Friends, I know this post title will upset you but, seekers of truth that we are, we do not shirk away from discussing the facts of our probable demise.
I believe we face two main scenarios. The first is being vaporized in a nuclear conflagration caused by the U.S. trying to achieve world domination but encountering stiff resistance from China and Russia with India bringing up the rear along with Pakistan.
Of course, vaporization is for the lucky ones. Those who are badly burned or radiated will die more slowly. Their children will be born with terrible birth defects. Eventually we, as a species, will disappear, destroyed by our own weapons.
The other scenario that I see is, given our current population, as food and clean water run out (perhaps as a result of more bizarre or extreme weather), we will form into small starving groups who will fight each other in ‘to the death’ confrontations. Hunger will bring out the killer in us and it will be survival of the fittest all over again.
This should result in a quick diminution of our 6 billion plus population which is, I suppose, a good thing. There are too many of us and our ability to sustain that number is fast diminishing now that oil is running out and fossil fuels are choking our world. Only the strong and ruthless will survive as it is in the animal kingdom (in human society, only the strong and ruthless survive now).
Eventually we will reach a stage where the population will stabilize at around a billion, plus or minus a few hundred million. But life will be a struggle as most humans couldn’t live off the land if supermarkets disappear. All those valuable survival skills have been lost.
Of course, there are other less likely scenarios.
Planet Earth could be hit by an asteroid which could drive us out of our orbit and we could either freeze to death or be burned up by the sun. As well, given some of the weapons that we don’t even know about (chemical, germ, etc) might eventually be used in war which could clear the world of all life except the cockroaches, ants and rats.
Of course, the two main scenarios need not happen. Instead of scenario one, all it would need would be for the U.S. to give up its imperialism, dismiss its armies, close its military bases, throw all its weapons into the ocean, return to the hippie age when its people wore flower garlands, renounce greed, embrace peace and cooperation, get rid of all corporations, change its political system, return to its rural past, give up religion, make amends to the remaining Red Indians, beg forgiveness for its many atrocities, get rid of all its oligarchs and the capitalist system and free markets, etc.
The chances of the U.S. doing this are absolutely nil.
Turning to scenario two, if the world were to turn to population control as the Chinese did, the numbers of humans would rapidly decrease. If nations then worked together instead of competing with each other and limited the effects of global warming and tried to conserve the remaining food and water resources and to increase them, then, as the population came down the food and water supply would go up.
Of course, markets would have to disappear and a central authority would be responsible for allocating supplies fairly among all the world’s remaining people. Those who profit from selling these vital resources would disappear as would those who are greedy. Of course, more people would be engaged in food and clothing production which would simplify human life and return it to a more natural state. Cities would become deserted and horses would return to prominence as would farming and rural life and the extended family.
Now the chances of scenario two coming to pass are also nil.
How could humans give up their polluting 4WDs, their wide-screen tellies, their air conditioning, American Idol, fast food, lots of holidays, plane travel, cheap beer, supermarkets, Walmart, Starbucks, McDonalds, B.P., Coke, French Fries, share markets, stereo systems, etc, ?
So how would you really like to go: vaporization or hand to hand combat?
The time for decision is fast approaching!
Here are two quotations by the American author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). They help put things in perpective when I become hopelessly discouraged and ashamed for the “damned human race” (it happens with alarming frequency). The words offer no hope but are for some reason comforting (to me)–they bring me in off the ledge. They’re tangentially relevant to the post.
“I am the only man living who understands human nature; God has put me in charge of this branch office; when I retire there will be no-one to take my place. I shall keep on doing my duty, for when I get over on the other side, I shall use my influence to have the human race drowned again, and this time drowned good, no omissions, no Ark.”
- quoted in Mark Twain, J. Macy, (Doubleday, Page & co., 1913)
“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn’t something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity; He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly–a lark which must have cost him a regret or two when He came to think it over & observe effects.”
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 25 January 1900
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Mark Twain, a man I have great respect for became more and more bitter as he grew old. His book “The Mysterious Stranger” features an end of the world scenario and he has some choice comments about the hypocrisy of Christians as well. One scene involves the Stranger who is an extraordinary being called Number 44 who apparently knows everything. He is befriended by a pious young man named Augustus who asks him at one point if he is a Christian. 44 answers that he is not but if he was he would be very lonely. Augustus is surprised and asks why. Knowingly 44 answers, “because I would be the only one.”
Your comments about the human population made me think of “The Population Bomb” which came out in 1968. In it, Dr, Paul Ehrlich, a population biologist, said that he thought the ideal (and by that I believe he meant sustainable) human population would be about 500 million. Later this year it is estimated that there will be 7 billion people alive on this planet. Resource economists have stated that we would need the equivalent of 2 1/2 Earths to enable them all to live like Americans. Seems much more likely that the resource wars that have already begun will only accelerate. I see little prospect that politicians (whom Twain largely detested) will be capable of leading the various nations into a comprehensive system of cooperation in order to meet the extreme challenges we face. The current crop of Regressives running for office are noteworthy for their dogma about the superiority of the Christian faith above all others and the sense that the U.S. (which Madeliene Albright, former U.S. Secy. of State, once called “the indispensable nation”) should continue to dominate the planet for the good of all. With attitudes and arrogance of that caliber I see a lot of reason to be pessimistic and why I believe that communitariansim is one of the only viable answers for the future.
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Dean, I loved the two quotes. They reflect what I think sometimes but I still push on, believing there must be some way to redeem the human species. I keep thinking: surely we can’t be that dumb! But we are.
Bruce, I share your views as to what should be done. But while capitalism and imperialism and religion and politicians have a stranglehold on our world, we will just drift closer to the point of no return which is not far away.
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I’ll fight the bastards hand to hand but i will not give in to the zionist-run machine.
The vatican bank investigation continues with exposure of ‘slush funds’ for persons like Michelle Obama, the Clintons and John Roberts, the latter with as much as 1 Billion dollars in accounts. This is ‘the vatican’ – that crime syndicate hiding behind fine garments, dubious talk of peace and incomprehensible rituals, all the while, diddling young boys.
And today it’s propaganda de jeur with ‘Holocaust Remembrance Day’.
One question: “how many other holocausts were there and why aren’t they remembered?”
http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/3843-how-many-other-holocaust-occurred-and-why-are-they-not-remembered
How will it all end? Well, unless a certain terrorist country is put out of business, the likelihood of global takeover becomes more and more possible with each passing day. And when it’s complete,Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Hitler and Franco will applaud loudly.
As far as depopulation, a quick glance at the Georgia Guidestones tells us their evil intentions:
georgiaguidestones.com
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David G Reply:
January 28th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Humans seem to have an infinite capacity when it comes to duplicity and fraud, Amerika!
I looked at the Guidestones. Interesting, eh. Speaking of holocausts, Emmanuel has been approved to run for mayor. Soon he’ll be President, I guess.
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DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
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David G Reply:
January 29th, 2011 at 8:22 am
Inspirational, Grace. Thanks
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