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I would strongly encourage you to not put additional stress on your body (i.e. long flights) until you are fully recovered, as much as you want to return to your “usual” activities. It’s a hard lesson I’ve had to learn with a series of head injuries. If you move too fast you risk permanent damage. Not that you shouldn’t push your limits but it should be done thoughtfully and with respect for your body’s need to heal. It is difficult for us to acknowledge limits to our desires to “do”. You need to be in this life-long game for the longterm!
Dr. Diablo,
just wanted to comment that I’m amazed that Europe has, to some degree, pulled together to deal with the immigrants pouring in (sept 6/7th). Your focused comments about the need to actively do something to deal with the tragedy that was unfolding, were shared.(As Ilgari said, Merkle’s hand was forced by the potent media photography that brought it “home” to the everyday man). It’s powerfully motivating to see people stepping up to the plate to help out.
Dr. Diablo,
1) you are definitely right in that we can “do it” if we were motivated enough. The problem at this point though, is the reality that all those cultures that “lived in harmony” were basically killed off, by those who would not.
2) I agree that our current western lifestyle is NOT the way we need to live and is in fact harmful to our psyche. But convincing those who are “addicted” to lights, action, noise, etc in enough numbers to make a difference in the amount of time we have…. unlikely.
3) We are only able to feed 8 billion people because of our reliance on our high energy technology, which is not going to last. It sounds cold blooded, I know… as in heartless but it is a hard real world limit. Especially as the continued use of industrial methods destroy the life in the soils.
4) As Michael Greer pointed out, “problems have solutions, predicaments do not”. Do I think we could create a better “solution” to the migrant issues, yes, but not really. Only temporary solutions that will fail in the end as the resources disappear… If you have enough food to feed 10 and 100 show up, what is your solution?
For example, 5 years ago, Egypt had enough land to feed 30% of their population…(and that was NOT a western diet)… did they stop building on their farming land. Did they reduce their population growth? No… they imported. As prices increased, people starved. Did they reduce their population?
It stares us in the face, and yet we do not make the changes needed. I change, you change, but the majority do not. They pretend there is no problem… that’s why I say it’s hard wired into most people, not 100%, but the majority. Because it IS a survival characteristic, the capacity to live “appropriately” to our environment is possible, just not the dominant genetic component at this point in time.
The stage is set, and has been for years, despite the advance warnings related to Population Overshoot and all it’s consequences. The sad part is the human pain it will entail. Any so called ‘solution’ must deal with the underlying issue of having to live in balance with our resource base. China’s one-child policy (while fraught with issues) was probably the only real attempt to deal with the forth coming problem.
The location of your accident of birth, in many ways, is the ultimate determination of survival because life is not “fair or rational”. It only…ultimately… obeys the rule of physics, and where you are on, that playing field, will determine your possibilities.
Dr. Diablo has his finger on the pulse of what could have been done. We could have intelligently approached the population issues… but genetically I believe we are not wired to deal with long range problems, only short term staring you in the face, problems. The battle over remaining resources will only intensify as each group/tribe/clan/family/country tries to corner what they need to survive.
As we loosened the restraints on population growth – via medications, better sanitation, more food, and quit killing off large numbers of young men in major wars, our numbers went from 1 billion to 8 billion in less than a 150 years.
We needed to recognize that reality and exercise thoughtful use of our resources. Birth control was the gift that we ignored. I always said, if we provide resources (food, medicine, tools) to others, we should also provide education & birth control so that we would not reach “overshoot”. But alas, this would only happen in a responsible forward thinking population.
We are like microbes in a petri dish; eating until all our food is gone and wallowing in our waste products. But perhaps that IS what is basically, survival of the fittest. Those who think & plan ahead & act will be the few that will survive, if any do,
Was there ever a response to this query?
Hi Ilargi,
Nice to read your writing again, appreciating your contribution, thanks.
I have a question: I got the impression when reading TAE in the Fall that you thought a Credit Event/CDS event associated with Greece would likely have a large destabilizing effect (ie: collapse) on the global financial system d/t all in the globally intertangled and layered instruments, fakery, etc.And yet, as you yourself say here, the CDS credit event went relatively smoothly for the financial elite – at least so far as we can tell. And it went smoothly likely d/t to the tremendous political, as well as financial, power they wield (as per your post’s second paragraph). It ended up being much less of a big deal as far as it’s effects (at least so far) than i think TAE thought would happen.
To my questions:
1. Are the largest financial institutions “holding it together” (for their own benefit) longer than you thought they could?
2. Are they showing even more power to make things go their way than you thought?
3. My TAE-informed impression was that dominant global financial systems would crumble/collapse, but I’m starting to wonder if enough of the big players have enough power and willingness to use it, that they can manipulate things to their own interests – just as they did with the Greek CDS credit event – and go through unscathed or even get wealthier while everyone/everything else collapses. Your thoughts?
Thank youI have had the same thoughts… the CDSwaps do not seem to have had the domino effect projected across the banks, triggering major financial issues.
What’s up?
