Re: [Fwd: commentary 117]

It's amazing how we can each distill the fate of the the world
into a few sentences.

My own crystal ball tells me humankind is doomed...
to extinction by its own success in creating planetary unsupportable
populations. And we'll be taking most of the rest of biology
with us.

We are in a period of one of the greatest mass extinctions in the
history of the planet. Our own crowding will lead to increasing
violent conflict.

 Population density, the revolution of rising expectations,
institutional ignorance and the contest of monumental egos
translated into national agendas focused on parochial short term
gains will result first in disregard of planetary life support systems
then in nuclear conflicts as desperation exceeds rationality.

In geological terms this is of little consequence. In 500
million years or so we'll have enough oil and evolution to do it
over again.

Reality is nothing more than God experiencing itself.
Consciousness was outlawed in 1970.




At 2:03 PM -0400 07/17/2003, Boris Stremlin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Trichur Ganesh wrote:
>
> >  Nothing is "very unlikely" in times of systemic chaos.  Ganesh.
> >
> >  Threehegemons@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >  >In a message dated 7/16/2003 4:50:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >  >tganesh@stlawu.edu writes:
> >  >
> >  >>(1) an invasion of Iran/Syria and/or a pre-emptive attack on North
> >  >>Korea cannot be ruled out (for the near future) especially as election
> >  >>dates appear closer
> >  >
> >  >Very Unlikely.  The US army is tapped out keeping up the occupation of
> >  >Iraq--where would they find the troops for another occupation?
> >  >Imperial overstretch, as they say.
> Although the Iraq situation is causing the US some discomfort, the army
> (1.5 million strong, I believe) is far from being tapped out.
> Furthermore, if it looks like Democrats will be able to mount a credible
> challenge, then I think all options for remaining in power for Bush are on
> the table.  But the real danger isn't confined to electoral politics, but
> embraces the global situation.  North Korea has claimed that it has
> finished reprocessing its fuel rods, and is presumably proceeding to
> construct nuclear warheads.  If Kim Jong Il tests a nuke, or even worse,
> sells one, then the damage to US prestige will far exceed whatever benefit
> it derived from its vicotry in Iraq.  The neocons especially are sensitive
> to this danger, because the maintenance of US prestige worldwide is their
> raison d'etre for being in power.  In Iran, the intelligence services are
> already very heavily involved, and are rushing to ensure that they manage
> to destabilize the government in Tehran before Iran succeeds in
> destabilizing the US occupation government in Iraq.  The US under Bush and
> the neocons may feel drawn into another military conflict simply because
> they can no longer control the situation, but the political spinmeisters
> will try their best to translate such a conflict into an electoral
> victory.
>
>
> --
> Boris Stremlin
> bstremli@binghamton.edu

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