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A Bad Future for Everyone
By Alan Caruba
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Jun 10 - (Excerpts) - I have this theory that the world goes mad every
twenty to fifty years, forgets what the devastation of war does to
nations and the lives of those who want nothing to do with war.
The environmental movement took shape in the late 1960s and, from around the late 1980s, the greatest “scientific” fraud ever perpetrated, global warming, was launched by the United Nations and maintained through a huge propaganda program, as often as not, by various national leaders, including our own.
Billions were allocated to research and other responses to this
non-event. The planet was
not in the throes of a sudden and dramatic
warming, nor is there any need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. For
the past decade, the planet has been steadily cooling.
The rise of the United Nations following World War Two has been a ceaseless quest for control over the world’s population. The UN has never successfully deterred any war, large or small. It seeks to undermine the individual sovereignty of nations. It is a cesspool of corruption and deception.
The other major threat has been the specter of communism that gained momentum at the beginning of the last century, primarily in the former Soviet Union, thereafter spreading to China and other nations. It takes the form of socialism in many nations, including our own. As an economic system, it is a total failure. It engenders huge governmental apparatus, centralized planning, and attacks on the ownership of private property. It destroys innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.
There is, too, the prospect of the growth of the Earth’s population to eight billion by 2050. It will be coupled with the demand for more sources of energy, oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear. The stresses this will put on nations as they compete for what does exist are seen in the U.S. refusal to open its own huge reserves for extraction and use.
Yet another factor is the stress on the global banking community. The potential failure of nations like Greece, Spain, Italy and others have put huge strains on other nations that are, in one way or another, invested in them. These troubled nations have two things in common, aggressive unions and socialism. The huge debt of the United States, now at $13 trillion, surpassing our annual gross domestic product, poses a threat to the entire world’s financial stability.
Population, financial stability, a militant religion, and energy all will place stress on the nations of the world in ways that have historically erupted in warfare.
Finally, there is something called the Grand Solar Minimum, a diminution of radiation from the Sun that is likely to precede a new ice age and is predicted to last a century. Since the period between ice ages is generally 11,500 years we are at the very end of the current interglacial period.
Dennis Avery. a scientist with the Hudson Institute, notes that “Humans have known for 400 years—since Galileo—that sunspots correlate with climate changes on earth. A startling lack of sunspots predicted both the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age, the Sporer Minimum that begin in 1460, and the Maunder Minimum which began in 1645. More recently the Dalton Minimum predicted the severe cold of the early 1800s.”
These factors all portend a very bad future for the whole of the Earth’s population no matter where they live, what they believe, or how they behave.
See entire article:
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/06/bad-future-for-everyone.html
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.
© Alan Caruba, 2010