannabis Sativa is grown. You simply have to separate the males from the females to get marijuana. That is why a war on pot is a war on the hemp crop. The US government has made it very difficult to grow hemp around the world, all in the name of the drug war.

Industrial hemp is a different plant than the drug marijuana. They have different growing periods(which means different planting and harvesting times), they have different seeds(industrial hemp crossbred with marijuana creates a much weaker form of marijuana), and have different qualities and are grown differently. We have historically seen a difference between the 2 types of hemp and we should do so now.

both plants belong to the genus cannabis, they can interbreed, and are therefore regarded as being of the same species, cannabis sativa L. the only real difference is the amount of THC they produce. they may be grown differently in practice, but only because of the different end requirements. they both can be grown under exactly the same conditions. in essence, they are different strains of the same plant, in the same way as there are various strains of tea.