Bored by ridiculous attention-seeking teenagers blubbering on about how somebody “stole their future”?
Do you get sickened by watching loathsome sociopaths as they lie and connive to trick naive youngsters into following their death cult?
Well, lighten up peeps! None of that crap is going on here!
This post is in fact a small antidote. It is in essence two fingers (one if your are American) waved at the fear-mongers and cult builders.
More to the point it is also built on the thing cultists and fear-mongers hate the most: Facts.
This post is about (you guessed it!) how things are getting better.
And Better.
AND BETTER!
And by better I don’t just mean the extra five cans of beer I found in the back of the cupboard yesterday.
I mean r-e-a-l-l-y better.
Better in how far fewer people are dying from extreme weather events.
Better in how far fewer people are living in dirt poverty.
Or even how people are simply not dying! (Well, OK. Everyone dies. Its just now they die age 70 not 35.)
So suck it up doomsters.
Whimper your way through the following examples. Wring your grubby little hands. Have a little tantrum like a two year in a supermarket. Bleat and moan like the sheep you are.
Your fetid, rancid scare-mongering will not hold. The only person who deserves to suffer from your self indulgent paranoia is yourself.
The world gets relentlessly better. The new year is unlikely to break the trend.
This is just a small selection of global improvements. Try reading Factfulness by the late great Hans Rosling if you fancy some more.
Extreme Weather Events
Do some people die from extreme weather events?Sadly yes.
Are more people dying from extreme weather events?
No.
In fact the number of people losing their lives from extreme weather events is now lower than at any time in the last 100 years.
That somewhat ruins the hysterical rhetoric we get pummelled with on a daily basis doesn't it?
Poverty
Want to know how mass starvation and poverty is doing on a global scale?Lets look at the number of people surviving on two dollars a day or less.
These poor souls sleep on dirt floors. They are illiterate. They die from ridiculous diseases like measles and flu. They are usually malnourished. Their lives are short, dull and brutal.
Because they are poor they have large families in the hope that one or two of their children might survive to their teens. By the way, don’t forget. This is how the sociopaths and their cults want it to stay.
If we carry on as we are then we are we can eliminate this desperate poverty in thirty years.
But only if we carry on as we are.
We must lock out the psycho cult leaders and their gullible soldiers who seek to derail global progress.
Average Life Expectancy
Finally lets look at worldwide average life expectancy. Currently it stands at 72 . (Yes 72. That is not a misprint)
While the sociopaths witter on about how too many children are being born, the main growth in the worlds population is fuelled by people living longer. In other words people are having better lives.
Further population increase is NOT caused by an increase in births. The number of individuals between the ages of 0 to 15 has has remained roughly constant now for almost twenty years!
Yes. The worlds population is growing. It will peak at about 11 Billion in 60 years. So we know where we stand! We can plan ahead.
Stupid tearful teenagers mouthing the false dogma of their cult masters about population runaway and mass starvation should be treated like any other stupid and ill-informed teenager. They need correction. Even if they suffer cognitive dissonance on having their black nightmares thwarted.
Hopefully one day, they will escape the malign influence of their cult and gain a little more life experience. Then perhaps their world view will be more rational.
So, things are looking good.
Very good in fact.
But there are clouds on the horizon. Yet those clouds are only a threat if we decide to steer towards them.
We have to address the pathetic politically motivated nonsense being spewed out to service hidden agendas. Like all propaganda the nonsense is wrapped in morsels of truth. Usually to make it more scary.
Top of the list within these morsels of truth is Global Warming. Or Climate Change. Or the Climate Emergency. Or Climate Chaos. Or Climate Crisis. Or whatever else it gets morphed to to enhance its ability to scare gullible children.
Yes! The planet is warming. One of the aspects of this warming is sea level rise. Today the cultists and their sycophants are using future sea level rise as a primary weapon in their quest to spread fear and turn back global progress.
But sea level rise does NOT mean humanity is doomed anymore than a rising world population means humanity is doomed. Unless that is you are an avid follower of one of the nutcases running a cult scam like Extinction Rebellion.
So is this sea level rise because of human Carbon Dioxide emissions? Well, probably some of it is.
But so what?
Let’s make the unlikely assumption that ALL of the global warming from the last 150 years has been caused solely by human emissions.
Would you throw away the last 150 years of progress in order to prevent the global warming that has occurred in that period?
Would you rather leave billions living (and dying) in dirt poverty?
Would you throw away all the progress in medicine, science and engineering?
Would you rather have it that almost the whole of humanity was dirt poor rather than today where most of humanity is NOT dirt poor?
Take the average Bangladeshi. The population of Bangladesh has risen four-fold since 1950. Their life span is now about 70. In the 1950’s it was 35. The average Bangladeshi family have 2.4 children whereas forty years ago it was six.
Today Bangladesh feeds itself. Bangladesh does not suffer the crippling famines of the past. Neither does it succumb to dreadful and easily prevented epidemics.
Bangladesh is healthier, richer, and better educated than it has ever been before. It's population is stabilising. Child mortality is at an all time low.
All that because Bangladesh has embraced modern science, medicine and engineering and rejected Luddite paranoia, superstition and fear.
Meanwhile, since 1950 the world sea level has risen about 17cms. (7 inches)
Go and ask the average Bangladeshi what he/she would regard as more important aspect of the last 70 years in Bangladesh.
Was it sea level rise?
Or was it the improvement of the human condition?
We can continue to improve things and adapt to change. Or we can throw it away.
We can indulge in a panic laced pursuit of a dark self fulfilling prophesy. Or we can continue on a path that is driven by cheap plentiful energy and has been shown to improve humanity worldwide.
Sure. Let’s address Global Warming. As well as other problems like pollution. But let us do it rationally.
Let’s ensure its done to enhance humanity.
Not to diminish it.
