Excellent article in today’s Washington Post
A Dated Carbon Approach
You can even cut carbon using no technology whatever. Mexico City has reduced its output of carbon dioxide by almost 55,000 tons a year by opening one efficient bus route; the key innovation here was the creation of two bus lanes. The new buses run on diesel — not exactly a technological breakthrough. But because they are rapid and frequent, the buses have brought car use down and reduced emissions. So what matters is not just the technologies we have but the incentives to deploy them. The average Western European uses half as much energy as the average American, and that’s not because there’s more technology in Europe. Rather, Europeans have embraced anti-carbon policies ranging from gas taxes to emissions caps, from an absence of extravagant mortgage subsidies that encourage super-size homes to congestion charges for drivers in London and Stockholm.
Sing it, Cap’n Obvious, actually, it is not obvious to a lot of people. Politicians love “research” because they can turn around and say that they are doing something about a problem when all they are doing is postponing the discussion by calling for “new technology” to fix the problem. Scientists like this as well because this means money in their pocket. Research groups, be they in universities or in government institutes, perpetuate themselves by getting more funding to do more research, which leads to getting more funding to do more research while keeping an army of post docs, grad students, research assistants and professors gainfully employed. It’s kinda like reproduction, only less fun! It is a good system and a lot of good work gets done, but for a lot of questions, the answers are already there.
Policy level decisions require that clear cut choices be made, while they are NOT zero sum games, there are winners and losers in most of the decisions, and this current incarnation of politicians do not seem to want to make these kinds of decisions unless the winners are big companies (energy, pharma, healthcare, etc), rich people (tax cuts, etc.) or war.
Right, well, both the Bible and the new age crowds are predicting that a TREMENDOUS die off are coming, and soon. The Bible says that we’ll be living normal days, then WHAM, sudden destruction will fall on the world. The new age crowd call what is coming “The Great Dying”
We are looking at 40-60% of the world’s population being eradicated in short order. This has been the goal of those controlling this world for a long time. Google the “Georgia Guidestones” for more on that.
Here’s what one of the new age prophets has to say on what’s coming:
11: There is known today the existence of certain funguses, which have become commonplace and are ravaging our forests. These funguses will continue to transmute and take on knowing of their environment, and a form of intelligence. Within the first three years of the decade this will lead to disastrous occurrences as mankind is devastated by the fungus moving from vegetation and the lower animal life forms and propagating within the bodies of mammals, including humans.
12: Many specifically designed for the purposes of the demise of the human species itself. With the forethought desire to remove the planet to no more than 50 million living beings, of combined race and culture. And with perhaps a few less varieties of races. This was the great plan discussed at the meeting of the heads of this world in Brazil, which was covered like a Trojan Horse by the devised program and propaganda campaign of being the ” Year of the Indigenous People.”
13: The consequences will be devastating as millions of people become afflicted and we will eventually see tens of millions of people die from viruses, with which allopathic medicine has no method of dealing. These viruses are not natural and it already is but not widely known that these are genetically mutated, and engineered designer prions and virus strains.
The Bible hints at the same thing:
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Young’s Literal Translation
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1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as it were a voice of thunder, ‘Come and behold!’
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2 and I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he went forth overcoming, and that he may overcome.
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3 And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, ‘Come and behold!’
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4 and there went forth another horse — red, and to him who is sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was given to him a great sword.
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5 And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, ‘Come and behold!’ and I saw, and lo, a black horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a balance in his hand,
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6 and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,’ and ‘The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.’
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7 And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, ‘Come and behold!’
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8 and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him — his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.
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The bible says that in the opening salvo of the tribulation we are looking at a minimum of 25% of the world’s population dead. That’s in the neighborhood of 1.5 BILLION people, or thereabouts.
I don’t hear many preachers warning there people about what’s about to happen any day now on this planet. The rapture will be a great escape for those who make it out, most who call themselves christians today will not.
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13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
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14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and FEW there be that find it