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Those stupid headline writers. She's a serial child killer, not a child serial killer.

It's going to hurt, this century and even this half century.

The population is in massive overshoot beyond planetary carrying capacity (i.e., its resources that we find useful/necessary and their natural rate of self renewal) by anywhere from 8:1 to perhaps 10:1.

For anything even remotely resembling a smoother landing in the inevitable population decline (i.e., a slower and more just+equitable process involving more natural attrition and less war, murder, famine, and pestilence) the humans currently enjoying the highest levels of technology/development/lifestyle would need to cut their consumption by 80-90 percent -- they would need to start living as if it were (perhaps, approximately) the 1700s. This would need to be phased in both very soon and very rapidly.

Of course, those same population groups also have (for the time being, at least) the resources and might to resist that needed reduction by whatever means they can, including war and/or creation of closed enclaves that no longer allow immigration or participate in many forms of external trade. While blaming almost anything and anyone other than the real mechanics (simply massive and growing resource deficit relative to population) of what's going on.

It's just going to suck, this time ahead. We who are alive now have to bring this situation home and lay it to rest in the least awful ways we can, and we are rapidly growing very constrained in terms of remaining options.

I thought it was a clowder of cats but a mewling of kittens. Maybe viciousness qualifies for clowder status.

I almost decided to mention that earlier/above. I'm not convinced yet that Russ Baker isn't a little off the deep end overall, but that whole story certainly is a fascinating and disturbing read, as is much of the material on his site.

It's getting really late to move toward egalitarian de-growth

But you have to be a trash human in order to become a billionaire.

It's as if you were channeling William Burroughs

Amazing how "increase shareholder value" is in direct opposition to keeping the shareholders, their descendants, and modern civilization itself viable.

When reminding or teaching the younger community about George H.W. Bush, let us not forget to mention that when the US elected him, it elected the former CIA director to the presidency.

A supposedly democratic Republic elected its own chief of secret police to lead the executive branch of government. Somehow even at that time most Americans didn't seem to be aware of that glaring fact, and far fewer have seemed to realize it ever since.

And then the country went on to elect that guy's completely unqualified son to the same office less than a generation later. /facepalm

Have we already forgotten Kimbra?!

Thanks for posting. But I read the full article just now and saw zero reporting or analysis on the subject of why he's leaving the position. Not even speculation! Did I miss something?

"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet!"

2016 debate clip