Cog wrote:Not to worry guys. In the camp, you will still get Trump tweets everyday.
So will you, bunkie.
You have this queer idea of allegiance to the constitution. That will get you into trouble.
Cog wrote:Not to worry guys. In the camp, you will still get Trump tweets everyday.
Newfie wrote:Let's not look forward to it too hungrily.
Tens of millions of human beings, especially in the global south, are being herded into the climate furnaces for immolation.
Newfie wrote:Really? Then it would not be asymmetrical would it. But seriously, what is "their" equivalent of the World Trade Centers or an open society?
dohboi wrote:As Chris Hedges recently pointed out, the "North" mostly doesn't have to 'shoot' the 'South.'Tens of millions of human beings, especially in the global south, are being herded into the climate furnaces for immolation.
But ultimately, we are all in the 'firing line.'
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_ ... s_20170618
Already deaths from heat have increased 7 fold since the '80s iirc.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:It took humanity less than 30 years to go from 5,000,000,000 to 7,550,000,000 and;
5,450/7,550=72.185% of the humans alive today are in the reproductive age bracket of <40!
So ask yourself, what could cause a cessation of international shipping? War? Surely. But also a collapse of trade and/or financial agreements.
onlooker wrote:So ask yourself, what could cause a cessation of international shipping? War? Surely. But also a collapse of trade and/or financial agreements.
Or the demise of the Oil Industry
vtsnowedin wrote:If you look back at the pictures of both Americans and Europeans after WW2 from 1946 to 1960 you can see that we were a lot thinner then. Perhaps part of the blame would lie in the great depression which was one of (In Europe) causes of the war but the war certainly made it worse. And if you look at the Russian/USSR side of it there are few pictures because millions died of starvation and were not around to have their pictures taken in 1950.
Don't discount war as a possible vehicle which will achieve major reductions in human population in the future.
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