Wizards at War VII - January 10, 2008 - I interpreted the current livestock manangement process now underway through a rather simplistic and brutal lens:
Population cull resulting from large scale thermonuclear war (Joseph George Caldwell)Can America Survive;
The thesis of this book is that when fossil-fuel reserves deplete in a few years, the global human population of Earth will drop to about 500 million people or less -- a small fraction of the current six billion. The future is one of global ethnic war and the end of the modern industrialized world. The book examines a "minimal regret" population strategy that shows promise as a sustainable, environmentally sound basis for world population. This population consists of a single industrialized nation of five million people and a hunter-gatherer population of five million.If I simply compare the level of investment and preparation dedicated to a zero-sum, minimal regret population scenario for resolving the earth's ecological crisis vs. the systematic crash aversion strategy outlined by Lester Brown - it appears that exponentially more has been invested in the former than in the latter......, (and levels of additional investment continue unabated)
Can America Survive -May 9, 2014 - my view/interpretation of the exact same material had shifted somewhat, but still nothing remotely approaching the sophistication with which we observe the intentional and systemic deflation of global human civilization by a small minority of global elites.
foundationwebsite | The answer, quite simply, is no – not in its current form for very long,
and perhaps not in any form at all for very long. This book describes why pending changes in energy availability, cultural changes brought about by recent massive
immigration, the global population explosion, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, technology and materials
will combine to bring an end to the United States as we currently know it – soon.
In the past four centuries, the world human population has
skyrocketed, from about half a billion people to six billion at the present
time. Population projections from
various sources suggest that, barring a major change of some kind, the
population will continue to soar, to nine billion or more by the year
2050. In the past half-century – less
than a lifetime -- the population of the US has exploded from about 150 million to over
270 million. This explosive growth
occurred despite the fact that fertility rates in the US dropped to low levels – it is the result of
uncontrolled immigration.
The tremendous global population increase has been brought about by the development of technology
to utilize the energy stored in fossil fuels, such as petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Petroleum and gas reserves will be
exhausted, however, by about 2050, and coal reserves will not last much beyond
that date if industrial development continues to expand worldwide.
Look around you. If
you live in the US or other economically developed country, every man-made thing you
see or see happening is a product of the expenditure of energy, and most of that energy is
derived from fossil fuels. To establish and maintain our present lifestyle requires
prodigious amounts of energy – an amount equivalent to about 8,000 kilograms of
oil annually
for each man, woman, and child living in the country. Pre-agricultural man lived “off the land,” consuming only the
bounty of nature. Agricultural man
could produce about 10 calories of energy with the expenditure of about one
calorie of energy. Industrial man, it
has been estimated, uses over ten calories of energy to produce a single
calorie of food! The present system is
not only exquisitely wasteful, but it is completely unsustainable. Most of what you see in the industrial world
is a transitory illusion made possible by a one-time windfall supply of energy
from fossil fuels that were accumulated over millions of years. When the fossil fuel reserves deplete in
about 50 years, the modern world will simply disappear along with them.
Whatever age you are, if you were raised in a town or a
small city, go back to where you lived as a child and observe what has happened
to the nearest natural field you played in.
Chances are it is now urban sprawl – pavement, concrete, and steel. For each immigrant admitted to the US – legal or illegal – about an acre of natural
land is permanently destroyed, by roads, buildings, parking lots, houses,
schools, and other structures that take the land out of production – both for
wildlife and for agriculture. Last year
the US admitted 1.2 million more immigrants. That represents the complete destruction of another .6 million
acres of farmland, forest, and pastureland. Who cares?
Certainly not the people in charge – they want more people
because it makes more money, and they are not particularly concerned with the
concomitant destruction of the environment!
Industrial activity at the massive scale of the present is
causing substantial changes to Earth’s environment. By now, everyone knows that
the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and other gases produced by
industrial activity is increasing substantially every year, and that the
planet’s climate and weather are controlled by these concentrations. Large-scale industrial activity is causing
substantial changes to the planet’s environment – land, air, water, and ecology. In view of the established relationship of the planet’s climate
and ecosystem to these concentrations, it is possible that man’s industrial
activity could cause dramatic changes in the sea level, and trigger another ice
age or create a lifeless “hothouse.”
And for what good reason? What
is the good purpose of burning all the planet’s fossil fuels as fast as possible, when it risks the destruction not only of
mankind but of much other life on the planet as well? The answer is “None.”
This activity cannot continue at current levels without risking dire
consequences, even apart from the issue of depletion of fossil fuel reserves
and other nonrenewable resources. To continue to do so is the height of folly.
This book describes the current situation and its predicted
course. For the US – and any other overpopulated, multicultural, high-energy-use country -- the future is one of war, social fragmentation, and dramatic population
reductions. Power will consolidate in a
single dominant ethnic group; others will be eliminated or reduced to slavery or serfdom.
This book is not “just another book” on the human population
“problem.” Thousands of books have been
written on the problems of human population, energy and the environment. The real “problem” is that everyone is talking about the problem
and no one is doing anything about it.
Proposed solutions to date have either failed or been ignored. Environmentalists and ecologists continue to
wring their hands while the planet croaks.
This book identifies a radically new approach to the problem – one that
offers the promise of reducing the risk of ecological destruction to a low
level. It identifies an approach to
population policy analysis and a course of action that will bring an end to the
massive environmental destruction being caused by human industrial activity and
significantly increase the likelihood of the survival of the human and other species.
The author of this book has a career that includes both
military defense analysis and economic development. He worked for about fifteen years in defense applications and
about fifteen years in social and economic applications. His work in military applications includes
ballistic missile warfare, nuclear weapons effects, satellite ocean surveillance, naval general-purpose
forces, tactical air warfare, air/land battle tactics, strategy, civil defense, military
communications-electronics, and electronic warfare. His work in social and economic development applications includes
tax policy analysis, agricultural policy
analysis, trade policy analysis, health, human resource development, demography, development of systems for
planning, monitoring and evaluation of social and economic programs, and educational management
information systems. He has lived and
worked in countries around the world.
He holds a PhD degree in mathematical statistics and is an expert in mathematical game theory, statistics, operations research, and systems and software
engineering. The analysis presented in
this book is derived from years of experience related to, and years of analysis
of, the population problem.
The organization of this book follows a logical progression,
starting with a description of the current state of the planet and human population.
Current trends in human population growth are identified. The relationship of human welfare to energy availability is described, and the future availability of energy is discussed. The role of economics to population growth is examined.
Policies for determining what the human population size should be are
identified. A new approach to population
policy is introduced; it is called the “minimal-regret” approach. The likelihood of nuclear war is considered, and the damage that would result from a limited
nuclear war is
estimated. The impact of this war is
assessed for the United States, Canada, and other countries. An assessment is made of the likelihood that
the United States and various other countries will prevail after a nuclear
war. The relationship of the minimal-regret
approach to nuclear war strategies and the postattack environment is discussed in detail.
The main text of the book is generally nontechnical – as
much as it can be for subjects (population growth, economics, energy, nuclear war) that are technical in
nature. Technical discussions are
presented in appendices. The appendices
include graphs and tables in support of the arguments presented in the text.
The research underlying the population policy approach introduced in this book was conducted over a four-year
period. During the course of doing the
research, a large number of books and articles were reviewed and analyzed. The bibliography includes a list of about
600 books that were reviewed. To keep
the message of this book as succinct as possible, little description is given
of the content of these books. Instead,
the most relevant publications are simply listed. Little space is allocated to
describing the state of the environment or other population policies – just enough to provide a context
for the new material presented.
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