Comments on: Future Forecast – The Economy http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/07/20/future-forecast-the-economy/ A Future Look at Today Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:06:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: AlexM http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/07/20/future-forecast-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-64760 AlexM Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:01:58 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/?p=255#comment-64760 I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road! I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

]]> By: Steven Earl Salmony http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/07/20/future-forecast-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-64173 Steven Earl Salmony Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:25:04 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/?p=255#comment-64173 Still ignoring one cause of the things that threaten the human community. Based upon what we can see now, and understand from so many discussions in the FUTURIST Blog, would it be correct to say unequivocally that an increasing food supply for the human species is the essential factor producing the recent skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers? Until this relationship is seen (ie, food is the independent variable and human population numbers is the dependent variable), and its implications understood and accepted, the human community cannot respond ably to the global challenges that are looming ominously on the far horizon, I believe. The family of humanity will continue its necessary but insufficient projects at “symptom mitigation” of the global threats without ever taking hold of what is actually causing our difficulties and threatening our very existence. We can identify the problem. We are it. If the skyrocketing growth of human numbers worldwide is THE number one problem to be confronted by the human community in our time, then ideas for humanely reducing human population numbers makes good sense, I suppose. To have continuously denied the seminal work of Thomas Malthus and to have castigated the great scientists who have extended his thinking and improved our understanding; to have adamantly demanded that the relationship between food and human population numbers be seen conversely, will be acknowledged as the greatest failure of human perception in human history. At least to me, the implications of this potentially catastrophic perceptual error (ie, human population numbers is the independent variable and food supply the dependent variable) appear to be profound and could have something to do with the existence of the culturally derived functional insanity in the thinking of the leaders of the global political economy and their manipulation of many minions in the mass media who are mainstreaming this primary misperception and other economically expedient and politically convenient mistaken impressions to people everywhere. Steven Earl Salmony AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001 Still ignoring one cause of the things that threaten the human community.

Based upon what we can see now, and understand from so many discussions in the FUTURIST Blog, would it be correct to say unequivocally that an increasing food supply for the human species is the essential factor producing the recent skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers?

Until this relationship is seen (ie, food is the independent variable and human population numbers is the dependent variable), and its implications understood and accepted, the human community cannot respond ably to the global challenges that are looming ominously on the far horizon, I believe. The family of humanity will continue its necessary but insufficient projects at “symptom mitigation” of the global threats without ever taking hold of what is actually causing our difficulties and threatening our very existence. We can identify the problem. We are it.

If the skyrocketing growth of human numbers worldwide is THE number one problem to be confronted by the human community in our time, then ideas for humanely reducing human population numbers makes good sense, I suppose.

To have continuously denied the seminal work of Thomas Malthus and to have castigated the great scientists who have extended his thinking and improved our understanding; to have adamantly demanded that the relationship between food and human population numbers be seen conversely, will be acknowledged as the greatest failure of human perception in human history. At least to me, the implications of this potentially catastrophic perceptual error (ie, human population numbers is the independent variable and food supply the dependent variable) appear to be profound and could have something to do with the existence of the culturally derived functional insanity in the thinking of the leaders of the global political economy and their manipulation of many minions in the mass media who are mainstreaming this primary misperception and other economically expedient and politically convenient mistaken impressions to people everywhere.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001

]]> By: david http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/07/20/future-forecast-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-63950 david Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:18:55 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/?p=255#comment-63950 Jim- I can understand that if you are a new reader. Both in this space and in my new book I speak of the new age we are entering, The Shift Age. I agree with your view on natural capital. However I do feel that intellectual capital and innovation can help aid us in our relationship with natural capital. The green revolution is an example. There is no question but that sustainability and the transformation of energy that must occur in the next ten years is key for our survial on this planet. David Houle Jim-
I can understand that if you are a new reader. Both in this space and in my new book I speak of the new age we are entering, The Shift Age. I agree with your view on natural capital. However I do feel that intellectual capital and innovation can help aid us in our relationship with natural capital. The green revolution is an example. There is no question but that sustainability and the transformation of energy that must occur in the next ten years is key for our survial on this planet.

David Houle

]]> By: Dagny http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/07/20/future-forecast-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-63949 Dagny Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:58:56 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/?p=255#comment-63949 I agree. Once our natural resources are depleted, most likely with water being the first, there will be a huge crash which is already taking place. Dagny www.onnotextiles.com bamboo and organic clothing I agree. Once our natural resources are depleted, most likely with water being the first, there will be a huge crash which is already taking place.

Dagny
http://www.onnotextiles.com
bamboo and organic clothing

]]> By: Jim http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/07/20/future-forecast-the-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-63943 Jim Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:42:56 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/?p=255#comment-63943 I found this blog post incomplete. I wasn't sure what new world you were pointing to. Here's my take: Natural Capital (enough good soil per person, forests, natural resources, healthy fisheries, predictable/reliable climate) is the basis of all the other Capitals-- Financial, Intellectual, Social, Infrastructure. I realize that one can play a number of games defining different types of capital and coming up with indexes. But nature bats last. If we deplete the carrying capacity of our planet, we are headed for a crash; and it will hit the poorest first and worst. I found this blog post incomplete. I wasn’t sure what new world you were pointing to.

Here’s my take:
Natural Capital (enough good soil per person, forests, natural resources, healthy fisheries, predictable/reliable climate) is the basis of all the other Capitals– Financial, Intellectual, Social, Infrastructure. I realize that one can play a number of games defining different types of capital and coming up with indexes.

But nature bats last. If we deplete the carrying capacity of our planet, we are headed for a crash; and it will hit the poorest first and worst.

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