POST 24: BRINGING TOGETHER PEOPLE AND POSITIONS

To this point, Nancy Knipscher’s campaign planning  had defined and prioritized worthwhile constituencies in terms of how  effectively each would help achieve her campaign goals in 2011 and 2012 elections (posts 20 and 21) , and created an allusion-based core  presentation describing how BBGG programs would reverse  potentially catastrophic consequences of global warming and a global Great Depression.  

This core presentation equated BBGG programs to the World War II “arsenal of democracy” buildup and the  post WWII Marshall Plan, both  successfully implemented under Democratic administrations, as well as the “desert storm” invasion of Iraq implemented under the Bush I Republican administration.

Knipscher’s core presentation also  concluded that, given the size and scope of  economic and environmental crises inherited from the previous administration, the Obama administration’s earnest efforts  couldn’t begin to cope with even one of the catastrophic threats facing humanity. BBGG programs, on the other hand, were designed to successfully cope with threats of  global warming  and a long deep descent into a worldwide   depression.  

Also stressed in Knipscher’s  core presentation was the critical importance of time: the later BBGG addressed these global threats, the more exponentially expensive the struggle  would become and the closer the world would come to doomsday points of no return.

 Tailoring specialized presentations to special needs and interests

Supplementing Knipscher’s core presentation, which featured  extensive use of allusion and anecdote to enhance clarity, conciseness, focus and dramatic impact, were four special purpose presentations featuring heavy metrics (Post 16) to elaborate  aspects of BBGG programs dealing with the environment, the economy, technology and foreign policy. These four presentations  were addressed to targeted constituencies with needs and interests reflecting  presentation topics. For example, economic and environmental presentations were directed toward three huge 2012 voting blocs: Southern and Reagan Republicans and  independent voters who identified themselves as Democrats over Republicans by  a margin of 36% to 27% in 2008 .Technologically oriented presentations were directed mainly toward venture capitalists,  associations of scientists and engineers and technological constituencies  in high-tech design and manufacturing centers;  foreign policy oriented presentations toward influential foreign and domestic  voting and non-voting groups who could vote in U.S. elections and, more important,  influence foreign countries to participate in BBGG programs.

Although aimed at selected constituencies, the essence of these presentations was  accessible to all  constituencies via traditional and digital media networks discussed in Posts 26 -30.

Environmentally oriented presentation: Alluding to   findings in Al Gore’s docudrama  An Inconvenient Truth, Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Climate of Man,  and  the international scientific community consensus,  global warming was defined as   largely  a man-made disaster produced  by increasing  CO₂ emissions from  deforestation and burning  fossil fuels like coal and oil .  Documenting metrics  underscored  the dramatic impact of global warming: “Once  CO₂  emission levels reach  500 parts per million,  earth’s temperature will warm another seven degrees, the arctic will be  ice-free in  summer,  Glacier National Park glaciers will disappear, and rising sea levels, coastal flooding, acidic oceans and  extremes of drought and rainfall will produce  mass migrations, starvation, and disrupted natural ecosystems leading to the extinction of   vital food chain species”;   “according to the World Health Organization, within 20 years climate change will be producing  150,000 deaths,  and two million sicknesses a year from the spread of malaria, diarrhea, and starvation”;  “ the polar ice cap, melting at an alarming rate of nine percent each decade, will bring  extensive flooding and loss of coastal wetlands in low-lying areas like Chesepeake Bay, which could turn Washington D.C.into another post-Katrina New Orleans ”;  “ polar bears, drowning because they have to swim too far  to reach ice, will soon be warmed out of existence”;  “by 2040,  the horrific  affects of increasing  CO₂ emissions, soon to be  irreversible, will exceed  those associated with the great wars and depression of the first half of the 20^th century, and will cost between ten and 20 percent of global GDP each year. “

Economically  oriented presentation: This presentation  attributed BBGG  economic benefits  largely to the way  strategic business units (SBUs) were structured and funded,  and the output of these units.

As  to structure and funding, each SBU —  for example, a brand name   division of a large automobile manufacturer – would contract to supplement production of  its  primary products (e.g., automobiles and trucks) with quotas of   green energy products (or services)  determined by a centralized international planning board comprising entrepreneurs,  scientists, ecologists, managers, and politicians. These green energy products would be produced and distributed in competition with other SBUs  worldwide,   usually  in countries with an acquired or natural green energy production or technological advantage. Government funding  for BBGG start-up costs would be through banks whose low but legitimate reserve requirements would trigger a huge multiplier effect , facilitated by legislation and controls ensuring full employment, competitive efficiencies,  minimal waste and corruption,  uniform agreement on fair  wages and salaries, cap and trade and carbon tax legislation and  tariff-free  trade in green energy products.  

This  multiplier effect, enhancing employment , wages and salaries, would  dramatically  improve living standards and per-capita incomes, which would  benefit  from generous profit returns on mandated personal investments in the green energy revolution. Governments would also benefit generously from these returns, deriving from both financial institutions funding the green energy revolution and companies producing green energy products and services. In the U.S., this multiplier effect would facilitate the following outcomes  further enhancing national  wealth, well being and security: implementation of  Obama energy, education, and  universal health care  programs (with businesses no longer required to subsidize healthcare);  payroll taxes eliminated and middle-class income taxes sharply reduced ( but wealth taxed and incomes over $10 million taxed in the 70 percent bracket); return of our manufacturing base;  strong, safe, transparent fiscal and monetary systems, combined with reductions of national and trade deficits, will   keep  both inflation and long-term interest rates low

Supplementing  economic benefits  from BBGG’s structural and funding characteristics would be  benefits deriving from the output of these programs, starting with the elimination of global warming and  great depression threats. Removal of these threats would also  greatly reduce dependence on fossil fuels, replaced  by clean energy sources like wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, tidal, and nuclear. Applications for these alternate energy sources in living, working and recreation facilities, in clean, safe, smog free environments, would effectively increase the wealth and lifestyles of citizens worldwide, as would the modernized green infrastructures required to effectively apply and distribute the output of the green revolution. Lack of pollution, more efficient use of energy and natural resources, and cutbacks on oil imports and carbon emissions would  further enhance quality of life.

Technological oriented presentation: this presentation described the broad sweep  and depth of  BBGG technological initiatives , including a fifty percent increase in global research and development and the creation of “think centers” that synthesized, from all over the world, the creative energies of scientists and engineers.  These projects would create, from the  World Bank’s list of  43 climate-friendly technologies, new technologies and  green energy products such as  improved mass transit systems, batteries and superconductors capable of remarkably clean, efficient electric transmission, new age electronic transmission and communication systems; green energy  power plants,  buildings, homes,  appliances, wind,n uclear, and solar power plants.

Foreign policy oriented presentations: BBGG benefits in this area start with the sense of collegial purpose among a nation’s citizenry gearing up for the green energy struggle against the looming threats of global warming and economic depression, followed by  the sense of accomplishment as  threats recede and the rewards accumulate, including dramatically improved living standards ,employment rates,  incomes, and wealth accumulation. Erased tariff barriers for green energy output, combined with research and entrepreneurial initiatives that  stoke  growth  and  fair trade rules governing free trade, will strengthen  productive relations among nations, enhancing opportunities for peaceful relations. These factors – a fully-employed, motivated population, free and fair trade among nations – will combine with  strong stable fiscal and monetary policies to  further increase wealth of nations – especially undeveloped nations. Strong new markets will help pay back, many times over, original investments.