One Tribe

  2030 The MasterPlan? Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.     - George Orwell                Agenda 2030 Agenda 21 Urban Consumption Targets Limits to Growth 1972     The Covid 19 pandemic was a fraud. Viruses do not exist but even it they did,  this "virus" was no where near deadly enough to warrant all the lock downs and mandates that were imposed upon the world population. So what was the pandemic really about? In my opinion, it was first and foremost, a test. Would they be able to get the masses to go along with whatever was decreed even if it meant a curtailment of rights and liberties? No problem there. Secondly, it would serve as a mechanism to bring about health passports or certificates that will be required if one wants to move about or even to take part in normal day to day activitie...

Resource Depletion   "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -Albert Bartlett     As everyone knows, economies around the world all function on growth. Without growth, economies will collapse. Percentage growth is exponential growth. Exponential growth has two unique characteristics. One, at any given percentage there is a doubling period and two, the magnitude of the growth speeds up over time. For example, a quantity (x)  growing at 10% per year will be double (or 2x) in a little over 7 years. After another 7 odd years, that new amount will double again (or 2*2x). In addition, the amount of the quantity will get larger and larger in a shorter and shorter period of time ( by that I mean it took a little over 14 years to get 4x but it will only take 7 years to get another 4x).     Worldwide, GDP has grown at an average of about 3% a year since the beginning of the industrial revolution. In order ...

A Way Forward          Everyone is concerned with what the future has in store. Many ask, "what do we do?". The bigger question is, "what are you willing to do?". You will hear all kinds of suggestions. Almost all involve maintaining the status quo to some extent. Most suggestions are rubbish. This is more along the lines of what needs to happen... 1. Open all borders or eliminate them altogether. We are one species bound to a single spaceship. No one is more deserving or more special than another. We all must be able to move freely; to where we feel the opportunity for survival is best. 2. Severe limits on human reproduction for the foreseeable future. Population must be reduced as quickly as possible from current levels to those in line with ecological sustainability . We can do this in a sensible, orderly fashion or nature will do it. If left to nature, it will be chaotic, and violent. 3. There must be a redistribution of resources. The richer must give...

Right or Wrong This is a non-exhaustive list of things we humans do, or have done, wrong. Just an observation. What do you think? Anything to add? Cupidity and apathy guiding too many decisions. The way we grow our food. Poor soil stewardship. Poor food choices and preparation. Too much meat. Very poor food distribution and too much food waste. Not ensuring quality, nutritious food available for all. Poor and improper footwear. Women generally don't need and should probably not wear bras. Most of us don't poo properly. Not willing to share. Building countries around automobiles instead of mass forms of transportation. Much too willing to introduce pollution and toxins into our environment and our bodies. Established and promoted disease-care the world over rather than healthcare. Fostered a world of drug dependency and addiction (largely due to the legal drug trade and inequality). In the name of progress, allowed ourselves to become completely dependent on fossil fuels. No at...

The Economy and Covid Every time I hear talk of a recovery in the media I shake my head and sigh. V-shaped, U-shaped, check mark shape? Recovery for who? From what? Recovery from the decades long currency devaluations? Recovery from the massive buildup of debt everywhere? Recovery from longstanding and ever increasing inequality? Recovery from resource depletion wherever one looks? Oh yeah, they mean back to December 2019. Like that matters. Many will call me a pessimist or a doomer or apply some other ad hominem label but the reality is there will be no recovery. If we are lucky...maybe...but it will take a long time and things will look very different. There have been many good times and bad times, ups and downs, dark ages and roaring decades. During rough patches the uplifting refrain was, "this too, shall pass". It was true. Can it be true this time? How can it be? In times past, the Earth's resources were plentiful. Until recently, there were far fewer humans. Arable...

Information The following links are a few of the many websites offering up facts and opinions that might help you get a clearer big picture... The Great Awakening Peak Prosperity Weston Price Survival We the Economy - Films Gail Tverberg Exponential Growth PNAS Skeptical Science Do the Math Humanley Consciousness of Sheep Viroliegy