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I found this video particularly relevant to our group of wizards and prophets,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfz...ab_channel=TED
Are we special?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfz...ab_channel=TED
Are we special?
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What do the vast majority of these countries have in common other than their large fertility rates?
1 Niger 6.82 2022 est. 2 Angola 5.83 2022 est. 3 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 5.63 2022 est. 4 Mali 5.54 2022 est. 5 Chad 5.46 2022 est. 6 Benin 5.43 2022 est. 7 Uganda 5.36 2022 est. 8 South Sudan 5.32 2022 est. 9 Somalia 5.31 2022 est. 10 Burundi 5.03 2022 est. 11 Guinea 4.85 2022 est. 12 Mozambique 4.81 2022 est. 13 Liberia 4.79 2022 est. 14 Guinea-Bissau 4.69 2022 est. 15 Afghanistan 4.62 2022 est. 16 Nigeria 4.62 2022 est. 17 Sudan 4.60 2022 est. 18 Zambia 4.56 2022 est. 19 Cameroon 4.55 2022 est. 20 Tanzania 4.39 2022 est. 21 Congo, Republic of the 4.36 2022 est. 22 Burkina Faso 4.27 2022 est. 23 Senegal 4.27 2022 est. 24 Equatorial Guinea 4.26 2022 est. 25 Togo 4.23 2022 est. 26 Timor-Leste 4.21 2022 est. 27 Central African Republic 4.04 2022 est. 28 Ethiopia 3.99 2022 est. 29 Papua New Guinea 3.92 2022 est. 30 Zimbabwe 3.89 2022 est. "Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.Comment
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FGM ... female genital mutilation.What do the vast majority of these countries have in common other than their large fertility rates?Comment
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Originally posted by Bob Gillanders View Post
Why Malthus Is Still Wrong
Why Malthus makes for bad science policy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...s-still-wrong/
"70,000 Americans. Science writer Ronald Bailey tracks neo-Malthusians in his book The End of Doom (St. Martin’s Press, 2015), starting with Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 best seller The Population Bomb, which proclaimed that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” Many doomsayers followed. Worldwatch Institute founder Lester Brown, for example, declared in 1995, “Humanity’s greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.” In a 2009 Scientific American article he affirmed his rhetorical question, “Could food shortages bring down civilization?” In a 2013 conference at the University of Vermont, Ehrlich assessed our chances of avoiding civilizational collapse at only 10 percent. The problem with Malthusians, Bailey writes, is that they “cannot let go of the simple but clearly wrong idea that human beings are no different than a herd of deer when it comes to reproduction.” Humans are thinking animals. We find solutions—think Norman Borlaug and the green revolution. The result is the opposite of what Malthus predicted: the wealthiest nations with the greatest food security have the lowest fertility rates, whereas the most food-insecure countries have the highest fertility rates. The solution to overpopulation is not to force people to have fewer children. China’s one-child policy showed the futility of that experiment. It is to raise the poorest nations out of poverty through democratic governance, free trade, access to birth control, and the education and economic empowerment of women."Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Thursday, 15th September, 2022, 12:09 PM.Comment
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Disparity will be mankind's downfall.
It is a moral blot on our species that we have developed the global society that now exists.
And the governments of the world (And the majority of mankind? - in particular the better-off?) do not wish to adopt the "sacrifice" needed to now correct the situation.
A real problem............
~ Bob A (T-S/P)Comment
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Nature has dealt with this in a somewhat cruel manner, aka survival for the fittest, wherein some of us and our systems (Marxism, democratic socialism, capitalism) get caught in this vicious cycle and eventually get eliminated.Originally posted by Bob Armstrong View Post
Maybe it is time to try out Libertarianism...Comment
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Hi Dilip:
All I can say personally is........."in your dreams"!
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Better to dream about Libertarianism than have nightmares about democratic marxism...Originally posted by Bob Armstrong View PostHi Dilip:
All I can say personally is........."in your dreams"!Last edited by Dilip Panjwani; Friday, 16th September, 2022, 11:24 AM.Comment
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Hi Dilip:
Good one.........
Bob AComment
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Thanks, Bob A. !Comment
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I found this video to be very good at putting human population into perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwm...NaturalHistory
I think we all agree the population is expected to level off and likely decline over time.
We are expected to reach 8 billion people in November, and continue to climb to.....not sure, but levelling off and then declining.
Will the earth's environment support a human population of 8 + billion? For how long?
Can we engineer such a future? and do we want to?
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https://ouramazinggrace.net/holocaust-Turn-to-GodOriginally posted by Bob Gillanders View PostComment
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Roger L. Simon
September 6, 2022 Updated: September 12, 2022
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The minute they switched “global warming” to “climate change,” you knew they were lying.
Well, you knew it if you cared about the concept formerly known as “science.” You knew that you were being manipulated and lied to through the promulgation of new code words that would be used to obfuscate.
What was going on was obvious. They meant “global warming,” unless it was inconvenient, unless there was suddenly “global cooling.” Then, it was “climate change.” Nevertheless, it would still be humanity’s fault—your fault.
That was also a not-so-subtle salvo against “freedom of speech,” without which real science can’t exist.
Timeout for some real science, in case you missed it:“A new study, ‘Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed,’ finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be ‘acceptable’ and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.”
Interesting, no? You should read it all.
And yet “climate change” (warming, in English) marches on as if it were indisputable, even if it had and has myriad fallacies, not just the one from The Heartland Institute research in the above paragraph. Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore has demonstrated this thoroughly.
Although “climate” scores near the bottom of voter concern in polling, the necessary brainwashing (mass formation psychosis, if you will) has already been completed.
You can see the results in energy policies that are currently destroying Europe and, only to a slightly lesser extent, our country. California is already on “flex plans,” its leaders drunk on the reactionary chimera of electric cars that benefit only China for its monopoly on rare earths, not to mention solar panels.
“Be Green or You’re Mean!” might as well be the slogan of our reactionary left, but think what that did and does to actual scientific inquiry.
It did, however, prepare the ground for what happened with COVID-19, creating obedient, sheep-like masses ready to follow the prescriptions of Drs. Fauci, Birx, and others, as radically inconsistent and often nonsensical as they were.
An uneducated public in the sciences didn’t help. The same could be said of most politicians who were also, for the most part, similarly uneducated and already bought by Big Pharma and Big Tech anyway, no matter what pronouncements the pols made for public consumption. Their actions weren’t much, if they existed at all.
Meanwhile, our hospitals and their treatments were under federal government diktats that largely funded them—ditto scientific research as we learned years ago, when climate scientists altered their data to please their government benefactors.
Climate change, COVID … where is this all headed, this seemingly deliberate dumbing down of science and, therefore, the public, rendering us devoid of personal agency?
Is depopulation the ultimate goal?
What could be more cynical? Only Ian Fleming could have dreamed this up because only Bond villains are so monstrous and yet, what other conclusion can we come to?
Will Social Security and pension plans—in all countries, not just ours—be worth anything as the population decreases? They depend on increases to survive. These so-called elitists have been plotting global impoverishment and, with that, depopulation, starting with “climate change” and probably before.
I’m not sure how we counter this, but anyone supporting the globalists must be voted out. That, of course, includes their clueless supporters in the Democratic Party who, in many cases—believe it or not, because it’s right in front of our noses—seem unaware of what’s happening.
The world of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab and the other Bond villains must be stopped.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-...t_4741735.htmlLast edited by Sid Belzberg; Tuesday, 20th September, 2022, 08:07 PM.Comment
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The next Climate change conference is coming soon.
COP 27 - Egypt, starts November 7, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hop...=greenvloggers
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