Duped in Our Worst Disaster
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Social Problems in a Free Society: Myths, Absurdities, and Realities
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The Origin of Social Dysfunction: The Pathology of Cultural Delusion
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Tax Tea Bag Parties: ...Sour Grapes Syndrome? -- or replicated Lynch Parties? (Volume 1)
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When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth
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Major Disaster
Untouchable. Too big to fail. Record prices for carbon-based natural resources that are pilfered from occupied countries. Golden parachutes. Working class investments disappearing faster than a Bush smirk or a Cheney sneer. Completely out of control.
With an off-shore manufacturing base, double digit unemployment, off-shore tax shelters, acid oceans, the destruction of some of the oldest mountains on this continent for clean coal, the creation of the some of the planet’s newest mountains (of trash), a scorched earth resulting from expanded desertification, a rapidly declining carbon based energy supply (can you say post-peak oil production?), an ever more powerful military industrial complex dependent on the “global zone of percolating violence” which is directly related to the global zone of remaining carbon based energy supplies, it’s rather obvious that an absolute financial collapse is imminent.
A record number of bubbles were created during the 2000-08 era. Their creation wasn’t as amazing as watching them all burst within such a short period of time, coincidentally just before the puppet and the puppet master swaggered and strolled off into the darkest pages of history, along with their energy task force agenda that never did see the light of day.
Worth your time:
Oil Disaster and Energy Starvation
Energy depletion is the single biggest boogeyman that everyone wants to ignore and no one wants to talk about. The powers that be know all about it and are doing everything they can - in the mad race to the bitter end - to save, hide, and shelter those billions of dollars swindled from the general populace in one of the greatest transfers of wealth this planet has ever seen. While these new billionaires, white collar criminals the lot, foolishly believe they can buy their salvation, they forget one point. They are not immortal.
How absurd to think that Iran should be allowed a nuclear weapon. How could the empire of war possibly expand its goal of domination over a region where the world’s last known great oil and gas reserves exist if it were faced with a major deterrent? Energy starvation is getting ready to play a very nasty role in life as the planet currently knows it.
While untold millions are spent crashing rockets into the moon for determining water availability, energy development in the the alternative fuels arena continues to receive the step-child treatment.
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
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America's Oil Wars
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
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Global Disaster
There are actually people out there, in online discussions, who believe that our children and our children’s children will stagger and struggle and stumble if we don’t fix the current economic crisis. We are so far beyond the moment of looking at the glass as being half full.
Our new age of school students, the digital generation, are unable to perform something as basic as cursive writing. Just ask them. While sixth graders struggle to type 20 words per minute, it’s highly unlikely that they will learn about a self-sustaining way. Or gardening. Or the horse and buggy days. Or how to crawl out of a cave.
Fixing an economic crisis requires the addition of a sense of equality into the equation.Empires have little regard for equality. That wicked transfer of wealth only serves to verify this.
The American people, engrossed in super bowls and worldly series and lost causes and fat people losing weight and dancing with the starlets and bubba wants another beer, sit on their collective lazy asses buying fear while any semblance of democracy decays. Slowly, it disappears before their bloodshot eyes.
Land of the free. Home of the brave. Tea baggers worried about socialized medicine. How ironic.
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hi ralph,
he raises some valid points that unfortunately don't get discussed very often.
thanks for checking in!!!
Yes he does. I've emailed it to several friends and relatives.
great! it's worth spreading the info.
It only makes sense to consume the least expensive energy source (oil) first. No other animal needs it and the 'environment' can get along just fine without it. We don't have to scorch the Earth to obtain it. We have an infrastructure to process and transport it. We don't need to appropriate immense tracts of land to collect it like solar. It's not a pipe dream like bio-fuels. We don't even have to build a dam, thereby saving millions of helpless snail darters.
On the other hand, a handful of strategically placed nuklar facilities will solve many of our problems. Unless you think France is misguided.
nicomp,
there are many people who are misguided. that's rather obvious. the uninformed and undereducated usually are. chief among those would be the ones recommending nuclear energy and the ones labeling oil as the least expensive energy source. go fish.
Hi - good hub as usual.
I have been looking around lately and seeing many of the same things. It's not just global warming or peak oil - the environmental devastation we have wrought is epochal, and happening so gradually that we don't even realize it.
The world that you and I grew up in is vanishing quickly. If we are going to survive, as a civilization or as a species, we need to figure out how to slow things down, and how to live with the changes that cannot be slowed.
Nuclear power may be an answer to our energy shortage. Biochar may be a way to slow global warming. But then, what about the increasing human population? What about invasive species? What about overfishing in the world's oceans? The destruction of forests, ocean deadzones, water pollution, watershed destruction, erosion and soil depletion...
I feel kind of hopeless, to be honest.
hi william,
thanks for checking in. you are very observant - our world as we knew it is gone. granted, our parents and grandparents said the same thing, but this one's a bit different. their worlds still contained a certain level of common sense throughout the societal structure. ours is severely lacking it, in fact it's almost nonexistent.
although i don't see how nuclear is the answer, i'm in agreement with you on everything else you've mentioned.
it is a hopeless situation. on the up side of that, you and i are aware. imagine all of those who aren't even aware. they'll never ever know hopeless, only a fright beyond anything they could ever hope to comprehend.
their last meal will be a packet of seeds.
@blue dog: The fishing is great immediately downstream of a cooling tower; nuklar or coal-fired. I'd be happy to drown a worm with you when you're in town to protest.
If you have a less expensive energy source than oil for our cars, please let us all know 'cause we'll beat a path to your door. It's incumbent on you to bestow your knowledge upon us Unwashed.
"What about invasive species?"
No such thing. If you subscribe to Mother Nature in all her finery, then you must accept her attempts to expand. Even if it hurts your feelings or kills your gladiolas.
Including people. oops.
ah nicomp,
hope your ohio evening is pleasant. actually, the "less expensive energy source" rises each morning in the east, setting in the west each evening. rather ironic that the one energy source most readily available to the masses would be the most expensive to harness. i'll stand by my "uninformed and undereducated" comment from yesterday.
mother nature is attempting to adjust, not expand. she's barely hanging on. the only thing expanding in this country is ignorance. here's something for you to chew on as you savor your life in the greater cincinnati area:
Nicomp - obviously you have never studied biology. Invasive species do exist, and they are radically changing the face of nature. They change wildlife habitat, soil chemistry, the way water flows over the soil and under the ground. They damage streams by changing water temperature, either shading out the sun where there was no shade or outcompeting the plants that once provided shade. Not sure where you live, but where I am, you can't look anywhere without seeing japanese honeysuckle, privet, bush honeysuckle, english ivy, kudzu, japanese knotweed... and those are just the plants.
And yes, humans could be classed as the worst of invasive species. We are outrageously successful - more so than cockroaches even... but do you know what happens to animal populations when they become this successful? This is why we have deer and rabbit hunting season. Now that we have killed most of the natural predators that lived on this planet, deer would reproduce unchecked and eat all the available food until their population crashed - if we didn't cull the population for sport.
Of course, humans are more self aware than deer - aren't they?
As for the idea that we need oil to fuel our cars... maybe cars are the problem? It -is- possible to build a city where every single person doesn't require their own personal 1.5 tons of steel to meet their basic needs. American car culture is an abberation, destructive and alienating.
I do like to watch TV... and superbowls.
hi jbeadle,
yes, the tv is an addictive medium, much like a computer, or....
thanks for stopping by!
Ralph Deeds says:
3 weeks ago
Revealing YouTube video by Chalmers Johnson. Well worth watching. Thanks.