Imagine being onboard a giant space vessel traveling through the galaxy in the distant future. You are part of a multi-generational mission meant to colonize another planetary system. The spacecraft you are on is enormous and can support a city-state of human travelers for thousands of years. The…
Imagine being onboard a giant space vessel traveling through the galaxy in the distant future. You are part of a multi-generational mission meant to colonize another planetary system. The spacecraft you are on is enormous and can support a city-state of human travelers for thousands of years. Then, one day, a member of the captain’s privy council comes to a startling conclusion: at the current rate of the vessel’s population growth, human requirements will exceed resources in a few hundred years.
The captain gathers his trusted advisers in secret to discuss the dilemma. One side is not worried at all. Scientists from this coalition point out that before the ship departed, Earth engineers fully expected future inhabitants to continue innovating and improving the vessel’s capabilities. An agricultural adviser explains that the ship has exponentially increased its food production in the last few generations alone. Speaking to this point, the original doomsayer stands and says, “That’s just the problem. The more food we produce, the healthier our people become. The healthier they become, the more children they have. And the more children they have, the faster we will run out of resources in the future!”
The doomsayer proceeds to paint a picture of the future in which the spaceship is severely overcrowded, and the space travelers are forced to fight for clean air, water, and food. “When such a time arrives,” the doomsayer insists, “there will be riots, famine, and war. There will be revolution. Desperate people will rebel against the ship’s government and hang the privy council!”
“What’s your solution?” another council member asks.
“Depopulation,” the doomsayer answers dispassionately. “We must begin to cull those passengers who offer no benefit to our mission or future survival.”
Many in the gathering are shocked. They demand that nothing so drastic be considered until the whole ship has had a chance to vote. “Are you mad?” the doomsayer snaps. “The people will never vote for their own elimination. And if they did, we’d be the first ones they’d eliminate. No, we must do this in secret — for the passengers’ own good!”
At this point in the animated discussion, a priest stands in opposition. “Fellow members of the privy council, I cannot believe what I’m hearing today. We are not here to destroy human life. We are here to foster human life across the galaxy. We cannot play God. We must pray, seek the Almighty’s guidance, and use the gifts that He has given us to find solutions that safeguard our future. If we start killing others to save ourselves, we betray our ultimate mission as human beings.”
In anger, the doomsayer points an accusatory finger at the priest and shouts, “Don’t tell us about your imaginary God, sir. You are a charlatan, and your Bible is nothing but an opiate for the masses. You are meant to keep the passengers docile, peaceful, and relatively happy. You know nothing of science, and you can save no one with your thoughts and prayers.”
The priest begins to answer, but the doomsayer’s friends shout him down and threaten his removal. “Continue ignoring science and pushing God, sir, and we will begin our depopulation efforts with you.” Silence and fear permeate the room.
The ship’s captain clears his throat and asks the doomsayer what he has in mind. “We need to act on the margins,” the doomsayer responds. “We need to manipulate the spacecraft in subtle ways, so that fewer people are born and more people die suddenly. But we need to make it impossible for passengers to discern what is happening to them.”
The doomsayer, having clearly thought about his plans for human culling in great detail, begins to unveil elaborate proposals for social engineering on a massive scale. There are four main parts, he says. We must (1) destroy the family, (2) keep passengers at war with one another, (3) eliminate uncontrolled innovation by strictly controlling education, and (4) develop the tenets of a “new religion” that elevates the worship of the spaceship above all else.
Women, the doomsayer contends, must be provoked to resent their role in the family. They should see motherhood as a burden, something that distracts them from career success and ship-wide recognition. Being a mother and wife should be scorned as something ugly and outdated. Female passengers should be reminded that there is a secret conspiracy among men — let’s call it the “patriarchy” — that exists to subjugate them.
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Furthermore, the doomsayer argues, we should encourage promiscuity and abortion. Loving families produce children. Sexually adventurous singles do not. There’s no reason to stop with women, either. It would be good if we can convince men to see marriage as a form of imprisonment. It would be great if we can convince everyone to doubt the science behind biological sex. What better way to slow population growth than to so confuse passengers about sexual reality that they are too busy experimenting with strange fetishes to get married and have kids?
Next, the doomsayer continues, we must pit the passengers against one another. We must divide them by race, ethnicity, and religion. We must establish new political parties that create tribal loyalties and exacerbate meaningless distinctions. We must keep passengers suspicious of one another and constantly at each other’s throats. We should make some groups’ living quarters too small and hot and blame those conditions on others. We should starve one group and overfeed another. We should maximize resentments and ossify hatreds. Then we should step back when war breaks out and let the passengers “depopulate” themselves.
If peace ever lasts too long, we can just start an outbreak of disease on one side of the ship and watch the spread of chaos fuel future conflict. Nothing divides a population so quickly as a series of disasters that force everyone to fight for survival. Either through food shortages, contagions, or war, any resulting trimming of the passenger manifest will look quite natural.
Here’s the key, the doomsayer insists: we must control education. It is simply too dangerous to allow everyone to learn whatever he likes. Knowledge provides a foundation for asking sensible questions. Asking questions leads to critical thinking. Critical thinking arms a mind with the tools necessary for questioning authority. Questioning authority will eventually get the privy council hanged!
So above all else, we must keep passengers in the dark and ill equipped to question anything! Fill their minds with superstitions. Teach them to obsess over meaningless ethnic differences and absurd sexual identities. Tell them that mathematics is “racist.” Convince them that reading is “extremist.” But don’t let them learn how to think! Thinking invites innovation, and innovation nurtures talent for solving problems. Some freethinking passenger might one day conclude that there is a better answer than “depopulation.” We can’t have that!
Once the passengers have been deprived of a decent education, the doomsayer concludes, they will be desperate for some greater meaning in their lives. In that void, we will offer them a “new religion.” We will teach them to love and worship this spacecraft as a god! We will convince them to sacrifice their health and happiness for the ship’s survival. We will give lonely people purpose, and they will gladly accept their miserable fates. We will tell them that choosing suicide to “save the ship” is the most “humanitarian” thing they can do. In a few short generations, passengers will “depopulate” themselves for the ship’s salvation.
I don’t know exactly what goes on during private meetings of the Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, or World Economic Forum. But I suspect that those privy councils see Earth as their own private vessel hurtling through space and the rest of us as mere stowaways depleting vital resources. One day, there will be a mutiny.
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The problem with the above:
There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that the global population numbers are nothing but lies, deception, and fabrications. It is highly unlikely that there are 8 billion people on this planet: https://old.bitchute.com/video/Q0KHQdiHkXcC [6:17mins]
According to the UN India has 1.4 billion people. The top 300 cities have a combined population of 200 million, that leaves 1.2 billion scattered around the rest of the countryside?
More likely: The eight billion figure is merely yet another cage, making us think that population is a problem in order to get us to funnel the remainder of our freedoms, wealth, property, & happiness to the top .01%.
Why do I think I've seen this before? LOL And I agree: the earth's population is not 8 billion now. I suppose you've seen the demonstration that if every person was in a 3x3 ft (or meter square) space, all standing together, 8 million people would comprise about 50-60 sq. mi. of dirt. Thank God I don't live on top of several billion people (I live in the country after living in cities for 65 yrs)! Point is, the earth is fully capable of supporting a lot of people. What screws it up is mismanagement -- and everybody knows by who! One of these days, Earth is gonna shake us off like a bad case of fleas. Can you blame her?
God always left out of the equation.... he's done the math. He's done the projections and by the way he put everybody here that's supposed to be.
People who try to engineer this shit or worry about it will eventually lose their mind and unfortunately anyone around them who thought they were sane.
Satan looks to erase you. He's the only other one you should think about who's concerned with the numbers. He's trying to get rid of you all in as ugly a way as possible.
Meanwhile, your Bible tells you stop trading in worry instead keep your head on a swivel. Evil is all around you. You don't belong here. You need to make a big decision and take measured concern about getting "home".
I don't think God is paying much attention to humanity these days, Warren Butterfield. Either he/she died off a long time ago, or he/she is off playing golf with his/her buddies and doesn't give a rat's ass. God gives way too much deference to evil if he/she is paying attention, that's for sure.
Yes, it's all just by chance Dennis. Conception, birth, growth, the Dolomites, Lake Moraine, the Lamar Valley. Just happenstance. Mindless happenstance.
I've seen a lot of videos from inside China lately asking where have all the people gone from their formally bustling Chinese cities??? And apparently they haven't reappeared in the rural areas, either. Lei's Real Talk & The China Show are two great YT channels to get perspectives that provide pushback to Chinese propaganda.
Even if the earth is at 8 billion many societies are no longer having children. Birthrates are collapsing in the western world. Japan and Korea have such low birthrates that in 300 years their culture might vanish. The only reason populations are increasing is because people are living longer. Russian population decreases by up to 200,000 people per year. USA birthrate is now below replacement birthrates.
Google "Demographic winter." In 50 years or so we are going to see a massive decrease in population. Many will hail this as a victory but without population growth there is no economic growth.
Without population growth who is going to buy those new homes?
Without population growth who is going to buy those new cars?
Without population growth who is going to fill those hospitals?
Without population growth who is going to buy all that cheap junk at Walmart?
A decrease in population means a decrease in economy which means depression.
Either way, humanity is curing its over-population problems by simply choosing to NOT reproduce. I will most likely be dead and gone by then but my children will have to experience this.
For the entire history of humanity, world population has been less than it is now -- for most of that time, far less. Yet it produced classical Greece, the Renaissance, Beethoven, Rembrandt, and the rest of mankind's great cultural heritage. And you think we need ever more people because ...
"Without population growth who is going to buy all that cheap junk at Walmart?" That's a perfect sample of the values of population-growth junkies.
Maybe you wrote this comment as a parody of people who say, "Oh my God, only 8 billion on earth and counting! We're running out of people!" If so, my apologies, but you are ambiguous about whether we should take your words seriously.
It seems that the author, J.B. Shurk, has applied limit theory to the ideas expressed in the book "The Penultimate Truth" by Philip K Dick. An eerily similar tale of a society brainwashed into believing an alternate reality impressed upon them by the supreme powers who control all media. The NPR/PBS stooges currently being sized up for defunding by members of Congress are just a microcosm of the strength of that level of propaganda by today's media.
Yes, birth control is necessary. Tibet is a cold, barren land so as one Tibetan said, We don't keep our women pregnant and sick like the Indians do. What's wrong with attaining the the steady state? It is a great achievement.
Wow. Been living with millions close by for too long, unit. Get outside. There’s an interesting statistic I read recently that I found quite interesting. Mathematically, every person on earth, if we do number 8 billion, could live in Alaska, and each have an acre of land. Hmm. Think about it.
Most of Alaska is wasteland unfit for farming. They would chop down all their trees in one season to keep warm. Then they would freeze or starve to death or die in raids against other people.
Much of the Earth is barren. Water is a precious resource which will be fought over. Evidence of heavy fighting is seen in the Oak Groves of old California. Why? Acorns. Protein. Competition for scarce resources.
But as far as your approach: You could fit every human on Earth in Dallas. Just stack 'em like firewood. Your point didn't go over my head, it's just a silly turd I stepped over.
~ Why I Study Wild Edibles & Do Edible Gardening ~
"The [Irish potato] famine disproportionately affected the rural poor who relied heavily on potatoes for their diet. The lack of a diverse diet and the absence of effective relief measures contributed to the high mortality rate. The British government's laissez-faire policies, continued exportation of food, insufficient relief, and rigid regulations exacerbated the situation.
While the British government did take some steps to alleviate the crisis, such as importing corn and setting up soup kitchens and public work programs, these measures were not enough to prevent the widespread suffering and death."
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"Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the food and you control the people." ~ Henry Kissinger
So we use the example of Tibet to apply to the world population? Hmmm. I don’t agree with the basis of a world that feeds everyone birth control with our MNRA. Or are you indicating a one child policy, like china’s? Either way, no thanks. Have you ever held a baby? They are truly amazing.
All one has to do is leave the city. When you realize we amount to a pimple on this earth, it becomes obvious we in our arrogance think we matter more than we do.
the book "Spaceship Earth" by Barbara Ward in 1966.
This was the start of the Green movement.
Barbara Ward was a British economist, writer and adviser to policy-makers in the UK, US, and elsewhere who pioneered thinking on the overlap between environment and development – seeing a connection between wealth distribution and the conservation of planetary resources.
Depopulation: A Space Odyssey
By J.B. Shurk
Imagine being onboard a giant space vessel traveling through the galaxy in the distant future. You are part of a multi-generational mission meant to colonize another planetary system. The spacecraft you are on is enormous and can support a city-state of human travelers for thousands of years. Then, one day, a member of the captain’s privy council comes to a startling conclusion: at the current rate of the vessel’s population growth, human requirements will exceed resources in a few hundred years.
The captain gathers his trusted advisers in secret to discuss the dilemma. One side is not worried at all. Scientists from this coalition point out that before the ship departed, Earth engineers fully expected future inhabitants to continue innovating and improving the vessel’s capabilities. An agricultural adviser explains that the ship has exponentially increased its food production in the last few generations alone. Speaking to this point, the original doomsayer stands and says, “That’s just the problem. The more food we produce, the healthier our people become. The healthier they become, the more children they have. And the more children they have, the faster we will run out of resources in the future!”
The doomsayer proceeds to paint a picture of the future in which the spaceship is severely overcrowded, and the space travelers are forced to fight for clean air, water, and food. “When such a time arrives,” the doomsayer insists, “there will be riots, famine, and war. There will be revolution. Desperate people will rebel against the ship’s government and hang the privy council!”
“What’s your solution?” another council member asks.
“Depopulation,” the doomsayer answers dispassionately. “We must begin to cull those passengers who offer no benefit to our mission or future survival.”
Many in the gathering are shocked. They demand that nothing so drastic be considered until the whole ship has had a chance to vote. “Are you mad?” the doomsayer snaps. “The people will never vote for their own elimination. And if they did, we’d be the first ones they’d eliminate. No, we must do this in secret — for the passengers’ own good!”
At this point in the animated discussion, a priest stands in opposition. “Fellow members of the privy council, I cannot believe what I’m hearing today. We are not here to destroy human life. We are here to foster human life across the galaxy. We cannot play God. We must pray, seek the Almighty’s guidance, and use the gifts that He has given us to find solutions that safeguard our future. If we start killing others to save ourselves, we betray our ultimate mission as human beings.”
In anger, the doomsayer points an accusatory finger at the priest and shouts, “Don’t tell us about your imaginary God, sir. You are a charlatan, and your Bible is nothing but an opiate for the masses. You are meant to keep the passengers docile, peaceful, and relatively happy. You know nothing of science, and you can save no one with your thoughts and prayers.”
The priest begins to answer, but the doomsayer’s friends shout him down and threaten his removal. “Continue ignoring science and pushing God, sir, and we will begin our depopulation efforts with you.” Silence and fear permeate the room.
The ship’s captain clears his throat and asks the doomsayer what he has in mind. “We need to act on the margins,” the doomsayer responds. “We need to manipulate the spacecraft in subtle ways, so that fewer people are born and more people die suddenly. But we need to make it impossible for passengers to discern what is happening to them.”
The doomsayer, having clearly thought about his plans for human culling in great detail, begins to unveil elaborate proposals for social engineering on a massive scale. There are four main parts, he says. We must (1) destroy the family, (2) keep passengers at war with one another, (3) eliminate uncontrolled innovation by strictly controlling education, and (4) develop the tenets of a “new religion” that elevates the worship of the spaceship above all else.
Women, the doomsayer contends, must be provoked to resent their role in the family. They should see motherhood as a burden, something that distracts them from career success and ship-wide recognition. Being a mother and wife should be scorned as something ugly and outdated. Female passengers should be reminded that there is a secret conspiracy among men — let’s call it the “patriarchy” — that exists to subjugate them.
f
Furthermore, the doomsayer argues, we should encourage promiscuity and abortion. Loving families produce children. Sexually adventurous singles do not. There’s no reason to stop with women, either. It would be good if we can convince men to see marriage as a form of imprisonment. It would be great if we can convince everyone to doubt the science behind biological sex. What better way to slow population growth than to so confuse passengers about sexual reality that they are too busy experimenting with strange fetishes to get married and have kids?
Next, the doomsayer continues, we must pit the passengers against one another. We must divide them by race, ethnicity, and religion. We must establish new political parties that create tribal loyalties and exacerbate meaningless distinctions. We must keep passengers suspicious of one another and constantly at each other’s throats. We should make some groups’ living quarters too small and hot and blame those conditions on others. We should starve one group and overfeed another. We should maximize resentments and ossify hatreds. Then we should step back when war breaks out and let the passengers “depopulate” themselves.
If peace ever lasts too long, we can just start an outbreak of disease on one side of the ship and watch the spread of chaos fuel future conflict. Nothing divides a population so quickly as a series of disasters that force everyone to fight for survival. Either through food shortages, contagions, or war, any resulting trimming of the passenger manifest will look quite natural.
Here’s the key, the doomsayer insists: we must control education. It is simply too dangerous to allow everyone to learn whatever he likes. Knowledge provides a foundation for asking sensible questions. Asking questions leads to critical thinking. Critical thinking arms a mind with the tools necessary for questioning authority. Questioning authority will eventually get the privy council hanged!
So above all else, we must keep passengers in the dark and ill equipped to question anything! Fill their minds with superstitions. Teach them to obsess over meaningless ethnic differences and absurd sexual identities. Tell them that mathematics is “racist.” Convince them that reading is “extremist.” But don’t let them learn how to think! Thinking invites innovation, and innovation nurtures talent for solving problems. Some freethinking passenger might one day conclude that there is a better answer than “depopulation.” We can’t have that!
Once the passengers have been deprived of a decent education, the doomsayer concludes, they will be desperate for some greater meaning in their lives. In that void, we will offer them a “new religion.” We will teach them to love and worship this spacecraft as a god! We will convince them to sacrifice their health and happiness for the ship’s survival. We will give lonely people purpose, and they will gladly accept their miserable fates. We will tell them that choosing suicide to “save the ship” is the most “humanitarian” thing they can do. In a few short generations, passengers will “depopulate” themselves for the ship’s salvation.
I don’t know exactly what goes on during private meetings of the Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, or World Economic Forum. But I suspect that those privy councils see Earth as their own private vessel hurtling through space and the rest of us as mere stowaways depleting vital resources. One day, there will be a mutiny.
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The problem with the above:
There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that the global population numbers are nothing but lies, deception, and fabrications. It is highly unlikely that there are 8 billion people on this planet: https://old.bitchute.com/video/Q0KHQdiHkXcC [6:17mins]
According to the UN India has 1.4 billion people. The top 300 cities have a combined population of 200 million, that leaves 1.2 billion scattered around the rest of the countryside?
More likely: The eight billion figure is merely yet another cage, making us think that population is a problem in order to get us to funnel the remainder of our freedoms, wealth, property, & happiness to the top .01%.
Why do I think I've seen this before? LOL And I agree: the earth's population is not 8 billion now. I suppose you've seen the demonstration that if every person was in a 3x3 ft (or meter square) space, all standing together, 8 million people would comprise about 50-60 sq. mi. of dirt. Thank God I don't live on top of several billion people (I live in the country after living in cities for 65 yrs)! Point is, the earth is fully capable of supporting a lot of people. What screws it up is mismanagement -- and everybody knows by who! One of these days, Earth is gonna shake us off like a bad case of fleas. Can you blame her?
Intelligent.
God always left out of the equation.... he's done the math. He's done the projections and by the way he put everybody here that's supposed to be.
People who try to engineer this shit or worry about it will eventually lose their mind and unfortunately anyone around them who thought they were sane.
Satan looks to erase you. He's the only other one you should think about who's concerned with the numbers. He's trying to get rid of you all in as ugly a way as possible.
Meanwhile, your Bible tells you stop trading in worry instead keep your head on a swivel. Evil is all around you. You don't belong here. You need to make a big decision and take measured concern about getting "home".
I don't think God is paying much attention to humanity these days, Warren Butterfield. Either he/she died off a long time ago, or he/she is off playing golf with his/her buddies and doesn't give a rat's ass. God gives way too much deference to evil if he/she is paying attention, that's for sure.
Cank if God does exist he seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles.
Anonymous undated ancient writings. Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
"My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na na naa Neener neener nee ner"
Having access to God Warren, doesn't mean having access to reality.
There has been a lot of atrocities committed in the name of faith in Gods.
The only power any God has is the power humans give them.
Save it for church, pal - nobody wants your mindless religious spam here :)
Yes, it's all just by chance Dennis. Conception, birth, growth, the Dolomites, Lake Moraine, the Lamar Valley. Just happenstance. Mindless happenstance.
Cold, empty suit.
And you think it was a magic wizard who snapped his fingers, and shazaam... the Dolomites and Lake Moraine came out of the end of them!
Talk about mindless! LOL
I've seen a lot of videos from inside China lately asking where have all the people gone from their formally bustling Chinese cities??? And apparently they haven't reappeared in the rural areas, either. Lei's Real Talk & The China Show are two great YT channels to get perspectives that provide pushback to Chinese propaganda.
Three things interfere with this:
1. Personal space
2. How many sq. ft. Are required to support a human being?
3. What % of dry land is usable for agriculture?
Long ham is the eventual outcome.
Even if the earth is at 8 billion many societies are no longer having children. Birthrates are collapsing in the western world. Japan and Korea have such low birthrates that in 300 years their culture might vanish. The only reason populations are increasing is because people are living longer. Russian population decreases by up to 200,000 people per year. USA birthrate is now below replacement birthrates.
Google "Demographic winter." In 50 years or so we are going to see a massive decrease in population. Many will hail this as a victory but without population growth there is no economic growth.
Without population growth who is going to buy those new homes?
Without population growth who is going to buy those new cars?
Without population growth who is going to fill those hospitals?
Without population growth who is going to buy all that cheap junk at Walmart?
A decrease in population means a decrease in economy which means depression.
Either way, humanity is curing its over-population problems by simply choosing to NOT reproduce. I will most likely be dead and gone by then but my children will have to experience this.
Plenty of people are reproducing. It's western civilization that's in trouble.
Yup, one of the main themes of TLE is that we face a low to none growth economy and do not understand what that means.
Idiotic.
For the entire history of humanity, world population has been less than it is now -- for most of that time, far less. Yet it produced classical Greece, the Renaissance, Beethoven, Rembrandt, and the rest of mankind's great cultural heritage. And you think we need ever more people because ...
"Without population growth who is going to buy all that cheap junk at Walmart?" That's a perfect sample of the values of population-growth junkies.
Maybe you wrote this comment as a parody of people who say, "Oh my God, only 8 billion on earth and counting! We're running out of people!" If so, my apologies, but you are ambiguous about whether we should take your words seriously.
china-india have 3 billion. in the year 1900 how many humans were alive? 1 billion?
I posted an idea that the world may go tri-partite last blog. I would like to amend that to a four part NWO including India.
The solution? A new format for life.
It seems that the author, J.B. Shurk, has applied limit theory to the ideas expressed in the book "The Penultimate Truth" by Philip K Dick. An eerily similar tale of a society brainwashed into believing an alternate reality impressed upon them by the supreme powers who control all media. The NPR/PBS stooges currently being sized up for defunding by members of Congress are just a microcosm of the strength of that level of propaganda by today's media.
Yes, birth control is necessary. Tibet is a cold, barren land so as one Tibetan said, We don't keep our women pregnant and sick like the Indians do. What's wrong with attaining the the steady state? It is a great achievement.
Wow. Been living with millions close by for too long, unit. Get outside. There’s an interesting statistic I read recently that I found quite interesting. Mathematically, every person on earth, if we do number 8 billion, could live in Alaska, and each have an acre of land. Hmm. Think about it.
Wow. That is interesting. 🤔
Most of Alaska is wasteland unfit for farming. They would chop down all their trees in one season to keep warm. Then they would freeze or starve to death or die in raids against other people.
The point, going over your head. All the humans on earth, would in Alaska, with an acre of land. Now do you get it? We amount to a dot, on earth.
Much of the Earth is barren. Water is a precious resource which will be fought over. Evidence of heavy fighting is seen in the Oak Groves of old California. Why? Acorns. Protein. Competition for scarce resources.
But as far as your approach: You could fit every human on Earth in Dallas. Just stack 'em like firewood. Your point didn't go over my head, it's just a silly turd I stepped over.
I didn’t think it was silly at all. I got his point immediately.
Oh, ok. Explain it to me then.
~ Why I Study Wild Edibles & Do Edible Gardening ~
"The [Irish potato] famine disproportionately affected the rural poor who relied heavily on potatoes for their diet. The lack of a diverse diet and the absence of effective relief measures contributed to the high mortality rate. The British government's laissez-faire policies, continued exportation of food, insufficient relief, and rigid regulations exacerbated the situation.
While the British government did take some steps to alleviate the crisis, such as importing corn and setting up soup kitchens and public work programs, these measures were not enough to prevent the widespread suffering and death."
____
"Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the food and you control the people." ~ Henry Kissinger
So we use the example of Tibet to apply to the world population? Hmmm. I don’t agree with the basis of a world that feeds everyone birth control with our MNRA. Or are you indicating a one child policy, like china’s? Either way, no thanks. Have you ever held a baby? They are truly amazing.
Too much of a good thing is no longer good.
There is no steady state. Even Einstein abandoned that belief which he cherished. Grow or die. There is no other choice.
All one has to do is leave the city. When you realize we amount to a pimple on this earth, it becomes obvious we in our arrogance think we matter more than we do.
Maurice Strong of Petro Canada, sponsoring
the book "Spaceship Earth" by Barbara Ward in 1966.
This was the start of the Green movement.
Barbara Ward was a British economist, writer and adviser to policy-makers in the UK, US, and elsewhere who pioneered thinking on the overlap between environment and development – seeing a connection between wealth distribution and the conservation of planetary resources.
Great analogy, spot on, maybe it’s not fair to call it an analogy. Hits too close to home.