The gist of this article is that no nation lives in a vacuum and the more complex the global market, the more danger of eventual collapse from even a relatively minor event.
Are we nearing the end of civilation as we know it?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-...inevitable.html
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DOOMSDAY. The end of civilization. Literature and film abound with tales of plague, famine and wars which ravage the planet, leaving a few survivors scratching out a primitive existence amid the ruins. Every civilisation in history has collapsed, after all. Why should ours be any different?
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A few researchers have been making such claims for years. Disturbingly, recent insights from fields such as complexity theory suggest that they are right. It appears that once a society develops beyond a certain level of complexity it becomes increasingly fragile. Eventually, it reaches a point at which even a relatively minor disturbance can bring everything crashing down.
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To keep growing, societies must keep solving problems as they arise. Yet each problem solved means more complexity. Success generates a larger population, more kinds of specialists, more resources to manage, more information to juggle - and, ultimately, less bang for your buck.
Eventually, says Tainter, the point is reached when all the energy and resources available to a society are required just to maintain its existing level of complexity. Then when the climate changes or barbarians invade, overstretched institutions break down and civil order collapses. What emerges is a less complex society, which is organized on a smaller scale or has been taken over by another group.
Eventually, says Tainter, the point is reached when all the energy and resources available to a society are required just to maintain its existing level of complexity. Then when the climate changes or barbarians invade, overstretched institutions break down and civil order collapses. What emerges is a less complex society, which is organized on a smaller scale or has been taken over by another group.
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Are we nearing the end of civilation as we know it?
bet your bar of gold on it !!!!!!
Already in this part of the world, the Climate Change is bringing Ice Clouds that have plunged max temps to 5-10C down, night temps 5C up.....
Of course the day heat is what makes little things grow... edible things..
At present food is collected from many areas of the world
soon these areas will be colder, drier and the food scarcity will ripple everywhere.
Not long to wait guys; earthlings have never been able to read the writing on the wall.. or more accurately never been able to prevent their own demise.
Now WHY is this so?
Most earthlings think they know...ignorant biased earthkings!... or at the least, GOD knows... so always someone is perceived to have control ! LOL a pathetic reliance on "fantasy"
History is the documentation of earthling behaviour.... like a circle driveway... there is no getting off, no learning, just repeat... just no hope.
Now why is THIS so ?
Well earthlings are super-cells in the organism that has infected Earth..... they are just doing their DNA decreed duty.... they must proliferate, they must build to destroy.. (analogous to the role of flowers on a plant)
and all must fall down as the seeds are blasted into the cosmic wind. Oh When will they eeeva learn
There is no way out, it was all written billions of years ago.... but earthlings are so myopic that they think they are the special ones and LIFE is to be abused used and discarded. Sort of like cutting your arm off to have a feed... ? next meal ?
In the demise of earthlings, as it is with flowers, a new LIFE will grow in another place, another time, another space, but with the same face.
GOD knows, doesn't HE !
LOL
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GOD knows, doesn't HE
Of course, he is the Alpha and the Zarkov!
Of course, he is the Alpha and the Zarkov!
KEEP MY ROLL OF DUCT TAPE AND PLASTIC, BECAUSE I WONT NEED IT:
I think its in the placement of two very close by super stars that are unstable.
I think this bull that NASA and the government are giving us, that they don’t know anything about E.T.s is bunk.
I think that secret government has already made contact, they have for some years now, but for their own selfish reasons aren’t saying.
My feelings are, that by the deciding aliens, is that this time around they are not going to give the rich powerful and selfish a special place in the underground arcs.
I think what’s going through their minds, is that their genetic store of materials, or the bunny farm is in danger, so they will euthanize everyone.
I think its in the placement of two very close by super stars that are unstable.
I think this bull that NASA and the government are giving us, that they don’t know anything about E.T.s is bunk.
I think that secret government has already made contact, they have for some years now, but for their own selfish reasons aren’t saying.
My feelings are, that by the deciding aliens, is that this time around they are not going to give the rich powerful and selfish a special place in the underground arcs.
I think what’s going through their minds, is that their genetic store of materials, or the bunny farm is in danger, so they will euthanize everyone.
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I think that secret government has already made contact, they have for some years now, but for their own selfish reasons aren’t saying.
funniest thing I ever heard
Aliens have NO USE for earthlings..... except maybe as a zoo attraction
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Zarcov, No actually they are a gene resource pool. But for some very strange reason this is not working out.
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I think that secret government has already made contact..
Yeah, I can see a more advanced species wanting to converse with the most intelligent of our kind!
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