The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
[theatlantic.com]
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I learned, some 50+ years ago..that the root problem that faces humanity is our uncontrollable desire to breed.
But it makes us so much more like every other biological being.
We've had "death control" (sanitation, medicine) for centuries....yet "birth control" is still less than 100 years old.
We are still growing far too fast...the production and recycling of resources cannot keep up.
Malthus said it well over 200 years ago..."as the quantity of any life form (in any given area) increases, the quality of life decreases. More and more, fight harder and harder, for less and less.
Here's the article I read in '62 that changed my life;
and here's the data on our present growth rate; 150 more births than deaths, per minute.
Robecology
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Nov 16, 2020
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that was the essence of the article. I found it very interesting.
. . . hmmmm.
"Turchin’s prescriptions are, as a whole, vague and unclassifiable."
"(As Jo Guldi, a historian at Southern Methodist University, put it to me, “Some historians regard Turchin the way astronomers regard Nostradamus.” )"
FearlessFly
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Nov 16, 2020
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I just thought it was an interesting idea, to have cycles in civilization like nature, and the part about the wealthy becoming top-heavy made sense to me ....
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