Reply #48: The military-industrial-complex is why we have global warming [View All]

I read the article you cited. It was rather difficult to digest. I have my own personal opinion about Global warming. I think most of it was created as a result of the military-industrial-complex.

The scientific community at one time was one of the most powerful institutions on earth but then after the invention of the atom theory and the later nuke bomb, science changed especially the power that the ordinary scientists had in the political, economical, and educational worlds. Ralph Lapp was an outspoken nuclear disarmament activist that was also one of the original scientists working on the nuke bomb at the los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico.

He said in his books one of which was called Kill and Overkill and the other The New Priesthood: The Scientific Elite and the Uses of Power (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) that an enormous amount of pressure was put upon the scientific community right after the nuke was tested. This pressure became so great the military basically fired all the scientists that worked on the nukes originally and thus a power shift went from the scientists in our educational, political, and economic institutions to the militarists and the new elite scientists that were hired by the MIC (Military-Industrial-Complex).

So in short the scientific community was rewarded to not do scientific research and just basically do any project that the military-industrial-complex wanted.