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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (136805)	11/20/2017 2:12:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Recommended By bart13 Pogeu Mahone twmoore Respond to of 218050

There's population hysteria everywhere. 50 years ago New Zealand was importing swarms of people with the argument that we needed people to grow the economy. My argument was that New Zealand just needed 1000 farmers and enough mechanics to fix their flash cars. If the simplistic idea that more people is better is true then Bangladesh and Nigeria would be fantastic places. Pakistan a paradise. India ideal. Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Iceland and Ireland do really well as rinky dink little countries. Virtuous Victorian Values are what matter. It's called civilization. The Club of Rome nearly 50 years ago blathered on about the Malthusian looming catastrophic calamity of population explosion. While that's true in Malthusian places, it's not true in places where women choose to have children or not and VVVs apply. Japan's women are choosing to not have children. So are women all over the world. And men are giving up in the face of kleptocratic Big Brother totalitarian suffocatocracy. Women are having trouble finding men to be sacrificial lambs. Japan can easily halve its population. So can everywhere. The idea that old people are helpless is faulty. Some are. They could also double their population. No worries. Don't worry about CO2 which is plant food and is not causing Global Warming. Over 100 years as the Little Ice Age ended, the temperature has risen a mere 0.7 deg C. Here comes 2020 which with 2020 foresight I predicted way back in Oct 2007 would be the start of the Big Chill. My solar cycle prediction of sunspot activity was on the money. Anyway, people are increasingly abandoning oil with the GDP per barrel improving dramatically over the last 50 years. Sheik Yamani made the point decades ago that the stone age didn't end for a lack of stones and the oil age won't end because of oil running out. People find ways of living their lives cheaper which means less oil per GDP. Airliners use 90% less fuel per passenger kilometre. So do cars. Insulation keeps houses warm, and cool. Photovoltaics are competitive with thermal power stations in many situations. There are 7000 million people. Peak People will be 2037 unless something terrible happens such as a flu pandemic, a global war, a bolide in the Pacific Ocean [or Atlantic]. If 2100 sees only 2 billion people, it wouldn't be a problem for those 2 billion. That's still enough people to do anything they want to do, provided quality control of human production continues to improve which with genetic engineering now available is a slam dunk. Mqurice