I am an optimist:
I believe that when The Famine hits, the human race will have an epiphany.
I have that argument with a lot of people. Most disagree with me. But I think we will have an epiphany for the good. The 'richest' people in the world might just be among the first to starve. For, though they can Pay their private militaries to go and steal food for them, they wont be able to do much else. The militia might steal the food, buy why would they bring it back to their employer? Food is food. It's more valuable than paper or marks in your credit card. They'll just keep the food for themselves and never bring it back. Perhaps they will even join the communities they were deployed to when it becomes clear what is of Real value:
Food
Water
Friends
And then money, our current standard for measuring everything and the best definition for "stupid" in our world right now, will finally mean what it really is: Toilet Paper.
Rest assured and comfortable that The Famine is coming. When it does, all the world will truly understand what it has meant to be African for the last hundred years or so. For most of the people on that poor attacked continent. People have been predicting Armageddon for a million years, they have been predicting this one since the industrial revolution. While it hasn't happened yet, we are getting closer to it: nothing lasts forever. Though everyone's been wrong so far, that will not always be the truth.
Some prophecies are more reliable than others. Here's mine:
When The Famine comes, a billion or so will go just from starvation. A billion or two more from in-fighting, anarchy, general stupidity, and the like. And perhaps the rest of us from all out War. If (and this part is a big if) we cannot work together.
However, The Famine is avoidable! If we can concentrate on that tiny little all-important IF. It should be avoidable just up until it actually happens. Maybe. But it is getting harder and harder the closer we come to that point.
I am not the first to issue this prophecy in some form. It was issued before I was born and hasn't happened yet. Some people take this as a sign that it will never happen. If you want a date on my prediction, you will have noticed that it is not present and I don't intend it to be. There are a lot of gray areas, I'm not going to pretend to be mystical. I am just logical. So far, The Famine the dates are always wrong. But everything else was right and it is still happening. We use all of our resources faster than they can replenish. Oil, coal, gas, forests, soil, water...
Land...
Each one will put a strain on a system already quite stressed. We are currently using so many fossil fuels to just grow food that once oil and such really are on the decline, we will hit Peak Food.
The Famine.
And all the while, our population grows. Peak Land or Peak Space. We've got a long way to go before the whole world looks like Tokyo. But we will not be able to support ourselves long before that happens. For the last 2000 years or so, we have put off The Famine. but that is no reason to expect that we can put it off forever. Forever is a very, very, very long time. But we wont even put it of until our sun goes out. We can't escape it. It is coming for us just like it does for every other species on this planet.
Told you I am an optimist....
I believe that when The Famine hits, the human race will have an epiphany.
I have that argument with a lot of people. Most disagree with me. But I think we will have an epiphany for the good. The 'richest' people in the world might just be among the first to starve. For, though they can Pay their private militaries to go and steal food for them, they wont be able to do much else. The militia might steal the food, buy why would they bring it back to their employer? Food is food. It's more valuable than paper or marks in your credit card. They'll just keep the food for themselves and never bring it back. Perhaps they will even join the communities they were deployed to when it becomes clear what is of Real value:
Food
Water
Friends
And then money, our current standard for measuring everything and the best definition for "stupid" in our world right now, will finally mean what it really is: Toilet Paper.
Rest assured and comfortable that The Famine is coming. When it does, all the world will truly understand what it has meant to be African for the last hundred years or so. For most of the people on that poor attacked continent. People have been predicting Armageddon for a million years, they have been predicting this one since the industrial revolution. While it hasn't happened yet, we are getting closer to it: nothing lasts forever. Though everyone's been wrong so far, that will not always be the truth.
Some prophecies are more reliable than others. Here's mine:
When The Famine comes, a billion or so will go just from starvation. A billion or two more from in-fighting, anarchy, general stupidity, and the like. And perhaps the rest of us from all out War. If (and this part is a big if) we cannot work together.
However, The Famine is avoidable! If we can concentrate on that tiny little all-important IF. It should be avoidable just up until it actually happens. Maybe. But it is getting harder and harder the closer we come to that point.
I am not the first to issue this prophecy in some form. It was issued before I was born and hasn't happened yet. Some people take this as a sign that it will never happen. If you want a date on my prediction, you will have noticed that it is not present and I don't intend it to be. There are a lot of gray areas, I'm not going to pretend to be mystical. I am just logical. So far, The Famine the dates are always wrong. But everything else was right and it is still happening. We use all of our resources faster than they can replenish. Oil, coal, gas, forests, soil, water...
Land...
Each one will put a strain on a system already quite stressed. We are currently using so many fossil fuels to just grow food that once oil and such really are on the decline, we will hit Peak Food.
The Famine.
And all the while, our population grows. Peak Land or Peak Space. We've got a long way to go before the whole world looks like Tokyo. But we will not be able to support ourselves long before that happens. For the last 2000 years or so, we have put off The Famine. but that is no reason to expect that we can put it off forever. Forever is a very, very, very long time. But we wont even put it of until our sun goes out. We can't escape it. It is coming for us just like it does for every other species on this planet.
Told you I am an optimist....
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