Michael Ruppert: Systemic Failure

6 Comments on "Michael Ruppert: Systemic Failure"

Kenz300 on Fri, 4th Feb 2011 7:25 am 



As humans, we tend to delay anything that is unpleasant until we are forced to address it.

Rising oil prices will cause us all to reflect on our future and our energy use. High energy prices will cause EVERYTHING else to go up in price. OIL is used to produce or transport everything.

It is time to transition to clean, safe alternative energy. Wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels all need to be produced locally with local labor. Every country that imports oil must develop a policy of greater self-sufficiency.

We will all spend less, use less energy and walk and bicycle more than we have in the past.

The worlds ever increasing population has finally come head to head with the worlds limited resources of food, water, oil, tuna, phosphorous and on and on.

And the population keeps growing every day.

Robert on Fri, 4th Feb 2011 7:46 am 



This is Malthusian junk science that has long been rebutted. Take your basic statement:

“The worlds ever increasing population has finally come head to head with the worlds limited resources of food, water, oil, tuna, phosphorous and on and on. And the population keeps growing every day.”

Many societies are now in population decline, such Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia, and most of Europe. Canada and Australia are maintaining their population barely with high immigration rates. India is in the midst of a demographic transition with half of its states having a TFR < 2.1.

Most epidemiologists, demographers, and other competent people predict that human population will eventually decline in the next few decades.

"The worlds ever increasing population has finally come head to head with the worlds limited resources of food"

How do you know this? This is not a testable hypothesis and it is not falsifiable. I bet you'll then give some vague, hand-wavy response about how a conflict or some malnutrition rate is attributable to overpopulation. Where is your evidence, other than "strong belief?" No one competent believes in Malthusian theory. Populations in many countries are declining because people don't want big families, or don't even want children. Not because there isn't enough food.

Rick on Fri, 4th Feb 2011 10:03 am 



I like Mike, but I still think his time frame is off a bit. Meaning, I think we have some more time, like 2 – 5 years, before the TSHTF.

Perfecto on Fri, 4th Feb 2011 6:12 pm 



@Robert, have you heard about food prices recently? The riots in Arab countries started by food-price inflation? “Junk Science”, eh?

TheProphetNabob on Fri, 4th Feb 2011 10:03 pm 



Robert, Kenz300’s comment about over-population is no more implausible than your comment that “human population will eventually decline in the next few decades.” OF COURSE it will decline! The question is, HOW? Neither you, nor anyone else, can answer that, and dismissing “Malthusian” scenarios in careless.

But the following needs to be said about Mike Ruppert:

He is the worst spokesperson for peak oil that there ever was. He is a non-expert and a 911 conspiracy theorist.

He said the US was about to go over a natural gas cliff (wrong), the the draft was going to be re-instituted (wrong), and that Hurricane Rita would collapse the US economy back in 2005 (wrong).

How much of this incredible B.S. must people put up with here before they start calling Ruppert what he is–a CRANK.

Deskpoet on Sun, 6th Feb 2011 2:35 am 



@TheProphetNabob, 90% of Germans, and a whole lot of the rest of the world, are “9/11 conspiracy theorists.” You can say they’re all wrong, but it doesn’t make Ruppert a lone gunman. The draft WAS re-instituted; it was just outsourced to Blackwater (a macabre twist on the privatize profit/socialize risk paradigm.) And as for the economy, Rita may not have blown the MBS house of cards down, but it sure ain’t 2005 any more, either.

Your character assassination of Ruppert isn’t effective and appears personally motivated. If you wish to convince people your point of view is more than that, another strategy is required.