The Greening

The Environmentalists' Drive for Global Power

by Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders

Double A Publications, 1994, paperback

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Edmund Burke, 1784

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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Arthur Selwyn Miller, George Washington University Professor of Law, in his book 'The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change'

Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order.

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Arthur Selwyn Miller, George Washington University Professor of Law, in his book 'The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change'

The existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

Without [war], no government has ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its 'legitimacy,' or right to rule its society... Obviously, if the war system were to be discarded, new political machinery would be needed at once to serve this vital subfunction. Until it is developed, the continuance of the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organization of power.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

The continuance of the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organization of power.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

Without [war], no government has ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its 'legitimacy,' or right to rule its society.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

Whether the substitute [to war] is ritual in nature or functionally substantive, unless it provides a believable life-and-death threat it will not serve the socially organizing function of war.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

Economic surrogates for war must meet two principal criteria. They must be "wasteful," in the common sense of the word, and they must operate outside the normal supply-demand system. A corollary that should be obvious is that the magnitude of the waste must be sufficient to meet the needs of a particular society. An economy as advanced and complex as our own requires the planned average annual destruction of not less than 10 percent of gross national product.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species. Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can be dealt with only through social organization and political power. But from present indications it will be a generation to a generation and a half before environmental pollution, however severe, will be sufficiently menacing, on a global scale, to offer a possible basis for a solution.

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Report from Iron Mountain, 1967

However unlikely some of the possible alternate enemies we have mentioned may seem, we must emphasize that one must be found, of credible quality and magnitude, if a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration.... It is more probable, in our judgment, that such a threat will have to be invented, rather than developed from unknown conditions.

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George Kennan, in an article 'To Prevent A World Wasteland ... A Proposal', in Foreign Affairs, the quarterly journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, April 1970

The great communist and Western powers, particularly, have need to replace the waning fixations for the cold war with interests which they can pursue in common and to everyone's benefit. For young people the world over, some new opening of hope and creativity is becoming an urgent spiritual necessity. Could there, one wonders, be any undertaking better designed to meet these needs, to relieve the great convulsions of anxiety and ingrained hostility that now rack international society, than a major international effort to restore the hope, the beauty and the salubriousness of the natural environment in which man has his being?

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Arthur S. Miller, 'The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change'

Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order. A second secret is the fact that the existence of the establishment, the ruling class, is not supposed to be discussed.

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Netherlands-born lawyer and political scientist, Kees van der Piyl, 'The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class'

The vanguard of [the] quest for Anglo-Saxon unity was a secret society, The Round Table. It had been founded in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes, the conquistador of the mineral riches of Southern Africa, and the journalist, William T. Stead. Both had been pupils of the Oxford professor John Ruskin.

The Dutch scholar then goes on to describe the postWorld War I aspects of this nexus. "At the end of World War One, the Anglo-American connection was symbolically reinforced by the creation of the Institute of International Affairs by American and British delegates at Versailles."

The U.S. branch of the Institute was called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and was officially founded in 1921. Prior to the formation of the CFR, a tight reciprocity existed between the Round Table group in the U.K. and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the U.S., and once the Council was formed most, if not all, of the Carnegie Trustees comprised its original board of directors.

Dominating the leadership of the U.S. Establishment was the Wall Street lawyer for both Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan, Elihu Root. Root was both chairman of the Carnegie Endowment and the first honorary chairman of the CFR.

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Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, come and go from the Oval Office, yet the policy-making positions remain firmly in the grasp of the Establishment.

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Arthur Selwyn Miller, George Washington University Professor of Law, in his book 'The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change'

There is really only one political party of any consequence in the United States, one that has been called the Property Party. The Republicans and the Democrats are in fact two branches of the same (secret) party."

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With the exception of James Byrnes, every Secretary of State since the founding of the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] has been a member. Every UN Ambassador, every CIA Director, every National Security Advisor (except Admiral Poindexter), also meets this same criterion... All chairmen of the Federal Reserve have been CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] stalwarts. The same can be said of the World Bank, and with only two exceptions in 70 years, the Secretary of the Treasury In the "private sector" of media, banking, multinational corporations, and the academy, the list is every bit as impressive. And it should come as no surprise that both John Kenneth Galbraith and George F. Kennan have been members of the CFR for most of their lives.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Men in general make judgments more by appearances than by reality, for sight alone belongs to everyone, but understanding to a few.

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Henry Kissinger

Perceptions become reality.

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Vladimir Lenin to Felix Dzerzhinsky

Tell them [the people] what they want to hear.

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Vice President Al Gore in his book 'Earth in the Balance'

Your present leaders seem to fear almost any form of intervention. Indeed, the deepest source of their reluctance to provide leadership in creating an effective environmental strategy seems to be their fear that if we do step forward, we will inevitably be forced to lead by example and actively pursue changes that might interfere with their preferred brand of làissez faire nonassertive economic policy.

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Vice President Al Gore in his book 'Earth in the Balance'

In any effort to conceive of a plan to heal the global environment, the essence of realism is recognizing that public attitudes are still changing - and that proposals which are today considered too bold to be politically feasible will soon be derided as woefully inadequate to the task at hand. Yet while public acceptance of the magnitude of the threat is indeed curving upward - and will eventually rise almost vertically as awareness of the awful truth suddenly makes the search for remedies an all-consuming passion - it is just as important to recognize that at the present time, we are still in a period when the curve is just starting to bend. Ironically, at this stage, the maximum that is politically feasible still falls short of the minimum that is truly effective.

... It seems to make sense, therefore, to put in place a policy framework that will be ready to accommodate the worldwide demands for action when the magnitude of the threat becomes clear. And it is also essential to offer strong measures that are politically feasible now - even before the expected large shift in public opinion about the global government - and that can be quickly scaled up as awareness of the crisis grows and even stronger action becomes possible.

With the original Marshall Plan serving as both a model and an inspiration, we can now begin to chart a course of action.

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Wall Street Journal, November 8, 1989

Global environmentalism requires global planning, global regulation. and inevitably, global bureaucrats.

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The chief distinction of fascism is the partnership between business and government.

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Vice President Al Gore in his book 'Earth in the Balance'

What does it mean to make the effort to save the global environment the central organizing principle of our civilization? For one thing, it means securing widespread agreement that it should be the organizing principle, and the way such a consensus is formed is especially important because this is when priorities are established and goals are set. Historically, such a consensus has usually been secured only with the emergence of a life-or-death threat to the existence of society itself; this time, however, the crisis could well be irreversible by the time its consequences become sufficiently clear to congeal public opinion... It is essential, therefore, that we refuse to wait for the obvious signs of impending catastrophe, that we begin immediately to catalyze a consensus for this new organizing principle

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Report from Iron Mountain (1967) was the first publication to draw together themes that have been linked together ever since. It is the source document for a key constellation of ideas, namely: (1) that the threat of war must be replaced by another threat, preferably global in scope, (2) that the ecothreat is the best of several possible replacements, and, finally, (3) that the threat must be cultivated and the populace prepared before the "solution" to the threat can be applied.

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