Category: Scarcity

Scary Scarcity - Part 3

1/29/2022

The End OF Oil Is Coming!!
OMG... We are going to hit Peak Oil real soon and then it will all be gone. Here is the countdown:

The funny thing is that the Prophets of Doom have been predicting the end of oil for at least 60 years. But the end-of-oil keeps getting further into the future as humanity discovers more and creates better technology for extraction. More on that in the next post...

The End of Food
But don't worry about the oil because the End Of Food is coming even quicker:

The End of Water
Hell... don't worry about food either. We're going to run out of water even faster!!

The funny thing is that we get approximately 60 inches (i.e 5 feet) of rain per year here at neoTerra. This is somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 cubic feet per year just on the roof and deck.

There are about 7.5 gallons per cubic foot so we receive about 115,000 gallons of fresh water for free every year. We are so wasteful, we don't even bother to collect it. We just let it run off into the forest so the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees can enjoy it.

The End of EVERYTHING
And it's ALL your fault. However, if you will just buy overpriced 'responsible' products from their website you can save planet Terra. https://shop.theworldcounts.com/

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Scary Scarcity Part 2

1/28/2022

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Honestly – In my wildest moments of satire I can’t come up with crap like this.

The UN has declared that we are facing a new, serious shortage that threatens our sustainability. Is it a shortage of oil?? A shortage of rare metals needed to make batteries?? Perhaps a shortage of clean healthy water??

NOPE – we are threatened by a shortage of… SAND. I quote “the world is facing a shortage –[of sand] — and climate scientists say it constitutes one of the greatest sustainability challenges of the 21st century”. Those clever climate scientists. When Global Warming is proven to be a hoax they can get new lucrative jobs at the UN as Sandologists (my new word).

The threat is so dire the UN has created a new institute (at our expense) to study the SAND Crisis. Please keep me honest and check it yourself. https://unepgrid.ch/en/activity/sand

We will need to embrace Global Sand Management (by the wise and benevolent UN) to fight against thriving “sand mafias”. Good globalist places (like Amsterdam) have already committed to be 100% Sand Neutral by 2050! https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/sand-shortage-the-world-is-running-out-of-a-crucial-commodity.html

If you can’t sleep at night please read the 56 page UN report. “Sand And Sustainability: Finding New Solutions For Environmental Governance of Global Sand Resources” (you can just click the image to the right)

I can’t believe that AOC has not picked up on this emerging threat to humanity. I’m waiting for her to propose a Brown New Deal.

I leave you with one closing thought on this issue…

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The Boogeymen of Doom - Scary Scarcity Part 1

1/28/2022

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I'm going to take a break from the Great Reset and talk a bit about the Boogeymen Of Doom.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Progressive Elites have been shouting about Doomsday for at least 60 years. Doomsday is always about 30 years (one generation) away and there is always a critical 10 year window to save humanity.

Here are two of the classics:

Global scarcity (aka Scary Scarcity)
Climate Hysteria (Next Ice Age -> Global Warming -> Climate Change)

In addition we have some new, more immediate boogeymen.

The Biden Border Crisis
Spiraling Crime
Pandemics

In every case, the 'solution' is that we must sacrifice our liberty, give the wise and benevolent government more control, and reduce our standard of living. It's funny how every problem seems to have the same solution.

So let's talk about Scary Scarcity.

In 1972, the Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth, which predicted depletion of resources, environmental/agricultural collapse and social upheaval by the 1990's. The book is no longer in print but you can downloaded the original version as a PDF by clicking on the image below

In 1992, the authors released Beyond the Limits. This book added climate hysteria to scarcity for a double dose of destruction. Although none of their dire predictions of scarcity from 1972 had come true, they doubled down stating that the Earth was merely more resilient than they originally modeled. And the Earth was now stretched beyond its limits like a giant bungee cord about to break.

In 2004, the authors wrote the Limits to Growth 30 Year Update. In this book they moved the goalposts but still predicted impending doom. They acknowledge that food production (the brown line) was better than they predicted even though population growth was greater (the black line). They also acknowledged that resources were not being depleted as fast and the pollution was less than expected.

Nevertheless, they predicted that food production and Global GDP would collapse by 2015. Well, it is now 2022 and global prosperity is continuing to increase.

In fact (prior to COVID shutdowns) global prosperity has been accelerating! It has quadrupled since their first Limits to Growth in 1972.

In 2012, the 40th anniversary of The Limits To Growth, Jorgen Randers broke ranks and published 2052. While this book is still pessimistic and gloomy, he acknowledges that the world will not suffer resource depletion and humanity will continue to be able to feed its ever growing population. You can read the summary here:
http://www.2052.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/p120801-2052-A-global-forecast-15p-illustrated-CPSL.pdf

Of course the UN will continue to come up with new versions of Scary Scarcity and our current, self inflicted supply chain issues will make Scarcity seem real.

More next time.

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