But that aside for now, the question is how would you cause the collapse
of the industrialized nations?
An analogy is useful to understand how Strong and a few like-minded
people did it. Compare the nation to a car and think about how you can
stop the engine. You can squeeze the fuel line and starve the engine,
however, if you did that in any country people would react quickly and
negatively. Witness the public reaction to dramatic increases in
gasoline costs. However, you can stop an engine by plugging the exhaust.
Strong's method is not a physical stop as you do with an engine, but a
metaphorical stop. Show how one part of the industrial exhaust is
causing catastrophic global warming putting the survival of the planet
in jeopardy and you have your instrument.
Now you need a political vehicle to carry that instrument. It is almost
impossible to convince all governments separately, as Kyoto and current
climate negotiations prove. His experience told him the United Nations
(UN) was his vehicle.
Elaine Dewar, wrote about Strong in her book "Cloak of Green" and
concluded that he liked the UN because, "He could raise his own money
from whomever he liked, appoint anyone he wanted, control the agenda."
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Regards
Bonzo
"What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the
principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich
countries?...In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the
only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?" Maurice Strong,1990
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