I agree. And in addition, the world's population is risen to 7.4
billion. I recall reading in my seventh grade social science book,
that the US population was around 150 million, and there were over 3
billion people world-wide. The book went on to tell me that every
fourth child born, was Chinese. I told my mother that it was a good
thing she stopped at three. But basically, for every human being
walking the Earth in the 1940's, there are two taking up the same
space today. And of course, most of this new population is crammed
into the sprawling cities.
And how do we humans deal with the growing problems coming out of over
population? We blame something else. The very same characteristics
that has enabled humans to harness the Earth's resources, and to
expand and dominate, are the same characteristics that have brought on
Over population, unclean water, failed crops, lousy diet, sweeping
pandemics, which will take us down. Rather than to face the fact
that we are exactly like all other life forms, and that we can only
expand so far before collapsing back into ourselves, we claim some
sort of "Get out of Jail Free" card. We got us a God. And God moves
in mysterious ways. And even if we have created a garbage dump out of
what was once a Garden of Eden, God will have a fine place for us to
trash after we die.
Meanwhile, we are learning nothing from this current pandemic. Our
"leaders" are making mostly stupid decisions based on the failed
decisions from the last great depression and the last pandemic.
From the day Adam had his way with Eve, up to Donald Trump having his
way with the American People, it has always been a tug of war between
those believers in Power and Profit, versus those supporters of People
and Compassion.
The fate of Mankind depends upon who wins the tug of war.
Carl Jarvis...grunt grunt...puff puff...tug tug tug...
On 5/7/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
It's all of a piece. One of the theories about the increasing number of
pandemics is that climate change has caused animals to lose their habitats
and as they move closer to humans, the viruses that infect them, move closer
to humans. The way in which western societies have handled their economic
development, has contributed to climate change. The US has been most
aggressive in the past 200 years. The US is also engaged in the development
of biological warfare weapons. It is the most active country doing this and
it has refused to sign any agreements banning them. There have been leakage
from these labs in the past.
Additionally, our current administration is refusing to cooperate with other
governments in working toward a cure for everyone and it has just defunded
the World Health Organization. It was given reports about this pandemic by
China at the beginning of January. But the past 2 administrations were told
by scientists about the probability of pandemics, starting in 2003 and made
no preparations. We have an economic system that precludes having medical
equipment and hospital beds that are waiting and not in use because that is
a waste of money. In our system, both economic and ethical, profit is more
important than the potential of saving human life.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:49 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Democracy at Work
Four years ago, who would have thought there could be a more dangerous
threat to democracy than Donald Trump? Then along came COVID-19. It was
the battle of the Virus with a single mindedness versus the President with
no mind at all.
We are leaderless at a time when we truly need leadership.
By the time our children are grandparents their world will seem like
something out of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. I never accepted the idea
that our society could ever be like the world of Star Wars, but it looks
like I was wrong. Think of a future where we still have princesses,
alongside interstellar travel and wars between planets.
Very likely Human extinction would be the preferred choice.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/6/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Democracy at Work is the name of Richard Wolff's organization. Each
week now, on Loud and Clear, Richard Wolff gets a half hour to analyze
the economic news of the week. I just listened to the podcast from
last night's broadcast and I found what he had to say about where we
are and what will most probably happen next in terms of our economic
situation, to be truly
devastating: small businesses dying and being taken over by huge
corporations, the end of most stores with all shopping being done on
line (I've heard this before with a description of the death of
shopping malls), and on and on. In another segment of the podcast, I
heard the theory that this pandemic may be with us for 36 months or
forever with areas of disease popping up in various areas. I've also
heard that there are possibly two different strains, one more
contagious than the other. Richard Wolff reminded us that we used to
have an "excess profits" law which did not permit any business to make
excess profits during a war or catastrophe.
That
law is gone.
Miriam
