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Imperative 07: We have to persuade skeptics as to climate change realities!

    Many people who refuse to believe in global warming and its potential dangers handle enormous sums of money: politicians, corporate leaders,  heads of State organizations, etc.  A relatively few but influential number of scientists and media people, some of them suspected of receiving lobby funds from pollutant industries, actively foment doubts on the veracity of global warming advocates' scientific data and popularize their own interpretations of scientific studies.   Additionally, hordes of employees who have been persuaded by contrarian data presented by global warming skeptics over the media have themselves become skeptics. Hence they simply ignore and even sneer at 'purveyors of doom' and their 'baseless' warnings.  What are we to do?  First, it's best to act on a 'probable danger' and in due time be safe, rather than do nothing and in due time drop dead.  Second, we have to save the skeptics as well by appealing to their desire to acquire wealth while helping billions of poor rid themselves of their daily miseries.  
    How do we set up our 'hard sell'?  We convert skeptics' negative views towards our positivist and income-earning schemes.  Examples for the Philippines: (N for negative, P for positive): a) N: Corporate spending for climate change action is an expense that has no hope of monetary return.  P: Companies that invest in Philippine mega co-ops' clean and green joint ventures will very likely earn above-market dividends.  Expansions throughout the 3rd World  tropics will create new billion-buyer markets for all businesses; b) N: Ordinary people can do nothing about global warming.  Only governments and CSR companies have the funds and capacities for global action.  P: Employee masses who buy shares in mega co-ops, their joint venture companies and related small-group businesses will earn good 'sideline' income while helping cool the planet;  c) N: Electricity from solar and wind sources can produce a mere 1-2% of industries' needs and are unreliable and very expensive. P: Electricity from geothermal and mini hydropower chains can more than provide for Philippine power needs, and they should be much cheaper because of free geothermal steam and dam water 'fuels'. Cheap power will yield high profits for clean and green joint venture companies in the Philippines.  Other 3rd World peoples and their allies can certainly dream up clean power sources based on their resources; d) N: Coal and petrochemical fuels produce trillion-watt level power which no clean technologies can replace.  P: Technologies are now available for low-temperature geothermal power plant operations using even small thermal springs and volcanic vents of which the Philippines has hundreds.  Mini hydropower technologies are also available for the said country's hundreds of upland stream nets.  Mature ethanol and biofuel technologies can add more to the clean power mix. All combined can yield trillion-watt level power for industries and transports; e) N: For the Philippines and other 3rd World countries, reducing the use of coal and petrochemicals for power and transports is tantamount to delaying centuries-old industrialization dreams. P: Philippine industrialization will shift to overdrive once 1st World companies invest in mini hydropower and geothermal facilities on build-operate-transfer basis, and in joint ventures for all-electric steel and alloy mills, as well as parts-making and assembly factories for all types of metal manufactures.  Cheap electricity and billion-ton metal reserves will make the Philippines a world-scale exporter of metal-based products.  Other 3rd World countries may similarly prosper thru various joint venture business lines by using their mix of resources; f) N: There are no technologies for replacing petrochemicals as fuel for Philippine transports.  P: Millions of ethanol powered vehicles which produce 50% less pollution have for decades existed in Brazil, USA, Europe, Japan and other countries.  Electric-powered vehicle technologies are also maturing and can be made practical thru fully-charged battery replacement stations in strategic sites. 
     The bottom line: investments in Philippine clean and green industries, followed by repeats of the exercise all over the tropics should be very profitable indeed for everyone involved! 
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