Quite right, Bond. What a load of garbage. You seem to believe all the
environmental cassandras and their unsubstantiated points about peak oil, which
is definitely NOT widely accepted by those who understand things. You seem to
think that a 4 to 5 degree increase in the planet's temperature over the next
century is going to wipe humans out, or perhaps, from your words, the whole
planet!
Humans are very adaptive, and smarter than you seem to think. Free societies
like the ones you describe are very well endowed with an ability to change,
adapt and thrive under even extreme conditions. If, by some miracle, the Limits
to Growth pan out like its authors said (40 or more years too late), then we
will simply use different things. Thank your individual freedom for your
flexibility.
Besides, we will never run out of these resources because, as any economist can
tell you, as something becomes scarcer, its price increases; and as it becomes
rare, its costs are astronomical. We will never run out of oil because it will
simply cost too much to extract the last drop. We will find less expensive
substitutes long before that happens.
Here is another crazy idea for you: the US is not going to war with Iran. Its
military is stretched too far with Iraq and Afghanistan (and half of the rest
of the world), and the American people are too war weary to endorse another
war. And don't waste your breath with that stuff about not needing the people's
buy in to wage war--yes, the US government will definitely need a huge amount
of support from its people and the rest of the world if it wants to attack
Iran. It won't get it, therefore it won't go to war with Iran.
You also seem to think that these cyclical economic conditions are permanent.
Just like investors who do not understand the history of the markets they
invest in believe the bull or bear they are in at the time will last forever,
left wingers who do not understand capitalism think that the recession they are
in will last for hundreds of years. It won't. In a few years, everyone will
have forgotten about it and spirits will be high again.
Currencies pegged to the dollar will simply unpeg them. Many economies have
already done so to one degree or another.
What is happening now in the US is that the chickens are coming home to roost.
People borrowed too much, correct, and now they are paying for it. If they are
smart, they will learn from it and begin to save more. If they do not learn
from history, they will repeat it. Too bad for them.
Lastly, the planet is fine. Humans, trees and fish might die but the planet has
survived much more than us before. It will be around a long time after we get
shown the door. Please do not be so arrogant as to think humankind has the
ability to destroy this planet.
If you want to help save natural resources, be a leader and turn off your
computer. If you are going to post this kind of thing, at least put some real
analysis into it. The group is political research, not silly scaremongering.
Thank you.
Chris
--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Bruce Porteous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Bruce Porteous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [political-research] A WORLD FALLING APART - WHERE TO FROM HERE?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:23 PM
A WORLD FALLING APART –
WHERE TO FROM HERE?
What is
happening to this world we live in?
Why is the future looking so uncertain? Will the planet survive?
After years of
continual increasing economic growth around the world, the planet is struggling
to provide the natural resources to meet the demands of a growing global
population with increasing expectations by the undeveloped nations to have the
same privileges and standard of living as the west.
Yet the planet
is running out of the natural resources to maintain the economic growth that
has
occurred over the last 20 years.
The ever increasing demands for fossil fuels, minerals, water, arable
land and energy to maintain growth can not be sustained. The cost of obtaining
natural resources
and producing food continues to increase, as the supply diminishes.
While it widely
accepted that the consummation of oil is outstripping supply, no thought
appears
to be given by our leaders on how society will function without petroleum to
provide cheap energy. What of
future generations – what type of world will they inherit?
Along with the
demand for increased material resources the rush to urbanization is placing
unsustainable demands on the planet for the supply of water and food to
maintain
the essentials of life. This is
causing increasing instability to the global weather patterns, global warming,
polluted air, destruction of arable soils and water.
Yet few seem
willing to accept the reality that the planet can not continue consuming these
non-renewable resources at the rate it has been doing. Demand can not continue
to grow for
these resources indefinitely.
Unless the world develops an alternative economic model which is not
depended on consuming non-renewable natural resources then the planet is headed
for destruction.
To meet the
demand to finance continued growth in consumption governments have created
money
to provide the liquidity to enable their populations purchase goods and
services; and in turn provide more taxation revenue for governments to regulate
our lives. As the demand for
natural resources grows faster than the supply, the increase money in
circulation to finance consumption is now creating global inflation or the
erosion in the value of paper money.
Inflation is caused by the supply of money exceeding the growth of the
productive capacity of a country to supply goods and services.
The worst
offender in consuming non-renewable resources has been the USA, which consumes
much more of the planets natural resources than any other nation. This has
largely been financed by printing US dollars or borrowing dollars from our
creditors. This in turn has flooded
the world with liquidity; provide the capital for many developing economies to
increase their consumption, putting an unsustainable demand on the planets
resources.
The recent
global credit crisis has been bought about because of the lack of confidence in
the Anglo-Saxon nations by their creditors to be able to continual borrow money
from external sources to finance domestic consumption, while saving almost
nothing themselves. No nation can
continually borrow money indefinitely to finance domestic consumption. Now the
Anglo-Saxon nations are faced
with the dilemma of declining real incomes, and high debt servicing
costs.
There has been
some stability recently on the currency markets but this will only be short
lived. Once overseas investors lose
confidence in funding the debt of the Anglo-Saxon nations their economies will
go into free-fall, resulting in total economic collapse.
This drive for
economic growth at all costs is about to explode. If continued it will lead to
the
destruction of the ability of the planet to sustain life and global political
instability. Yet our political
leaders seem to lack the ability to make the changes or even talk about the
topic seriously to prevent mankind from destroying the planet’s ability to
maintain life.
This pursuit of
greed to satisfy the material lusts of its people the world is now facing an
imminent crisis that will result in the precursor of great economic and
political upheaval of the planet.
While one can not be exactly sure on when these events will unfold, the
sequence will as follows:
Conflict in the Middle East – the growing tensions between Iran,
USA and Israel is heading unavoidably towards military conflict, with no
indication of any resolution being achieved. Such a conflict, which will
unavoidably involve the USA in support of Israel, would unleash a
castrophatic
disaster on the global financial and energy markets.
The lack of confidence in the US dollar, resulting in its collapse
and a switch to the Euro as the world’s reserve currency.
The collapse of currencies tied to the US dollar, causing great
economic and political hardship for these people.
A total economic collapse of the debt-ridden Anglo-Saxon nations
leading to their people sliding into absolute poverty, starvation, break-down
in law and order and wide spread disease.
The emergence of the Euro-zone as being the dominant economic
power, imposing its will upon the world on how they will administer their
governments, trade, and regulate the conduct their people in conducting their
lives.
An economic recovery to take place with the Euro being the only
international reserve currency.
Without the Anglo-Saxon nations competing for the limited global
natural resources there will be sufficient non-renewable resources to support
a new time of prosperity for much of the world.
Meanwhile the Anglo-Saxon nations ( USA , Britain , Canada , Australia and
New
Zealand ) will be taken over, their people
placed into slavery, their resources plundered, and they placed under the
administration of foreign powers.
Unless there is
an alternative economic model adopted by the world, eventually the planet will
be destroyed by mankind. It will
only be with the established of one worldwide government ruled under the
jurisdiction of Jesus Christ, implementing the Laws of God does the planet have
any hope of preventing its destruction and unable to support life. These Laws
will provide equity for
everyone, prosperity, social justice, and an economic model which will allow
the
planet to survive within the natural resources available.
Bruce
Porteous
[EMAIL PROTECTED] co.nz
24 August,
2008
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