Environmental problems: 

Sharon and I, began in the field of alternative medicine, shared the opinion that a person’s health is closely linked to the environment and the state of the entire planet. It is important to have proper nutrition and good air quality to stay healthy however with dangerous chemicals and industrial products being dumped on our soil, along with acid rain, they can only deteriorate the quality of our lives. All around the world, the threat, related to the environmental hygiene weighs heavily on us all. It is a bit late to isolate and treat these problems locally.  

Contrary to the expectations and expressed hopes of the 1980’s, the international efforts were not sufficient to fight effectively against world destruction. The environmental issues touch more and more the populations’ health as well as their quality of life. It is therefore difficult to recommend, indeed, adopt preventive health measures, when our soil, the water we drink and the air we breathe are seriously altered. The main obstacle encountered in the decision-making is without a doubt, the intimate inter-relationship that exists between the ecologic, economic and social problems.  

The governments understood that answers could not come from just one level, but that it was necessary to react globally by adopting innovating attitudes, envisioning long term policies and to explore different methods of action. Countries in the process of development suffer from desertion or depopulation and deterioration of the forests as well as the increase of pollution. They are the ones who suffer the most from poverty that causes environment degradation. Industrial countries have also suffered heavy consequences from this dilapidation, the loss of animal species and vegetation, along with the change in the precipitation systems. They are also threatened by the fatal toxic residues, soil acidification as well as atmospheric pollution.  

The real danger is the ever present Multinationals, who control three quarters of the planets resources. They want this fierce and excessive globalization at all cost. They have the support of our governments and they are the ones who are pulling the strings. We are only their puppets. The elections and your votes do not have the weight to elect a government, this is pretence. What elects a government is the amount of money the Multinationals put out, behind the scenes, to political parties, in exchange for legal, economic and environmental favours. More and more company CEO’s are going into politics and getting elected; they are the most dangerous because they often make decisions that have advantages for the Multinationals and a disadvantage to the simple citizen and the environment. They buy their permits to pollute and our governments are more that willing to sell at a modest price. 

For example do you know that in the U.S.? 

George W. Bush, President of the United States is: Founder of Arbusto Energy Inc.  President of Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation Member of the administrative counsel for Harken Energy Corporation These companies focus on oil. 

Dick Cheney, General Director: of the oil company, Harliburton. 

Condoleezza Rice, U.S. State Secretary:  Member of the administrative counsel for the Chevron Company. 

Donald Evans, U.S. Secretary of Commerce: General Director of Tom Brown Company – which is an oil & natural gas company. 

Andrew Card, U.S. Secretary of Security: Principal lobbyist of General Motors in Washington. President of American Automobile Manufacturers Association. 

Money invested in the Republican Party during the 2000 elections:           

Enron Oil   1.71 million

Exon Mobile Oil  1.21 million

Southern (Electricity)   1.04 million

Chevron Oil   $770,000.00

General motors  $467,124.00

Texaco Oil  $353,000.00

Peabody Energy (coal)  $ 65,700.00 

Millions of U.S. dollars were invested in the Republican Party during the 2000 U.S. elections by these companies. All are energy companies and are mostly directors that are part of the actual American government in the White House. Are you surprised that there is war presently in Iraq? The reason: OIL. The chemical and biological arms were only a pretext to invade Iraq. Terrorist war is only pretence to secure and control the oil in the Middle East. Innocent men, women and children die each day all because of the oil. They don’t give a damn that women, children and solders, have died. They don’t give a damn for air pollution or the deterioration of the world. All they want is the almighty dollar and power, in order to control the people with their savage and unjust globalization. They are the dangerous ones. The same happens here in Canada but on a smaller scale. 

A large majority of the world’s population live in poverty and have no social security, they can’t fill their stomachs and they live in shacks without clean water to drink. The unrestricted looting of the resources in the northern countries, the rampant poverty of the south are threats to growth. This inequality constitutes a major obstacle. Evidence shows what the weight of debt has on poor countries and the controlled exportation of their resources really means over-exploitation of their precious natural resources. They then follow with a short term policy that endangers the balance of our planet on the whole. In effect, the depopulation or deterioration of the forests in the poor countries will not remain an isolated phenomenon but will also have its repercussions on the ecosystems of the said rich countries. The gases in the atmosphere do not have a limited territory and the perverse effects that thin the ozone layers touch every individual on this earth. 

Even in Lake Manouane we are starting to feel the effects that are more and more evident. I invite you to continue to read the next pages in order to better understand the environmental issues that the Lake Manouane region is presently suffering. Afterwards, judge by yourself if I am off target or if I am a man with planetary and universal consciousness.