Population, economic growth and ecological damage - a peek under the hood

[PATRICK]

21. This is fascinating

and is yet another way of looking at the large picture. We are going to hit a default ecological crisis adjustment in everything in the expanded biosphere. We can cope with that as isolated groups or let it roll over us since our civilization settings are going to clash with the full consequences.

Fundamental power structures and attitudes, stronger than the stark fear of actual consequences will make this crisis "tragic". There are "optimistic" scientists talking the same things and recognizing the futility of coping with our unsynchronized-with-reality economy/political structure. Which even mutes media and science to a disastrous dumbing down of survival reasoning.

Sauve qui peut. That is what the rich are/will be planning at everyone's expense who tries to bail the sinking Titanic. But we have immense capabilities locked away in phony debt pyramids and extreme waste of labor and production. Immense abilities in innovative science and engineering- repressed. A lot of people will transition from clinging to self-destructive maintenance of a doomed status quo to a despairing apocalypse. Real choices like that are simply not presented to the people. Real sacrifice or real work to live in a default realignment of the climate is not allowed to be seen, talked about or done. Meaningless money rules for the apocalypse. No wonder the whacko religionists love this omega power though every religion in essence preaches against Mammon. In any event, everything phony is the same. Money pyramids over the mummies of the race.