tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42838836422807508842014-10-22T19:44:39.012+03:00Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283883642280750884.post-56318904551105168762009-06-14T22:31:00.002+03:002009-06-14T22:44:28.391+03:00

.Resource scarcity will be a direct cause of confrontation, conflict, and war. The struggle to maintain access to critical resources will spark local and regional conflicts that will evolve into the most frequent conventional wars of the next century. Gross overpopulation will destroy fragile possibilities for progress in much of the non-Western world, and much of this problem is the West's

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.Population Security Misery Theorems: [1]: "The Dismal Theorem"- If the only ultimate check on the growth of population is misery, then the population will grow until it is miserable enough to stop its growth. [3] "The moderately cheerful form of the Dismal Theorem" - Fortunately, it is not too difficult to restate the Dismal Theorem in a moderately cheerful form, which states that if something

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.Whoever the anonymous architects of the Guidestones were, they knew what they were doing: The monument is a highly engineered structure that flawlessly tracks the sun. It also manages to engender endless fascination, thanks to a carefully orchestrated aura of mystery. And the stones have attracted plenty of devotees to defend against folks who would like them destroyed. Clearly, whoever had the

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.A central problem of the human predicament discussed in The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment is that we’re small-group animals trying to live in ever more gigantic groups - and not doing very well at it. If catastrophe can be avoided, we’re stuck with gigantic groups for a century or more, and very large groups “forever.” It therefore behooves humanity to start asking itself

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.Perhaps the most fascinating factor shaping today’s debates about the future of industrial society, and certainly among the most frustrating, is the rapidity with which any such debate plunges into territory outside the reach of rational argument. Watch a conversation about the subject, and nearly always one of two things will happen: either the participants will find they share basic

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.Fast population growth, fueled by high fertility, hinders the reduction of poverty and the achievement of other internationally agreed development goals. Lack of Government commitment is at the root of low contraceptive prevalence. Among the 17 least developed countries with very low recent levels of modern contraceptive use, just five considered fertility to be too high in 1985 and just 8 had

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."Hate crimes," as trumpeted by the likes of the Southern Poverty Law Center, are a questionable legal construct used almost exclusively against whites. Hateful or not, interracial violent crime is overwhelmingly black on white or black on Asian. The Department of Justice's figures show that between 2001 and 2003, blacks were 39 times more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than the

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.Perhaps the most fascinating factor shaping today’s debates about the future of industrial society, and certainly among the most frustrating, is the rapidity with which any such debate plunges into territory outside the reach of rational argument. Watch a conversation about the subject, and nearly always one of two things will happen: either the participants will find they share basic

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.In order to moved toward a sustainable society, the first and most important effort that must be made is to stop population growth. This will require the initiation of major comprehensive educational, technical, and outreach programs in the areas of social responsibility, family planning, contraception, immigration, and resource use. To get things right, these programs must focus on the goal of

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.Climate change, energy depletion, food shortages, resource wars, species extinction - these are not the problem, they are only the symptoms. The singular root problem that causes all these horrifying threats to mankind is overpopulation.So - logically - the solution that will eliminate these threats is simply to reduce the population of humans on this planet to a sustainable number.Yet, no one

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.As for motherhood — the fertility of the human race — we are getting to the point where you simply can't discuss it, and we are thereby refusing to say anything sensible about the biggest single challenge facing the Earth; and no, whatever it may now be conventional to say, that single biggest challenge is not global warming. That is a secondary challenge. The primary challenge facing our

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.Only since 1800, in the last 0.1% of the history of Homo sapiens, has the human population shot into the billions. Now at nearly 6.7 billion, with 9 billion looming 40 years away, few environmentalists seem to care.Yet the population-environment link is clear. Our environmental impact, as gauged by total resource consumption for a country or the world, is the product of population size and the

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283883642280750884.post-22950465388150624532009-05-29T22:14:00.013+03:002009-05-29T22:43:10.693+03:00

.If any aspect of green economics makes the average person deeply unhappy, it is its claim that we have to halt economic growth. This is understandable. After all, who doesn't find the idea of a higher income attractive? Moreover, most of us believe that economic growth is responsible for the comfortable lives the majority of people in industrialised countries enjoy today and, for the minority

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.What was true in the 2nd century B.C. is still true: an increase in foodstuffs makes overpopulation worse, not better. We recognize this truth in herds of cattle grazing in nature; but we act as if our own species lives by some other law of nature.In the 3rd century A.D. the church leader Tertullian firmly grasped this nettle of reality. He said: "The scourges of pestilence, famine, wars, and

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.The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about

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.Africans are usually quick to blame most of its problems on the evils of colonialism. We sometimes blame the violence on the borders colonialists created that ignored ethnicity. Many African nations have been independent for four decades. If colonial borders were a major problem, how come they haven't changed them? It's time we as Africans took responsibility for our troubles and stopped trying

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283883642280750884.post-27494636903584978162008-12-19T22:36:00.049+02:002009-05-01T14:30:52.201+03:00

.In the latter years of the 17th century and early years of the 18th century a Robin Hood type figure roamed the hills around West Tipperary and East Limerick. Edmond O'Ryan or Eamonn a Chnoic or Ned of the Hills was one of a small band of rapparees who championed the cause of the poor, the dispossessed natives and continually harassed the English planters. Many legends and tales are told of

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.To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel. This is not considering the natural gas feedstock.In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283883642280750884.post-76595085005424444382008-11-20T00:28:00.041+02:002009-04-26T12:22:28.082+03:00

.Islam is the perfect war machine. It has both a military strategy, found in the Sira and the Hadith, and a brilliant war ideology. This perfect war machine has worked flawlessly for 1400 years and is working brilliantly today. November 4 th was a greater victory for political Islam than September 11th.Is it impossible to kill 1.5 billion Muslims? It is a military possibility, but kafirs do not

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283883642280750884.post-63613296261456844452008-11-04T15:06:00.047+02:002009-04-26T02:32:39.644+03:00

.In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes.It is widely rumored that, in the likely event

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."Break the Glass" was the code-name high-level Treasury Department figures gave the $700 billion bailout; ...But more than a decade ago, a woman you're likely never to have heard of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission-- a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading--was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives trading just

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.As bad as the US is, there are worse problems elsewhere. This is why I think this credit crisis will not play out like any previously and why I think there's a better than even chance of a systemic banking crisis. In times past when a country experienced a bubble or a banking crisis there was always a country next door that hadn't where the savvy could hide out. Where does one hide out today?

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.Energy, Economic and Population Ponzi Schemes to Rip Off the Feebleminded:Social Security (1935-) and Medicare (1965-) are the two preeminent examples of the utopian socialist business model in the US. They owe their heritage to Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi. In 1920 Ponzi introduced an investment scheme in Boston that amounts to an expanding game of musical chairs, in which one must buy a

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.So what happens when you have vague language and an unlimited budget? Fraud and self-dealing. Mark my words, this is the largest looting operation ever in the history of the US, and it's all spelled out right in this delightfully brief document that is about to be rammed through a scared Congress and made into law. But, certainly, if the combination of vague language and and unlimited budget

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.There is, however, a small band of men and women – long insulted as fanatics or even fantasists by the political mainstream – who can now say: "We told you so." I am not referring to the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist). No, I'm talking about the followers of the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973). in his 1912 work, The Theory of Money and Credit, Mises

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