jsanders
11-30-2006, 11:13 AM
This is the third entry in my Doom and Gloom column.
This time around winner take all will have a new meaning.
In the second WW the US, the clear winner, had the world to itself. For the next 35 years US economic output was equal to the rest of the world’s combine.
This time much more is at stake.
Like the last WW this one will include nuclear weapons, but unlike the last one it will not signal the end of conflict rather the beginning of the fight to the end of overpopulation.
If these words seem overly apocalyptic, then be prepared to stop the naivety and take a look at what’s really happening.
The last 60 years has proven that mankind cannot over harvest, mine and build yet evens as the dimmest among us now see over zealous destruction as potentially fatal we continue to grow populations and invest in immerging ones.
All in the name of progress.
As the Indians and the Chinese move towards consumer based economies the demands for the most important resources are being overtaxed, to previously unimagined levels, and at the same time both nations lacking in the experience of a “Black London’ or PCBs in their drinking water are churning out pollution in seemingly unobtainable levels.
And this is just he beginning. It might be better if we were actually running out of oil; that very fact would stifle the growth. But alas we have discovered betters ways to finds it and it now looks like we have 4.5 times as much left as we have used since the start of the oil era.
We see the war coming, but what form will it take? We need simply look at the build up of both Chinese and Indian Navies to see the picture. Or we need to look at the price of building materials around the globe to see another version.
Where are all the trees going to come from when 2 billion more people need middle class houses?
Where are all the fish going to come from when 5 times more fishing factories take to the sees?
No it’s too late to turn back, the Great Global Conflict is coming and nothing on earth will stop it.
But the big killer in the next war won’t be munitions, it will be starvation, the weapon of choice in this next war will be cutting the food supply to hostile nations. The nations of the world will rightly see this next war as the possible end of their society and as such will do what people do when facing extinction.
This time around winner take all will have a new meaning.
In the second WW the US, the clear winner, had the world to itself. For the next 35 years US economic output was equal to the rest of the world’s combine.
This time much more is at stake.
Like the last WW this one will include nuclear weapons, but unlike the last one it will not signal the end of conflict rather the beginning of the fight to the end of overpopulation.
If these words seem overly apocalyptic, then be prepared to stop the naivety and take a look at what’s really happening.
The last 60 years has proven that mankind cannot over harvest, mine and build yet evens as the dimmest among us now see over zealous destruction as potentially fatal we continue to grow populations and invest in immerging ones.
All in the name of progress.
As the Indians and the Chinese move towards consumer based economies the demands for the most important resources are being overtaxed, to previously unimagined levels, and at the same time both nations lacking in the experience of a “Black London’ or PCBs in their drinking water are churning out pollution in seemingly unobtainable levels.
And this is just he beginning. It might be better if we were actually running out of oil; that very fact would stifle the growth. But alas we have discovered betters ways to finds it and it now looks like we have 4.5 times as much left as we have used since the start of the oil era.
We see the war coming, but what form will it take? We need simply look at the build up of both Chinese and Indian Navies to see the picture. Or we need to look at the price of building materials around the globe to see another version.
Where are all the trees going to come from when 2 billion more people need middle class houses?
Where are all the fish going to come from when 5 times more fishing factories take to the sees?
No it’s too late to turn back, the Great Global Conflict is coming and nothing on earth will stop it.
But the big killer in the next war won’t be munitions, it will be starvation, the weapon of choice in this next war will be cutting the food supply to hostile nations. The nations of the world will rightly see this next war as the possible end of their society and as such will do what people do when facing extinction.