BACK TO THE SEVENTIES

If the media were sensationalist and looking for man-bites-dog stories, they could ask no better than the story of Lindzen in Noam Chomsky's alma mater; but they are not sensationalist, they simply behave like any ruling class that wants to preserve its privileged position.

That's why they will give endless coverage to another event with which we are about to be afflicted from Oct 31 to Nov 5, "Globe-scope Pacific," by something called the Global Tomorrow Coali-tion Project. Here heresies of the kind uttered by the shameless Lindzen will be demolished by such eminent scientists as John Denver, Robert Redford, Jimmy Carter, Sen. Cranston, Paul Lysenko Ehrlich, Gustave Speth, Claudine Schneider, Henry Wax-man, Tom Ex-Fonda Hayden, Norman Lear and the other crusaders who would save us from the greenhouse by banning coal, but not permitting nuclear power, either. But they are not all Democrats; a few Republiwimps will also be grandstanding at these "public hearings:" William Reilly, John Heinz, and Mark Hatfield will chant "me too!" and superwimp George Bush, with his wont political ineptness, will try to out-Carter Carter, who him-self will presumably be blaming the imminent end of the world on Exxon 'n th'other o'l cu'm'nies.

The happening is financed not only from the bottomless coffers of the ultra-left foundations (McArthur, Charles Stewart Mott, Rockefeller Brothers) and by the sham-environmentalists (Zero Population Growth, Sierra Club, etc.); the heftiest contributions come from the corporate wimps of Atlantic Richfield, Bank of America, and Dow Chemical. (I would doubt that the Princes of Exxon are absent, but maybe after the Valdez episode they paid extra for the privilege of not being mentioned.)