http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/ Humans have tinkered with the natural world since we appeared on the evolutionary stage. Our days certainly seem numbered: As the home team, Nature bats last. Thu, 17 May 2012 05:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-27 Murray R Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:42:58 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-27 I think you will enjoy the perspective of the writers on our contrarian news and opinion website. Here's an investor's guide called <a href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/peak-oil-facts-capitalizing-on-the-global-decline-of-oil-production-to-survive-the-coming-crisis" rel="nofollow">Peak Oil Facts: How to Survive the Coming Crisis</a> I think you will enjoy the perspective of the writers on our contrarian news and opinion website. Here’s an investor’s guide called Peak Oil Facts: How to Survive the Coming Crisis

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-26 Russ V Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:20:18 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-26 Dr. McPherson, In your commentary in the AZ Republic today, you mention, "its too late"...to some extent I agree...but, ALL forms of stored energy need to be reduced to ther "common denominator" of hydrogen (yes, carbon filament storage tanks have been available via NASA & DOD for 30 years to the "right people"... Thi public needs t transition to new fueling structures...(only meny-in-politics / lask of information to the public ---keeps this from happening...politicians "afraid to the touch the issue" -- media sources not wanting to offend their biggest advertisers etc... See www.hydrogenarmy.org for more info...we've been at it a long time...KNOWING their is a solution...the universe is 70% hydrogen...competition is not as profitable as cartels.. Russ V. Dr. McPherson,
In your commentary in the AZ Republic today, you mention, “its too late”…to some extent I agree…but, ALL forms of stored energy need to be reduced to ther “common denominator” of hydrogen (yes, carbon filament storage tanks have been available via NASA & DOD for 30 years to the “right people”…
Thi public needs t transition to new fueling structures…(only meny-in-politics / lask of information to the public —keeps this from happening…politicians “afraid to the touch the issue” — media sources not wanting to offend their biggest advertisers etc…
See http://www.hydrogenarmy.org for more info…we’ve been at it a long time…KNOWING their is a solution…the universe is 70% hydrogen…competition is not as profitable as cartels..
Russ V.

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-25 Frank Mezek Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:19:08 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-25 " I see our country going off a cliff ", Carl Ichann on "60 Minutes", March 9,2008. This from one of the world's foremost capatalists. ” I see our country going off a cliff “, Carl Ichann on “60 Minutes”, March 9,2008. This from one of the world’s foremost capatalists.

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-24 Frank Mezek Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:07:06 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-24 The 3 Generation Rule is immutable. Many fools have said that measures taken by the government or the Federal Reserve would prevent another Depression.Nothing could be farther from the truth. Vanity and Greed, the essential ingredients for the operation of the Capitalistic System will always out. The 3 Generation Rule is immutable. Many fools have said that measures taken by the government or the Federal Reserve would prevent another Depression.Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Vanity and Greed, the essential ingredients for the operation of the Capitalistic System will always out.

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-23 Frank Mezek Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:58:18 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-23 The Three Generation Rule: The world always has had a great economic Depression every 50-60 years because that roughly corresponds to 3 generations. The Depression is so horrendous that anyone who lives through one cannot repeat their errors that led to it again, nor can their children, the 2nd generation. But the grandchildren, the 3rd generation, who have no memory of the past, must always repeat the mistakes of their grandparents in the basic essentials. Human nature never changes,so economic history must always repeat itself every 3rd generation. The Three Generation Rule:
The world always has had a
great economic Depression every 50-60 years because that roughly corresponds to 3 generations. The Depression is so horrendous that anyone who lives through one cannot repeat their errors that led to it again, nor can their children, the 2nd generation. But the grandchildren, the 3rd generation, who have no memory of the past, must always repeat the mistakes of their grandparents in the basic essentials.
Human nature never changes,so economic history must always repeat itself every 3rd generation.

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-22 Frank Mezek Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:43:08 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-22 We are entering the terminal economic Depression. The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff showed that these happen on a regular basis every 50-60 years. And every Depression is always worse than the one before. We barely survived the last one, and everything is so much more dire now than in the 1930's, that the Capitalistic System cannot survive in it's present form. We are entering the terminal economic Depression. The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff showed that these happen on a regular basis every 50-60 years. And every Depression is always worse than the one before. We barely survived the last one, and everything is so much more dire now than in the 1930′s,
that the Capitalistic System cannot survive in it’s present form.

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-21 Frank Mezek Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:24:39 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-21 We are living in the real,original,Vanity Fair. In chapter 6 of Bunyan's, Pilgrim Progress, the 1st vice that Bunyan mentions as being sold in the town of Vanity at their ongoing fair is houses. We are living in the real,original,Vanity Fair.
In chapter 6 of Bunyan’s, Pilgrim Progress, the 1st vice that Bunyan mentions as being sold in the town of Vanity at their ongoing fair is houses.

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-20 will santana Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:15:03 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-20 my feeling is that every thing is going more or less according to nature's plan - vast numbers of seeds are usually produced by a plant - the same w/ viable species on viable planets - as carl sagan said the universe most likely is brimming w/ life forms - somewhere out there a species is making the right decisions - sadly ours doesnt' seem to be 1 of them - but whatever happens: peak oil, runaway global warming, a massive human die off - the lesson to remember is to keep tryin' - live by the `scandalous gospels' - of the great teachers - love, compassion, hope & if possible, keep that sense of humour - thanx for `tryin' ...will santana my feeling is that every thing is going more or less according to nature’s plan – vast numbers of seeds are usually produced by a plant – the same w/ viable species on viable planets – as carl sagan said the universe most likely is brimming w/ life forms – somewhere out there a species is making the right decisions – sadly ours doesnt’ seem to be 1 of them – but whatever happens: peak oil, runaway global warming, a massive human die off – the lesson to remember is to keep tryin’ – live by the `scandalous gospels’ – of the great teachers – love, compassion, hope & if possible, keep that sense of humour – thanx for `tryin’ …will santana

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-19 Joe Kelly Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:27:57 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-19 I really enjoyed your essay, found it compulsive reading and inspiring, so much so that I downloaded it into my folder of ‘Great Reads’ …. until I came across your paragraph on Ireland. This may be off-topic, but then again, I must defend my country as you defended yours! "Some countries have looked back to move forward. Ireland uses medical generalists in their communities to advance the public health. They preserve the good of the many at the occasional expense of the one, or of the few. Yet babies and old people die at the about the same annual rate in Ireland as in the United States. No, Ireland's public-health practitioners don't get to write articles about saving the lives of babies with no statistical chance of living. They don't get to bask in the reflected glory -- or maybe it's the hubris -- of their seven-figure salaries while their peers enviously wonder when they'll have a chance to break the new record. But perhaps, in focusing on communities and therefore letting go of some individual lives, IRELAND HAS PRESERVED SOMETHING WE'VE LOST: SOMETHING ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL ... MORAL." I don’t know when, where or how you got that impression of contemporary Ireland. That is not Ireland of the 21st century, maybe of the 20th century. Have you heard about the Celtic Tiger ?…. the economic success story of my country. Ireland is now one of the most oil dependent countries in the world. Today, we travel more car miles per head of population than Californians. We are on a campaign of building new motorways, threatening archaeological sites that existed some 1500 years before Socrates and the Buddha, ie The Hill of Tara. You may heard of the recent controversy over the German Ambassador and his remarks that we are obsessed with ‘07’ cars (new cars), not to mention our love of the largest SUV’s that money can buy, including the all-American Hummer. We have destroyed so much of our untouched, beautiful countryside, (remember, we escaped the industrial revolution of the 19th century), with a rural planning policy, (or lack of!) that allowed a blight of one-off, unsustainable, housing, each house bigger than the next…. in a ribbon development of rural suburbia. The Irish cohesive, close-knit community is gone, forever. ‘it’s with O’Leary in the grave’. We have one of the fastest rising suicide rates in the world. A government study(2005) remarked that a major contribution was a breakdown of our community-style of living to one of an individualist, materialistic style which has come with economic prosperity. Serious crime, gang-land killings, relatively new to this country, now hit our TV screens everyday. Even the innocent get gunned down in the game, as in two weeks ago. Cocaine use is now the common recreational drug, ‘money talks’. Our economy, one of the fastest growing in the world at the turn of this century, due to capital inflows from Boston (‘the multinational’) and Berlin (EC grants), is today mainly based on the building boom, the so called ‘bubble’, helped by an influx of cheap labour from the poorer Eastern European countries. In a recent Unicef study of the top 24 developed economies we rank 4th highest in the relative poverty stakes, the U.S. in 1st place, and we are practically alone in that we are decreasing our share of social spending. And, to put it mildly, our Health System is in a mess, especially if you cannot afford private health insurance. In the so-called recent improvement of our health system, the government increased middle-management numbers by 10,000% (Prof Crown, Oct 2007), yet our waiting lists for treatment have not improved. Sorry, but maybe you should have taken France or Germany or Cuba as an example of a working health system. We have many tribunals running here for a long time, trying to figure out what politicians, including our current Prime Minister, did what ….. who paid off who, and nobody seems to know ….. are they all lying … where are the morals now?.. Ireland is the quoted example of an economic success story, the model for many of the new Eastern European entrants to the EC. I happened to be in beautiful Romania before their accession to the EC and was asked by a stranger how we did it? “Greed”, I answered him. Ironic the quote ‘capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich’ for Romania. No, Ireland has NOT preserved something we've lost: something economic, environmental, political, social … or moral. We just adopted your ways. joe I really enjoyed your essay, found it compulsive reading and inspiring, so much so that I downloaded it into my folder of ‘Great Reads’ …. until I came across your paragraph on Ireland. This may be off-topic, but then again, I must defend my country as you defended yours!
“Some countries have looked back to move forward. Ireland uses medical generalists in their communities to advance the public health. They preserve the good of the many at the occasional expense of the one, or of the few. Yet babies and old people die at the about the same annual rate in Ireland as in the United States. No, Ireland’s public-health practitioners don’t get to write articles about saving the lives of babies with no statistical chance of living. They don’t get to bask in the reflected glory — or maybe it’s the hubris — of their seven-figure salaries while their peers enviously wonder when they’ll have a chance to break the new record. But perhaps, in focusing on communities and therefore letting go of some individual lives, IRELAND HAS PRESERVED SOMETHING WE’VE LOST: SOMETHING ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL … MORAL.”
I don’t know when, where or how you got that impression of contemporary Ireland. That is not Ireland of the 21st century, maybe of the 20th century.
Have you heard about the Celtic Tiger ?…. the economic success story of my country.
Ireland is now one of the most oil dependent countries in the world. Today, we travel more car miles per head of population than Californians. We are on a campaign of building new motorways, threatening archaeological sites that existed some 1500 years before Socrates and the Buddha, ie The Hill of Tara. You may heard of the recent controversy over the German Ambassador and his remarks that we are obsessed with ‘07’ cars (new cars), not to mention our love of the largest SUV’s that money can buy, including the all-American Hummer.
We have destroyed so much of our untouched, beautiful countryside, (remember, we escaped the industrial revolution of the 19th century), with a rural planning policy, (or lack of!) that allowed a blight of one-off, unsustainable, housing, each house bigger than the next…. in a ribbon development of rural suburbia. The Irish cohesive, close-knit community is gone, forever. ‘it’s with O’Leary in the grave’.
We have one of the fastest rising suicide rates in the world. A government study(2005) remarked that a major contribution was a breakdown of our community-style of living to one of an individualist, materialistic style which has come with economic prosperity.
Serious crime, gang-land killings, relatively new to this country, now hit our TV screens everyday. Even the innocent get gunned down in the game, as in two weeks ago. Cocaine use is now the common recreational drug, ‘money talks’.
Our economy, one of the fastest growing in the world at the turn of this century, due to capital inflows from Boston (‘the multinational’) and Berlin (EC grants), is today mainly based on the building boom, the so called ‘bubble’, helped by an influx of cheap labour from the poorer Eastern European countries.
In a recent Unicef study of the top 24 developed economies we rank 4th highest in the relative poverty stakes, the U.S. in 1st place, and we are practically alone in that we are decreasing our share of social spending.
And, to put it mildly, our Health System is in a mess, especially if you cannot afford private health insurance. In the so-called recent improvement of our health system, the government increased middle-management numbers by 10,000% (Prof Crown, Oct 2007), yet our waiting lists for treatment have not improved. Sorry, but maybe you should have taken France or Germany or Cuba as an example of a working health system.
We have many tribunals running here for a long time, trying to figure out what politicians, including our current Prime Minister, did what ….. who paid off who, and nobody seems to know ….. are they all lying … where are the morals now?..
Ireland is the quoted example of an economic success story, the model for many of the new Eastern European entrants to the EC. I happened to be in beautiful Romania before their accession to the EC and was asked by a stranger how we did it? “Greed”, I answered him. Ironic the quote ‘capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich’ for Romania.
No, Ireland has NOT preserved something we’ve lost: something economic, environmental, political, social … or moral.
We just adopted your ways.
joe

]]> http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-18 noah Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:14:58 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/08/the-end-of-civilization-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/#comment-18 The url link is an, I think, appropriate Skinny Puppy video (there isn't one for "Human Disease"). The url link is an, I think, appropriate Skinny Puppy video (there isn’t one for “Human Disease”).

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