civilization collapse

numbers dont lie by vaclav smil why understanding how humans hunt is essential to understanding why millions continues to be spent on cold fusion projects instead of triple paned windows. why not start with what is proven? windows. smil explains that triple glazed windows can create savings of 90% - no other opportunities for billions of units. cost 15% more. why isnt this done? because it doesnt hunt. no hunter is going to acquire large solar surplus from the being the "johnny appleseed of triple glazed windows" in the same way the way that hunters can create surplus gains from investing the chance at discovering and controlling cold fusion. why are large surpluses found at the frontier - fusion vs windows? the chance at property rights. there are no 10x or 10,000x multiples for investors in triple glazing. all the benefits from paying to replace acrue to the homeowner. the key is to find the right investor. utilities will offer rebates to install energy efficiencies. since ...

   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...

wednesday nov 10 financial times says belarus is instrumentalising migrants. humans makes other humans into weapons to extract resources from other humans. belarus is bringing migrants from syria and iraq to polish border putting pressure on eu and poland. this is strategic from belarus. low risk and low cost attack. it is hard to see what a measured response by poland would be. what can poland do to extract resources from belarus at low cost and low cost? because of its moral commitments poland cant imprison or threaten migrants - but they could promote hussar history in migrant source countries - proudly promoting christian militarism defeating the ottomans. how about the hodow? https://amp.ft.com/content/5524378f-f141-4f6e-8ea4-0f3be0bf27af

 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 ...

site works best with firefox: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-vultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele_of_the_Vultures from page 21 of  Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law While the “Stele of the Vultures” does not disclose the full terms of the agreement reached between Eanatum, ruler of lagaš, and Enakale, ruler of umma, further details are given in the inscription of Enmetena, Eana- tum’s nephew, E1.9.5.1. According to that inscription, Eanatum, despite his victory over umma, left a strip of land over one km. deep, belonging to lagaš, along the border under umma’s control, According to Eanatum’s inscription on his “Stele of the Vultures” (E1.9.3.1), the ruler of umma was obligated under oath to “exploit the field of Ningirsu as a(n interest- bearing) loan.” According to Enmetena’s inscription, the amount of land umma could use was stipulated by the acreage needed to produce 1 guru (5184 hl.) of grain, at the current ...

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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...

If the ice in Greenland and Antartica was as valuable as the damage losing it would cost - how valuable would that ice be? The 20 cities listed in "Future flood losses in major coastal cities" published by NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE - put the cost at $1 Trillion per year. So - any ideas on how I can short these cities?  Credit default swaps on global warming bonds? Wall Street - can you figure out how to make billions saving the planet from carbon? Be quick about it - Manhattan is almost under water... Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/science/global-warming-sea-level-carbon-dioxide-emissions.html?_r=0 By  JUSTIN GILLIS MARCH 22, 2016 Continue reading the main story Share This Page https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4bixv4/scientists_warn_of_perilous_climate_shift_within/ The article cites the work of Dr James Hansen. He has prepared a video - watch the video presentation by Dr J...

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Live forever Human City Civilization Finding perfect equilibrium for eternal city breaks the Plan Cities ARE designed to fall Civilizations ARE destined to fail as is everything else according the law of declining marginal returns to want things otherwise is infantile and monstrous

It takes me 44 years to wake up I discover I am on train That went over a cliff 20 years ago And will crash in another 20 years I have barely Learned to speak To speak I tell a story A story about executioners They hunt criminals and cut off their heads They use magic to get the head to talk after decapitation to give them peace When I was born Global warming had been set in motion The anthropocene already begun And the tools and infrastructure to know

it all does  slip away in the end that's what the scientists say most of us take a little bit more than we are allowed - because he did or she did, i deserve it, i need it or i want it only a very small number of us take much much more than we are allowed - because i can, no one will stop me, it's there, if i don't then you will and that is how you from a lot to almost none from trees to fish from oil to coal from dodos to carrier pigeons from woolly mammoth to giant sloth we all took more that's what the scientists say when we are young it is hard to take anything maybe we take nothing now we are older and our children are almost out of the house it's not so hard to take a little for our suffering, for the hard times when we were younger, for the long hours we were i am old now nothing works like it is supposed to just put it back the way it was - i don't care what it costs it's hard NOT to take a little for the drugs, the ...

We haven't evolved that way Eat it all and move It's always worked well enough  What's the incentive to leaving it? The next guy always takes it

You will inherit nothing and an asteroid strikes in 80 years. Or you inherit a bullet to the head. Pick one.

Would you like to do something to stop the collapse of civilization? Well go ahead but nothing you do will make any difference. What we can do is soften the blow. Eventually we will run out of resources to exploit. Liquid fossil fuels are so depleted that we need to drill five thousand feet into the ocean, and another thirteen thousand feet into the ocean. We need to boil sand to extract oil. Marine habitats are collapsing. And topsoils are eroding. Go ahead and buy nothing for a week if you like, think locally and act globally, or stop eating meat if you like, but on the scale of things it won't make a difference. What might make a soften the blow is not having any children or dying earlier that might make a difference. Reducing the number of humans on the planet is the single best way to conserve resources. Reducing the number of North Americans is the most effective. If you still think you can do something about the collapse of civili...

can the irish potato famine be understood in terms of civilization collapse? the huge loss of population the population bottleneck there are no anecdotes, no stories from the famine no one wanted to remember fear inferiority shame are there any similarities to the mayan collapse?

what is a more modest proposal? - genocide - a common practice for population control / eugenics - cliodynamics - fratricide / civil war - gerontocide - logan's run who makes these choices? crazy eddie.

Collapse Idea of collapse When downward forces are greater than upward froces Example American collapse Downward forces Debt Military Intelligence Religion Racism Upward forces Network Education Democratic Property