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Recently the threshold was crossed where now half the world's population is connected to the internet. Over 3.5 billion people, and it grows every day.
This is of course the only way our western economies, both the more capitalist economies nations like Australia, Canada and the United States and the left-leaning welfare states of Scandinavia and Western Europe, can survive. They need to constantly grow not only in population but in GDP. If less money is coming in than can even pay the interest on money borrowed for retirement benefits and healthcare of the aging generation the whole house of cards collapses. Does not matter if its insurance companies or the government administering the healthcare or whether its pensions of private retirement benefits, if the money is not there to pay these costs it not only brings down the middle class and healthcare industry, it creates a global credit crunch that will overnight wipe out sums of obligated money that is somewhere in the tens of trillions of US dollars. Its honestly not even calculable, it would be like measuring the size of the global economy then cutting it in half. There are scenarios where nuclear war would be less disastrous.
So if you want to know why immigration and asylum seekers are so desperately welcomed and why Africa and South Asia are allowed by "humanitarian" organisations to grow well beyond populations these countries have any prayer of supporting that's it. Even countries with solid, stable growth rates like the United States require money being spent internationally in the global economy (like via Amazon) and large numbers of immigrants, legal or illegal, to provide and contribute toward the absolutely monumental obligations.
But for years we have been past the point of the human load the planet can bear. Within ten years our fate will be sealed, anyone willing to accept the grim reality understands that barring a colossal loss of population before 2030 (I'm talking about half the global population) our fate is pretty much decided already. The climate will change, the oceans will rise and there will be less arable land trying to feed an ever-increasing number of people. The decisions we have refused to make regarding our populations the planet will soon make for us. China, South Asia and Africa have virtually no checks on how they treat the environment and have no intentions of introducing any.
So here is our bind, here is the impossible riddle that is going to undo everything humanity has been building towards since about the 1400's, which is the true beginning of our modern mercantile world. We either sacrifice the global economy, or the globe itself sacrifices us. What cannot be allowed is the continued rise of conspicuous consumerism, both in intensity and scope. In fact, it needs to be reversed. If we want to just pretend there is something we can do to just snap our fingers and maintain the status quo it still wouldn't solve it. We need to go back. The growth model must be abandoned, if it doesn't it's going to drag us all down with it.
Of course this wont happen. It would be suicide for elected officials. Even the half measures like austerity would be met with open revolt like in Paris, never mind the truly impactful solutions like mass sterilization and ban on humanitarian missions and international adoptions. We are imminently at the point of no return, in fact so close that our continued intertia towards our doom is to the point where it cannot be abated before we fling ourselves off the ledge.
[Its Over]
This is of course the only way our western economies, both the more capitalist economies nations like Australia, Canada and the United States and the left-leaning welfare states of Scandinavia and Western Europe, can survive. They need to constantly grow not only in population but in GDP. If less money is coming in than can even pay the interest on money borrowed for retirement benefits and healthcare of the aging generation the whole house of cards collapses. Does not matter if its insurance companies or the government administering the healthcare or whether its pensions of private retirement benefits, if the money is not there to pay these costs it not only brings down the middle class and healthcare industry, it creates a global credit crunch that will overnight wipe out sums of obligated money that is somewhere in the tens of trillions of US dollars. Its honestly not even calculable, it would be like measuring the size of the global economy then cutting it in half. There are scenarios where nuclear war would be less disastrous.
So if you want to know why immigration and asylum seekers are so desperately welcomed and why Africa and South Asia are allowed by "humanitarian" organisations to grow well beyond populations these countries have any prayer of supporting that's it. Even countries with solid, stable growth rates like the United States require money being spent internationally in the global economy (like via Amazon) and large numbers of immigrants, legal or illegal, to provide and contribute toward the absolutely monumental obligations.
But for years we have been past the point of the human load the planet can bear. Within ten years our fate will be sealed, anyone willing to accept the grim reality understands that barring a colossal loss of population before 2030 (I'm talking about half the global population) our fate is pretty much decided already. The climate will change, the oceans will rise and there will be less arable land trying to feed an ever-increasing number of people. The decisions we have refused to make regarding our populations the planet will soon make for us. China, South Asia and Africa have virtually no checks on how they treat the environment and have no intentions of introducing any.
So here is our bind, here is the impossible riddle that is going to undo everything humanity has been building towards since about the 1400's, which is the true beginning of our modern mercantile world. We either sacrifice the global economy, or the globe itself sacrifices us. What cannot be allowed is the continued rise of conspicuous consumerism, both in intensity and scope. In fact, it needs to be reversed. If we want to just pretend there is something we can do to just snap our fingers and maintain the status quo it still wouldn't solve it. We need to go back. The growth model must be abandoned, if it doesn't it's going to drag us all down with it.
Of course this wont happen. It would be suicide for elected officials. Even the half measures like austerity would be met with open revolt like in Paris, never mind the truly impactful solutions like mass sterilization and ban on humanitarian missions and international adoptions. We are imminently at the point of no return, in fact so close that our continued intertia towards our doom is to the point where it cannot be abated before we fling ourselves off the ledge.
[Its Over]
