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The
Cancer of Growth
What makes your brain tick?
According to researchers, the parts of your body, if you don't use it you lose
it, particularly your brain. The more you use it the more logical and brainier you
are. Could that be true?
The Cancer of Growth
An organic life form has a time span, that growth span is the phase
of life - yet the credit crunch had reveal interesting logic, why so few nations escape
the crunch?
The fact of exponential growth in time for quantity to increase in
size has a fixed constant, time is the factor in this quantity.
And as the size increase (say 100%) its complexity in
trading and its simplicity by nature which multiplies much more than the
corresponding increases in wealth.
Economic Growth or Creative Destruction
The main implication of this trade theory is that policies which
embrace openness and competition, as well as changes and innovation will promote
growth and wealth.
But the endogenous growth theory (the new growth theory) demonstrated that
policy measures can have cancerous impacts on the long term growth of any
economy, and ultimately her people are paying for the mistakes of the
oligopolistic policies.
Hence by the early 20th century, with its global economic and
population growth policies, fewer
wealthy nations were created and very many poor nations emerged.
And lead to the raise of new emerging nations questioning -- how this transitions from
subsistence or resource base to production and consumption base economic
power-house policy occurred ? The than hidden crisis of this credit crunch
was in the making.
Can anyone sense this hidden crisis in the population growth and economic boom
times, how emerging nations matured, leading to exporting capability surplus
outcry at the turn of the 21st century.
What is a credit crunch?
A credit crunch is generally caused by a reduction in the market price of previously
over inflated assets, and the easy credit which defers the financial crisis that resulted from the
price collapse.
The relationship between credit availability and interest rate has implicitly
changed that credit became less available at official
interest rate, or there ceases to have a relationship between interest rate
and credit availability, hence credit rationing occurs.
Concept of Growth
The modern conception of economic growth began with the critique of
mercantilism in the early periods, Western nations had developed
this idea, that economies could grow to produce a greater economic
surplus which could then be expended on something other than mere subsistence.
That argument was based on, if more money change hands, and the price of
individual goods remain relatively stable, then that would be proof that there can be
more productive capacity, therefore more capital, because only capital can
allow for more goods to be made at a much lower cost per unit.
Hence the purpose of government policies since was to encourage economic
activity, in other words increase the GDP and thus wealth to the
nation, without creating much inflation.
These surplus could then be used for consumption, warfare, civic and religious
projects, based on the view that an ever increasing population and tax
rates can generate more surplus money for the expansion.
But the calculation of the GDP was a Type-1 error of a false-positive growth, the error of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is actually true, that natural
capita must be part of the GDP, then we have an accounting anomaly
of enormous proportions when natural capita was ignored.
Nomenclature
Mankind blindly believe in nomenclature, because historically economic success has a close correlation between growth
and the climate, the mechanism between the two may spur in early human activity that
economies, as well as cultural development always concentrated on warmer part of the
world, examples of such as China, India or Egypt.
The predicted rate of economic growth has important implications for climate
change policy, thus the trade-off between carbons based economic growth and the
expected adverse impact on climate, partially acceptable consequences for this growth.
The concept was notable because in post war macro economic climates,
inflation and recession were regarded as mutually exclusive; and also because
stagflation had generally proven to be difficult and costly to eradicate once it
gets started.
But stagflation is an economic situation in which inflation and economic
stagnation occur simultaneously.
Modern Economic Concept
Stagflation can only result when an economy is slowed by an unfavourable supply shock,
such as an increase in the basic price of natural resources, which tend to
raise price that slow the economy by making production
less profitable.
And the supply shock model, higher prices will prompt increases in the supply of
goods and services, thus explore further into natural Earth resources to supply
an ever increasing demand-pull in a population growth economy.
In that resource scarcity scenario, stagflation results when
economic growth is inhibited by a restricted supply of raw materials.
And the demand-pull stagflation theory only explore the idea that
stagflation results
exclusively from monetary shock without any concurrent supply shock or
negative shift in economic output potential.
But the current economic crisis had already unfolded in the turn of this 21st
century, where PR is a scientific skill. Solutions that are urgently needed to
be implemented would harm corporate image, spin doctors persuade each other that
profit-depleting actions are unnecessary - a clever falsification of the
scientific term was need.
Inflation as it was known, but some smart ass had coined another
term 'Agflation' to describe the agricultural led inflation due to seasonal
commodity price changes, because in modern economy, agricultural prices are not factored
into the core inflation figures, and merely a term for seasonal
demand drove up core inflation rate.
The simplexes of growth base on consumption rather than savings is synonymous
with obesity cushioned by occasional dosage of loan bonds and
the racemic mixture of policies to stabilize growth has a cancerous
ingredient to the economy.
However, the implication on growth base on tax and ever increasing population in a
demand-pull economy is a complexes cycle, which ultimately led to
scarcity, that the natural Earth can sustain.
But the important questions are more basic:
Is growth really a good thing?
Is bigger really better?
Is it true that if we don't grow we will stagnate? |
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In answering these questions, bear in mind that the human growth in the early
phase of life is called adolescence, and that continues normally through
to physical growth, then stopped.
When physical maturity is reached - your purpose of life span had begun. What do we say to this growth that continues in
this period of physical maturity?
We say that such a growth is Obesity, or worse Cancer, diseases that comes from within rather than being caused by external
sources.
These are the natural limits of growth; it’s that emphasis on growth caused
the cancerous crisis in the first place. The importance of maintaining nature’s
environmental sources and development are inextricably interlinked.
If we can't cure brain death, at least try to prevent it from dying, a
population based demand-pull economic growth ultimately exceed natural Earth
sustainability --
that is endogenous growth by self-mutation of cancer cells to exogenous
destructions.
The true nature of exponential growth does not
reveal itself until variable rates of growth are considered. Recent credit crisis provides not only a warning but also an opportunity
for a stable economic growth, as well as sustainable development in order to
achieve true security.
Black Sea Scenario
The Black Sea weakened slowly at first and then collapsed with shocking
suddenness, has been used to compare with our Oceans as big ponds.
Where giant factory-processing ship, stay at sea for months at a time, scrapping
the deep sea-bed of our Ocean for all life forms in the bottom. These
factory-freezers kept trawling the Ocean for fish until all edible are gone by
the eve of the millennia.
And in a farm-pond, weeds growth slowly, farmers only need to occasionally clear
the weed for an ecological balance before it choke-off all life-forms in it.
Though our planet looks big, and part of it is still green because one fifth of
its forests remain, the rest have been cut and burn for domesticated cattle. The
human animals even have to cut the branch they are sitting as millennia unfold.
Now only one sixth of the forests are left on Earth.
With 100 nations importing wheat from just 6 supplying the world, that number of
suppliers will dwindle down to 3 in a generation's time.
The examples of this type of danger have a fixed ecological ratio, and we can be
deluded into thinking that there is no cause of alarm.
We celebrated on the eve of the new millennia with 6 billion people on Earth,
since another billion people have joined our party by 2010 -- 6 billion in 1999
now 6.8 and by next year today 7 billion.
The era for world population growing by 1 billion people every 10 years has
started; a count down to 5 years, 3 years, and 1 billion people per year is now
imminent in a generation's time.
Though the world accepts the CO2 another billion people could induce, but can’t
agree on the amount of methane (CH4), the potent greenhouse warming
gas, those extra billion
omnivores could emit, as
some are vegans.
Methane is a significant contributor to climate change and a third of the
world's methane (about 37%) is human induced, primarily from our meat producing
cattle, chicken or pig. With an annual growth rate of about 2%, a generation from now
(or 35 years), our livestock
will consume 1.3 billion tons of fodder (animal feed) alone.
Incidentally, methane (CH4) is also dubbed the mega-fart of mother Earth, and is
in prodigious quantities in many part of the world, from permafrost to frozen
bogs and underneath sea bed or by-products of oil fields, exported as liquefied
natural gas. But by the state of human nature, the half-life of methane ultimately decomposed
to form carbon dioxide.
And the scariest scenario by glaciologists was to build a city in Greenland, where
human activities will force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which
is enough to lower sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
What a pseudoscience.
Which does made me wondered? Why earlier in the year (2009), Greenland was
declared an independent nation state, for possible migration as a result of
human induced climate change.
Bio-Capacity
Population and waste is mathematically linked to sources and the climate, to cut a
‘wedge’ out of the graph on rising emissions will have to halve population. Take
the biosphere and the climate for example.
Our mother Earth has a bio-capacity - the natural absorption rate of organic
carbon in the soil mantle, but the human animals have already discharged double
that figure, with the developed nations being the biggest contributor and
preacher of recycling, whilst shipping millions of tons of solid waste to
another geological cleft.
In a vicious dose-dependent cycle, such amount of toxic waste affects global
geochemical cycle; further contribute to the shifting in climate and trophic
levels (food chains) in the ecosystem, known as the bio-magnification. What a wise eclecticism.
The volume of solid waste discharged in the Earth’s biosphere has reached a
geological figure (landfill site figure) of 400 million tons per annum and
rising, in a generation's time, mankind will suffocated in its own garbage.
What is a toxic waste to humans is a food source for insects and micro
organisms, and the chemicals that concentrated in the droppings of the birds are
food for vegetations; ultimately find their way in our food source, that the
experts called ‘bio-magnification’ or health hazard.
The natural absorption rate of organic carbon in the soil mantle is estimated
42 million tons annually. Human discharge of organic carbon had reached 85
million tons per annum – doubled the Earth's natural absorption ability.
Zero population grow in which a population remain stable, occurs only when
the birth and death rates are equal.
By the law of nature, any organic body when decomposed will produce carbon
dioxide or methane if devoid of oxygen; both are potent greenhouse warming gas,
then the world will have to eliminate landfill site practice or cemeteries.
Sleeping On the Job
According to the ancient agrarian records, historically, Chinese imperial navy
has been surveying the outside world every few hundred years.
Last
reported survey was about 500 years ago (or the Ming dynasty); indicate that there was no cause of
alarm.
The recurring Black Death pandemic - bubonic plague has almost wiped out Western
aboriginal. Population outside of China was a few tens of millions.
But the resilient population bounced back, leading to the Westphalia accords and
formulated land-grab policies. By the 19th century, this great scale migratory
movement was unprecedented; as a result of massive famines throughout Europe was
a perennial issue.
And thus, deforested four out of seven Continents, for cattle and population
growth, single-handedly ratchet up the speed of climate change during little Ice
Ages.
Intellectual migrant workers returning home today greeted by their natives as
the ‘White man’s nigger’ from the West, whilst the ‘White man’s burden’
label for colour still afresh.
The Western aboriginal won the world yesterday, not by the superiority of its
ideas or values, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
The West today tries to forget that historical fact, but the rest of the world
never does.
Today, Caucasian population, totalling 2 billion people over 4 Continents,
accounts for about a third of the world population, and consume on average per
head, about 9 acres of the Earth’s resources each.
Satellite images revealed that in recent years, Caucasians have started
populating Greenland as well; a Greenland city is now imminent in a generation’s
time.
Which does made people wondered? Why earlier in the year (2009), Greenland was
declared an independent nation state, for possible migration as a result of
human induced climate change.
And the scariest scenario by glaciologists was to build a Greenland city, where
human activities will force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which
is enough to lower sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
What a load of pseudoscience.
Migration has always been Homo sapiens’ survival strategy, by wrecking the
natural fecundity of new found Continents, you have nowhere to go. Mars is not
Homo sapiens' new frontier.
The environment and the atmosphere of the Planet Earth are common for all to
share, and the need for all to sacrifice if the 'tragedy of the common' is
to be avoided.
It behoves each of us, to work for the integrity, stability, and beauty of that
cobweb which allow all species, a brief sense of oneness with the splendours of
our Planet Earth.
Each of us are born to this Earth and nurtured by her; and each of us will
return to the Earth; all living things are born with ethical standing,
including, and not limited to human species.
The era for world population growing by 1 billion people every 10 years has
started; a count down to 5 years, 3 years, and 1 billion people per year is now
imminent in a generation's time.
Though climatologists had warned of imminent 'man-made' global
warming, yet failed to see why China controls her population growth. By the
law of nature, any decomposing body ultimately produce carbon dioxide or
methane if devoid of oxygen; both are potent greenhouse warming gases.
Thanks to the hockey stick (Keeling curve) on CO2 and satellite data on greenhouse
gases over the decades, there can be no doubt now, that human activity on Planet
Earth is changing climate levels.
World population will have to return to pre-industrial level. Any population
which sustains a negative rate of growth will halve; else nature will take her
revenge. The little Ice Age era is primarily a European and North Atlantic
phenomenon. To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of rising emissions will
have to halve population. Human beings are at best selfish.
Earth system science believes that human interference to planet Earth carbon
cycle on land and at sea affects the ocean circulation, the stratosphere and its
ozone layer, and the ice of the cryosphere. The Earth’s functioning system is
now close to breakdown.
If hydroxyl decides to take a break now, our Planet Earth’s metabolism will
cease to function without her ephemeral chemical. The concentration of hydroxyl
in the atmosphere is merely one part per trillion. Our trusted janitor might resign
anytime.
Recent world food crisis provide not only a warning but also an opportunity to
examine our sustainability, for a sustainable growth in order to achieve true
security. With an annual growth rate of about 2%, a generation from now (or 35
years), our livestock
will consume 1.3 billion tons of fodder (animal feed) alone.
Ecological Footprint
The term ‘ecological footprint’ is to let people know how much they consume
of nature’s resources and their waste discharged back on Earth. On the eve of
the millennia, there was 5.3 acres of land on
average to support each person on Earth, now is down to 4.9 acres.
And with
developed nations consume on average per head, about 9 acres of the Earth’s
resources each, while the 3rd world and emerging nations consume
on average below 3.5 acres per head.
A nation is said to have an ecological deficit, if the number of acres
needed to support its lifestyle is greater than the number of acres that
existed in that nation, they are all developed nations.
The number of ‘ecological footprint’ surplus nations has
now dwindled down to three in our universe; even India and China consume on average
about 4 acres per head of the Earth's natural resources each.
In a generation’s time, the average number of acres available will drop
down to 3 for each person on Earth, whilst consumption of the nature’s
resources is rapidly increasing, an ecological imbalance already happened.
An American study titled 'land, food and population growth' suggested that
our ‘One World’ will have to reduce her population by two-third to be
ecologically sustainable.
That number, coincide with the ancient Chinese agrarian wisdom, the term 'mere
subsistence' meant 2-3 acres of arable land per head was need, in order to avoid
the most gruesome famine during draughts, for a given population in that nation.
This ancient Chinese agrarian philosophy of sustainable land, gave a whole new
dimension to the science of ecological footprint, which was based on global
hectares per capita.
The postulated sustainable populations figure by eco-scientists, meant if the
than maximised world populations all stand still, can be ecologically
sustainable. What a load of pseudoscience.
Even by today’s fossil fuel era of Anthropocene climate, one-third of the
world's workforce is still employed in agribusiness, while all governments
subsidize agrarian activities for food security, though agriculture only account
for 5% of the GDP, or gross world aggregate product of exponential growth.
Since the millennia, this one world footprint uses the equivalent of 1.3
Planet Earth to provide the resources we need today, while our pH neutral
water sources are depleting fast due to industry, food, and population growth, and
is firmly locked in a vicious cycle of demand -- One world one dream same
nightmare.
Biotic Potential
The biotic potential on humans has been tilted as a result of advances in
medical science. The dispersion rates per square mile on many part of the world
have reached critical points.
This tilting has also shifted our trophic levels (food chains) in the
ecosystem, the energy food chain from our primary producers - plants and
photosynthetic bacteria which harness carbon and sun light into chemical
energy for our needs has been interrupted.
Our livestock alone now produce a
third of the world's (about 37%) human induced methane, the potent greenhouse
warming gas, primarily from our meat
producing cattle, chicken or pig.
Scientists found that human activities alone now responsible for over half of
the world's methane emission (the potent greenhouse warming gas); by the law of
nature, if we reduce global population by half, human induced emissions will
reduce by a quarter.
As any population which sustains a negative rate of growth will halve or
any population which sustains a positive rate of growth will double.
It took nature tens of thousands of years to build up a population of just
half of a billion people, but within our life time, world population had gone up
to 6.8 billions today.
Zero population grow in which a population remain stable, occurs only when
the birth and death rates are equal.
Trading for growth could not mitigate global poverty and hunger, charity starts from home,
such as China's population growth rate formula, which by 2050 both human induced
emissions and population issue can be significantly rectified. Recent world food
and credit crisis had already pay dividend to an educated and prosper nation, a shock to
the critics.
Sustainable Planet Earth
As human populations grow and expand, indigenous populations of plants, insects
and animals start getting squeeze out of the human habitats.
That's bad news to the indigenous as native aboriginal Australians had pointed out,
that disappearing species play a vital role in the ecological systems important to human
well beings.
Humans depend on a vast interconnected network of organisms other than our own
species. Examples as plants take in carbon dioxide and convert it to oxygen, and
pull water out of the ground to filter the atmosphere and supply us clean air
and water as rain.
Insects and micro organisms such as bacteria and fungi interact with
(pollinating) plants and animals in ways that provide food for other organisms,
including humans.
It behoves each of us, to work for the integrity, stability, and beauty of that
cobweb which allow all species, a brief sense of oneness with the splendours of
our Planet Earth.
Each of us are born to this Earth and nurtured by her; and each of us will
return to the Earth; all living things are born with ethical standing,
including, and not limited to human species.
The environment and the atmosphere of the Planet Earth are common for all to
share, and the need for all to sacrifice if the 'tragedy of the common' is
to be avoided.
By the law of nature, any population which sustains a negative rate of growth
will halve, or any population which sustains a positive rate of growth will
double. To cut a ‘wedge’ out of the graph of rising emissions will have to halve
world population. Human beings are at best selfish.
It took nature tens of thousands of years to build up a population of just half
of a billion people, but within our life time, world population had gone up
to 6.8 billions today.
Anthropoid Climate
You know, global warming actually improves global agriculture variability towards
the Holocene climates 11,500 year BP to the present, and had sustained the growth
and development of modern society.
Holocene climate optimum period roughly in the intervals of 9000 to 5000
years BP, or before the 1950-based radiocarbon dating reference time scale and paleoecology digs, and DNA.
During Holocene climates, increased rainfalls facilitate the development of
agriculture, village communities, and eventually cities by human-kind in all part
of the world.
Holocene climates in south-western part of North America, the
Mediterranean, Middle East, Ukraine, India and China, as well as Northern
Africa all received more rainfalls than they do today.
Thus Sahara desert than was a lush Savannah punctuated with rivers and lakes
that supported life and human domesticated cattle, and later culture as well as
agriculture spread into Europe.
But dogma has it, that such planetary elliptical orbits is a spin, causing
Holocene climate change; and opt for a fossil fuel era of Anthropocene climate.
Where are they heading, Heaven knows, perhaps global warming will annihilate us,
Anthropoid after all.
Lonesome George
Petroleum plays a vital role in food, but nitrous oxide is a by product of
fossil fuel in combustion engine, which inactivates vitamin B12 deficiency in us
by oxidation, that the experts called cobalamin.
Vitamin B12 plays a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and
nervous system, and vitamin B12 deficiency causes sensory neuropathy, myelopathy
and encephalopathy -- the inflammation in the brain, or the 'big-headedness'
literally, not a sign of intelligence else dolphins would be farming human
species.
Lonesome George is a case in point when the few big-headedness ventured into Galapagos
Islands for
food, with snout in their trotters, now shed crocodile tears with tortoise -- those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat in the future.
These parasitic brains are helping themselves again with fossil fuel, in the
name of global warming. A generation from now will label these rarest black
stuffs potent symbol of past industrialized civilization.
With the dispersion rates per square mile on many part of the world now reached
critical points, and the tilting of the biotic potential on human population as
a result of advances in medical science, plus the shifting in our trophic levels
(food chains) in the ecosystem.
If the remaining black stuffs are not wisely preserved for vital industrial and agricultural usage now, no military power than
can assure world security in a generation's time.
Author
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01/03/2010
All rights reserved.
Mantra: You can't cure brain death but you can prevent it from dying.
Notes:
(1) John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
the 20th-century British economist argues that private sector decisions
sometimes led to inefficient macro economic outcomes and therefore advocates
active policy responses by the public sector, including monetary policy actions
and fiscal policies activity by the government to stabilize
output over the business cycle.
(2) The term 'defer' - easy credit by means of loan
bonds cushioned by emerging nations instead of reserve and savings.
The term 'capital' - refers to accumulated wealth.
The term 'natural capital' - refers to nature's resources.
A third of the world's natural resources were consumed
in the last three decades, most were consumed by the industrialised nations.
During the same decades, industrialized nations
contributed almost two-third of the world's solid waste tonnage, in addition to
a third attributed by the poor and developing nations.
The capital calculation of GDP was a Type-1 error of a
false-positive growth, the error of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is
actually true, that natural capita must be part of the GDP calculation.
GDP or GNP might mean a great deal to an economist, but they do not tell us
anything about the quality of life in a far remote village.
(3) The term 'racemic' mixture of policies is
synonymous with the left and right handedness of inactive enantiomer which
occasionally causes severe cancer of growth from within.
(4) Oligopoly - a form of imperfect competition caused
by occasional dosage of stability to bank earnings over time will come at a
cost, and that cost will ultimately be borne by the economy rather than the
banks.
Oligopoly quickly develops internal politics and agenda
without external competition. These organisations became inflexible and
bureaucratic, increasingly entangled in their own greed, layer upon layer of
procedures then added to solve problems that better policed would have prevented
in the first place.
(5) Endogenous growth theory stress that knowledge is
the determinant of economic growth - inappropriate government policies has a
cancerous ingredient, that theory emphasizes on private investment in R&D as the
central source for technical progress.
(6) Exogenous growth model stress on higher reserve and
savings as experienced by emerging nations such as China or India, with a
positive annual GDP net growth since 1980s.
The UN GDP reports in 2006: that no fewer than 100 countries - all developing
or in transition have experienced serious economic decline over the past three
decades. As a result, per capita income in these 100 countries is lower than it
was 30 years ago.
By 1990, 21 countries experience decade-long declines in social and economic
indicators, compared with only 4 in the 1980s.
The decision-making procedures of the international economic institutions
(such as IMF, GATT etc) favoured a small group of developed Western nations.
(7) Climate change policy - the Kyoto protocol was
designed to cap global warming, but emission
trading only benefit the seller.
If by selling more emissions could mitigate global warming, than selling
hunger would benefit the poor, what a tautology. Whilst avoiding the political sensitive issue of world
over population - see Bacterium in a jar paradigm.
Now that scientists have found that livestock alone
produce a third of the world's (about 37%) human induced methane, primarily from
our meat producing cattle, chicken or pig.
CH4 (methane) is a significant contributor to climate
change, and more than 50% of methane emission is human induced.
The Kyoto protocol seeks to regulate its emission, and if they
can reduce
global population by half, we can reduce methane emission by a quarter.
(8) The true nature of exponential growth does not
reveal itself until variable rates of growth are considered.
(9)
Wall Street journal, Monday 24/3/2008
Review of Development Challenges 2009,
Club of Rome
Club of Rome Agenda
Global Depopulation Programme
Population Control
Global Famine
(10) Bio-Capacity
The natural absorption rate of organic carbon in
the soil mantle is estimated 42 million tons annually. Human discharge of
organic carbon had reached 85 million tons per annum – doubled the earth's
natural absorption ability.
The volume of solid domestic waste discharged in the Earth’s biosphere has
reached a geological figure (landfill site figure), over 400 million tons per
year. Such an enormous amount of waste affects global geochemical cycles;
further contribute to the shifting in climates and trophic levels (food chains)
in the ecosystem.
(11) Since the 1960s, China has adopted a population
growth rate and food yield formula, based on population which sustains a
negative rate of growth will halve; and by 2050 both human induced emissions and
population issue can be significantly rectified. Recent world food crisis had already pay
dividend to an educated and prosper nation, a shock to the critics.
(12) In recent years, over population combine with
famine have sow the seed in seaborne piracy against transport vessels. Its a
warning shoot in the bulbous bow of what lay ahead. In a generation's time no military power
than can assure world security.
(13) Ecological Footprint
The term ‘ecological footprint’ is to let people know how much they consume of
nature’s resources and their waste discharged back on Earth.
In ancient agricultural civilization, the term 'mere subsistence' indicate 2-3
acres of arable land per head was need, in order to avoid the most gruesome
famines during draught, for a given population in that nation. (Arable land not
global hectares per capita)
In the 1950s, China is said to have an ecological deficit -- the number of acres
of arable land needed to support her population in case of draught, there was
massive famine. Since adopted the food yield and population growth formula, and
recent world food crisis has again proved the ancient wisdom.
In a research on ecology and agriculture at Cornell University and US
National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition study titled 'land, food and
population growth' indicated that the world will have to reduce her population
by two-third, the maximum sustainable ecology in the US is 200 million.
World Footprint
Today humanity uses the equivalent of 1.3 Planet Earth to provide the resources we
use and absorb our waste discharged back on earth, that is -- it takes 1 year
and 4 months at today's rate.
In a generation's time, we will need the equivalent of two Planet Earths to
support our existing life style, while pH neutral water sources are depleting
fast due to food and population growth, and it's going to be a 'one world one
dream same nightmare' scenario.
(14) Ecological Footprint
In the case of coffee, about 25 million small farmers depend directly on coffee
production in over 50 countries. With increasing use of fertilisers and
pesticides since the 1980s, has led to over supply of coffee, as a result coffee
farmers’ income has declined by two-third (about 70%) by 2001.
(15) Little Ice Ages
The periods of little ice age began in the early 14th century, and flickered on
and off before peaking in late 17th century, and finally releasing its grip some
150 years ago.
At the height of the little ice age, the Baltic Sea froze over and there was
widespread famine across Europe. By 1420s Chinese surveying ships headed the
Arctic via the north coast of Greenland through to North America.
(16) Pseudoscience Tale
Pseudoscience tale of the ocean circulation system switch, that colder water
dissolves carbon dioxide faster than warmer water, in order to controlling the
ocean conveyer belt on/off switch.
And suggest the building of a city in Greenland, where human activities will
force the ancient glacial ice mountains down to sea, which is enough to lower
sea temperature worldwide, to restore climate equilibrium.
(17) Fodder or Animal Feed
The worldwide animal feed industry consumed 635 million tons of feed (compound
feed equivalent) in 2006, with an annual growth rate of about 2%.
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