“Asking a human being to sacrifice is problematic. Energy is comfort.”
You are eating banana’s that needed to be shipped to you from 3745 miles away!
Money drives the human experience.
“We have to make fighting global warming profitable!”
The human race now needs to focus on saving lives!
“The technologies that we are pursuing, they are good or useful if the temperature increases 1 or 2 degrees. Even if we are able to keep the temperature the same through some sort of miracle, these clean technologies and techniques will on the benefit race.”
We need to continue with legitement sustainable technologies that we can use to combat global warming.
“We have come to the realization that because of the complexity and fractionalization of the geopolitical environment on Earth, humans will probably not be able to stop a 2-3 degree increase in the Earth’s temperature.”
We need to continue the information campaign to inform the general public of the dangers they might face in the future that there government has not told them about.
There are many well-documented historical and contemporary examples of governments hiding, distorting, or withholding the truth from their citizens. Here are a few major ones from different contexts and eras:
1. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (U.S., 1932–1972)
The U.S. Public Health Service secretly conducted a study on hundreds of Black men in Alabama who had syphilis. The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” but doctors deliberately withheld treatment (even after penicillin became available) to observe the progression of the disease.
→ Truth hidden: That they were part of a medical experiment and being denied treatment.
2. The Chernobyl Disaster (Soviet Union, 1986)
After the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Soviet authorities initially concealed the severity of the disaster — even from their own citizens and nearby countries. Evacuations were delayed, and state media minimized the scale of the event.
→ Truth hidden: The extent of radiation release and the immediate health dangers.
3. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (U.S., 1964)
The U.S. government claimed that North Vietnamese forces attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, which was used as justification for escalating the Vietnam War. Declassified documents later revealed the second “attack” never happened.
→ Truth hidden: Fabrication or exaggeration of the event to justify military action.
4. Nuclear Testing and Fallout (Multiple governments, 1940s–1960s)
The U.S., U.K., and USSR all conducted nuclear tests while downplaying or concealing the risks of radiation exposure to nearby populations and even their own soldiers.
→ Truth hidden: Health risks and environmental impact of nuclear fallout.
5. Stasi Surveillance (East Germany, 1950–1990)
The East German government denied the extent of surveillance and infiltration carried out by the Stasi, one of the most pervasive secret police forces in history.
→ Truth hidden: The scale of spying on ordinary citizens and use of informants.
6. PRISM and Mass Surveillance (U.S., revealed 2013)
The NSA’s global surveillance programs were exposed by Edward Snowden. Before that, the U.S. government had denied collecting massive amounts of data on private communications.
→ Truth hidden: The scope of domestic and international data collection.
7. Minamata Disease Cover-Up (Japan, 1950s–1960s) The Japanese government and the Chisso Corporation hid evidence that industrial wastewater containing mercury was poisoning people in Minamata Bay.
