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To: elmatador who wrote (77794)	8/15/2011 5:50:29 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217975

Most individuals don't get themselves ready for next year, let alone their old age, so it's not surprising that they vote for governments who have a similar outlook: <Why governments did not prepare for population greying and its tax revenue effects? > It's not surprising that such countries go down the gurgler. Something like reglaciation, or Taupo erupting, or Wellington shaking to pieces, or hundreds of thousands of houses and people being washed away by a tsunami, catches them flat footed because they would have to learn things and think differently from other people who are unworried. The tsunami that will get them is a big eruption of White Island, or a bolide into the southern Pacific Ocean. They will be shocked when they realize that Taupo doesn't erupt like regular, tame little scoria cones - it is a bleve type eruption. Reglaciation is not a slow process taking hundreds or thousands of years. It arrives with a bang, the snow cover reflecting light, causing a feedback loop of cooling so the next winter arrives earlier and colder, which causes the next one to be even sooner, with more snow lasting longer, which causes the next one to be even earlier and snowier. A similar feedback loop applies to clouds, which are water below the dew point. As the dew point moves south, the acreage of cloud cover increases [because 5 degrees of longitude near the equator is a LOT more acreage than 5 degrees of longitude at the Arctic circle]. Pretty soon there is year round snow and crops don't grow. Cows can't eat. People must move. South [in the northern hemisphere]. If old people in UK/Germany etc think they have a problem now with not enough youngsters to fund them, they are really going to feel it when they are also covered in snow and the youngsters have left for warmer climates. Mqurice