"Disposable humans" ? Hmmm, which sort of folk do you think will be "disposed of" first ... and what (including what kind of ideology) will bring about the next round of purges and killing fields and mass graves ?
... and how soon may that be !?
from here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/the_twilight_of_abundance.html
"The Twilight of Abundance"
Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history. The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace. We had cheap energy from an inherent over-supply of oil. Grain supply increased faster than population growth. And the climate warmed due to the highest level of solar activity for eight thousand years. All those trends are now reversing. We are now in the twilight of that age of abundance.
...
In essence, my generation has known a warm, giving Sun, but the next will suffer a Sun that is less giving, and the Earth will be less fruitful. There will be less fruit from the fruited plain and fewer amber waves of grain.
...
That fact started me down a line of enquiry that became a lecture entitled “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. That lecture found temporal form in this book.
Who are those four horsemen? A severe, solar-driven cooling is one. Over the next twenty to thirty years, we are going back to the climate of the early 19th century as the best case outcome, or the climate of the late 17th century at worst. Here in the mid-latitudes of North America, growing conditions will move three hundred miles south from their current position. The United States will be producing twenty percent less grain by 2030, taking the United States out of export markets. Grain prices will return to 19th century levels in constant dollar terms.
The second horseman is the fact that a number of countries, but particularly those in the Middle East, are playing a big game of musical chairs. One day the music will stop and there won’t be enough grain to feed everybody. This outcome will be brought forward by the climate-driven reduction in grain supply.
The consequent population collapse will take the Middle East back to the population levels of the Napoleonic era. Every grain importing country is at risk to some extent. As Yemen or Afghanistan or Egypt tip over into collapse due to starvation, there will be an immediate bidding war on the world’s grain markets for what stocks are available. It will all be a big surprise when it happens.
The third horseman is our energy supply, starting with oil. In short, the oil price has tripled over the last ten years but oil production is no higher. It hasn’t responded to the price signal because production is physically constrained by geology. Soon oil production will tip into decline and the price rise will resume and accelerate. We can solve our long term energy supply problem by commercialising the thorium molten salt reactor. There are literally hundreds of designs for generating nuclear power, but thorium in a liquid salt is the safest with the least waste generation. Commercialising that reactor is absolutely necessary if we are going to maintain a high level of civilisation going forward.
The fourth horseman is the Pakistani nuclear bomb program. Not so much their current stockpile of nuclear weapons but the fact that they keep on building more reactors for making weapons-grade plutonium. They have three operating and they are now building their fourth. This is a country with a literacy rate of 55% and frequent power blackouts. Let’s not descend into cultural relativism by suggesting that they don’t have their priorities right.
The Pakistanis must really like making nuclear bombs. They will still be making nuclear bombs while taking their last breath before the country becomes a failed state. And the completed stockpile will seek a new home. Then things might get really interesting.
...
Socialism is an archaic and regressive behaviour that we left behind in evolutionary terms with the development of agriculture ten thousand years ago. It all has to do with the enormous amount of effort needed to take human babies and infants through to adolescence. That led to group food pooling behaviour in our Palaeolithic forbears. Everything was shared and nobody got ahead no matter how hard they tried. It seems that our species was once hard-wired for socialism.
Fortunately, group food pooling behaviour was superseded by the storable surpluses from agriculture and civilisation blossomed thereafter. This was the beginning of private property, capital formation, division of labour and all the other good things that led to the level of civilisation we now enjoy. Thus conservatism is a more evolved state than socialism.
...
-=-=-=-=-=-
With the blood of millions upon millions upon millions on its head and hands, the ideology that is socialism is certain to both continue and increase its murderous ways.
It is that terrible beast's natural way and state to crush and devour until freedom is gone and only fear and suffering remains.
regarDS
... and how soon may that be !?
from here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/the_twilight_of_abundance.html
"The Twilight of Abundance"
Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history. The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace. We had cheap energy from an inherent over-supply of oil. Grain supply increased faster than population growth. And the climate warmed due to the highest level of solar activity for eight thousand years. All those trends are now reversing. We are now in the twilight of that age of abundance.
...
In essence, my generation has known a warm, giving Sun, but the next will suffer a Sun that is less giving, and the Earth will be less fruitful. There will be less fruit from the fruited plain and fewer amber waves of grain.
...
That fact started me down a line of enquiry that became a lecture entitled “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. That lecture found temporal form in this book.
Who are those four horsemen? A severe, solar-driven cooling is one. Over the next twenty to thirty years, we are going back to the climate of the early 19th century as the best case outcome, or the climate of the late 17th century at worst. Here in the mid-latitudes of North America, growing conditions will move three hundred miles south from their current position. The United States will be producing twenty percent less grain by 2030, taking the United States out of export markets. Grain prices will return to 19th century levels in constant dollar terms.
The second horseman is the fact that a number of countries, but particularly those in the Middle East, are playing a big game of musical chairs. One day the music will stop and there won’t be enough grain to feed everybody. This outcome will be brought forward by the climate-driven reduction in grain supply.
The consequent population collapse will take the Middle East back to the population levels of the Napoleonic era. Every grain importing country is at risk to some extent. As Yemen or Afghanistan or Egypt tip over into collapse due to starvation, there will be an immediate bidding war on the world’s grain markets for what stocks are available. It will all be a big surprise when it happens.
The third horseman is our energy supply, starting with oil. In short, the oil price has tripled over the last ten years but oil production is no higher. It hasn’t responded to the price signal because production is physically constrained by geology. Soon oil production will tip into decline and the price rise will resume and accelerate. We can solve our long term energy supply problem by commercialising the thorium molten salt reactor. There are literally hundreds of designs for generating nuclear power, but thorium in a liquid salt is the safest with the least waste generation. Commercialising that reactor is absolutely necessary if we are going to maintain a high level of civilisation going forward.
The fourth horseman is the Pakistani nuclear bomb program. Not so much their current stockpile of nuclear weapons but the fact that they keep on building more reactors for making weapons-grade plutonium. They have three operating and they are now building their fourth. This is a country with a literacy rate of 55% and frequent power blackouts. Let’s not descend into cultural relativism by suggesting that they don’t have their priorities right.
The Pakistanis must really like making nuclear bombs. They will still be making nuclear bombs while taking their last breath before the country becomes a failed state. And the completed stockpile will seek a new home. Then things might get really interesting.
...
Socialism is an archaic and regressive behaviour that we left behind in evolutionary terms with the development of agriculture ten thousand years ago. It all has to do with the enormous amount of effort needed to take human babies and infants through to adolescence. That led to group food pooling behaviour in our Palaeolithic forbears. Everything was shared and nobody got ahead no matter how hard they tried. It seems that our species was once hard-wired for socialism.
Fortunately, group food pooling behaviour was superseded by the storable surpluses from agriculture and civilisation blossomed thereafter. This was the beginning of private property, capital formation, division of labour and all the other good things that led to the level of civilisation we now enjoy. Thus conservatism is a more evolved state than socialism.
...
-=-=-=-=-=-
With the blood of millions upon millions upon millions on its head and hands, the ideology that is socialism is certain to both continue and increase its murderous ways.
It is that terrible beast's natural way and state to crush and devour until freedom is gone and only fear and suffering remains.
regarDS
