NEW ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDINGS
CIRCUMSTANCE: The Age of Exuberance is over, population has already overshot carrying capacity, and prodigal Homo sapiens has drawn down the world’s savings deposits.
CONSEQUENCE: All forms of human organization and behavior that are based on the assumption of limitlessness must change to forms that accord with finite limits.
ADAPTATIONS:CIRCUMSTANCE/CONSEQUENCE/BEHAVIOR
Some people recognize that the New World is old and that major change must follow: ACCEPTED/ACCEPTED/REALISM
Some people have faith that technological progress will stave off major institutional change: ACCEPTED/DISREGARDED/CARGOISM
Some people have faith that family planning, recycling centers, and anti-pollution laws will keep the New World new: DISREGARDED/PARTIALLY ACCEPTED/COSMETICISM
Some people do not believe that the New World’s newness once did, or that its oldness now does, have any significance:DISREGARDED/DISREGARDED/CYNICISM
Some people insist that the assumption of limitlessness was and still is valid: DENIED/DENIED/OSTRICHISM
(Excerpt from Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change)
By William Catton
And here we have a book written about the realities of dwindling resources rather than some watered-down, feel-good, save-the-planet/global warming nonsense. The fact of the matter is that there are way too many people on this planet who all want the same standard of living, while at the same time resources are running out, most notably oil among others. There is even talk about Peak Uranium, given that more people will inevitably turn to nuclear energy, and the estimates are that Peak Uranium will occur sometime in the next twenty years or so.
The NWO folks cooked up this global governance nonsense for one reason alone, which is to protect the status quo as competition for resources becomes more heated. There are, however, realists who see through this ruse, and as the tag line on this great article from dieoff.org says, “In a way, the world-view of the party imposed itself most successfully on the people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just like a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.” – George Orwell, 1984.
In short, this article was found as a result of searching for the latest trends in the voluntary foreclosure movement, that is, those who see through the game being played by the banks in concert with the government in order to preserve a dying way of life for the population, whereas those in power remain somehow immune to the effects of dwindling resources. The term now being used for the way the masses are looked upon by the power elite is detritovores, or consumers of long-since accumulated organic remains, and exacting economic revenge on the banks is the democratic means of choice for those who believe that this is the prelude to collapse.
You just can’t make this stuff up, folks….
-TDN
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