"they" billy "i just want 2 do gods work" kates & that ilk .... r soooooooo worried bout over pop ... Y don't "they" kill themselves & free UP some space Oops or "they" shouldn't "mind" if WE Pray 4 "their" "early" death huh ... after all we just wanna do Gods work ...2 or hows cum "their" god never ,fucking EVER tells em 2 lower "their" prices Or do the 'christian' 'thing' & give "their" shit away fer free huh .....parasite motherfuckers lol folks u give "these" corksuckers :O just a chance & you' ll C how fast "they" throw r ass's in the ..oven ? ... um not the coldest beer in the fridge or the sharpest knife in the drawer ...but um pretty sher the god "they" work fer is the fucker wit the "S" on the back of his uni lol no shit the fucker wit the pitch fork lol
So what’s the biggest time-bomb for
Obama, America, capitalism, the world? No, not global warming. Not
poverty. Not even peak oil. What is the absolute biggest, one like the
trigger mechanism on a nuclear bomb, one that’ll throw a wrench in
global economic growth, ending capitalism, even destroying modern
civilization?
The one that — if not solved soon —
renders all efforts to solve all the other problems in the world,
irrelevant, futile and virtually impossible?
News flash: the “Billionaires Club” knows: Bill Gates called billionaire philanthropists to a super-secret meeting in Manhattan last May. Included: Buffett, Rockefeller, Soros, Bloomberg, Turner, Oprah and others meeting at the “home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University, in Manhattan,” reports John Harlow in the London TimesOnline. During an afternoon session each was “given 15 minutes to present their favorite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an ‘umbrella cause’ that could harness their interests.”
The world’s biggest time-bomb? Overpopulation, say the billionaires.
And yet, global governments with
their $50 trillion GDP, aren’t even trying to solve the world’s
overpopulation problem. G-20 leaders ignore it. So by 2050 the Earth’s
population will explode by almost 50%, from 6.6 billion today to 9.3
billion says the United Nations.
And what about those billionaires
and their billions? Can they stop the trend? Sadly no. Only a major
crisis, a global catastrophe, a collapse beyond anything prior in world history will do it. Here’s why:
Civilizations collapse fast, crises trigger, leaders clueless
“One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse,” warns Jared Diamond, an environmental biologist, Pulitzer prize winner and author of “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” Many “civilizations share a sharp curve of decline. Indeed, a society’s demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches its peak population, wealth and power.”
Other voices are darker, shrill:
“We’re past the point of no return.” “It’s already too late.” “The end
is near.” As with Rome’s collapse, it happens fast. Clueless leaders are caught off-guard, like Greenspan, Bernanke and Paulson a couple years ago.
Call it “WWIII: The Population
Wars.” A few years ago Fortune analyzed a classified Pentagon report
predicting that “climate could change radically and fast. That would be
the mother of all national security issues” Population unrest would then
create “massive droughts, turning farmland into dust bowls and forests
to ashes.” And “by 2020 there is little doubt that something drastic is
happening … an old pattern could emerge; warfare defining human life.”
War will be the end-game: For capitalism, civilization, earth?
Diamond’s 12-part equation is very
simple, fits perfectly with a global warfare scenario: “More people
require more food, space, water, energy, and other resources … There is a
long built-in momentum to human population growth
called the ‘demographic bulge’ with a disproportionate number of
children and young reproductive-age people.” And if the “bulge” stops
for any reason, game over. Economic “growth” ends, killing capitalism.
So look closely: Diamond’s
equation has 12 time-bombs. But note, the first two are the biggest
triggers in the formula. The other 10 are derivative variables.
1. Overpopulation Multiplier
According to TimesOnline: A few
months before the billionaires meeting Gates noted: “Official [U.N.]
projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from
6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better
reproductive health care, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion.”
Still, that’s 23% more than today’s 6.6 billion.
Can it be stopped? In a recent
special issue of Scientific American, population was called “the most
overlooked and essential strategy for achieving long-term balance with the environment.” Why? Population’s the new “third-rail” for politicians. So they ignore it.
Yet, if all nations consumed
resources at the same rate as America, we’d need six Earths to survive.
Unfortunately that scenario is unstoppable. Because by 2050, while
America’s population grows from 300 million to a mere 400 million, the
rest of the world will explode from 6.3 billion to 8.9 billion, with
over 1.4 billion each in China and India.
2. Population Impact Multiplier
Diamond warns: “There are
‘optimists’ who argue that the world could support double its human
population.” But he adds, they “consider only the increase in human
numbers and not average increase in per-capita impact. But I have not
heard anyone who seriously argues that the world could support 12 times
it’s current impact.” And yet, that’s exactly what happens with “all
third-world inhabitants adopting first-world standards.”
Folks, we oversold the American
dream. Now everyone wants it. Not just 300 million Americans, but 6.3
billion people worldwide are demanding more, more, more!
“What really counts,” says
Diamond, “is not the number of people alone, but their impact on the
environment,” the “per-capita impact.” First-world citizens “consume 32
times more resources such as fossil fuels, and put out 32 times more
waste, than do the inhabitants of the Third World.” So the race is on:
“Low impact people are becoming high-impact people” aspiring “to
first-world living standards.” The American dream is now the global
dream.
Warning: The “Impact Multiplier” will drive the global “WWIII-Population Wars” equation even if there is zero population growth to 2050!
In Diamond’s masterpiece, “Collapse,”
the two key variables are what we call the “Over-Population Multiplier”
and “Population Impact Multiplier.” Now let’s closely examine Diamond’s
other 10 variables that are driving our “WWIII-Population Wars”
equation:
3. Food
Two billion people, mostly poor,
depend on fish and other wild foods for protein. They “have collapsed or
are in steep decline” forcing use of more costly animal proteins. The
U.N. calls the global food crisis a “silent tsunami.” Food prices rise
making it worse for the 2.7 billion living below poverty levels on two
dollars a day.
In “The End of Plenty,” National Geographic warns that even a new “green revolution” of “synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation, supercharged by genetically engineered seeds” may fail. Why? A joint World Bank/U.N.
study “concluded that the immense production increases brought about by
science and technology the past 30 years have failed to improve food
access for many of the world’s poor.”
Meanwhile, a Time cover story
warns that America’s “addiction to meat” has led to farming that’s
“destructive of the soil, the environment and us.”
4. Water
Diamond warns: “Most of the
world’s fresh water in rivers and lakes is already being used for
irrigation, domestic and industrial water,” transportation, fisheries
and recreation. Water problems destroyed many earlier civilizations:
“Today over a million people lack access to reliable safe drinking
water.” British International Development Minister recently warned that
two-thirds of the world will live in water-stressed countries by 2015.
Water will trade
like oil futures as wars are fought over water and other basic
essentials noted earlier in Fortune’s analysis of the Pentagon report
predicting that warfare will define human life in this scenario of the
near future.
5. Farmland
Crop soils are “being carried away
by water and wind erosion at rates between 10 to 40 times the rates of
soil formation,” much higher in forests where the soil-erosion rate is
“between 500 and 10,000 times” replacement rate. And this is increasing
in today’s new age of the 100,000-acre megafires.
6. Forests
We are destroying natural habitats
and rain forests at an accelerating rate. Half the world’s original
forests have been converted to urban developments. A quarter of what
remains will be converted in the next 50 years.
7. Toxic chemicals
Often our solutions create more
problems than they solve. For example, industries “manufacture or
release into the air, soil, oceans, lakes, and rivers many toxic
chemicals” that break down slowly or not at all. Consider the deadly
impact of insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, plastics …
the list is endless.
8. Energy resources: oil, natural gas and coal
Pimco manages $747 billion:
equity, bonds and commodity funds. Manager Bill Gross recently described
a “significant break” in the world’s “growth pattern.” He’s betting
we’re past the “peak oil” tipping point. Consumer shopping will continue
declining as economies grow very slowly in the future and “corporate
profits will be static.”
A recent issue of Foreign Policy
Journal warns of the “7 Myths About Alternative Energy.” Are biofuels,
solar and nuclear the “major ticket?” No, they’re not, never will be.
9. Solar energy
Sunlight is not unlimited.
Diamond: We’re already using “half of the Earth’s photosynthetic
capacity” and we will reach the max by mid-century. In “Plundering the
Amazon,” Bloomberg Markets magazine warned that Alcoa, Cargill and other
companies “have bypassed laws designed to prevent destruction of the
world’s largest rain forest … robbing the earth of its best shield
against global warming.”
Free market capitalism may be the enemy of survival.
10. Ozone layer
“Human activities produce gases
that escape into the atmosphere” where they can destroy the protective
ozone or absorb and reduce solar energy.
11. Diversity
“A significant fraction of wild
species, populations and genetic diversity has been lost, and at present
rates, a large percent of the rest will disappear in half century.”
12. Alien species
Transferring species to lands
where they’re not native can have unintended and catastrophic effects,
“preying on, parasitizing, infecting or outcompeting” native animals and
plants that lack evolutionary resistance.
In spite of the clear message in
Diamond’s 12 time-bombs, he still says he’s a “cautious optimist.” What
fuels his hope? Our leaders need “the courage to practice long-term
thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time
when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis
proportions.”
Unfortunately, history tells us
that cautious leaders are myopic, driven more by self-interest and
nationalism than courage and long-term thinking. Eventually they’re
caught off guard and their worlds collapse, fast. They only respond to
crises.
And, yes, out of crisis may come
opportunity. As Nobel economist Milton Friedman put it in his classic,
“Capitalism and Freedom:” “Only a crisis — actual or perceived —
produces real change” because in the aftermath of crisis “the
politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.” Too many,
however, delay and respond to crises with too little, too late.
Bottom line: The betting odds are 100%
that global leaders will wait for a Pentagon-style “black swan” crisis
before acting. Unfortunately, that delay positions the “WWIII: The
Population Wars” dead ahead.
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