A few choice sentences in the hopes that my readers will read this article:

“In the U.S. alone, nearly 1,000 tornadoes have ripped across the heartland, killing more than 500 people and inflicting $9 billion in damage.”

“Worldwide, the litany of weather’s extremes has reached biblical proportions. The 2010 heat wave in Russia killed an estimated 15,000 people. Floods in Australia and Pakistan killed 2,000 and left large swaths of each country under water. A months-long drought in China has devastated millions of acres of farmland. And the temperature keeps rising: 2010 was the hottest year on earth since weather records began.”

“From these and other extreme-weather events, one lesson is sinking in with terrifying certainty. The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone. Which means you haven’t seen anything yet. And we are not prepared.”

“Picture California a few decades from now, a place so hot and arid the state’s trademark orange and lemon trees have been replaced with olive trees that can handle the new climate. Alternating floods and droughts have made it impossible for the reservoirs to capture enough drinking water.”

“We [are] past the tipping point.”

“Even if the world went carbon-neutral tomorrow, we’d be in for more: because of the CO2 that has already been emitted, we’re on track for another 5 degrees of warming.”

You can read this here - Are You Ready For More?

Flooding (here) is now ruining some homes. We’re expecting some roads to be impassable soon too. This has been the wettest spring I’ve ever seen, while it’s been the driest in parts of the Southwest.  Huge fires are charring up gigantic swaths of land in Arizona and Texas. Tornadoes wrought billions in damage, killing hundreds. It’s pretty clear that we’re definitely going to be “in for more”, these events are not isolated, or freak happenings, but virtually “the way things are now”.

And that is just “the weather”.  Don’t forget the other Earth events: gigantic earthquakes, erupting volcanoes and tidal waves causing massive loss of life and property damage.

From the Onion:

EARTH—According to a statement released to the press Tuesday, the planet Earth has “just about run out of ways” to let its roughly 6.9 billion human inhabitants know it wants them all to leave.

“At this point, I think I’ve stated my wishes quite loudly and clearly,” the Earth’s statement to all of humanity read in part. “I haven’t exactly been subtle about it, you realize. I have literally tried to drown you, crush you, starve you, dehydrate you, pump you full of diseases, and suck your homes and families into swirling vortices of death. Honestly, what more is it going to take for you people to get the message?”

CO2 emissions rose by 5.9 percent to 30.6 billion tonnes in 2010 - “the highest ever growth in history” from Record C02 Emmissions.

Indeed. That little sidebar graphic on this blog keeps showing C02 going up, up, up.  The message is clear.  But we can’t seem to understand it for some dumb reason.  Senator Inhofe exemplifies the utter stupidity of the climate denier movement:

“What we’re seeing here is the same old scientific mumbo jumbo and partisan rhetoric that the Earth has been spewing out for millennia,” Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) said. “We’re not going to be bullied by a celestial body that has time and again failed to deliver on its promise to glorify and reward mankind with its bounty.”

Take a look at these graphs -  IEA CO2 Emissions Update 2010 - Bad News and the oft-used “worst case scenario” that describes the path we have taken.

“Scenario A2 puts us at 850 ppm atmospheric CO2 in 2100, with an average global surface temperature 3.5°C hotter than in 2000 (more than 4°C above pre-industrial levels).  If we return back up to Scenario A1FI (fossil fuel intensive), which we were exceeding until the global financial crisis, we’re looking at 950 ppm CO2 and 4°C global warming over the 21st Century (more than 4.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures in 2100).

Clearly this is very bleak news.  In an interview with The Guardian, IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol said:

“I am very worried. This is the worst news on emissions…It is becoming extremely challenging to remain below 2 degrees. The prospect is getting bleaker.  That is what the numbers say.”

Ahem… since I am neither a scientist with any federal funding or grants, just an interested citizen / survivor who is keenly wishing for some good news, but honest enough to “spill the beans” as they say when it’s just all bad news, the notion that we are “challenged” to remain below 2 degrees is absolutely hogwash. We are already defeated (by our own hand of course), and we are in reality looking at something far, far worse then anybody was willing to predict as a reality.

That reality was predicted here on this blog, time and time again, but as I said, I’m just a nobody trying to share what the numbers have already spelled out, and what the extreme events and collapsing dominoes around the world have indicated.

To the uninitiated, the “modest” numbers in degrees Celsius or in Fahrenheit is considerably worse then it appears because all life on this planet exists within narrow temperature ranges that are highly dependent upon seasonal variations and rainfall patterns.

Essentially it boils down to this: habitable regions on the planet have been colonized by humans because these locations supported human life.  We could live there, plant our crops there (proper soils too) and expect them to grow.  But when temperatures (hot AND cold) become too great, then our food supply is imperiled.  This is why you do not see crops being planted in deserts to this day (unless they are irrigated from either underground aquifers or diverted rivers from far, far away).  Humans could live there, but we cannot survive there in meaningful numbers (above wandering tribe levels).

Technology changed much of that, bringing a two-edged sword. Enabling us to pump water (and massively deplete) those aquifers, divert rivers thousands and thousands of miles away, we could grow a food paradise in the desert.  But now it’s too hot to plan on being able to continue doing this.  And those ancient aquifers all over the world are in a state of collapse, because they are not being replenished.

But technology also served as a driving mechanism for destabilizing the climate. It allowed us to virtually go faster and faster, building roads, subdivisions and shopping malls, breeding more humans and emitting more emissions into the atmosphere, which as it turns out, is far more fragile then we thought.  We could grow more food, but as we did, we bred more humans, used up more resources and essentially depleted everything like mold in a petri dish.

All those regions where humans have established themselves are now in jeopardy.  Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

Energy supplies, which is the life-blood of technology and virtually the entire human population, are dwindling too. The plans that some have proposed to “adapt” to climate change are still planning on using massive amounts of energy to enable this adaption attempt. But there is a limit to what is going to be available, which also means “reachable”, “affordable” and “usable” and “reasonable”.  Tar sands are not reasonable, nor is coal, since both are highly toxic to the environment and spew even more emissions into a destabilized atmosphere for extremely short-term benefits.  But we’re doing it anyway, essentially destroying any chance of a habitable future for ourselves and our children.

We are now in the classic Catch-22 condition, a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.  More energy consumption enables more humans and more food production, but it also means more long term damage by virtue of more humans (all who have to eat, find shelter, clothing, water, toys for their tots and so on).  We are far, far into population overshoot on all levels — resource consumption, food production, energy consumption, pollution, etc., and can’t seem to bring ourselves to admit this most obvious issue.

Now we are looking at “worst case scenarios” where entire populations can no longer be supported.  We won’t be able to grow our food in regions that experience catastrophic climate disasters from heat waves or flooding.  We can’t relocate these populations either as all the habitable soil regions (required for growing food) are already being used.  The empty spaces on this planet are empty for a reason — you can’t live there and grow sufficient food stocks there because of poor soils, inadequate water supplies or insufficient growing seasons.  There is an article on this blog that covers all this somewhere.

So we are facing massive disruptions, ie., population crash or “die-off”, due to our own hand. More technology will only worsen this (eventually), while giving us a temporary “reprieve” and ease our guilty conscience.  Enabling more humans to survive, and thereby use up more resources and breed more humans, is actually the wrong thing to do.  But nobody wants to admit this, or “own up” to this glaring fact.  It’s also a highly objectionable topic, touching upon all of our values and morals, so we either strenuously object or throw our hands up and simply ignore it (as long as we can).

But the underlying theme here is simply this: we cannot fix what is wrong as long as we cannot fix ourselves. If we insist on consuming up all of the resources, both “renewable” and non-renewables, and breed ourselves into gross overpopulation, using toxic technological developments that destroy and contaminate the atmosphere, soil and water we depend on for life itself, and then go into rank denial that we could possibly be the “cause” of any of these unfolding disasters we are now experiencing, then we stand absolutely no chance whatsoever of surviving our ignorance.

Denial is not a moral quality or an asset.  Denial is not a virtue.  Denial is a sign of stupidity and ignorance, a refusal to accept reality and fact.

Your world is fast falling apart because of rank denial and ignorance. The notion that capitalism would “save” humanity from its worst fears (oppression, slavery, starvation, poverty, inequality, injustice, etc.) was only partly true, while at the same time it also enabled us to take this highway to hell, ensuring our ultimate destruction.

But what other mechanisms were available?  Communism?  Fascism?  Socialism?  None of these were acceptable for the Western world and were widely rejected (with good reason). All of these constructs, ie., “human contracts” among humans have their ill-effects, and ALL of them would have resulted in the same final outcome (disaster).

We should not be surprised then that capitalism has met with the same fate.  Disaster was always waiting for us, which if you think about it, makes perfect sense.  A system of government and connedsumption with virtually no limits would meet reality, ie., the “real world” of finite limits.  Practical consumption and resource exploitation were never considered, since this is neither profitable nor desirable by those that worship money.

China, still a Communist nation, is having absolutely horrific natural disasters, and staggeringly evil environmental disasters (in case you are not following this).  So did Communist Russia.  No human system of government has actually worked very well when it comes to sustainability except the very ancient and very tested tribal form of existence.

This wasn’t even a government as we understand this concept today, anyone was free to simply leave and go start their own tribe (try that today, and see where starting your own “country” or even your own “city” will get you, I hope you like prison).

But I digress a bit, simply because I wanted to dig deep enough for everyone to realize that what we are doing, all over the world, is clearly and obviously not working, and it will never work. We absolutely MUST admit this, or we will die.

The temperature variations that are now expected, the “worst case scenarios” being realized, means this.  It means that we will not have a habitable planet to live on. The regions where the surviving few will be forced to move to are uninhabitable now, and won’t be much better then either, even if they are warmer.

We’re not going to fix this problem with more technology either, which ultimately will only exacerbate the problem, forestalling our ultimate collapse a little while, while jeopardizing what could have been eons of future.

Maybe, like that Onion article said, we should leave.  But if we did, we’d only repeat our mistakes somewhere else (or die trying).

Better would be for us to admit our errors and our faults, and start living like we should.

Like we did.

Once before.

Because it worked.

If you lose your short-sightedness, and abandon your preconceptions and realize that in just a couple of hundred years,  we’re driving most species to extinction, jeopardizing our own future, and vastly overpopulated the planet, it becomes very clear that we have to start radically thinking outside of the box.  All these articles and authors that claim we’re going to reach “9 Billion” or some other absolutely ridiculous number are wrong.  You’d better hope not because this absolutely ensures catastrophic disaster throughout the entire world.

Everyone that continues to promote “growth” is absolutely, categorically NUTS. This is just plain stupid, rank denial in the face of guaranteed disaster.  This is the path to destruction, a highway to hell to be strewn with the bodies of your children and their children, a hellish future where fierce and violent competition for food, water, shelter and money will rule the day (every day) as they try and survive the legacy that we handed to them.

This is just plain stupid.

Why would we do such a thing?  Knowingly and willingly?

The indictment of this generation and age of the Anthropocene has already been written:

“They ignored us, all of us future humans that could have ever lived, and they lived only for themselves”.

Wow.

We. Don’t. Have. That. Right.

Good morning!  I watched the two youtubes (about immigration with the gumballs) and I hope you will reconsider the implicit endorsement by embedding them.

I don’t quibble with the numbers, but I think the underlying premise is slanted.  Everyone on earth is linked now, we are all on the Titanic together.  The smug presentation about the multiplying Asians and Mexicans leaves out a couple of crucial points:

1.  Americans are exploiting the labor of those people who earn less than $2/day by importing cheap goods and exporting garbage to 3rd world countries; and

2.  Americans have grotesquely disproportionate impacts on earth in terms of CO2 footprint and pollution.  Maybe we should, as a society, reduce our consumption and waste instead of pointing the finger at immigration policy as a primary source of our impending doom.

Of course, it’s your blog to include whatever you like - and in general I find everything you have written to be fair and enlightening, so thank you.

Regards,
Gail

Hi,

I support immigration, and would be an immigrant myself (going elsewhere) if I could.  But it is clear that immigration policy in this country does not work. There is no point in ignoring the numbers, the meaning of the message in the gumballs.  This is true in most parts of the world and could be applied to nearly every country, not just us.

The exploitation of labor by American industries is not going to change and is not a “cause and effect” of immigration; it is predatory capitalism and would continue unabated whatever immigration policies actually are.

Your second point by the way actually means that immigrants would then become like us, more wasteful consumers with larger footprints after adopting the American lifestyle. Not sure how you see this as having any relevancy to immigration reform, it would actually be self-defeating in terms of living lightly.

My entire point on posting the videos was population, a point I’d brought up earlier in the article.  Immigration is but a small part of this problem. Too many people, and too many births, period.  We can never support the numbers, whether immigrants or natural citizens, it makes no difference.

We are linked, but who is causing the real issues? I see this as “very American” and always have.  We’re in good company, not alone.  We’re the driving force behind much of what is going wrong. We throw our weight around and demand the lions share (and then some), exclusive rights to the world’s resources with nary a care on how we get them.  The notion of “equality” in this country (and even to immigrants) is a sick, sad joke, one that is clearly unequal as hell.

There is absolutely no doubt we are attempting to preserve and protect this resource / living standard exclusivity for ourselves, and this is where immigration is a double-edged sword. Let’s not let anyone “in” so we can have more for ourselves, is one argument. The other argument, the one that I saw in the gumballs was that if immigration is left unchecked, it will overwhelm this country, virtually consuming our failing institutions and thereby everyone, immigrants included, that try to live here.

Fixing the problem(s) where “we live” (where they live, all of us, each country) is indeed the answer and always was. There is simply no way you can pour salt into a saucepan and not expect to season the entire thing (good or bad).  Immigration does nothing to fix the problems immigrants left behind (including their own population issues, economic problems, etc.). That is the message that guy was trying to convey.

I’d like to see a world without borders and “nations”, because this is just a means to allocate control over people and resources, and gives rise to endless wars and “us” versus “them” type of thinking (and living).  But that is a total pipe dream under predatory capitalism, which thrives on competition and control (and exploitation).  This is the root cause of our problems, permeating our every institution and even our way of thinking.

~Survival Acres~

Thanks for your reply!  I know we basically agree, and all the points you made are valid.  I’m just saying, consider the source.  I looked up the speaker in the videos, and the links he has to white supremacists are deep and longstanding, and are documented in many articles, such as this one:

“…the anti-immigrant movement is still firmly rooted in white nationalism.”

http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/25/roy-beck-visits-mentor-john-tanton/

I don’t think allowing mass immigration to the US will solve anything and I don’t advocate it.  But it just disturbs me that people like Beck who fight reform for illegal workers have a not-so-hidden agenda, which is racist in origin, and exclusionary in practice.

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Thanks to Gail, I’ve updated the video links below to include the mentor connection with Beck. Might be the reason I noticed in the videos the faces of some of the audience expressing their distaste.

My point in posting the videos was population. I thought the gumballs were also effective in driving this message across.  Humans need to start restricting births and lowering population numbers (because the alternative is ultimately more war).

Immigration IS highly problematic, but not (imo) our primary doom. We’ve already seen to that (the Anthropocene) I’m afraid.  Unless we “fix ourselves” then we’re simply addressing related, but not primary issues.

It also makes sense to fix the problems where their at.  Deforestation for example, in the Amazon, is a global problem, but driven largely by regional economic oppression. Most of us would do no different in reality if we lived there — we have to eat and raise our families, same as they do, and would do whatever was required to do so.

Immigration is a global problem and not uniquely American, and the solution (if there is one) is to fix the regional issues.  But world population is the elephant in the room.  I hold no hope however that anything will be done on either immigration or regional problems or population (except die-off, sure to happen now that we are losing our food crops all over the world). The lip-service that I’ve long documented and decry hasn’t changed anything.  It’s always just more of the same, and getting worse.

Gail’s point is well-taken.  The messenger isn’t always one we would like. This could be applied to everyone, so we need to look at the message and carefully separate all the other agenda’s and intentions these messengers might be bringing.

Nice video found on Desdemona, by Bill McKibben. Suggest you watch:

Related: Canada confirms it will reject new Kyoto Protocol

Anybody watching the C02 meter on my right side bar? You realize what is happening?

We’re under regional flood watch here, constant rain, incessant snow melt and rising rivers.  All the dams are now “past flood stage” and low lying homes are going underwater.

This is something that many others in the country have already experienced.  The connection needs to be made LONG before “it happens to you”.

If I can bring myself to write it, my article “Death Row” would lay it all out.  The vast, vast majority of humans haven’t yet figured it out, but we’re ALL inmates in this asylum being run by mass murderers and serial killers hell-bent on driving this planet into ultimate ruin and destruction.  These sadistic bastards simply don’t give a damn about anything other then profits.

Just you watch — they’re capitalizing on death too (they already are, look at what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and now Libya and Yemen).  America is fighting 4 wars right now.  FOUR.  That is INSANE.

The driving reason is control of resources and energy supplies.  If this country actually gave two shits about democracy or freedom or justice or any of the other lip-service platitudes it is so oft to express, we’d have long since put a stop to the innumerable murderous regimes around the world and stop selling arms and funding terrorist nations.

Ah well. This isn’t going to get fixed now, no matter what we “do”.  Too late for that.  Too entrenched, too “committed” (certifiable) and too much cognitive dissonance among the population to make much of a difference now.  And too overextended on “control”, population and power to back off now.

The runner-up circus to the next (s)Election is already underway, with idiots, morons and imbeciles being pre-selected for your fawning pleasure. And whoever the next whipping post is (s)elected, NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE.  So everyone, stop pinning your hopes on any of this, it should be dead obvious now that the system is totally unfixable.

If you do what you’ve always done, why would you ever expect any different results?

I hope they run Palin for Prez., because then I will KNOW beyond a shadow of doubt that the other idiot twin will win.  And whoever it is, we can only be assured that it will still be business as usual.

Keep reading Desdemona.  He’s got articles everyday on how it’s all falling apart.  There are other sites out there, most of which are highly controlled, spoon-feeding media b.s. and propaganda to their audience. The entire “conversation” is now being extremely manipulated and controlled everywhere you look, ensuring that dangerous thoughts and questions are never asked, never investigated, never understood.  They call this “framing the discourse” and it is happening all around you, everywhere.

Stop asking why the important questions are never being aired. You know why.

Control.

Reset.

Redirect.

Resume.

Just don’t wake up.

Well worth watching - this is your future, but keep in mind the message here (not the messenger, this Beck has some disturbing ties to serious wack-jobs):

“Doubt is our product,” a cigarette executive once observed, “since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.”

All this “debate” about what is true, and what is not, who has facts and who doesn’t, what science actually says and reveals and what it does not, has ultimately proven to be entirely pointless.  Almost.

As one poster recently said,

“The tools that have allowed us to dominate our environment and survive outside of it will most likely ensure our ultimate failure. Our incredible mental abilities have developed to serve our emotions.“

We are emotional creatures who tend to abandon logic, fact and knowledge in favor of emotional attachments, even if it kills us all. We can know a thing, through and through, but still refuse to address it.

Humans refuse to do what is required to save themselves from their own destructive ways.  We can study and dissect and analyze an issue ad infinitum, employing all of our technical capabilities and scientific expertise, but we remain completely and hopelessly enslaved to our emotional responses on how we actually deal with the results.

If you haven’t yet noticed, the condition of rigor mortis, the “stiffening of the muscles” at the onset of death, has now set in for the human race.

Helping humans to survive their own stupidity has become an exercise in even more stupidity in many respects. Even the best and brightest among us all are getting sucked into useless debates and defensive actions that ultimately serve no purpose whatsoever but to appease the knee-jerk and ill-informed emotional responses of those that disagree.

Recently, I noted that the headlines mentioned that the Freedom of Information Act was being abused to “harass and intimidate” scientist.  In my own words, they are finding it harder and harder to comply with the emotional and useless response of individuals alleging to have “need” for source data, algorithms and research results used and developed by  scientists.  Many of these requests are intended to harass and intimidate scientists, something that has long been noted by the scientific community.

We’re now where extremely valuable time and resources are being expended to appease the idiots who have no interest other then their own self-serving interest at stake.  Ultimately, this means that the human race is now at odds with itself, like white cells attacking red cells.  This is nothing new, but the stakes have never been higher.  We are ultimately talking about the survival of the human race, and the survival of the the living biosphere.

As serious as this is (or should be), the vast majority of us are really not that interested. We’ve got our eyes fixed on something else entirely and that is namely, our next slice of the dwindling pie.  Like hungry children, we’re eying everyone else with a wary eye, who’s going to get the last piece?

We’ve long since turned to technology to solve our way out of this mess, but this has proven to be increasingly elusive. In many ways, technology has failed us. Instead of giving us truly sustainable ways to live, technology has become a leading example of destruction, or more aptly put, how not to live. But we continue to do this anyway, how not to live, fully understanding now (among the informed of course) that this is self-destruction in slow motion.

This is not the “fault” of technology of course, the fault is actually ours, we are after all, the technological innovators and inventors.  How we should utilize technology (and even science) to support our existence is largely based upon our “markets”, another human invention, and one that is entirely based upon our emotional responses (versus our practical needs).

We’ve now run out of “room” so to speak on how much more we can innovate and invent before it all comes crashing down. We’re already seeing the effects of our implementation and ‘intervention’ that technology has made possible for billions of humans, the effects which are now killing us in record numbers.  But we’ve a long ways to go, there are after all many more of us still left to destroy…

So we will continue on our same path as before, ignoring all the warnings, and all the “science”, and even the unfolding disasters now occurring. The mantra continues, we’ve still got time, there is ample resources left, it’s not as bad as some say… giving credence to our defacto emotional responses playing first chair to our path to destruction.

The seeds of doubt are now highly contagious and extremely destructive. And that’s all it takes anymore. You can ignore the unfolding disasters as having “other” causes, and why not? It’s what every nation seems to be doing. Mudslides in Brazil are a long, long ways off and I don’t live in Missouri either. There’s no wind here!

If we’re not dead already, we soon will be.  The Anthropocene is the reason.  Driven by emotional response for human demands, we’re starting to experience (our) true side-effects.

I cannot offer any misled hope (which is just another emotional response by the way). Most of those who are are quite willing to geo-engineer their way (and your future) to Nirvana would try if they could. Or posit the lies that we can “stop” our misbehavior through political activism. Or somehow reign in our carnal appetites through public awareness before it is too late.

Not me. I admit to having investigated all of these so-called “solutions” and will now loudly proclaim that rigor mortis is setting in for the human race, or soon will be. We’re virtually guaranteed a least a thousand years or more of catastrophic climate change, which we are ill-prepared for. Modern civilization has little resiliency for something like this, with our just-in-time delivery systems and energy dependent agriculture.  There are other reasons which I won’t bother to elucidate right now.

All this “debate” about what is true, and what is not, who has facts and who doesn’t, what science actually says and reveals and what it does not, has ultimately proven to be entirely pointless.  Almost.  I said “almost” because there are a tiny few who are truly trying to make a course correction for humanity, but by and large, the seeds of doubt being wildly scattered about are making this virtually impossible.

Even so, the tiny few are my heroes. We applaud those that sacrifice themselves for the greater good — those that give their lives so that others might live, especially on this Memorial Day.  But we tend to forget those that are ultimately concerned with the fate of the entire human race!

I’m enough of a pessimist (realist actually) to state that we don’t deserve to be “saved” from our stupidity. I marvel at those that continue to try, because humans have a verifiable, long and sordid and truly violent history of great destruction and depravity.  No, we are not all like that, but enough of us are, generation by generation.

Civilization has sought to ‘temper’ this beastly nature with limited success (or failure, depending on how you look at it). Civilization has both enabled and suppressed human development, also depending on how you look at it.  Our measures of ‘morality’ and ‘advancement’ are relative to the times in which we live, which is why what we find reprehensible today was tolerated or even encouraged before.  And just the opposite is true going backwards then forwards in time.

This means that humanity has a relative yardstick when it comes to what is right and what is wrong. You don’t have to like this fact, but it is still true nonetheless.  We’ve learned that some thing remain forever wrong, like murder and genocide, but we’ve yet to learn that careless self-destruction is no different.  Ecocide, the death of the biosphere, the living envelope of life that surrounds the entire planet, is one such example. It’s wrong for us to do this, sacrificing all future generations of life for our own carnal pleasures.  Our yardstick in our modern era is tied to Wall Street performance, which has nothing to do with natural capital and everything to do with monetary capital.

We are now being constantly reminded that these measurements are inaccurate and misleading at best, and highly destructive at worst.  While both are very true, our emotional response and attachments to worldly ‘things’ including monetary capital makes us all act in very irrational and self-destructive ways. The seeds of doubt have been sown long before our own births and we are their modified offspring.  We’re aware in slight ways that something is seriously amiss, but we still cannot seem to put our fingers upon the pulse of exactly what it is.  A careful inspection reveals the dying heartbeat that can be felt reverberating throughout all of of civilization now, a dying planet being overrun by the Anthropocene.

In his book, “The World As It Is“, Chris Hedges writes about our ongoing destructive nature and our propensity to simply look the other way. The subtitle of his book is Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.  I recommend you read it.

We ARE approaching death, having far, far exceeded the natural limits of what can possibly be tolerated, and the rigor mortis of humanity if we continue to fail to heed the warnings from the best of us.

I can only say at this point in time that ’saving humanity’ is a misguided idea, itself based upon our inherent emotional response. Even so, being an emotional creature like all of you, I’d still like to see some saved.  But only some.

Helping humans to survive their own stupidity has become an exercise in even more stupidity in many respects.

Seems like we have come an awful long ways already only to self-destruct at the end.

What an incredible waste this would be.

We are the first generation facing the evidence of global change. It therefore falls upon us to change our relationship with the planet, in order to tip the scales towards a sustainable world for future generations.

These pictures of Joplin are unbelievable.  The scale of the devastation is hard to comprehend.  My heart goes out to those who are battling for survival — and those that lost loved ones.

More pictures here, with more devastation, destruction and even more tornadoes.

Unbelievable.

From the last link page:

TORNADO COUNT
- Tornadoes to strike Joplin: 1
- Tornadoes so far in the U.S. in May: More than 100
- Average number of tornadoes in May during the past decade: 298
- Record for tornadoes in May: 542, in 2003
- Tornadoes so far in 2011: Approximately 1,000
- Average number of tornadoes in a single year during the past decade: 1,274
- Highest recorded number of tornadoes in a single year: 1,817, in 2004

Six more tornadoes reported today.

UPDATE: More photos here.
A few weeks back, I saw a lot of planted stories that all these storms did NOT have anything to do with climate change.  I knew that this was utterly false and still do.  It’s very simple: increase temperatures lead to increased evaporation, which causes an increase in drought and precipitation and temperature variations in the atmosphere.

It’s all energy and it builds up and it must be released somewhere.  Essentially, the hydrological cycle is being massively disrupted from the norm we’ve come to expect and dumping a deluge of rain Columbia, Pakistan or drought in China, or Texas is / will be the result.

The mega-fires and drought in Texas are part of this “non-event” the climate deniers keep telling us isn’t happening.  Makes you wonder how many bodies it is going to take before they finally wake up.

But it is too late, something I’ve been saying for years now.  This isn’t a switch we can simply “turn off”, even if we went to a zero-carbon existence tonight.  We’re in this unfolding disaster now for a long, long time to come (generations) and it is only a situation that is expected to get worse and worse.

You can only prepare now for what is already set in motion, as best you can.  These events, like all the other events (nuclear releases, earthquakes, financial meltdown, etc.) are increasing around the world.

Collapse is happening right now to thousand and thousands more every day.

To all my left-behind readers:

This is an automated timed blog post, scheduled for automatic posting on this blog at 6:00 pm PST May 21st, 2011.

By now everyone around the world understands what has happened. The sudden disappearance of an unknown number of people around the planet should be headline news the world over.  Hopefully for all of you, this will have not caught you unawares or like a thief in the night.

You were given ample warning and opportunity.

I do not know how many people this event has involved, but since I’m unable to post this myself now in real time, well then you know what has happened to me.

The Elect have now experienced the greatest event for all mankind in human history. We are no longer troubled by earthly cares or concerns, but for the rest of you, I’m afraid that your concerns are only just now the beginning of sorrows.

I need to take this opportunity to remind all past customers that find themselves somehow still left behind that their orders (if they have one) will still be fulfilled in accordance to the published shipping times by the remaining earthly staff, should there still be any.

Unfortunately, I’m not able to offer any predictions on how this may actually affect your order.  Be advised however, that I took nothing with me and I have made every effort to ensure that your order will still be fulfilled to the best of my ability.

Unforseen product demand or shortages due to the worldwide panic by the left behind may have some unknown impact on delivery times or availability. Expected crop losses will undoubtedly account for hundreds of millions of tons of losses worldwide as farmers and workers disappeared and their crops died for lack of care.

This should be expected to have a rather dramatic impact on commodity prices in the very near term, with food products at least quadripling in price virtually overnight.

Since I am unable to make any of these likely price changes myself to the website, you are encouraged to take advantage of the pre-Rapture pricing still in effect as soon as possible, certainly before Sunday. I have made arrangements to ensure that someone will still be here to make sure your order is properly processed.

Eventually, it is expected that food rationing will begin due to a global worker shorter and the corresponding impacts on every other aspect of our civilization.  Some of you may already be experiencing power outages or have noticed the sudden rush for gasoline and food supplies in your neighborhood or even rioting in the streets as the left-behind realize their predicament.

This should be fully expected to cascade into a mob behavior worldwide as the world wakes up to its new harsh reality.  You would do well to ensure that you have taken the proper precautions to ensure the safety and well being of your family, but I must admit, it won’t be for long.

Now begins the final countdown to the end of the world, which is not long, as many can now attest. The day is at hand. You have approximately six months, give or take a little, to get your affairs in order, and then the end of all things will come.

Goodbye and well, good luck to all, I really don’t know what else to say.  Enjoy what time you have left.

~Admin~

Only two more days until the End of The World….

Tickets are still available if you hurry…

You can even watch a video on this: May 21, 2011

Or is it Judgment Day?

Actually, it’s neither the End of the World or Judgment Day…

It’s become rather tiresome (and pointless) trying to dispel these beliefs, but since this date is now so close, I’ll stick my neck out (again) and tell everyone — it is NOT going to happen.

Neither the Terminator or the Rapture is going to happen on May 21, 2011.

Please note the “test” on the video link above at minute 5:45 — and how you can identify the “false profits”.

Wish I had a dollar for every time one of these guys made these claims.  Google has 435,000 hits for “May 2011 end of the world”, so there are quite a few people linking and writing about this theme.

Maybe we should all take the day off and just kick back since it’s about over anyway.

Or not.

Or maybe we should finally stop listening to this claptrap and file it away as the hogwash that it actually is.

Some of you are thinking I’m just making fun of the “believers”, not actually knowing what I’m talking about.  But you’d be quite wrong if you thought that.  I spent nearly 20 years in the ministry and in that time frame, I more or less saw all kinds of claims being made, not one which proved to be correct or true.

This was of course bad enough, but I dug considerably deeper since so many were proven so wrong again and again and it was quite important to me to find out why and how this could be happening with such consistency.  This spurred a investigation that lasted many years.

What I uncovered would blow your socks off.  Anybody that is still waiting for a pile of empty clothing to be found were their body has mysteriously disappeared is going to be mighty disappointed.

There will be no Rapture.

Ever.

It is irresponsible for any human to go on believing that they are going to somehow magically escape from the collapse that is now happening all over the world. Only suicide or an early death will be the ‘escape’.  But not the Rapture.

Nobody is going to ‘escape’ through some magical event.

Ever.

No Rapture, no alien intervention, no ‘catching away’, no divine intervention, no nothing. We’re all going to have to endure what is happening on our planet, period.

This is for some, the very worst of all possible outcomes, but it is the most real and will be what actually happens for all humans on Planet Earth.  We are going to have to live with what has come to pass, the majority of which is our own doing, and we will have to accept that and find ways in which to adapt (if we can).

If we cannot, then we will die, pure and simple.

Glossing it over with religious misinterpretation and deliberate phony ‘profitcy’ will only lead the gullible among us to embracing a set of false beliefs that will surely lead to massive levels of disappointment and anger, again and again.

May 21st will be like any other day on Planet Earth, with its share of suffering, earthquakes, sorrow, struggles and survival. But it won’t be the end of the world, or even the beginning of the end of the world.

It will be another day on Planet Earth, like the day before it and the day after it.  And the days to come.

It’s rather odd to me anymore why this is so hard to accept.  We’re always looking for yet another escape valve, a way to get away and make believe in something that is simply untrue and will never be true.

We do this with religion, we do this with politics, we even do this within our own families.  Anything but the stark, harsh truth of what actually “is”.

The reason is obvious.  We cannot accept what is plain to see and right in front of our faces.  So we invent another ‘reality’ that makes us feel more comfortable and eases the doubts that we secretly hide away in our minds.

Those that “date set” are guilty of being found out — each and every time.  Those that don’t dare date set, but make the same sort of bogus claims are wise to their own deceptions and try not to get caught (found out).  But the reality is available to any who would investigate.  Escape is NOT possible and not going to happen.  We’re all in this for the long haul, until our own individual lives are extinguished through death, howsoever that may come to be.  In the meanwhile, there is NO ESCAPE.

Eventually, this will come to make itself known to those who are willing to learn from their past mistakes.  Others will continue in strong vehement denial, but this will not change the obvious fact.  We are STILL HERE.

And we must still find a way to navigate our lives through a decreasingly declining world of rising hostility, shortages and deprivations.  That’s the real ugly part — not the ‘escape clause’ so many buy into.  Reality is harsh and getting harsher everyday.  It’s bad enough and certainly hard enough to try and accept this, but if you do, it will definitely be better then the constant disappointments that all these bogus ‘profits’ keep promoting.

The choice is yours.  Wake up to the truth or go on accepting the deceptions and ‘explanation’ the invariably come when their predictions prove false once again.

Makes no difference to me.

I’m still going to be here and so are you.

Two cases have now been challenged in the State Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court with everyone (except the thugs) the loser:

Indiana: No right to resist ‘unlawful police entry’.

Supreme Court OK’s warrantless searches

Here’s what’s interesting in both cases.  Note that the police did this BEFORE any “case law” was challenged, meaning that they arbitrarily decided to break the law in BOTH instances in two different states.  It was then later challenged by the State Supreme Courts and US Supreme Court and upheld as “lawful” actions.

Noteworthy is the cops did not know if they were “right” to do this or wrong — but they did it anyway.  Therefore, this indicates a growing trend that they will do whatever the hell they wanted (which has been obvious for a very long time if you’ve been paying attention).  And now, the Courts will back them up.

A very bad development all around.

The Just-Us-Is are idiots, believing that “lawful authority” has rights that triumph over the citizens rights in both cases.  No matter how you feel about either case, neither example represented an emergency, or a threat life, limb or property, or even required the “assistance” of police interference.

So in typical fashion, the State thugs intervened anyways and being “refused” their unneeded “help”, turned violent in both situations.  This is typical behavior for the State by the way.  Violence IS the modus operandi of all State operations.

Don’t believe me?  Then trying saying “No” or refuse cooperation the next time you are pulled over, or refuse to pay your taxes, or refuse a body scan or anything at all.  The State always responds with increasing levels of violence against your person, ultimately forcing you at the point of a gun your “cooperation” (and arrest and incarceration for daring to challenge the alleged authority of the State).

Note Justice Steven David’s comments:

“David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police can still be released on bail and has other opportunities to protest the entry through the court system.”

What he is saying here is very simple: Your ONLY recourse is to cooperate, be arrested, arrange bail, and protest through massive financial expenditures (risking your entire financial future including your job and your family’s future) and “protest” these actions by the State thugs through these means (only) and through the so-called “legal system” try to defend your rights (and yourself) — essentially risking everything.

No more can you do this before incurring tens of thousands of dollars in expense (by simply saying “No”). So the Courts now decide that your “better off” putting your life (and your freedom) on the line through the very system that they created…

This is another form of violence by the way for those that do not understand. It is violent to take away a man’s livelihood, his daily freedom and of course his rights (by force, which is what arrest is). But the State and its growing army of thugs does not care about any of this, THEIR violence is “lawful” and backed up by this army, whereas your simple refusal to cooperate is entirely non-violent, but is deemed worthy of their most extreme response (including killing you), and which can virtually destroy your life and your future even at its very lowest levels.

Most people fail to see the connections between what is the daily, real, violent behavior by the State (and constant ongoing threats of violence) and what the citizens of this country require in order to live in peace (from the State itself).

A few points to ponder:

a) The State always assumes its rights supersedes the rights of citizens; if this is “not allowed” it is constantly challenged and over the years, the State has been extremely successful in gaining “rights” (which makes no sense at all, since the State is an artificial entity and not alive, only humans have rights).

b) The notion of inalienable natural rights by virtue of being human, or being “American” are often ignored. The State challenges these alleged rights too.

c) The State ultimately backs up its demands, whatever they are, with threats of violence, imprisonment and death. This exposes the actual nature of the State by the way and its true objectives.

Reverse this thought for a moment for an exercise and clarity, and pretend that you are the State and your neighbor is the “citizen”.

Now put your demands to your neighbor. If they refuse, then force your demands to your neighbor in increasing levels of violence.  Fines, arrest, imprisonment.  At any point, if your neighbor refuses to meet your demands, back up your demands with physical violence (which is what the State actually does).  Any resistance can be met with the death of your neighbor.

This is in point of fact, how the State operates and a primary reason why the Unites States now has over 2.3 million people in prison.  The State has created conditions by which all citizens are demanded to live in agreement to.  Any disagreement to the demands of the State will result in your imprisonment.

Many people fail to realize that many of these so-called “crimes” by those imprisoned are victimless crimes.  There is no victim.  The only one “hurt” is the artificial non-living State who’s “rules” have been broken.  Quite a few of these rules are both arbitrary and capricious.  Nonetheless, millions now languish in prisons because of this.

Crimes of violence against one’s neighbor are easily identifiable and we, if we are reasonable sane people, support these preventions by the State.  We’d do this ourselves (stop a rape, prevent theft and so on). Criminals should be punished, but there are not as many criminals as we are led to believe.  There are many, many offenses against the State — including resistance, personal opinions, political punishments and victimless crimes that now incarcerate hundreds of thousands (at least).  And it’s getting much worse.

Just saying “No” to unjust or unlawful police action is a crime and will get you imprisoned as the cases above show.  So will protesting a Presidential policy or war, or refusing a pat down at the airport for something you haven’t even done.  Or filming an illegal arrest.

The State always seeks to protect itself and has armies of thugs (cops, lawyers, judges, prisons) to back it up.  Our entire legal system is nothing more then an extension of the State and is NOT designed for your “protection” or defense against unlawful State excesses, but is instead designed to perpetuate itself.  The State virtually requires victims (YOU) to be processed through its myriad of “legal” systems, thereby justifying itself and its existence.  Recall Justice Steven David’s quote above: his entire point was to force you through the system in an attempt to defend yourself!

The notion that none of us even need this corrupt system except in cases of violence from neighbor to neighbor is lost on the entire population.  What we need, desperately, is a way to defend ourselves from the State outside of the corrupt legal system.

I do not need the State to “enforce” victimless crimes.  I’m not hurt or do I suffer any loss if you are doing something that the State does not like.  Your so-called crimes against the State are in fact your business and not mine, but the State makes them mine by virtue of taxation, levies and even the new “See Something, Say Something” law.  We’re being strongly encouraged to become State informants, good little citizens who rat out their neighbors, thereby enriching the State and putting even more of its victims through its self-perpetuating system.

This is why, among other deeper meanings, the 4th Amendment (and all the other Amendment’s) are so important. They’re meant to protect the people against the ongoing daily violence of the State.

But we’ve lost our Amendments if you’re paying attention, again and again.  There are thousands upon thousands of example that can be used to prove this point.  We are no longer under the Bill of Rights whatsoever.  All we have left is the illusion which is being carefully preserved to hide the ongoing violence by the State.

This illusion needs to totally shattered because as long as we hold onto our misconceptions of what is actually happening, we will remain powerless to stop it.

Everyone is aware of the mega-massive flooding now taking place.  We’re even under flood watch here now, several thousand miles away.  Our snow pack is huge and only now just starting to melt under the incessant rain.

But how many are aware that the entire town of Slave Lake in Alberta is being turned into a cinder?

Huge events are taking place in North America — maybe now people will finally wake up and take notice.

Nah… I guess not.  But it was a nice thought for a moment.

More media double-speak:

The Obama administration will begin to tap federal retiree programs to help fund operations after the government lost its ability Monday to borrow more money from the public, adding urgency to efforts in Washington to fashion a compromise over the debt.

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has warned for months that the government would soon hit the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling — a legal limit on how much it can borrow. With that limit reached Monday, Geithner is undertaking special measures in an effort to postpone the day when he will no longer have enough funds to pay all of the government’s bills.

Geithner, who has already suspended a program that helps state and local government manage their finances, will begin to borrow from retirement funds for federal workers. The measure won’t have an impact on retirees because the Treasury is legally required to reimburse the program.

Time to call out the b.s. detectors (again). The U.S. government is flat-broke, having long since overspent itself into perpetual debt.  There are also laws that state “you can’t do that” on the books, so another “law” is absolutely meaningless.

So once again, our stupid government decides to spend its way out of debt — by stealing federal retirement funds, with the bogus assurance that they are “legally required” to pay by the funds stolen.

Unbelievable.  If anybody in America believes this crap, well, I’ve got a bridge for sale…

The new “budget cuts” being promoted as the biggest domestic spending cut in U.S. history will actually cost $3 billion more…

If you want to feel your head spin, click on this link to see the dizzying speed of the growing indebtedness around the nation: US Debt Clock

Way back I warned that Empire would refuse to restrain itself as the collapse deepens around the world. We’re on a one-way ticket to the bottom, and it will be funded by your “retirement”.

Enjoy it (all) while you still can.