RE: Survivalist conspiracy crap.....
January 13, 2019 at 2:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2019 at 2:25 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
You know what's currently making me nervous, it's finding out about the collapse of Bronze age civilisation. The extra history youtube videos are really interesting and I highly recommend watching them. But for me the Bronze age one really hit home because it chimed with what I am seeing happening with our current civilisation.
Progress essentially means increased efficiency. It's why we are living in a just-in-time society for example. A manager comes along, sees ways to reduce costs, gets a bonus and then moves on. But reducing costs to a business means reducing redundancy. And reducing redundancy means that it becomes less robust to shocks to the system. This will continue to happen until the system can no longer deal with stressors. Unfortunately due to the long emergency, i.e. exponentially increasing rate of consumption and depletion of resources and the resulting pollution, the future is going to be more hazardous as a result. For example over population means a pandemic will be harder to control. Climate change means that there is more energy in the atmosphere, the jet stream becomes more lazy and less likely to move for periods at a time leading to more extreme weather events etc. We're already looking at 60 harvests until top soil depletion. The revolution in food production relies on cheap oil. Guess what's running out? We're most likely at peak oil right now.
Decreased redundancy also means increased inter-dependence. And this is mooted to be the reason for the collapse of Bronze age civilisation.
Progress essentially means increased efficiency. It's why we are living in a just-in-time society for example. A manager comes along, sees ways to reduce costs, gets a bonus and then moves on. But reducing costs to a business means reducing redundancy. And reducing redundancy means that it becomes less robust to shocks to the system. This will continue to happen until the system can no longer deal with stressors. Unfortunately due to the long emergency, i.e. exponentially increasing rate of consumption and depletion of resources and the resulting pollution, the future is going to be more hazardous as a result. For example over population means a pandemic will be harder to control. Climate change means that there is more energy in the atmosphere, the jet stream becomes more lazy and less likely to move for periods at a time leading to more extreme weather events etc. We're already looking at 60 harvests until top soil depletion. The revolution in food production relies on cheap oil. Guess what's running out? We're most likely at peak oil right now.
Decreased redundancy also means increased inter-dependence. And this is mooted to be the reason for the collapse of Bronze age civilisation.
