The Canadian National Newspaper: Canada's Kyoto Targets undermined by Electric Car Technology Suppression in relation to a greed-driven consciousness

Canada's Kyoto Targets undermined by Electric Car Technology Suppression in relation to a greed-driven consciousness

Dear the Right Honourable Stephen Harper;

I heard on the CBC, that you are in favour of tougher measures to produce lower priced, lower emission, more fuel efficient vehicles. Jack Layton retorts that he's been calling for such measures for years! But tell me, Who Killed the Electric Car? Did you know that oil companies have bought patents to prevent modern batteries from being used in US electric cars?

The suppression of the Electric Car technology manifests from a broader context

I'm taking a course in Drama this semester and we'll be taking a look at Einstein's Gift, written by Canadian playwright, Vern Thiessen. It is about "[A] scientist who enhances life with his work and knowledge but discovers too late that knowledge in the wrong hands brings death, and destruction. The ideal of science -- to serve humanity -- is shown in contrast against the reality of political will, nationalism and war". The play won the 2003 Governor General's Award for Drama.

Could that be what U.S. President Eisenhower was warning us about - that "military industrial complex"?

David Korten, in his latest book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, speaks of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, attended by "the world's Heads of State, gathered for an Earth Summit". He continues, explaining that "[T]heir effectiveness was limited by the organized intervention of global corporations working under the banner of the 'Business Counsel on Sustainable Development' and the 'International Chamber of Commerce' to make certain the global meetings did not produce conclusions contrary to corporate interests" (p. 85).

Korten also talks about "a handful of publicly traded corporations {that} have monopolized conventional print, radio and television" [and of] "corporate efforts to monopolize and centralize access to the public mind" [and how] "computerized communications technology" (p. 83) has become a counter-force to said monopolization and centralization. He speaks of an "International Forum on Globalization (IFG), an alliance dedicated to raising global awareness that "trade" agreements promoted by global corporations had less to do with freeing trade than with freeing corporations from public accountability... strip[ping] away the ability of communities, and even nations, to determine their own economic and social priorities [leaving] those decisions to global financiers, corporate CEOs and trade lawyers" (p. 12).

Korten could have also mentioned health priorities, too, as Canada's healthcare system faces increasing pressure from "privatization" (for-profit) initiatives. Pharmaceutical companies who focus on "treatment", Roy Romanow identified as devouring 55% of all healthcare costs. That was in 2002 and since then, pharmacy costs have only risen disproportionately to all other costs.

Margaret Beare, in Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, money Laundering and Corruption, says that "[t]here is the array of innumerable 'experts' representing a range of countries, who work internationally to draft highly compromised agreements, conventions, treaties, or guidelines". (p. xv) She postulates that "fighting crime" has become an industry, in itself. It can easily be seen as a secondary market for that military-industrial complex that Eisenhower was warning us about, operating in tandem with the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs", largely designed to serve the interests of "global financiers, corporate CEOs and trade lawyers".

For example, according to James Sheptycki who contributed Chapter 5 to Baere's collection of Critical Reflections, "Operation Colombia saw an increase in the amount of countryside devoted to cocaine cultivation (McDermott 2001b) - an increase of 32 percent according to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sources". (p. 137) It had all the elements of a 'make-work' project. Here too, it is revealed that a new species of genetically-modified cocaine plants has been discovered. More and more, the distinctions between transnational organized crime and transnational corporations have become blurred.

In The Great Turning, Korten talks about the five orders of human consciousness and of how there has been a significant evolution in the minds of many. An amassing of like-mindedness forming loose alliances, emerging as one of common concern, converging "whenever the corporate elites gathered in major closed-door conferences to advance the interests of corporate Empire... The people of the world are watching and will no longer acquiesce in silence to your assault on democracy, justice and the planet". (p. 87)

The New York Times observed that "there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion". (Patrick E. Tyler, "A New Power in the Streets," New York Times, February 17, 2002) (p. 87)

In speaking of consciousness, those who think in terms of Empire are predominantly governed by what Korten defines as an Imperial Order of Consciousness and "the belief that Earth belongs to humans and is ours to consume as suits our fancy [and] a belief that we humans are by nature incapable of responsible self-governance". (p. 79) "Imperial Consciousness" is not only limited but flawed thinking, you must admit. In fact, as we achieve a higher order of consciousness, we must realise that we live in a finite world and then we begin to understand that "Earth is our sacred home and that it is our responsibility to be respectful partners" and also, that "our nature embodies many possibilities". (p. 79) "The Imperial Consciousness is a normal and essential stage in the developmental processes of children. In adults, however, it is sociopathic". (p. 49)

Getting back to the Electric Car

Whoever (or whatever interests) has been responsible for the death of the electric car operates out of a sense of an Imperial Order of Consciousness, associated with the suppressing of evolutionary and beneficial technology that would certainly serve humanity's responsibility of stewardship of our environment, in relation to fulfilling Kyoto targets. Furthermore, any development that would ease our global dependency on oil would, also serve to ease the tensions between Western Empires and Middle East States. Viewed holistically, it becomes obvious that those coercive and suppressive mentalities are indeed, sociopathic.

The good news is, a good idea cannot be killed and the electric car is a good idea, tried and proven, now only requiring broad-based acceptance and renewal, inspired by a human consciousness that embraces the need protect the Earth and its ecosystems. This is vital to our quality-of-survival, as human beings.

With the benefit of "computerized communications technology", more and more people have access to such information and ideas and support for them is growing into concerted actions that arise out of those "higher orders of consciousness" that are evolving along side of the evolution of technology. If not already, soon we will reach a concensus.

Mr. Harper, will you be left behind, (along with an important opportunity for you to provide Canadian leadership on redressing Global Warming), or will you get behind the will of the people and endorse and promote what already exists for the benefit of the entire "Earth Community"?

In so doing, as Canada's Head of Government, you are constitutionally obligated to restrain the self-interested powers of Corporate Empires, who work in tandem to exploit precious resources and control and suppress evolutionary processes. Your government's apparent abandoning of our societally appreciated conception of appreciating a constructive leadership role for government in areas of social responsibility, would only serve to widen the gap between the "haves and have mores" (as George Bush ironically once mentioned) and the "have nots". Social responsibility, now more than ever, includes protecting the environment, by using known scientific technologies to affirm the quality-of-living of all Canadians, and humanity in general.

The corporate elite quest to suppress technologies which are vital to saving millions and billions of lives, in a greed driven agenda that erodes cooperative societal efforts, to protect our environment, that is fundamental to democratic ideals such as the affirmation of human rights, freedoms, equality and an ethic of protecting willing participation.

For the sake of our collective future, and that of our children, please abandon the deceptive policy notion of so-called "Free Trade", which is an "illusionary convention" that ignores Canadian law, and United Nations Conventions, in relation to the affirmation of human rights. In Free Trade, corporate elite seek to ignore vital legal protection associated with human rights, including environmental laws, by exploiting "marketplaces" . Economic policy that pivots on societies as "marketplaces" as enshrined under "Free Trade" ignores the needs of people, the 'health of communities', and the reality that our planet Earth has limited resources, which are being systematically depleted and destroyed in a manner which undermines the quality of human survival .

You would be among the majority, if you condemned those quality-of-living undermining trade agreements (NAFTA and most recently, TILMA) that are primarily designed to serve the elites of large corporations, who are sabotaging Canada achieving Kyoto targets.

In fact, any effort on your part to legislate or mandate a shift toward the implementation of alternative electric automotive technology toward achieving Kyoto targets, would only be likely opposed by a handful of unrepresentative private corporate interests. Corporate interests have been motivated to defend greed-centred and environmentally destructive trade agreements, by creating vexatious lawsuits aimed at squashing well-intended ecological initiatives. These initiative includes those designed to support the constructive development of Electric Car and other such ecosystem-saving technologies.

Please demonstrate your reported "newfound commitment" to protecting the environment, and take leadership on fostering a vibrant Canadian Electric Car Industry. Electric Car technology is even more suppressed in Canada, than it is in the U.S., as a result of the successful campaigning of Alberta-based, and other fossil fuel industry lobbyists.