John, I find this post interesting. The negatives I worry about are the loss of freedom and the ascendancy of the moochers and looters. I think that human beings are better off than ever before in history, but I can't help but think of how wonderful things would be if we all lived by Rand's principles.
I judge reality by refusing to watch any news program!

Ayn Rand made it clear that evil is impotent...it cannot create values. When individuals focus on negatives they make evil potent as it, not productivity, begins to drive their lives. I see this in the distorted view of Ragnar as an agent of vengeance not a philosopher returning values stolen from producers. AR showed the power of ideas in a collapsing world by her life and her work. WHy are so many unable to harness her vision and create values in a time when they are in increasing demand? If you see the world as moochers and looters then you don see it as people desperately searching for a way out, a way shown by Ayn Rand and only needing a few good people to make the difference. Don't retreat, charge!

Humanity has advanced because people recognized problems and worked to solve them.
"Don't worry, be happy" is the solution that Bush and Obama have been spoon-feeding us as they have fastened the manacles on our liberty. Instead of preparing people to think and solve problems, the offering is common core and pharmaceuticals.

The Malthusian theory is simply wrong. Everyone went nuts over Paul Ehrlich's the population bomb in the 70's written as one of the key pieces of the 'green' movement, it predicted mass starvation in the 70's and 80's as the population rose.

We have more people now than he said that the earth could support, but starvation has decreased rather than increased. Like most 'greens' he failed to take into consideration the improvements in technology that allow us to feed more with less.

And like most 'greens' when proven wrong, he simply repeats his claim. We have increased population as he predicted but without catastrophe -- so he simply delays the prediction.

But population will not grow without limits. Even as early as Rome we have evidence that a well-off, educated population has a lower birth rate.

All advanced nations have lower than replacement birth rates now, some of them rather drastically. Singapore is down to 1.29 births per woman, South Korea 1.30, Japan 1.41. Birth rates this low can cut a population in half in less than two generations. This has serious impact on retirements.

Many countries are actively trying to increase birth rates -- with little success. Immigration keeps the U.S. expanding but as the third world becomes better educated and more affluent -- and that's happening -- birth rates will fall there as well.

The total population will continue to rise, due to longer lives until around 2050 when we will see a peak population. Some predict as high as 10 billion but I think that it will be less, perhaps 9.5 billion.

We can feed 9.5 billion. If we keep increasing CO2, that will be even easier since we are seeing increased plant growth as a result of the more favorable conditions. And warmer is generally better than colder.

If we could just get the 'greens' to get out of the way we can expand nuclear energy and provide a decent standard of living for the world.

The apocalypse has been canceled.

Over the millennia man has exhibited brief flashes of lucidity and rational thinking but for the most part he is driven by emotion. This fact is not lost on the pragmatic tyrant who knows how to use this "character flaw" to gain and preserve power. The tyrant knows that for the bulk of humanity belief trumps understanding. The reason for this is straightforward, belief is easy while understanding is hard and most of us chose the easy path over the one more difficult. Rational thinking requires the suspension of belief and that is a very difficult thing to do.

We could all be dead tomorrow if the volcano under Yellowstone decides to pop! We could be in another deep Ice Age in very short order also and the Queen could be King if only she had balls!

I saw that normal, everyday people are smarter than one gives them credit for. I compare all this talk about climate change with my own limited experience. I conclude that whatever is happening is doing so slowly and will give us all enough time to adapt. Secondly, there have been a lot of documented heatings and coolings of the world over the ages that have nothing to do with human activity. Thirdly, the earth is BIG and heavy and is heated from its center a LOT. Its just hard for me to figure that buring fossil fuels like we do even comes close to the amount of heat thats generated from the earth's core or the sun. And Fourthly, a few degrees might mean some people in India need to move or be underwater, but its not going to result in apocalyptic changes in the world. Call me stupid, but I see this climate thing as an excuse for political hidden agendas.

You can blame William Randolph Hearst for taking what was a fringe element of discussion, mostly by dedicated religionists, and turning it into mainstream thinking. He was famous for his statement about the news, "If it bleeds, it leads," meaning stories of horror and tragedy were more prone to catch the reader's attention. He set the trajectory of news media in this country, after almost singlehandedly starting the Spanish-American war by blaming the Spanish for the sinking of the USS Maine, by innuendo, not evidence. We have become attuned to look for the negative instead of the positive, as fear is a primal driver of human nature, which Hearst recognized and was a master at exploiting.

Reading the comments below I'm beginning to believe that the gov't must be reading this forum. Why continue spouting palatives from Ayn Rands philosophy. I believe in many of her principles but no one is answering the lead in question.
I have been writing comments of what I see ahead and I know it's not a pretty picture. Secession is going to happen and it can't be stopped. The crushing debt that has been rung up by the gov't will be the main factor in the dissolution. There are some states on the verge of bankrupcy and I'm sure the American Citizens will not pickup the tab via the the Govt wanting to bail out those states. So, in reality China will by defacto. That would be a bad day!

We have a different kind of doomsday scenario at our house. My wife gravitates to the people calling for the end of the dollar, the total economic collapse of the USA, what will we do? The bank will take away everything!

I believe each one of these guys from Harry Dent to Jerome Corsi have something to sell, and if they can scare you enough, you will buy the book, video, or subscription just to hear them out.

I wish there was someone raving on about how successful we will be by carefully analyzing the situation, changing an appropriate amount of investments to "hard" assets and collecting lease payments into 7 figures over a few years. But alas, there are no books, videos, or subscriptions to sell for that story. That's the one she sees everyday. And it is work, just like any other profession.

Everything Government does is negative, Everything government says is the opposite from the truth. You have to wonder sometimes, because what they say or do, are they really that dumb? Is that possible or do they really think that Your that dumb? I say the latter is the case. As for us? speaking of the negative...we are venting, letting others know. But I see a few now, speaking of what we can do, emphasizing the good things we do, the good things to come. Truth is, climate is changing and it ain't gona get warmer; our shields are down, probably 20-25% by now, the last report from NASA was 15% in 2013. The magnetic poles are shifting, an outcome yet to be determined. But overpopulation is the last of our worries. The only population I would like to see reduced is that of all government...It does not protect, it does not inform nor empower and if I could profit from telling people that...so be it...it would give me the needed funds to prepare for what seems logical.

Electro Magnetic Pulse is a very real threat, and so is the Neutron Bomb, the later is the -product of a fusion explosion (Think Star Trek, Anti-Matter & etc..) the science exists only in theoretical physics. The former, also the product of a nuclear explosion, and is an intentional tactic to deny an enemy any use of magnetic energy which is very open ended, no car built after 1979 will run and those before that will have to be hand cranked. Telephones, computers and anything that uses transistors or micro chips will not work.
Putin is not that stupid MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is very much in existence, even now, and neither the Clintons or Putin are that stupid.. There is no value in conquering salted earth. Only the rag headed sand people are that stupid, in their quest to meet Allah.
And Rush is right, the Kooks who spread this crap cost the worlds' economy hundreds of billions a year. The worst part of that is that these sick people always have some perverted personal profit scheme in mind when they dream this crap up!

johnpe 1,

you are correct about their desire for money.
Limbaugh is correct about these people being wrong, they are the ones who need to be incarcerated in a looney binn.

I saw the article this morning and just shook my head.

Don't worry, folks. When it is time for us all to go to hell in a hand basket, that will be the signal for the mothership to return (referencing The History Channel's "Ancient Aliens") with a good book all of their own--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJ...

Sorry, I just couldn't resist going through with this post after it germinated in my old dino imagination.
Mr. Chambers must have looked most especially tasty.
Would you believe I viewed the original broadcast when my folks had four whole channels to watch? It's one of my favorite TZ episodes.

"According to the report, “Humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change.”

The above doesn't quite cover the spectrum, as it omits Wars and other nasty things which are always accomplished by Force,,, Force being the the exclusive province of GOVERNments while decreed "illegal" to the masses.

If I were to "pray" it would be for the Global Great Collapse, which will have the happy effect of putting the Rulerships out of business, hopefully forever. Otherwise the next century will be our last!

It's either that, or the extinction of life on Planet Earth. Mankind can then, use it's "intelligence" to create a society of harmony and true Liberty. Will it?

Everything is amazing and nobody's happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiS...

expensive flu shots!!! . what is DAN air? -- j
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