Alliance Programme for
Health, Peace and Social Justice
5. Renewable Energy And Protection Of The Environment
5.1. Renewable forms of energy
The biggest single factors in global environmental pollution are car exhaust fumes and other waste products from fossil fuel combustion. The development of new forms of energy and the reduction of environmental pollution are therefore inseparable. Without a national programme to introduce environmentally friendly and renewable energy, all attempts to decisively reduce atmospheric pollution in cities is bound to fail. In view of the medical consequences of air pollution, such as asthma, this is also a prime task in relation to health policy issues.
Access to a supply of environmentally friendly and economical energy is a fundamental right which should not be provided at the cost of our planet’s ecological equilibrium. Wherever possible, forms of energy must be promoted and implemented which are not only environmentally sustainable but also renewable. This is an important prerequisite for acknowledging, now already, our responsibility to the needs of future generations.
These environmentally friendly and renewable forms of energy are already available. The question is why they have not long since become the basis of all country’s energy supplies?
The answer is a sobering one. The energy field is the second largest after the pharmaceutical industry, and is intentionally used to create economic and political dependency in the international arena. Like the pharmaceutical industry, the oil industry is also purely an investment industry. The global, billion-dollar interests of both these investment industries are essentially controlled by the same centres of economic power: the Rockefeller Group in the USA, and the Rothschild/J.P. Morgan Group in the United Kingdom.
We have already seen in the health system domain that these unscrupulous investment circles have, by withholding vital information and alternatives, succeeded in building up the billion-dollar pharmaceutical investment industry. The systematic and strategic suppression of knowledge about the importance to health of vitamins and other natural substances has provided the basis of survival for the billion-dollar pharmaceutical investment industry.
Since the backers of the pharmaceutical and oil industries are the same investment circles, it is hardly surprising that the billion-dollar turnover of the oil industry is also based on manipulative tactics. Still worse, these same financial circles have invested billions in nuclear energy, likewise in the expectation of using energy provision as an instrument of global and political influence.
We have known for years that there are alternatives to noxious fossil fuels and radioactive nuclear energy. We need to target and promote these, and make them available and economical.
5.2 Promoting solar and wind power
The prime natural, environmentally friendly and renewable forms of energy are solar and wind power. We will promote these forms of renewable energy with all the means at our disposal, and develop their technology further. However these technologies are still associated with a fundamental disadvantage: they are dependent on prevailing climatic and weather conditions, which makes it difficult to plan national energy supplies and yield.
5.3 Promoting hydrogen energy (energy from water)
These ‘disadvantages’ are completely absent in the case of hydrogen energy, another natural and renewable energy form. Hydrogen energy is one of the most promising forms of energy for the future. It is obtained from water and its waste product is again water.
Hydrogen energy is thus a natural, environmentally friendly, renewable energy that can be produced everywhere, at any time and in any quantity. The costs of hydrogen energy are far more economical than any other power source, with only minimal production costs.
If one considers this scientific fact it is hardly surprising that we, the people, have not yet heard of it. If this knowledge became more widespread, the oil market would sooner or later collapse, and the Rockefeller and Rothschild Groups would lose hundreds of billions.
It is immediately apparent why this knowledge has so far remained the preserve of the few, and is still practically ignored in the whole sphere of influence of western company groups. It is only a question of time however before hydrogen energy technology develops to the point where it can supply whole cities and countries with power.
This form of energy is already being used in various countries. In some countries there are already fuel station networks which supply vehicles with environmentally friendly hydrogen energy, and pilot projects in which whole localities are supplied with energy primarily from this source.
We will promote hydrogen energy in a targeted way, thus not only contributing to the long-term protection of our planet for the sake of future generations, but also, at the same time, ending financial dependency on the oil industry.
The shift of energy supply to renewable energies is a decisive step that must be realised immediately and thoroughly in the interests of all people. Everything so far undertaken in this sphere is nothing more than lip service.
By introducing hydrogen energy and other renewable energies in the transport field and for electricity supply, companies, governments and individuals will save billions. These funds will be used to finance comprehensive programmes for creating employment in the fields of health, education and other social projects.
In addition the comprehensive introduction of these technologies will drastically reduce environmental pollution in cities. This will be a major contribution to fulfilling the Kyoto agreement, smoothing the way for a further tightening of international guidelines.
Political and financial groups that oppose this programme of energy provision in the interests of the oil cartel must be held to account at courts such as the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
5.4 Broadening environmental protection
The introduction of environmentally friendly forms of energy is a fundamental precondition for effective protection of the environment. Besides the atmosphere, we also primarily need to protect rivers, lakes, and soils used for agriculture and other purposes, from pollution and chemical residues. We will work to reduce maximum levels of all toxic substances through regulations to a standard that removes all risk to health.
Healthy nutrition through healthy cultivation methods. In the field of agriculture we will work to promote organic cultivation methods which exclude the use of artificial fertilisers and chemical pesticides. In this way we will not only help protect the environment but also provide a better quality of food and improved health for millions of people. The use and sale of genetically altered foods will be prohibited by law.
Comprehensive nature conservation. As part of a comprehensive programme of environmental protection, we will work to promote increased nature conservation. Reducing the use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides is an important basis for proactive nature conservation. We will give particular attention to the problem of worsening groundwater pollution from non-degradable pharmaceutical products.