Keeping the game alive.

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Humans have exceeded the carrying capacity of this planet, and the billions of us who are ravaging the last of the fish, water, topsoil, and breathable air remaining are doing it with the help of huge volumes of fertilizer, pesticides, antibiotics, and other chemicals on giant grain- and animal-producing factory farms.

The tragedy is that if food and water are available, humans make more humans, and there is no incentive to stop. When Paul Ehrlich released "The Population Bomb" in 1969, it seemed that a die-off was imminent. But catastrophes happen in slow motion, and denouements take time to occur, like our little CDO bubble bursting 10 years after crazy fringe elements began worrying about it.

The faction that decides policy in industrial society lives and thinks in a chauffeured bubble and are oblivious to the realities everyday people inhabit. If a few million peasants have to die, well, that's just another chit on the balance sheet. Look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Congo, a hundred other places where inconsequential ants suffer and die to keep the game alive.

re: "Cassandras of Climate" (9/28/2009)