Nature's beauty in abundance today ...
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The aquariums are located at Upper Tampa Bay Park. The deer live in the cypress forest at John Chesnut Park by Lake Tarpon, and the mother & baby spiders were on a spiderweb located on the boardwalk.
Just another beautiful day in a Universe filled with beauty of all sorts. The living Universe is the only Universe which endures, everything else passes away.
Including Technological Civilization ...
The stock market is going down again. The global economy is afflicted with a terminal illness. What is the terminal illness? I'll tell you ...
Capitalism is a ponzi scheme with demands eternal perpetual (economic + population) growth.
As it turns out, though, like all ponzi schemes capitalism must eventually inevitably bump into a limit to its growth: Infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet.
For reasons which are too complicated to explain here (or are too complicated to explain at all) the end of economic growth must precede the end of human population growth.
There is a reason to believe that the End-of-Global-Economic-Growth event has already occurred, though this is a conclusion which won't attain any level of certainty for many years. Considering the depth of humankind's self-delusion it is quite possible that promises of the resumption of growth will continue to be believed by some segment of the population for decades into the future. The government might even inflate another artificial bubble and fool the public into believing that the economic troubles have ended ... though this is becoming increasingly unlikely and perhaps approaching impossibility.
Once economic growth ends, capitalism dies forever and the collapse of Technological Civilization begins in earnest.
The lag time between the collapse of the Global Economy and the collapse of the Human Population Bubble is a subject of great dispute which only time itself will resolve. The human population is going to peak at some point in the 21st century and that peak will occur at some level between 8 - 10 billion.
Just as the end of economic growth leads directly to the collapse of the global economy, the end of population growth will lead directly to the collapse of the Human Population Bubble.
What does this mean?
You really don't want to know. It is best to not think about the horrors which are quickly approaching.
If you live long enough to witness that event you will regret having lived so long.
David Mathews
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