The World As We Know It Is Coming To An End Soon
To Whom It May Concern,
The Modern Civilized World As We Know It Is Definitely and Inevitably Coming to An End All Too Much Sooner Than You Think. That last sentence was an understatement. This* is an mathematical certainty..
Having being well informed of the issues of peak oil, peak water, global warming & global dimming, unsustainable Infinite Growth Machine (TM) fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, decline of petrodollar hegemony, debt-based economies, rapid unrecoverable depleting of environment and resources, etc and having read up somewhat on the Olduvia Gorge Theory and other Post Industrial Stone Age theories, I propose that we as a species will soon (2008-2015) return back to the Stone Age and become extinction within the next few hundred years.
My purpose for this is not to debate whether or not peak oil will happen, or even whether a global depression of never before seen scale and intensity will strike as we go down forever the energy decline slope. That is a mathematical certainty, and its going to happen whether we like it or not.
In Darwin’s Struggle For Existence he has often said:
“A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all
organic beings tend to increase. Every being, which during its natural lifetime
produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of
its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the
principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so
inordinately great that no country could support the product. Hence, as more
individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be
a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same
species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical
conditions of life. It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force
to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no
artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage.
Although some species may be now increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers,
all cannot do so, for the world would not hold them.”
Also he goes on to say:
“There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases
at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by
the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five
years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be
standing room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant
produced only two seeds and there is no plant so unproductive as this and their
seedlings next year produced two, and so on, then in twenty years there would
be a million plants. The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder of all
known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum
rate of natural increase: it will be under the mark to assume that it breeds
when thirty years old, and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing
forth three pairs of young in this interval; if this be so, at the end of the
fifth century there would be alive fifteen million elephants, descended from
the first pair.”
So what is nature’s motivation for designing life that it produces at a rate so
high that if not destroyed (some/most unlucky must die) the earth would soon be
covered entirely by progeny of a single pair? Why is the purpose of this
seemingly uncontemplateable cruelty that the vast major must die and only a
select lucky few from each generation will ever get the chance to survive and
pass on its genes for the next generation? Easy, the answer is 'PROGRESS'. This
is the way of 'life' and is dictated by the laws of physics that are in this
universe we live in. Study Evolutionary Darwinism and understand its intracies
and you shall see life in a whole new way, reality is stranger than fiction.
That’s for me to say and you to find out.
Do you realize that since the dawn of life on earth over 4 billion years
ago, the vast majority of all species that have ever walked on this earth are
now long gone and extinct fossils? All the diversity and variety of life on
earth that you see today actually originated form a single ‘branch’ lifeline
from the many many others.
Seen in this new light, we homo sapiens are certainly nothing special or
unique, and if history is any indicator, our species will become extinct and
all but forgotten once it has served its purpose.
So in an evolutionary sense, the dieoff.com website was correct when it said:
“It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing high intelligence this is not correct. We have, or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however competent can make the long climb from primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The same will be true of other planetary systems. On each of them there will be one chance, and one chance only.”
So I can say with confidence that as far as the attribute of
abstract intelligence is concerned, evolutionary speaking, we are a
failure. And because as the human species declines it will necessarily
leave with it an earth exhausted of the physical prerequisites for another
transition from primitive conditions to high-level technology, we have denied
any other future species the chance for intelligence. Super intelligence will
never evolve on this planet, perhaps intelligence is not the best attribute to
have in the long run, at least not from a biological/evolutionary stand point.
The industrial revolution was the result of a complex set of causes, none of
which, by itself, could have given rise to the phenomenon: the crucial
technological innovations would have meant little without notable population
growth, an increase in agricultural efficiency that released much of the
workforce from field labor, and key economic changes, such as greater mobility
of capital.
As Mike Ruppert has said:
“As the human race enters the first stages of inevitable collapse resulting
from Peak Oil, it does so ass-backwards, in complete denial, and in the one way
most certain to guarantee the greatest amount of suffering and death for future
generations.”
Our current lifestyle and population is and can only be maintained because of
the necessary efficiencies that come with mass production, industrial
revolution, structured society due to high level of population, social
contract, and high technology. Our modern way of life is entirely dependent
upon The
Way Money Works. Unfortunately for us our modern banking
system is also entirely dependent upon a continuous and neverending supply
of CHEAP and ABUNDANT OIL. Each generation borrows its wealth and means on the
sole confidence that the next generation will continue to GROW and EXPAND to be
able to pay it back, we are in essence always counting on future infinite
exponential growth potential and taking that expectation of growth as
collateral for today’s payments.
When we can no longer continue to grow then the pyramid scheme will topple down and deck of cards will be seen as the façade that it always was. It is important that you understand that no amount of conservation will help. Alterative energy is a joke. Zero Point Energy and Fusion are pipe dreams. We simply cannot continue to grow. And When we don’t grow we DIE. This is not a rosy economic theory, this is real life, and in reality there is no static middle ground. It could be said that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is it fail to understand and appreciate the exponential function.
Here is why -> As we slide down the slope of Olduvai Gorge, the exact reverse appears to happen. As population decreases, and we know that it necessarily MUST, much of the workforce will once again be forced back to field labor, there will be less mobility of capital, less mobility of transportation, less ability to communication, education, organization, cooperation, and of technological innovations, thus leading to a double problem of much lower efficiency.
This viscous downward cycle and chain reaction will eventually
lead to the supernova
of mankind. As much of our industrial efficiencies are lost, and as we lose
the ability to grow food from oil, to plant, harvest, package,
transport, food and other basic fundamental necessities of life are all lost
due to our dependency
on petroleum and its derivates, as we also lose the benefits of an orderly
and structured society and social contract and cooperation (which is
maintainable only by high population)our earth will have an even lower ability
to sustain our overpopulated species, And our total global carrying capacity
will be that much lower. As our population corrects to a lower number once
again we will experience the phenomenon of reverse efficiency. As our
efficiency dips to lower and lower abysmal levels each time this happens, our
population will become less and less.
Eventually we will revert back to the Stone Age. With stone age
technology,
Stone Age language, and a stone age view and ideology of the
world and the universe. But worse, because this time around we will
have
exhausted nature’s abundant supply of fish, trees, top soil, fresh
water, clean
air, all that was so readily available to us during the last ice age.
And of
course, this means we will have the carrying capacity that natural
always had
intended us to have, the level will be equivalent or perhaps lower than
that of
the first original Stone Age.
The
Modern World as We Know It up till this point in time has been a
massive Ponzi Pyramid Scheme Propped up by the CHEAP and ABUNDANT
OIL supply. As the resource becomes less abundant this great Pyramid
Scheme will suffer the fate of all pyramid schemes. The destabilization
of society will not be pretty. Least not for a society that has our
level of over population and one that has been structured to be
accustomed to an never ending and forever growing supply of petroleum
and its derivatives. One things if for certain, the fragility of mankind will be soon displayed in all its glory.
So the next time a comet or asteroid comes around, and it will, we can say good bye Flintstones.
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Further Reading:
Links displayed in order of importance:
http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
http://www.eroei.com/articles/the-chain/what-is-eroei/
http://www.peakoil.com/forums.html
http://sydneypeakoil.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=49
http://dieoff.org/page224.htm
http://www.eco-action.org/dt/eisland.html
http://www.energybulletin.net/
http://globalpublicmedia.com/node/461
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/martenson/2007/1217.html
http://globalpublicmedia.com/richard_heinbergs_museletter_what_will_we_eat_as_the_oil_runs_out
http://globalpublicmedia.com/reality_report_global_economy_under_stress
http://www.theoildrum.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5948263607579389947
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html
http://ifamericansknew.org/
http://www.truthpublishing.com/
http://www.peakoil.net/
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2006/02/peak-water.html
http://www.rense.com/general23/gold.htm
http://www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/149
http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v22n4p10.htm
http://www.prosperityuk.com/prosperity/articles/negcon.html
http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/chile/easter_island.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031406_money_works.shtml
http://sydneypeakoil.com/downloads/campbellpeakoil.html
http://dieoff.org/page125.htm
http://globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/645
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic19927.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html
http://www.energybulletin.net/19131.html