tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post7370416909686029010..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: Earth: 2050 (10 Reasons Why We’re Doomed)Bill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-42201581971758715872011-10-29T23:11:44.434-04:002011-10-29T23:11:44.434-04:00@Anon - another Guy McPherson fan. Welcome to TDS...@Anon - another Guy McPherson fan. Welcome to TDS!Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-54434607239011952592011-10-29T22:46:17.931-04:002011-10-29T22:46:17.931-04:00Nature bats last Bill, and she always hits it outt...Nature bats last Bill, and she always hits it outta the park.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-22051080390917424522011-08-18T10:21:14.739-04:002011-08-18T10:21:14.739-04:00Every word is prophecy coming true in developing N...Every word is prophecy coming true in developing Nations, hundred of millions are going hungry daily without any chance to improve it in near future, once the decline sets in , which has already set in my contry as fertilizer is no more available as much as it is needed, lot of hue and cry is there with the promise of correction in next year which is not coming.medusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12965700218184480889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-56699363187933756312011-08-18T00:43:50.583-04:002011-08-18T00:43:50.583-04:00@BTD - great poems as always, Ben. :)@BTD - great poems as always, Ben. :)Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-5527911539379558952011-08-18T00:42:52.067-04:002011-08-18T00:42:52.067-04:00@ifkaramazov - I do agree that at least some of wh...@ifkaramazov - I do agree that at least some of what you are saying is possible and might have mitigated the onrushing disaster--had it been implemented starting 30 years ago in the wake of the 70s oil shocks. Now we have run things way too close to the brink for there to be any mitigation short of disaster.Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-85107816298355855682011-08-17T21:02:36.536-04:002011-08-17T21:02:36.536-04:00You are echoing the precepts of my recent book, &q...You are echoing the precepts of my recent book, "The Coming Extinction of Humanity, Six Converging Crises that Threaten Our Survival." Your comments and observations are spot on, and food production will be declining from virtually this year onward, even as demand rises... temporarily.R. J. Connorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02108442323816032370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-57779820884347411422011-08-17T20:27:04.341-04:002011-08-17T20:27:04.341-04:00By now we should have a full plan
For when really...By now we should have a full plan <br />For when really bad shit hits the fan;<br />Though we can’t change the end, <br />Our life paths will bend <br />From trying to change things we can.<br /><br />Our social life’s full of illusion, <br />But in view of our species’ conclusion,<br />One might recommend <br />That accepting the end<br />Could clear up some mental confusion.BenjaminTheDonkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18304901070197940843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-41999696633530405382011-08-17T20:26:14.095-04:002011-08-17T20:26:14.095-04:00Anyone who had ever read or heard of Thomas Malthu...Anyone who had ever read or heard of Thomas Malthus should have seen this coming. <br /><br />I do think that what you're looking at is mostly things required for our current mode of existence, and that ignores alternative possibilities. So far as I am aware, the problems with alternative sources of energy are not crippling, and if a government were to make a concerted effort to make them feasible, energy production wouldn't have to decline with our reserves of oil and coal.<br /><br />The same goes for technology. That we're running out of new sources of tin may simply force us to find alternative methods of doing more or less the same job. Costs may go up, but it won't throw us into a pre-technological dark age. That's just a guess though.<br /><br />On the other hand, the issue with carrying capacity is huge. Even if you grant that genetic engineering might make some industrial agricultural processes obsolete, there's still only so much arable land on earth, and each person needs to consume so much of the produce from it. As it stands today, we could feed everyone on earth if we rationed food. But what about when population count starts getting up into the tens of billions?<br /><br />If we could cap population growth somehow, that would solve at least a plurality of these problems. The only one it wouldn't solve is habitat destruction by the insatiable capitalist drive for profit and ever more "growth." What's that line about growth for growth's sake being the ideology of the cancer cell? In any case, that's the thing that will kill us, if anything does. The rest of it will just put our species through hell first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-80397817179488581722011-08-17T16:15:59.920-04:002011-08-17T16:15:59.920-04:00"Internet readers seem to love lists"
Y..."Internet readers seem to love lists"<br /><br />Yes Bill, so long as you keep the list to less than or equal to 10 (it's the ADD factor). <br /><br />You might have been able to "collapse" some of the items on your list into a single super-item: "peak food supply." Post-peak declines in oil, water, phosphorous, fish, and climate change (maybe even Nuclear Contamination and the Economy) will all result in a declining food supply. A declining food supply, in turn, will make that 9-10 billion population by 2050 unattainable. <br />Regards,<br />C_WCrash_Watcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01985815560035214946noreply@blogger.com