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Credonia Makes Shocking Announcement

Credonia
02-06-2004, 21:51
OOC See this thread first: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=149760

President Sutton stands in the Presidential Palace Press Room, looking out into the audience of reporters from the media and press corps, before taking a sip of water from a glass placed beside him, and clearing his throat. He pauses a minute and then begins to speak in his loud powerful voice.

"Following the bombing of a Credonian oil refinery today, I have since conviened with my Chief Scientific Advisor and a panel of environmental scientists and anlyzers to come up with a set of new policies governing pollution control and the use of Earth's fossil fuels, such as coal and oil. Demands placed on Credonia by the EcoWarrior organization did not force us to engage in a program to preserve our earth as we already planned to undertake such an endeavour when our new military doctrine and foreign policies were announced to the world three weeks prior. Instead, the demands placed upon us by this group has prompted me to make this issue one of our top priorities, as I do believe that something must be done to prevent any further damage to our environment. The emission of such gases as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases serverly damages the ozone layer as well as the ecological cycle. A buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to a runaway greenhouse effect. A perfect example of this in action is very clear and evident if you look at the planet Venus. Venus is and will forever remain the planet with the hottest surface temperature in the solar system, mainly because the clouds prevent sunlight from escaping. Scientifically, sunlight is visible light (which we can see) and infrared light (heat), which we cannot see. The clouds act as a barrier that allows these two sources of light penetrate the cloud layer, but does not let the light out, thus causing surface temperatures to rise.

A more immediate threat of the burning of fossil fuels is global warming, which can and is producing catastrophic damage because it is triggering a climate change. Global warming also melts the polar ice caps which could and will cause flooding world wide. THis, in turn, will cause worldwide hunger and famine as crops are washed out. The weather will become increasingly worse. A sign that they are becoming worse can be seen as we examine the strength of typhoons, monsoons, tornado's, and hurricanes. Each year, they increase in strength, a sign that conditions are becoming worse year by year. Also, weather trends indicate that temperatures are becoming more and more severe. As the years progress, the weather and accompanying storms will continue to become worse until they obtain the capacity to become so destructive, that it is hard for humans and animals to be sustained on earth.

To combat these effects, I have come up with a set of policies tha will help slow global warming, allow the full level of ozone gases to replinish themselves, adn will encourage other nations to take similar steps to create a greener earth. I will be pushing legislation through Congress to ban the sale of cars that use old combustion engines. They will have to come up with another type of engine that offers as much efficiency as the internal combustion engine, but with less or no harmful gas emissions. I will push for legislation riding Credonia of oil refineries within the next 25 years. In addition, i will be setting aside money to research and create alternative energy systems that are clean, efficient, and have no harmful waste products (with the exception of nuclear power). I will also be organizing a summit between international leaders to try to get nations to take some of the actions that Credonia is and to discuss problems and solutions that affect our environment directly.

In conclusion, it is my intention to make Credonia a leader in the research and development of clearner energy systems, a major producer of cleaner more efficient and environment friendly cars and trucks all for the purpose of a cleaner Earth, our home, and our only means of survival. We must take care of her, and so long as I am President of this great nation, I will do all I can to lead efforts towards purifying our home so that our chiuldren, and their children, and their childrens children may live on this earth without having to worry about the environment and the problems that we will soon be faced with if we do not act now. Thank you"
Muktar
02-06-2004, 21:52
Official statement by the government ruled by Muktar Corporation:
"Meh."

OOC: We use nuclear power. Very clean.
Credonia
03-06-2004, 21:44
BUMP
Credonia
03-06-2004, 21:44
BUMP
Iuthia
04-06-2004, 02:38
We feel we must congradulate Credonia on this noble effort to reduce green house emitions to improve their environment. It warms our hearts to think that some nations out their are trying hard to keep their nations clean to ensure a better future for their children, many nations are lax about environmental issues and Iuthia hasn't done enough in the past to ensure our environment is clean...

However we are changing, slowly but surely as we improve our industries to be both more efficient and more environmentally friendly... due to the limits of renewable (sp) energy we have (like Muktar) always depended on Nuclear Power to keep our power grid working and our systems secure. However we have been making estounding breakthroughs with microwave power technology thanks to the help of our allies, Zvarinograd... we estimate that it will only be a matter of years before we can finally refine it well enough to put some power satalittes into space.

We wish you luck on your campaign and condolances on the high cost your people had to pay for these changes.

Thanks,

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Lord General deGritz, leader of the Iuthian people.
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Credonia
04-06-2004, 07:47
Thank you for your warming words. And Our children are our future and we must do all we can to ensure that they can live their lives to the fullest without the major problems that we are becoming faced with today. We owe it to not only ourselves and humankind, but mother Earth as well to take care of our environment so that we all may prosper and continue to prosper as a global race and as citizens of of this wonderful planet we call Earth and home.

Also, while you congradulate us, Credonia must congradulate you on your remarkable breakthroughs in energy research in creating alternative sources of energy. Keep up the good work.


Alexander Nicolas Sutton
President of the United States of Credonia
Korpus
04-06-2004, 08:24
Microwave sounds dangerous. If I am correct, you are diverting solar beams to hit the ground at a great magnitude... Correct? What if it misses its target and innocent people get hit by it? What are it's effects on the atmosphere?

We use clean and safe nuclear power (I'm under 100 million, but we have nuclear weapons too no matter what you say ;) ). Korpus is located in the northern Pacific where we can use seawater for reactor cooling. We have multiple safety mechanisms which have never failed. We are not "testing" anything with our reactors, never. We have plans to invest more in wind and solar power but they cost too much right now.

Oil production peak is close and the price of oil is just going higher and higher. There is no stopping it. We are constructing electric railways and nuclear power plants to all key locations so this country will not be halted when the oil crisis begins. Then we will gradually move to hydrogen or methanol or a mix of methanol and some sort of natural oil. We haven't decided yet on the next generation portable fuel. Nothing can replace oil. It fuels everything and it contains a lot of energy in a tight package. We are very concerned about our air force which will basically be rendered useless without OIL. Most likely we will introduce methanol. We can use wood to produce it. If we run out of wood we will have to resort to hydrogen which can be made from seawater. The problem is that hydrogen is extremely dangerous to deal with. On the other hand, methanol is poisonous.

So, worry about oil, not the climate. Or worry about them both like we.. erm.. this is a dictatorship.. Like I do. 8)

In other news, plans to replace 7.92mm semi-auto long rifles with 5,56mm assault rifles were rejected by me (because you must look cool in the army, plastic assault rifles are uncool). All women in the military now have to wear miniskirts as my perverted first advisor has suggested. Looking good in Korpus.
Credonia
04-06-2004, 08:27
Well if you use up all the wood/trees, then life wont survive anyway...gotta have trees to recycle the air
Kay Son
04-06-2004, 08:35
PM Yun Ren

The PRKS congratulates Credonia for exploring such a potential use of energy. We hope for the best.