Day: December 29, 2023

Repent! The End Is Near!

I thought I would move away from the depressing news of war on many fronts….and move to the depressing news at this end of another year to the total collapse that awaits this planet.

We already know that the way we have been living for the last century is not sustainable for our planet. Beyond climate ruin, however, is another threat to our society: Economic Collapse. Predicted back in 1970, experts have reviewed this information and our prospects are not looking good. This is what you need to know.

In 1972, a team of MIT scientists predicted that our industrial civilization would collapse in the future if corporations and governments kept pushing for continued economic growth no matter the consequences. They predicted 12 possible future scenarios, all of which predicted that natural resources would eventually become scarce, halting economic growth entirely. This would result in complete economic collapse and the breakdown of personal welfare. (1)

The most famous scenario in the report, known as the Business As Usual scenario, or BAU, forecasted that economic growth would peak in 2040. After that point, everything will start crashing: Availability of food and natural resources, as well as the global population. No, humans won’t be wiped off of the planet, but our standard of living will be. They predicted that this collapse will take decades to recover from.

Harvard grad student Gaya Herrington decided to look into this when she began her post-graduate studies last year. She discovered that currently, nearly half a century later, we are well aligned with two of the projected scenarios. 

Herrington measured the current state of our world using 10 different variables. These included fertility rates, pollution levels, population, food production, and industry output. She found that we are aligned with two possible outcomes: The BAU and another known as Comprehensive Technology (CT). CT is a scenario in which technological advancements help improve pollution levels and food supplies in spite of natural resources dwindling away. This still leads us to a point of sudden economic collapse – it will just be a bit more drawn out.

“[The BAU] and CT scenarios show a halt in growth within a decade or so from now,” Herrington wrote in her study. “Both scenarios thus indicate that continuing business as usual, that is, pursuing continuous growth, is not possible.”

How Close Is Total Social and Economic Collapse? | Opinion

Sorry to be a bummer and pee on everybody’s parade but we are close to a total meltdown as we close out another year.

The end is nearer than most anticipate….when you have people the hate for a living the end cannot be far behind.

Will anyone be bothered to try a stop this decline?

My guess would be no for they are more worried about the new guy that Taylor Swift is thumping than to worry about the end of the good thing we have had for decades.

Not to worry we have another year to kick this can down that road…..

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

2023–Foreign Policy Losers

That time of the year for numerous countdowns to the New Year.

The year is ending and I would like to look back on our foreign policy as corrupt and one sided as it is…..as put together by Responsible Statecraft.

The year in foreign policy was marked by bloody conflict, humanitarian catastrophe, and grief, plus political failures and missteps. Let’s take a look at the most notable ones as we approach 2024.

Ukraine: The bravery and endurance of the Ukrainian people and its military forces have been extolled time and again. But the failure of its counteroffensive in the spring and the summer of 2023 has led in part to a loss in confidence that the country can ever hope to expunge the Russians from all of its territories. This of course has been not only the goal of President Volodymyr Zelensky, but of his Western supporters. Many of those allies, including the mainstream press, are now suggesting that not only will Ukraine have to find a way to end the war diplomatically — which critics including contributors at RS and at the Quincy Institute have been saying all along — but may have to make territorial compromises.

The goal of Ukrainian NATO membership seems like a faraway dream now, and as of the end of the year, the flood of weapons and money from Washington and Western capitals has slowed immensely. Zelensky, now being pegged as increasingly isolated and unrealistic, has seemingly fallen from grace. Unfortunately for him, this is not the first time in U.S. foreign policy history that Washington has turned its favor elsewhere, to the grave detriment of its former beneficiaries.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/foreign-policy-failures-2023/

This is what the world gets when corporations and their agents, lobbyists, do the thinking for the elected people in our government.

DC is owned by these slugs and it will continue to dominate every aspect of foreign policy until some cajones are found and someone steps up to set things on a more positive course.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”