Vaclav Smil's Global catastrophes and trends: the next 50 years

The best book to date outlining the REAL threats to civilization collapse.

Thoroughly researched and documented with an exhaustive and enlightening bibliography.

There is at least one threat Smil has overlooked - the sunspot cycle identified by NASA that may cause $1 to $2 trillion in damages. Story here.

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1st hunter - acquisitionist

Things I know about the first hunter - Acquisitionist all living things are first hunters all other hunters grow from the one before is four things acquisition knockout control ring generalship check hook feint play possum store training fans sponsors promoters defend cover-up parry new word - Acquisitionist think the human infant when the hunter is intrinsically the weapon singers (celine dion), models (Alessandra Ambrosio), prostitutes (alice little) and boxers (conor mcgregor) are examples what kills the acquisitionist health youth hierarchy what kills the acquisitionist forces the hunters to upgrade to higher hunting skills godzilla, the hulk, king kong, frankenstein's monster - are fictional examples thieves, bottle collectors and artisanal jade gatherers - they use their knowledge of where resources are to gather resources they kill out of fear or for hunger they die from old age being unable to feed themsleves four ages infant, pre-reproductive, reproduct...

Studying how humans hunt is crucial

Studying how humans hunt is crucial as resource limits are reached and boundaries are crossed. How humans hunt as a field of study has been overlooked in favour of history, political science, geography, anthropology or economics for studying conflict. They are unable to predict or model outcomes that are outside of their field of study. Studying the unique ways humans has been completely missing from existing disciplines. 1. what are the ways that humans hunt that are shared with animals? 1. what are ways do human human that are unique to humans? 1. with agriculture what species controls the largest share of gains? 1. what species is best target for hunting? 1. what special hunting techniques have developped unique to that species? 1. how does hunting lead to rise and fail of civilizations? Studying the way humans hunt has been missing for the religious narrative traditions. For thousands of years gods and prophets have spoken and taught and yet we have gone from city collapse to ...

Altar L in Copan and the 4 bankrupt Westinghouse reactors at Vogtle, GA

I am interested in collapse, when things fall apart. Sometimes collapse is a divorce of two formerly allied alphas battling for supremacy of their smoking rubble empire, while civilians die or if they have the means, flee with their lives. However other collapses are the result of bankruptcy. Alphas gamble resources to acquire competitive advantages or they have nothing left to lose. Sometimes there are no other choices but to gamble and risk losing. When you have nothing left to lose the best choice is to pay criminals to cross the Mediterranean and risk death or the US border and risk imprisonment. Civilizations require electricity. New coal generation is out. Sometimes the only choice is to hire the company that built the 3 Mile Island disaster to build new power plants on your property. And they were first approved since the disaster. Utilities in the South Carolina and Georgia contracted Westinghouse to build 4 reactors designed to solve problems wi...

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