How is the world going to end? Polls consistently show that most believe the cause will be environmental. “Climate anxiety” has reached such a fevered pitch among young people across the globe that the Lancet recently issued a special “call to action” to help with the problem. Clinicians have even created “climate anxiety scales” to measure the runaway angst spreading through our children, and the rest of us.
But what if the best, emerging science is actually telling us quite firmly that such fears are not only deeply misplaced, but that the most realistic cause of our collective human demise is likely the precise opposite of what most assume? This is the conclusion of a very interesting body of highly sophisticated and inter-disciplinary research. The greatest threat to humanity’s future is certainly not too many people consuming too many limited natural resources, but rather too few people giving birth to the new humans who will continue the creative work of making the world a better, more hospitable place through technological innovation. Data released this summer indicates the beginning of the end of humanity can be glimpsed from where we now stand. That end is a dramatic population bust that will nosedive toward an empty planet. New research places the beginning of that turn at about 30 years from today.
This means that Thomas Robert Malthus, and his many influential disciples, had it precisely wrong. More people are not only not the problem, but a growing population is the very answer to a more humane future in which more people are living better, healthier, longer lives than they ever have in our race’s tumultuously dynamic history.
We are not killing the planet
Pop voices like those of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg and countless Hollywood celebrities have warned that unless drastic action is taken at once, we face irrevocable global catastrophe. The Climate Clock in Manhattan’s Union Square pegs the start of the Earth’s deadline at a little more than seven years from today. But this is not science. The most sophisticated examination considering the Earth’s eco-deadline was just published in August in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Drawing upon 36 meta-analyses, involving more than 4,600 individual studies spanning the last 45 years, nine ecologists, working from universities in Germany, France, Ireland, and Finland, explain that the empirical data simply does not permit the determination of any kind of environmental dooms date, or “thresholds” as scientists call them.
These scholars state frankly: “We lack systematic quantitative evidence as to whether empirical data allow definition of such thresholds” and “our results thus question the pervasive presence of threshold concepts” found in environmental politics and policy today. They explain that natural bio-systems are so dynamic—ever evolving and adapting over the long-term—that determining longevity timeframes is impossible. Talk of a ticking eco-clock is simply dogma. Two major books published in 2020 serve as carefully researched and copiously documented critiques of environmental scaremongering. Both are written by pedigreed progressive environmentalists concerned about the irrationally wild rhetoric of late.
The first is Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger, who TIME magazine has lauded as a “hero of the environment.” Shellenberger explains that not only is the world not going to end due to climate catastrophe, but in very important ways, the environment is getting markedly better and healthier. He adds that technology, commerce, and industry are doing more to fix the Earth’s problems than Greenpeace and other activists. As an environmentalist, he is strongly pro-people and pro-technology, explaining counter-intuitively that the scientific “evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to.” He is right.
The other major environmentalist challenging eco-doom is Bjørn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank that seeks global solutions to humanity’s most pressing problems. The Guardian feted Lomborg as “one of the 50 people who could save the planet.” In his book False Alarm, he explains how “climate change panic” is not only unfounded, but wasting trillions of dollars globally, hurting the poor and failing to fix the very problems it warns us about. Lomborg explains ironically that “the rhetoric on climate change has become more extreme and less moored to the actual science” at the very time that “climate scientists have painstakingly increased knowledge about climate change, and we have more—and more reliable—data than ever before.”
Lomborg holds that while “global warming is real… it is not the end of the world.” “It is a manageable problem” he adds. He is increasingly dismayed that we live in a world “where almost half the population believes climate change will extinguish humanity” at the precise moment when “the science shows us that fears of a climate apocalypse are unfounded.” Demonstrating this is not difficult. Simply consider what we all need to live: air, water, abundant food, and protection from nature. Each of these are improving in dramatic ways precisely because of technology and growth. The scholars at Our World in Data and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford demonstrate this.
The world’s air is getting cleaner overall, and markedly so.
At the very time that population and industry have both grown dramatically across the globe, not only is the problem not getting worse, but human death rates from air pollution have declined by nearly half since just 1990. And it is not people driving less or living by fewer factories that’s saving lives. Counterintuitively, air pollution deaths are more than 100 times higher in non-industrial societies where cooking over wood or coal burning fires is a regular part of daily life. And as the world develops, such cooking declines. This means growth and technology are literally helping people breathe easier. And ozone pollution, or smog, has been declining rapidly throughout the world even in high-income, heavy manufacturing Asian Pacific regions.
Water is humanity’s second most immediate life need. The number of people around the world with improved access to clean drinking water increased 68 percent from 1990 to 2015, even as the population itself has expanded. That is astounding. Roughly 290,000 people have gained access to improved drinking water every single day across the globe over the last 25 years and that number is only increasing of late.
Food is our third greatest survival need. Contrary to grim Malthusian predictions, the United Nations explains that humanity now produces more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet. In fact, the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture revealed back in 2012 that “we already grow enough food for 10 billion people.” This is a 25 percent bounty over our current global population, a surplus which we will never need. And, as we will see in the next section, our world population is soon to top out at just 9.73 billion people and then start declining precipitously into the coming century. While we must do a better job politically at distributing that bounty, our food supply is not only more plentiful, but of better nutritional quality thanks to technology. It’s why malnutrition is declining dramatically across the world.
And the number of people around the world living in dramatic poverty is dropping, even as we grow in number—a direct refutation of ubiquitous Malthusian projections.
The Earth is actually doing better at providing what is needed to sustain human life as a consequence of human ingenuity of industry and technology. And what about the Earth itself? Let’s look at two important measures.
First, is it becoming more hospitable to human thriving, or less? A major 2019 study in the journal Global Environmental Change drawing from “one of the most complete natural disaster loss databases” reveals “a clear decreasing in both human and economic vulnerability” to “the seven most common climate-related hazards” by up to 80 to 90 percent over the last four decades. These hazards include all forms of flooding, drought, and deaths related to extreme wind, cold or heat. The trend lines are dramatic.
The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides. “This decline is even more impressive,” they explain, “when we consider the rate of population growth over this period” revealing a greater than 10-fold decline in nature-related human deaths worldwide over the last century.
This means the Earth is becoming a much safer place for humans to live precisely because we are adapting to it better. That is precisely the opposite of catastrophe by most people’s honest math.
Second, is the Earth itself being more widely exploited or getting a break? The 2018 United Nations List of Protected Areas report (Table 1, p. 41) demonstrates that the total number of protected sites in the world has increased 2,489 percent since 1962 and the total protected terrestrial and aquatic area grew by 1,834 percent. The proportion of land used for all agriculture (crops and grazing) per person across the globe has plummeted dramatically over the last 100 years as technology allows us to grow more food than we can consume on less land per capita than ever before.
And this is true across all continents.
As stewards of the planet, we still have much work to do in improving the environment. But note the key word: improve. The empirical data persuasively indicate the most significant trend lines are moving in the right directions in profound ways for billions of people around the globe, and the reason is technology and human progress. These truths are the exact opposite of an eco-Armageddon.
What does the likeliest end of humanity look like?
So does this mean there are no concerns about humanity’s future? New research published this summer has many of the world’s leading scientists extremely concerned, much more so than when 2020 began. A major demographic study published in the Lancet in July provides a glimpse of humanity’s end if things continue as they are. This work was conducted by 24 leading demographers and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. What concerns these scholars is certainly not too many people, as nearly everyone assumes, but a relatively near future of far too few.
Demographers have long been concerned about this. The “news” part here is how much more dire the Gates research is. Using a more sophisticated analysis than the United Nations and other leading global think tanks have employed to date reveals the world’s population shortfall will be markedly more dramatic, and sooner, than anyone anticipated. The BBC described it as a “jaw dropping global crash.” And none of these demographers see this as a good thing. Quite the opposite. No fewer than 23 leading nations—including Japan, Spain, South Korea, and Italy—will see their population cut in half by 2100. China’s will drop by a stunning 48 percent, knocking it out of contention as the world’s economic super-power. This precipitous decline will not be caused by disease, famine, or any kind of natural disaster. The missing population will simply never have been born. Their would-be parents are simply forgetting to have them.
Imagine any of these countries getting a military intelligence report that a foreign enemy was set to reduce their population by more than half over the next 60 years. But in this case, the dramatic act of war is self-inflicted by each country’s growing cohort of non-parents. Another 34 countries will see dramatic population declines by 25 to 50 percent by 2100. Beyond this, the projected fertility rates in 183 of 195 countries will not be high enough to maintain current populations by the century’s end. That is called negative population growth and once it starts, it probably won’t stop. These scholars predict that sub-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the Middle East, will be the only super regions fertile enough to maintain their populations without dramatic immigration policies.
To say the geopolitical and economic consequences of this fact will be profound is an understatement. The Gates research further darkens the already bleak picture painted last year by two Canadian researchers, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, in their insightful and carefully documented book, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline. They warn:
The great defining event of the twenty-first century—one of the great defining events in human history—will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, but of a population bust—a relentless, generation-after-generation culling of the human herd. [emphasis added]
The Gates scholars agree with the Empty Planet scenario, marking 2064 as humanity’s demographic high-water mark at just 9.73 billion human souls, short of the long predicted 10 billion. Academic demographers are not given to hyperbole. The unsustainability at work here is extreme. The Gates team explains:
- The number of global citizens under five years of age will fall from 681 million in 2017 to 401 million in 2100, a 41 percent drop.
- The number of over 80-year-olds will soar from 141 million in 2017 to 866 million in 2100, a whopping 514 percent increase.
Imagine these are your company’s future customer projections. You don’t get to the future with numbers like this. Putting this in very stark, recent historical perspective, there were 25 worldwide births for every person turning 80 in 1950, a healthy demographic dividend. In 2017, that ratio shrank to 7:1. Not so healthy. These 24 Gates demographers explain, “in 2100 we forecasted one birth for every person turning 80 years old.” (See it for yourself at p.1297.)
This is what the end of humanity looks like. Professor Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine and head of the Gates study, told the BBC, “I find people laugh it off… they can’t imagine it could be true, they think women will just decide to have more kids. If you can’t [find a solution] then eventually the species disappears.” And the solutions that developed countries have tried of late are not working.
The twilight of economic and technological growth
Few scholars have appreciated the full consequences of this implosion like Professor Charles Jones of Stanford University’s King Center on Global Development. In October, he published a persuasive paper entitled ‘The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population,’ in which he asked what happens to global economic and technological growth, not just when population growth slows or goes to zero, but actually turns negative? Elaborating upon Bricker and Ibbitson’s work, he contends that we must consider what he calls “an Empty Planet result” where “knowledge and living standards stagnate for a population that gradually vanishes.”
Like Shellenberger, Jones is “pro-people” for empirical reasons. He explained to me that contrary to nearly all demographic predictions, “we simultaneously have many more people and much higher living standards” precisely because “people are a crucial input into the production of the new ideas responsible for economic growth.” Jones calls our attention to the groundbreaking work of his mentor, economist Paul Romer, on Endogenous Growth Theory, which explains why more people are not only a good thing but essential to improvements in human thriving and a better world documented above.
Their concern is far more nuanced than fewer babies not becoming the needed taxpayers to support tomorrow’s mushrooming non-working elderly. Endogenous Growth Theory is more subtle and elegant as it actually explains our current developing world. In a 2019 paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Jones calls Endogenous Growth Theory “truly beautiful,” a superlative seldom employed by nerdy economist types. It earned Romer the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Thomas Malthus saw new people as zero-sum consumers of our precious limited resources. Thus, fewer are better. Romer’s Endogenous Growth Theory demonstrates precisely why Malthus was so spectacularly wrong. He failed to appreciate that humanity’s power as innovators is positively and exponentially greater than our collective drag as consumers. Romer recognized why, rather than devastating scarcity, which breeds fear and drives the need to control, a rapidly growing human population has actually produced unimagined abundance. Human ingenuity and innovation are far richer blessings to the world than our appetites are a curse. The latter drives the former.
And this is not just happy talk. The data bears it out. More people are the answer to a better world for everyone. This is why our global political moment is so critical. Policies that favor difference and competing ideas are where growth happens. That is precisely what good science and democracy require. Death happens when competing ideas are shut down in favor of strictly enforced homogeneity. Endogeny requires the dynamic competition of heterodox ideas so that they can be aired, challenged, and refined by others. Current “progressive thought” is really a new fundamentalism that is contrary to growth. It is fear-based and leads to death. This is precisely what we are seeing today.
The magic of what Romer and Jones describe is found in the codification of human knowledge and the non-rivalry of ideas. Natural resources are what economists call “rival.” You and I cannot eat the same potato or drink the same glass of water simultaneously. We must either compete for it or produce twice as much. But the idea of how to find and store more potatoes or water is non-rival. It can be written down and shared all around the world by people at the same time without diminishing its full power. So, as Jones explains, “because knowledge is non-rival, growth in the aggregate stock of knowledge at the rate of population growth will cause income per person to grow.” [p. 878, emphasis in original]
Oral rehydration theory is one of Romer’s favorite examples of the power of codified ideas. Dehydration from diarrhea has long been the primary driver of child mortality—deadlier than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. As Jones explains, some medical workers discovered that “dissolving a few inexpensive minerals, salts, and a little sugar in water in just the right proportions produces a solution” that prevents death from dehydration. That relatively simple recipe could be written down, shared, and used by billions at the same time. It has since saved untold lives. Objects are rival. Ideas are non-rival and thus, exponentially powerful. And humans are the globe’s only inhabitants that produce ideas. And when growing groups of people cooperate around and share these ideas, stunning things happen. This is Endogenous Growth Theory and it explains the wonder of the modern world in which we have more wealth and food at a time when we have the most people. Malthus and his disciples said the opposite would happen.
Romer entitled his 2018 Nobel acceptance talk in Stockholm “On the Possibility of Progress,” as an obvious challenge to Malthus, and at an efficient 30 minutes, his lecture is worth watching. He spoke of how his work—and that of Yale’s William Nordhaus, his co-recipient—demonstrates “the benefit of other people.” Our scientific, industrial, and tech revolutions, and their dramatic improvements to human flourishing, were, he explains, “driven by a process of more discoveries, leading to the production of more food, which led to more people, who in turn developed more and more discoveries” which have improved the lives of billions. As Romer explains, “This is not just exponential growth. This is exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth…”
He went on to explain that this “combinatorial explosion” of more people cooperating around ever-growing, world-changing, life-improving ideas makes it “immediately obvious that the discovery of new ideas from an almost infinite set of possibilities could offset the scarce resources implied by the Malthusian analysis.” And it obviously has. If the eco-doomsayers could choose to live at any time in human history, they would undoubtably choose today if their dream is physical safety and a long, prosperous, and contemplative life with an abundance of essential resources and a substantially improving eco-system.
As Romer explained to his Nobel audience on that lovely winter evening in Stockholm, Endogenous Growth Theory is the beautiful explanation of why, “on balance, it is better to have more people” rather than fewer. Limiting our population is not a progressive idea. The most sophisticated, cross-disciplinary science emerging from academia appears to tell us that the ancient Mosaic wisdom of the Judeo/Christian tradition, to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” is exactly the correct progressive prescription for the continuation of human well-being. And failing to do this is what the end of the world actually looks like.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 10:46 am
“They all agree to disagree in Europe.
Progress at last!”
You worry about your own neighborhood. Far closer to the breaking point then we are.
https://www.rt.com/usa/509456-texas-west-union-constitution/
peakyeast on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 11:20 am
What a disgusting article…
What about showing the amount of undomensticated animals?
What about showing the amount of rainforest?
What about talking about all the persistent toxins in the food?
What about topsoil levels?
What about topsoil area?
This idiot is like rosling… A narrow minded, one eyed moron…
Fred on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 12:47 pm
Insanity comes to mind: keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Here’s a much better article describing where we should look:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/capitalism-and-the-green-new-deal-2/
Dredd on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 4:31 pm
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
makati1 on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 4:41 pm
Peaky, most articles are only words for $$$$$, not meant to be read by intelligent people. The above is a great example. One person’s idea of reality in a world of 7,600,000,000+ ideas.
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 4:54 pm
Mak, did I tell you about the special suppliments I am taking that I believe will allow me to live to 150? If you like we can discuss this more over the phone.
JuanP on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:02 pm
Check out the lying cheating Duncan Idaho’s candidate!
“PLEASE HAVE KEYS MADE”: JOE BIDEN WAS CHINESE FINANCIER’S “OFFICE MATE” ACCORDING TO HUNTER BIDEN EMAIL”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/please-have-keys-made-joe-biden-was-chinese-financiers-office-mate-according-hunter-biden
Joe Biden – who swore throughout the 2020 election that he had ‘no knowledge’ of son Hunter’s business dealings – was described in a 2017 email as “office mates” with a Chinese financier and “emissary” to a PLA-linked (and now bankrupt) Chinese energy conglomerate that the Biden family tried to cash in on according to text, email, and sworn evidence from Hunter Biden’s laptop and multiple whistleblowers. Before reading further, keep in mind that the FBI and AG Bill Barr knew all of this and sat on it during the 2020 election (and Trump’s impeachment), while Fox News debate moderator Chris Wallace made Biden corruption ‘off limits’ during the first presidential debate. In a September, 2017 email found on Hunter’s laptop obtained by the Daily Caller, Hunter wrote to the general manager of his former Washington DC office building, asking to have “keys made available” to “office mates” Joe Biden,Jill Biden, Jim Biden and Gongwen Dong – a Chinese financier. Hunter identified Dong as an “emissary” for the CEFC, the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate whose Executive Chairman and affiliates have ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army, according to a report by the Project 2049 Institute – a US-based organization which researches security issues concerning Asia. Hunter Biden’s request to Cecilia Browning to create office keys for his “office mates” Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Jim Biden and Gongwen Dong. (screenshot via the Daily Caller) In response, Cecilia E. Browning, general manager of the office building (the House of Sweden) replied that they were “very excited and honored to welcome your new colleagues!” and confirmed that they requested “Four more keys” as well as a “Change of name on the door.” Hunter Biden revealed this week that he has been notified that federal prosecutors in Delaware are investigating his “tax affairs.” Multiple news outlets have reported that the probe is also focused on Biden’s foreign business activities, including with CEFC, which was China’s fourth-largest energy conglomerate before going out of business. -Daily Caller “We have tenants who rent office space, and it is correct that Rosemont Seneca LLC rented an office at House of Sweden between February 2017 — February 2018,” Browning told the Caller in an email, adding “However, please note that we do not share information about current and previous tenants.” Yet – Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in October that the former Vice President “has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever. He has never held stock in any such business arrangements nor has any family member or any other person ever held stock for him.”
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:03 pm
Chicken Perdue—
AOC burns Chicken Perdue and his corrupt coop to the ground
(Lets not put down chickens by comparing them to Perdue)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/12/2001571/-AOC-burns-down-Chicken-Perdue-and-his-corrupt-coop
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:07 pm
Does Time Magazine ever do a Loser of the Year?
JuanP on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:14 pm
Duncan nobody reads time mag anymore WTF. LOL. Check this popularity out instead:
“EPIC! Army-Navy Crowd ERUPTS into Chants of “USA! USA!” as President Trump Steps on Football Field at Game (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/epic-army-navy-crowd-erupts-chants-usa-usa-president-trump-steps-football-field-game-video/
“President Donald Trump made a fly-over in Marine One in Washington DC earlier today as THOUSANDS of supporters sang the National Anthem. Then the president flew to the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia.”
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:17 pm
Question: Why do you wingnuts so love to dress up in costumes?
Just curious
JuanP on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:27 pm
Duncan, when are you and your wife leaving the US like you said you would?
RepubliCON intelligence on display on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:57 pm
“Duncan nobody reads time mag anymore.”
Nobody ever claimed RepubliCONS were intelligent. TIME has a paid circulation of 11 million.
Such sore losers now that their “ace in the hole” supreme court told Trump and his minions to buzz off with their fake voter fraud claims.
Trump booed at UFC on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 5:59 pm
Trump booed at UFC match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsRH97wjjtE
zero juan on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 6:11 pm
Ppeee fuck is out:
Trump booed at UFC said Trump booed at UFC match: https://www.youtube.com/…
RepubliCON intelligence on display said “Duncan nobody reads time mag anymore.”…
zero juan on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 6:12 pm
Ppeee, everyone hates you. You know that don’t you? I thought so
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 6:51 pm
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire
The Question Everyone is Asking on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 7:06 pm
There are 16 members who signed on from the four states under attack. These sixteen RepubliCON members say the ballots from their states should be thrown out. Surely, then, these 16 members have all tendered their resignations from Congress, or have agreed not to serve in Congress until the matter is resolved. After all, they were on the same ballot! How can they live with themselves staying in Congress when they feel so passionately that they won a fraudulent election?
So how many of them have stepped aside? Zero.
Disgusting hypocrites.
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 7:15 pm
Despair in denierland
( Are Micrometeors From Jupiter Causing Climate Change?)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/8/2000610/–Despair-in-Denierland-Are-Micrometeors-From-Jupiter-Causing-Climate-Change-No
makati1 on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 8:03 pm
Famous, did anyone ever tell you that taking drugs destroys your mind? But then, maybe there will be no difference with you, if you already were psycho. Dumbed down Amerikans are going to the slaughter, thinking it is KFC. LOL
REAL Green on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 8:46 pm
Everyone hates you zero juan. You stupid cunt.
Davy on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 8:49 pm
We love zero juan REAL Green. zero juans one of our alternet personalities. Cuntfuck
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 9:11 pm
mak, I’m not American. In Canada there’s no I in ‘suppliments’.
I’ve drank like a fish & taken plenty of drugs in my time & by every delivery means possible.
It’s only a mind destroying problem for those with average or lesser cognitive abilities.
Many who posses superior cognitive abilities like mine have a history of substance abuse. For me it’s especially my memory capabilities. I was always trying to dial it down.
I don’t have a photographic memory, but the next best/worst thing.
It’s made learning laughably easy, but it’s been as much or more of a curse than a blessing.
Y’all might think I’m bragging, but like height or eye colour, I was born with it. It’s not an accomplishment.
Chances are that if you had the memory I have you would wish you did not. God knows I have.
Why are intelligent people more likely to abuse drugs?
The downsides of drug abuse are so clear that one would imagine smarter folks would stay away from them. The research suggests otherwise.
“Numerous studies have documented the relationship between intelligence and substance abuse. This relationship should be a negative one. After all, recreational drugs can damage your health, addiction costs huge amounts of money, and the legal consequences can be dire. But in fact, intelligence and substance abuse have a positive relationship: intelligent individuals are more likely to abuse drugs than less intelligent individuals.”
“Women with IQ scores in the top third, for instance, were more than twice as likely to have used cannabis or cocaine by 30 than those in the bottom third. Men with high IQs were nearly twice as likely to have taken amphetamines and 65 percent more likely to have taken ecstasy compared with men who scored less.
The same relationship exists for alcohol consumption. Even accounting for religion, social class, parental education, and satisfaction with life, intelligence has been found to be the second-greatest predictor of alcohol consumption, the first being gender.”
https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/intelligent-people-drugs?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 11:28 pm
mak, I’m not American. In Canada there’s no I in ‘suppliments’.
I’ve drank like a fish & taken plenty of drugs in my time & by every delivery means possible.
It’s only a mind destroying problem for those with average or lesser cognitive abilities.
Many who posses superior cognitive abilities like mine have a history of substance abuse. For me it’s especially my memory capabilities. I was always trying to dial it down.
I don’t have a photographic memory, but the next best/worst thing.
It’s made learning laughably easy, but it’s been as much or more of a curse than a blessing.
Y’all might think I’m bragging, but like height or eye colour, I was born with it. It’s not an accomplishment.
Chances are that if you had the memory I have you would wish you did not. God knows I have.
Poor apneaman, setting himself up as a “victim”, signaling that he is suffering from “the burden of high IQ”, all International jews suffer from. Not that he is bragging, oh no he isn’t! It just explains why he is a compulsory consumer of opiates or 35 cigaresttes a day, just like the US deplorables, he despises so much.
A more reasonable conclusion would be to postulate a deep sense of nihilism, embedded in our chosenites and their compulsory quest for power and dominance and inclination to destroy everybody who stands in their way.
What I really see in our friend here is a deep desire to be redeemed from himself and Michael Ledeen’s “historic mission”. Not in the least because apneaman knows that this mission is going to fail miserably.
Fortunately, apneaman is at the right address here with Bram Stoker’s docter Abraham van Helsing from Amsterdam, the city where it all began for apneaman’s tribe of TalmudTurks:
https://youtu.be/Bzb3rASU-pM
The Tribe piggy-backed on three Anglo empires:
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/what-comes-after-the-three-anglo-empires/
That cycle represents the rise and fall of The International Jew. They got very far indeed, but in the decisive moment ran out if steam and will disappear from history, like these two other mid-Eurasian menaces, the Huns and Mongols, never to be heard off again.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 11:42 pm
The downfall and dissolution of Anglo-Zionism:
“Supreme Court Decison Signals Secession“
https://www.infowars.com/posts/supreme-court-decison-signals-secession/
Germany is going to win WW2 in extra time:
“’Merkel wants Britain to walk across broken glass’: Chance of No Deal Brexit ‘hits 80%’ as Boris Johnson takes personal control of preparations before talks expire TODAY and UK insiders blame German intransigence“
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047159/Chance-No-Deal-Brexit-hits-80-Boris-Johnson-takes-personal-control-preparations.html
“Lord Heseltine suggests Brexit allows Germany to win WW2”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/lord-heseltine-suggests-brexit-allowing-germany-win-world-war/
Those Anglos who are willing and able to jump over their own Anglo-Zionist shadow are welcome to become European again, because there is work to do:
“Leaked files expose mass infiltration of UK firms by Chinese Communist Party including AstraZeneca, Rolls Royce, HSBC and Jaguar Land Rover“
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046783/Leaked-files-expose-mass-infiltration-UK-firms-Chinese-Communist-Party.html
REAL Green on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 12:00 am
Why do people automatically think of a cunt whenever my name comes up?
zero juan on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 2:07 am
Until we learn ourself how to be a real man REAL Green. And quit whining like a widdle wussy. Y’all’ll always remember us as a stupid cunt. It’s just the way it works. dumbass
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 3:08 am
Rush Limbaugh predicting that the US are heading for secession:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnZh7kYAjyA
Limbaugh is, shall we say, “heartland mainstream”, less controversial than Alex Jones.
If people like him are beginning to plant these kinds of seeds, expect yuge consequences.
James Howard Kunstler, you can safely ignore him for his opinions on oil and energy, but when it comes to “current affairs analysis” you better don’t. On top of that he is witty, something Heinberg can’t be accused of.
Kunstler is with Limbaugh on secession:
https://parisberlinmoscow.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/kunstler-map-america.jpg?w=768&h=621
(From: “World made by hand”)
It’s happening.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 3:57 am
Wow, for the first time my beloved DailyMail allows very political incorrect comments to be published, they very often do lately, in contrast to several months ago. This no-deal Brexit coming up really scares the hell out of the British:
Britain abandoned Europe and now complains that Europe abandons Britain. Go to your American friends. Oh, wait… Both Rush Limbaugh and the Texan GOP leader have said yesterday that America needs to be split up. Soon you will have several Americas to choose from as a new ally.
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failings, you are not honest to yourself. Brexit was a vote for continued dominance of US+UK over continental Europe, but you are no longer strong enough for that. The Anglo world is going to be replaced by the Gaullist world Paris-Berlin-Moscow (EU+Russia). If we don’t do that, we will end up in a Chinese-owned planet. America, Canada and UK are now going to fall apart and Down Under will disappear in the hungry belly of the Red Dragon. Two Anglo centuries 1815-2016 are coming to an end. Those Anglos, who able to jump over their own “Anglo-supremacist shadow”, are welcome back… as Europeans, no ifs and buts. England will not return as a member of the EU, but a Norway-role is in the cards. England can administer Anglo-Canada and New England, Quebec goes back to France, the Heartland will be an independent nation, strongly tied to Europe. The 20th century was USA-USSR. The 21st century will be Eurosphere and Sinosphere.
The message apparently rings a bell…
zero juan on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 3:58 am
A night with the troll juanPpeee:
zero juan said Until we learn ourself how to be a real man REAL G…
REAL Green said Why do people automatically think of a cunt whenev…
FamousDrScanlon said mak, I’m not American. In Canada there’…
Davy said We love zero juan REAL Green. zero juans one of ou…
REAL Green said Everyone hates you zero juan. You stupid cunt.
The Question Everyone is Asking said There are 16 members who signed on from the four s…
zero juan on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 4:14 am
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 12th Dec 2020 9:11 pm
“mak, I’m not American. In Canada there’s no I in ‘suppliments’. I’ve drank like a fish & taken plenty of drugs in my time & by every delivery means possible. It’s only a mind destroying problem for those with average or lesser cognitive abilities. Many who posses superior cognitive abilities like mine have a history of substance abuse. “
Ppeee, you are not a Canadian, not a doctor, not famous, and no superior cognative abilities. You are a stupid low life troll pretending to be many things. Your comments are poor and your socks boring and obvious. Go fuck yourself troll
duncan donuts on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 4:17 am
“Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano: We’re Standing Firm With President Trump”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pennsylvania-sen-doug-mastriano-were-standing-firm-with-president-trump_3616219.html
“Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano said Saturday that he’s standing firm with President Donald Trump. He insisted that the last-minute changes to election rules that happened in Pennsylvania, bypassing the legislative branch, was unconstitutional. “There’s something gone wrong in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and it needs to be corrected,” he said during an interview with NTD’s Cindy Drukier. The Keystone state senator, who has been leading the push for transparency in his home state, said the fight in 2020 for election integrity is to keep the Republic. “Americans, we’ve been kicked so many times around by the media and by the left,” he said. “And now, Americans say, ‘No, just knock it off. We’re not going to sit down … we’re not going to stand aside. “We have a Republic and we plan on keeping it,” he said.”
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 4:22 am
“TEXIT: Texas Republicans, Including State Rep, Call For State To Secede Amid Federal Election Shenanigans”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/texit-texas-republicans-including-state-rep-call-for-state-to-secede-amid-federal-election-shenanigans/
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 4:41 am
“British supermarkets need to prepare for large scale hoarding”
https://nos.nl/collectie/13852/artikel/2360435-brexit-onderhandelingen-mogelijk-ook-na-vandaag-nog-verder
(Prices for victuals will sharply increase, if available at all in the coming months, especially fresh food.)
Brexit-champ Nigel Farage could be needing his German passport, he acquired AFTER Brexit, in the wake of the divorce from his German wife. Two of his children he has with her have German passports as well.
https://skwawkbox.org/2019/04/23/farage-applied-for-german-passport-on-day-after-2016-referendum-and-did-not-deny-having-one/
https://www.politico.eu/article/brexiteer-nigel-farage-says-his-children-have-german-passports/
#TarAnd350MillionFeathers.
Germany announces hard lockdown for Wednesday, the Netherlands will probably follow as well as most other European countries. Even Sweden has abandoned its lax approach:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/coronavirus-bund-und-laender-einigen-sich-auf-harten-shutdown-a-005252b1-4577-4353-b5dd-42fb51e91866
Gonna be a very hard winter. The previous lockdown started as late as March, this time 3 months earlier. The Asians, also from the Northern Hemisphere, already got rid of COVID-19, thanks to disciplined behavior, while in the West, right-wing wackos keep whining over mouth-caps and unfounded conspiracy theories.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:07 am
“‘The message is that it is No Deal’: Supermarkets told to begin preparing for panic-buying as the likelihood of a hard Brexit ‘hits 80%’ as Boris Johnson takes personal control of preparations with trade talks with the EU due to expire TODAY”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9048077/The-message-No-Deal-Supermarkets-told-begin-stockpiling-ahead-Brexit-deadline.html
The message from the EU to the UK is: you left us, we never asked you to go. Now that you have, you cannot expect us to allow you to give access to our market, without you obeying to the market rules and undercutting our high standards and giving you an unfair competitive edge, encouraging others within the EU to follow your example (which is exactly what many British want to see happening). An interesting attitude, with the US teetering on the brink of CW2-balkanization.
Things could get mightily out of control here. The UK thinks that the EU should not exist and that Europe should be subservient to Anglostan and cement the 1945-situation for ever and they could act on that belief. But they would be mistaken about that.
“Second Russian pipelayer arrives at Nord Stream 2 construction site”
https://ocean-energyresources.com/2020/12/12/second-russian-pipelayer-arrives-at-nord-stream-2-construction-site/
Let’s see how the US reacts. If the US escalates, France could invite Russia to place 50 MTon nuclear missiles at the Channel coast, directed at all major English cities, under dual-key Russian-French command, the Russians would gladly accept such an invitation and a new Iron Curtain would be a fact, causing a potential famine in the UK (but prevented by US wheat exports, every day pasta). Next the French and Russians could invite China (and India) to join in leaving the UN and start a counter organization in Eurasia (Kazakhstan for instance). The Germans would follow the French lead (reluctantly).
Absolutely possible development, the economy will probably be toast anyway early next year all over the former West and the so-called “1.5 m society” is usually adhered to on the battlefield.lol
“Trump opposes Nord Stream II, questions Germany”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/energy/finance/trump-opposes-nord-stream-ii-questions-germany/19506
One wonders if either the US left or right really can afford a major conflict with continental Europe, while their own country is on the verge of major civil conflict. Asking the question is answering it.
Abraham von Cloggie / Kunt on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:39 am
“Rush Limbaugh predicting that the US are heading for secession”
Abraham, you and the Kunt are liars. Limbaugh quickly retracted the statement after being besieged with phone calls and emails from angry listeners. Limbaugh said,
“I simply referenced what I have seen other people say about how we are incompatible, as currently divided, and that secession is something that people are speculating about,” he added. “I am not advocating it, have not advocated, never have advocated it, and probably wouldn’t. That’s not something — 32 years — that’s not the way I’ve decided to go about handling disagreements with people on the left.”
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:45 am
The Trump ship won’t be passing like a ship in the night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMn7NWB5xt0
The Chinese media gladly report about the current unrest in Washington, a sort of US-version of Tiananmen in the Spring of 1989, the year the US won the Cold War, a few months later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LbXUJ7UraE
Fact Checker on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:45 am
Let’s hope the RepbliCON freeloader states secede. It will be a HUGE financial windfall for Blue state America.
Nine of the ten most dependent states on the federal government for handouts- welfare, food stamps, ADC, etc., are all ruby Red states.
Conversely, the states that pay far more in taxes than they receive in benefits are Blue states.
Good riddance to Appalachia.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700
MORE REAL Green Stupidity on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:51 am
“Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano: We’re Standing Firm With President Trump”
Big fucking deal, cunt face dumbass.
That’s so scary and won’t change the outcome, stupid.
The conservative supreme court, Trump’s so-called “ace in the hole” told Fat Orange and his minions like you to get lost with your fake claims.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:56 am
“Abraham, you and the Kunt are liars.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnZh7kYAjyA
At [0:10] Limbaugh clearly says that he is thinking that “the US is trending to secession”, a thought he and others have entertained before.
Maybe he retracted under pressure from the MAGA-crowd…
Limbaugh quickly retracted the statement after being besieged with phone calls and emails from angry listeners. Limbaugh said
One has to fear that apneaman doesn’t have the cerebral horse-power to grasp the implications or even meaning of the word “retracting”.
The fact that someone retracts a turd, doesn’t mean the turd ceases to exist!
Limbaugh is the typical spineless conservative, who couldn’t help for a moment to say what he really thinks. Others will pick up the signal though, uttered by one of the top-10 Heartland heroes.
Fascinating that apneaman gives us an interesting insight into his real thinking: he is in panic and admits he is vulnerable! He should be in panic. The waiting is for the first US “Sloviansk-moment”, that will spread like a wild-fire.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 5:59 am
Let’s hope the RepbliCON freeloader states secede. It will be a HUGE financial windfall for Blue state America.
Nine of the ten most dependent states on the federal government for handouts- welfare, food stamps, ADC, etc., are all ruby Red states.
Conversely, the states that pay far more in taxes than they receive in benefits are Blue states.
Good riddance to Appalachia.
Interesting that big-mouth libtards get their food from the Heartland, produced and transported by deplorables.
Or will they?
Oh, and you can’t eat “finance”.
Abraham von Cloggie / Kunt on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:04 am
It wasn’t “a word” stupid. Here’s Limbaugh’s on the air statement for the second time since your reading abilities are selective.
“I simply referenced what I have seen other people say about how we are incompatible, as currently divided, and that secession is something that people are speculating about,” he added. “I am not advocating it, have not advocated, never have advocated it, and probably wouldn’t. That’s not something — 32 years — that’s not the way I’ve decided to go about handling disagreements with people on the left.”
Abraham Geography ignorance on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:06 am
Oh, and you can’t eat “finance”.
Obviously, you are stupid in geography as well. Illinois contains the world’s richest agricultural land and the state is pure Blue. Trump was defeated in Illinois by more than 1.000.000 votes.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:08 am
“Boris Johnson pulls back from the Brexit brink: PM agrees to CONTINUE EU trade talks despite threatening to pull the plug with less than three weeks to go until the UK leaves – as supermarkets are told to begin preparing for No Deal panic-buying”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9048077/The-message-No-Deal-Supermarkets-told-begin-stockpiling-ahead-Brexit-deadline.html
It is not entirely impossible that BoJo could blink at the last moment. If he does, the EU has a problem (unless BoJo totally caves in).
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:13 am
“I simply referenced what I have seen other people say about how we are incompatible, as currently divided, and that secession is something that people are speculating about,” he added. “I am not advocating it, have not advocated, never have advocated it, and probably wouldn’t. That’s not something — 32 years — that’s not the way I’ve decided to go about handling disagreements with people on the left.”
Weasel words.
He said that he THOUGHT that the US is TRENDING TOWARDS SECESSION.
That’s like throwing clandestine a Molotov cocktail into a powder keg. Of course “he does not advocate that”.lol
Our kosher dummy apneaman, who is additionally too cowardly to use his own nick, is facing geopolitical annihilation, hence his panic.
Fact Checker on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:15 am
What happens in the poor and RepubliCON White states of Appalachia and the South as soon as the subsidies from Blue state America ends. In the Appalachian states, 34% of the population, which is almost all White, depend on government aid.
REVOLUTION.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:20 am
“Obviously, you are stupid in geography as well. Illinois contains the world’s richest agricultural land and the state is pure Blue. Trump was defeated in Illinois by more than 1.000.000 votes.”
LOL. The Chicago metropolitan area has 65% of the state’s population. No farmers there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois#Demographics
Illinois has 13 million, so 7 million Biden (paper pushers), 6 million Trump (farmers and truckers and food processing industry).
Dummy apneaman is the one with geography ignorance.
I would not hope too much that Chicago will be fed by the surrounding “rich cultural lands”, in case tshtf.
Apneaman is losing the argument and more importantly his tribe’s grip onto the country.
Abraham von Cloggie / Kunt on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:26 am
“He said that he THOUGHT that the US is TRENDING TOWARDS SECESSION.”
Are you really that dumb or a liar or both (rhetorical question). Limbaugh did not speak in the first person. He referenced what others have said.
You require a refresher course in English grammar.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:35 am
Are you really that dumb or a liar or both (rhetorical question). Limbaugh did not speak in the first person. He referenced what others have said.
You require a refresher course in English grammar.
I don’t. Instead, you need a course in elementary reading of your own language (b.t.w., if my English doesn’t appeal to you, we can gladly continue in German, French or Dutch, of course can’t, you intellectual inferior kosher 1-dimensional knucklehead).
I know that Limbaugh did not speak in the first person, he put them in abstract terms “…country trending towards secession”.
But he SAID them and that is what matters. Media Icon Limbaugh uttered the strong possibility of the US falling apart, as a sort of inevitability.
Got it?
Kiss your country goodbye.
Abraham Geography ignorance on Sun, 13th Dec 2020 6:36 am
Now the Cloggieturd is reassigning state geography. You can make all the dumb and lame excuses you want. Trump got destroyed in Illinois.
Biden won Chicago, Cook County, Will County, DuPage County, Lake County, Kane County, DeKalb County, Kendell county, Winnebago county, Iowa County, Peoria County, McClean County, Champaign County, St. Clair county, Jackson county, and came close in several others.
Geography doesn’t vote, stupid. So what if Trump won counties with a few thousand residents.