We the people have become a mere consumable in an economic plundering which has no sustainable mission statement.
We are viewed as nothing more than "human capital stock" - as Trump White House adviser, Kevin Hassett, so eloquently vomited the quiet part out loud back in 2020.
It seems reasonable the garden of Life is dangerously close to …
We the people have become a mere consumable in an economic plundering which has no sustainable mission statement.
We are viewed as nothing more than "human capital stock" - as Trump White House adviser, Kevin Hassett, so eloquently vomited the quiet part out loud back in 2020.
It seems reasonable the garden of Life is dangerously close to sterility as a result of these policies and morally criminal beliefs which exclusively promote "take from" - not "tend to".
Though not spoken out loud by the corrupt corporate media, including MSNBC and NPR, the younger generations seem to be aware, instinctively, because fewer and fewer are getting married, and with the current cost of raising a child at $243,000 very few want to burden themselves with penury for life.
You would think that they want children to look after them, in old age, when they can't take care of themselves, but unlike in Central and South America, Africa, Mid east and Asia..
Parents are made ward of the state, or shunted off into nursing homes,warehoused until they die.
I lived in Panama for three years, married a Panamanian mixed blood, African, Chinese and Guyami, lived on weekends with her extended family, mother, brother, sister and their families, under one roof, with different compartments. Never heard of a nursing home, or mental institution the family took care of themselves,unlike America Also they shared responsibility for looking after each others children
Very interesting, your life in Panama. Have you published about it in detail?
It is generally the case that, historically, as "undeveloped" countries industrialize and become more urban and less rural there is a great shift in the institution of the Family. A shift in how children are educated and reared, elderly are cared for, food is produced and consumed, work and medical practices are organized. Religion, unfortunately survives in spite of scientific advances in knowledge. More to be said here.
Worldwide the shift to urban living has also resulted in lower birthrates. Many countries are no longer producing the 2.1 children per female which is necessary for a population to maintain its size into the future. This is well documented and is often called the third stage of "The Demographic Transition." Greedy capitalists view this with alarm because each new human being is another potential producer and another potential consumer for their profit-making system. I believe the world would be better off if total human populations shrank. We can adjust. I say this not out of inherent pessimism about humans. What topic is more important than life? As for myself I have spent my entire adult life in a professional pursuit of learning about our social existence. It is called Sociology. There are simply too many of us and we have devised institutions which are ironically destroying us.
I totally agree. I always say that Rev Malthus was correct, only he got his time line wrong, because he had no idea of technological advances, such as machines to plow, sow, irrigate, reap, transport and produce food (like grains).
Malthus had no idea of technological advances.
I have mentioned before on other internet spaces, that world pppulations is increasing at a geometric pace, not an arithemetric pace. At the time of the Roman Empire the worlds population had barely reached 300,000 , and slowly crept up, plagues and wars slowed the growth of population, yetWorld population did not reach one billion until 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987. . 6 Billion by 1999, 12 years from 1987, and 7 billion by 2011, and in 11 years (2022) it reached 8 Billion.
See where that is going, 10 years or less another billion, and it is getting worse, minus a world wide pandemic or war, maybe another genetic bottleneck like the one that happened 12,000 BCE, at the end of the ice age., when the ice dams broke and flooded the earth, leaving survivors (about 25,000) that lived at higher elevations.
Billions of hungry mouths clamoring for resources, wiping out the Earth's lungs, to provide access to minerals, gold, land to feed cattle (a major source of global warming..methane), and to provide grain for starving populations. Not to mention digging up and destroying the Earth for oil and minerals to meet the demands for products of billions of people.
It can only get worse, but wait Gaia has a self defense. Global warming, the more people the more methane and carbon dioxide and the more in number and violence, become catastrophic events, especially as human activity pushes the earths temperature to the fatal (for mammals, and almost all living creatures) a wet bulb of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. A temperature already reached in some parts of the world, especially the Kingdom. Which by the way has a water problem. they tapped the 12,000 year old water table, to irrigate the desert and the land collapsed, they have turned to desalination of the Red Sea, but that can't keep up with demand, on top of which they have been using reverse osmosis, which quickly clogs up the membranes, and leaves them with a salt disposal problem. rWorld population did not reach one billion until 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987. Replacing the millions of membranes used and disposed off, is in itself a major industry, which requires the total devotion of industrial and mineral resources Saudi Arabia has the largest overall desalination plant in the world in its east-coast city of Jubail, with an output capacity of 1.4 million m3/d.Jan 7, 2021
And people don't know that these membranes get clogged with salt, and have to be replaced frequently. the alternative is to built many distillation plants, but they add to the problem of global warming, and the distillers have to be cleaned almost daily, to get rid of the salt.
I have a small, gallon sized home distiller for my CPAP machines. and I only run it about once or twice a month,and it builds up scale quickly and my water is well water in the country, so no chemicals , like fluoride, chlorine, or estrogen, testosterone, progesterone or other forever chemicals.
Bottom line, the species is SOL, as is other species, so make hay while the sun shines. The cure for racism, religion and greed is on it's way., like a runaway train.
Everything is coming at us at break neck speed, geometrically not mathematically.
I taught Population for years and Malthus was in my syllabus. He earned honors in Mathematics at Cambridge. But, of course he could not foresee the future (who can?) and what Massive urbanization would do to fertility. I showed my students how he developed the equation for exponential growth: P=ae to the power of in. Unfortunately my computer does not allow me to correctly write out the equation. You can find it in most elementary college Algebra textbooks.
Malthus had another serious theoretical problem: he was a clergyman in the Church of England, and so he misunderstood the true checks on population. He had a childish (by our standards) view of "homosexuality," "beastiality" and many other long forgotten, discarded topics of interest only to Fanatical Christians. But he was brilliant nevertheless. He was an acknowledged inspiration to Darwin a generation later.
We the people have become a mere consumable in an economic plundering which has no sustainable mission statement.
We are viewed as nothing more than "human capital stock" - as Trump White House adviser, Kevin Hassett, so eloquently vomited the quiet part out loud back in 2020.
It seems reasonable the garden of Life is dangerously close to sterility as a result of these policies and morally criminal beliefs which exclusively promote "take from" - not "tend to".
Though not spoken out loud by the corrupt corporate media, including MSNBC and NPR, the younger generations seem to be aware, instinctively, because fewer and fewer are getting married, and with the current cost of raising a child at $243,000 very few want to burden themselves with penury for life.
You would think that they want children to look after them, in old age, when they can't take care of themselves, but unlike in Central and South America, Africa, Mid east and Asia..
Parents are made ward of the state, or shunted off into nursing homes,warehoused until they die.
I lived in Panama for three years, married a Panamanian mixed blood, African, Chinese and Guyami, lived on weekends with her extended family, mother, brother, sister and their families, under one roof, with different compartments. Never heard of a nursing home, or mental institution the family took care of themselves,unlike America Also they shared responsibility for looking after each others children
Very interesting, your life in Panama. Have you published about it in detail?
It is generally the case that, historically, as "undeveloped" countries industrialize and become more urban and less rural there is a great shift in the institution of the Family. A shift in how children are educated and reared, elderly are cared for, food is produced and consumed, work and medical practices are organized. Religion, unfortunately survives in spite of scientific advances in knowledge. More to be said here.
Worldwide the shift to urban living has also resulted in lower birthrates. Many countries are no longer producing the 2.1 children per female which is necessary for a population to maintain its size into the future. This is well documented and is often called the third stage of "The Demographic Transition." Greedy capitalists view this with alarm because each new human being is another potential producer and another potential consumer for their profit-making system. I believe the world would be better off if total human populations shrank. We can adjust. I say this not out of inherent pessimism about humans. What topic is more important than life? As for myself I have spent my entire adult life in a professional pursuit of learning about our social existence. It is called Sociology. There are simply too many of us and we have devised institutions which are ironically destroying us.
I totally agree. I always say that Rev Malthus was correct, only he got his time line wrong, because he had no idea of technological advances, such as machines to plow, sow, irrigate, reap, transport and produce food (like grains).
Malthus had no idea of technological advances.
I have mentioned before on other internet spaces, that world pppulations is increasing at a geometric pace, not an arithemetric pace. At the time of the Roman Empire the worlds population had barely reached 300,000 , and slowly crept up, plagues and wars slowed the growth of population, yetWorld population did not reach one billion until 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987. . 6 Billion by 1999, 12 years from 1987, and 7 billion by 2011, and in 11 years (2022) it reached 8 Billion.
See where that is going, 10 years or less another billion, and it is getting worse, minus a world wide pandemic or war, maybe another genetic bottleneck like the one that happened 12,000 BCE, at the end of the ice age., when the ice dams broke and flooded the earth, leaving survivors (about 25,000) that lived at higher elevations.
Billions of hungry mouths clamoring for resources, wiping out the Earth's lungs, to provide access to minerals, gold, land to feed cattle (a major source of global warming..methane), and to provide grain for starving populations. Not to mention digging up and destroying the Earth for oil and minerals to meet the demands for products of billions of people.
It can only get worse, but wait Gaia has a self defense. Global warming, the more people the more methane and carbon dioxide and the more in number and violence, become catastrophic events, especially as human activity pushes the earths temperature to the fatal (for mammals, and almost all living creatures) a wet bulb of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. A temperature already reached in some parts of the world, especially the Kingdom. Which by the way has a water problem. they tapped the 12,000 year old water table, to irrigate the desert and the land collapsed, they have turned to desalination of the Red Sea, but that can't keep up with demand, on top of which they have been using reverse osmosis, which quickly clogs up the membranes, and leaves them with a salt disposal problem. rWorld population did not reach one billion until 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987. Replacing the millions of membranes used and disposed off, is in itself a major industry, which requires the total devotion of industrial and mineral resources Saudi Arabia has the largest overall desalination plant in the world in its east-coast city of Jubail, with an output capacity of 1.4 million m3/d.Jan 7, 2021
And people don't know that these membranes get clogged with salt, and have to be replaced frequently. the alternative is to built many distillation plants, but they add to the problem of global warming, and the distillers have to be cleaned almost daily, to get rid of the salt.
I have a small, gallon sized home distiller for my CPAP machines. and I only run it about once or twice a month,and it builds up scale quickly and my water is well water in the country, so no chemicals , like fluoride, chlorine, or estrogen, testosterone, progesterone or other forever chemicals.
Bottom line, the species is SOL, as is other species, so make hay while the sun shines. The cure for racism, religion and greed is on it's way., like a runaway train.
Everything is coming at us at break neck speed, geometrically not mathematically.
I taught Population for years and Malthus was in my syllabus. He earned honors in Mathematics at Cambridge. But, of course he could not foresee the future (who can?) and what Massive urbanization would do to fertility. I showed my students how he developed the equation for exponential growth: P=ae to the power of in. Unfortunately my computer does not allow me to correctly write out the equation. You can find it in most elementary college Algebra textbooks.
Malthus had another serious theoretical problem: he was a clergyman in the Church of England, and so he misunderstood the true checks on population. He had a childish (by our standards) view of "homosexuality," "beastiality" and many other long forgotten, discarded topics of interest only to Fanatical Christians. But he was brilliant nevertheless. He was an acknowledged inspiration to Darwin a generation later.