David, I’m curious… have you seen my “Collapse 101” video yet? h/t James @ megacancer.com. The evolutionary explanation is that they feel more “kinship” with the dog.) Are you just guessing? I actually think I’m just an average Jo who was lucky enough to live in an environment that fostered learning and had access to good information. Our only choices are do we want to fall from a higher elevation later, or climb down from a lower elevation sooner? There happened to be a girl in my course that went to the same childhood church as me. He thinks non-carbon energy is a feasible solution to climate change, and is thus just as wrong as all the other famous polymaths. It’s a shame he doesn’t understand the underlying thermodynamics, but then he’d probably be unable to function. In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed revolutions, and entrenched racial and economic discrimination. Either it is that reason, or the non-breeder possesses a very old and very latent gene that went the way of the dodo centuries ago.”. Weinstein has a PhD in physics from Harvard and hosts a podcast called The Portal in which he discusses big picture problems facing society.

I’ll check out your new series.

– AArgot, Energy is the economy. How do people cope with mortality? [21] A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria. As usual, money is at the core: a poor state wanting more money, and a ship’s owner wanting to keep his money. Both are accessible here: https://postdoom.com/resources/ (Testosterone, for example, does not cause aggression but amplifies pre-existing tendencies for or against it. The bursting of the global dollar debt Bubble will likely coincide with a major deterioration in the dollar’s value as the world’s reserve currency.

Edit Profile. What we should do but won’t do will happen anyway, unfortunately too late.

My 73 year old mother went the other way to deal & has made & donated over 500 cloth masks on her 1960’s era sewing machine (they don’t make em like they used to – sewing machines & moms). Criminal or Civil Court records found on Eric's Family, Friends, Neighbors, or Classmates View Details. I used to believe this. Not yet but that episode is queued up next in my podcast app. So, when deficits explode yet interest rates continue to trend down, you think you are king of the world.

In fairness to Eric Weinstein, it could not have been easy to host a guest like Daniel Schmachtenberger (true brilliance) and keep the conversation semi-grounded without drifting too far off into the esoteric. Balance economies not budgets, Modern monetary theorists are essentially looking to shift the focus of economic policy-making away from a preoccupation with balanced budgets. The other tribes were soon toast and we took over the planet. Thomas Ligotti, born in 1953 and child-free by choice, said this once about the world: “Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls — while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”. A southeaster stormed and rained all day resulting in a miserable ride home.

Oil then was a side show to the farming main event. – Norman Borlaug. Richard S. J. Tol is a professor of economics at the University of Sussex (U.K.) and won a Nobel peace prize – how ghastly! It was a hard but honest life. Do you have a link or example? (James @ MegaCancer.com). Photos | Summary | Follow. Folks are filled with fear and uncertainty and rightly so. [26] [18] In 2007, the Florida Legislature permitted Florida State and the University of Florida to charge 40% higher tuition than other institutions in the State University System of Florida. The literature on one scientific question, he notes comfortingly, is “majorly messy”.”, “Along the way there are many counterintuitive ideas and stern lessons. It challenges the status quo across the political spectrum with sound economics,” wrote Stephanie Kelton, an economist at Stony Brook University in New York, and the author of an upcoming book The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy. All Rights Reserved.

He doesn’t know the cause and makes up crap like all the other pundits. I couldn’t understand why the US was not more vocal on the virus source until I thought about the implications of China shutting down the supply of key products.

The fear of death may promote insecurity, bias, and even global conflict. Some Population Matters doomer said this once about the future: “With the earth groaning under the weight of 7+ billion people, most wanting to consume as much as possible, I think the last thing any ecologically literate person would do is add to the burden. It’s not difficult to envisage a scenario where the Fed finds itself stuck deep in geopolitical muck.

Some of these views lead to troubling actions. Florida State University also operates The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida and one of the largest museum/university complexes in the nation. (They are what William Catton in “Overshoot” referred to as “cargoists”. [13] I don’t attribute this to denial, economists are simply idiots. The Green Revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space.

Have you seen the new 52-minute documentary, “Living in the Age of Dying” yet? This money quote by Weinstein says it all, “We’ve always had the possibility of decoupling economic growth from burning fossil fuels but we’ve just never got around to doing it”. Denial is the reality that must be most aggressively denied to avoid collapsing the house of cards that keeps us functioning. New York, NY 10001. IOW, only tell the public what they want to hear – that all their ScFi fantasies are possible…..some day. “But COVID-19 has shown us that this paradigm is actually incomplete, and in a fairly surprising way. The humans are incapable of meaningful voluntary collective change & it’s not their fault. We’ve seen amazing examples of people stepping up to help others during the pandemic: from a 99-year-old army veteran who raised $33 million for the U.K.’s National Health Service by walking laps in his garden to a royal milliner who started making face shields for hospital workers. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades.
One of the most, if not the most, precious and rare things in the universe is the human brain. You’ve listed a number of ways for people currently living to die prematurely, but another way for population to crash is by young people simply deciding that they’re not going to procreate. It is not the population number per-se that has caused our predicament, it is what we are all trying to do – live in big houses, drive big cars, etc. This is Me - Control Profile.

At the core of the “deficit myth,” Kelton argued, is the idea that deficits are bad for the economy, and that governments need to limit spending in order to achieve a balanced budget. Fire to cooking to intelligence to denial to god to plotting to capital punishment to self-domestication to Apollo 11 to 7 billion too many.
[20] In 2012 U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida State the most efficient National University in the United States. It birthed an entire new branch of anxiety. Genes are not destiny, and they are not “selfish” a la Dawkins; “we haven’t evolved to be ‘selfish’ or ‘altruistic’ or anything else – we’ve evolved to be particular ways in particular settings”. Lock. He received an MBA from Florida International University and an undergraduate degree from Florida State University. [16][17] In 1977 Florida State University earned the first female Rhodes Scholar in Florida. For explaining why humans are odd Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Unfortunately, this kind of denial isn’t limited to poorly spelled social media posts. – Max Keiser. eric indique 1 poste sur son profil. Got a feeling man will be fearing man when the economic and climate crises really start to bite. Great image from Dave Pollard’s latest effort. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise, the success of the Green Revolution will be ephemeral only. And this seems like a pretty good explanation for surging precious metals prices. One of the reasons Daniel Everett’s book resonated with me is that I went through a similar experience as a young adult as Daniel did when it comes to faith in God. I expect Albertans will be returning to farming.