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Galileo Shouted - We Must Shout
Louder About Overpopulation
By Frosty Wooldridge
4-28-11
 
The Italian mathematician and physicist Galileo in 1600 catapulted humanity into modern science. His methodical calculations proved that the Earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. For that transgression, the pope placed him under house arrest for the rest of his life.
 
Today, the pope in the form of Western media as well as leaders across the United States either refuse to address the overpopulation issue facing America and humanity or they block anyone who speaks up.
 
While accelerating symptoms manifest around the planet as to human population overload, the "pope-like" media maintains a stranglehold on distribution of the predicament.
 
This year, Chris Clugston will publish one of the most definitive books on America's human overpopulation predicament: Scarcity.
 
Human Misperceptions
"Unfolding today among humankind is the most colossal self-inflicted tragedy in the history of the world," said Clugston. "During the course of human history, there have been two fundamental shocks to humanity's prevailing worldview. The first occurred when Pythagoras discovered that the earth is not flat; the second occurred when Copernicus discovered that the earth is not the center of the universe.
"The third and potentially fatal fundamental shock to humanity's worldview is about to occur. We will soon discover that we can no longer provide continuously improving material living standards for ever-increasing numbers of our ever-expanding global human population. The earth no longer contains "enough" nonrenewable natural resources.
"Scarcity" is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary assessment of the realities, choices, and likely outcomes associated with ever-increasing nonrenewable natural resource scarcity.
"Scarcity" is also the story of a species, Homo sapiens, whose superior intellect should have caused it to eschew natural resource utilization behavior through which lower order species often experience population "irruptions" followed by "die-offs". No such luck."
Industrialism and NNRs
"It is understandable that we human beings would seek to improve our societal wellbeing-the material living standards enjoyed by our human populations-through industrialism," said Clugston. "The material living standards associated with industrialized lifestyles such as those enjoyed by Americans and Western Europeans are far superior to the living standards afforded by pre-industrial agrarian and hunter-gatherer lifestyles.
"Seemingly unnoticed, however, is the fact that our industrial lifestyle paradigm is enabled almost exclusively by enormous and ever-increasing quantities of nonrenewable natural resources (NNRs)-fossil fuels, metals, and nonmetallic (industrial and construction) minerals-which serve as the raw material inputs to our industrialized economies, as the building blocks that comprise our industrialized infrastructure and support systems, and as the primary energy sources that power our industrialized societies."
NNR Scarcity
"Unfortunately, NNRs are finite; and as their name implies, NNR reserves are not replenished on a time scale that is relevant to humans," said Clugston. "More unfortunately, economically viable supplies associated with the vast majority of NNRs that enable our industrialized way of life are becoming increasingly scarce, both domestically (US) and globally.
"While there will always be "plenty of NNRs" in the ground, there will not always be "plenty of economically viable NNRs" in the ground. In fact, there are "no longer enough economically viable NNRs" in the ground to enable continuous improvement in human societal wellbeing at historical rates.
"The episode of NNR scarcity that occurred in 2008, immediately prior to the onset of the Great Recession, marked a tipping point for both America and the world. The number of permanently scarce NNRs had become sufficiently large by 2008 to permanently depress future economic growth trajectories and societal wellbeing trajectories at both the domestic (US) and global levels."
Implications of NNR Scarcity
"Domestically, US economic output (GDP) and societal wellbeing levels "peaked" permanently prior to the Great Recession," said Clugston. "As a result, US economic output (GDP) and societal wellbeing levels will trend generally downward going forward, forever.
"Globally, future worldwide economic output (GDP) and societal wellbeing trajectories "diverged" permanently from pre-recession trajectories. As a result, global economic output (GDP) and societal wellbeing levels will trend upward at a continuously declining rate (at best) over the near term, peak in the not-too-distant future, and trend downward thereafter.
"Ironically, through our incessant pursuit of global industrialism, we have been eliminating-persistently and systematically-the finite and non-replenishing NNRs upon which our industrialized way of life and our very existence depend.
"Because this natural resource utilization behavior, which enables our current "success"-our industrialized way of life-and which is essential to perpetuating our success, is simultaneously undermining our very existence, neither our natural resource utilization behavior nor our industrial lifestyle paradigm is sustainable. This is our "predicament".
"So while global industrialism and its extraordinary levels of societal wellbeing are understandable human objectives, they are also physically impossible objectives. Our historical reality of "continuously more and more", which we have experienced since the inception of our industrial revolution, is being displaced by our new reality of "continuously less and less"."
 
Consequences of NNR Scarcity
"Humanity's transition to a sustainable lifestyle paradigm-a pre-industrial lifestyle paradigm, within which a drastically reduced human population will experience subsistence level material living standards-is therefore inevitable," said Clugston. "Our choice is not whether we "wish to be sustainable"; our choice involves the process by which we "will become sustainable".
"We can choose to alter fundamentally our existing unsustainable natural resource utilization behavior and transition voluntarily to a sustainable lifestyle paradigm over the next several decades. In the process, we would cooperate globally in utilizing remaining accessible NNRs to orchestrate a relatively gradual-but horrifically painful nonetheless-transition, thereby optimizing our population level and material living standards both during our transition and at sustainability.
"Alternatively, we can choose to squander dwindling NNR supplies in futile attempts to perpetuate our unsustainable industrial lifestyle paradigm, perhaps for a few decades. In the process, we will deplete remaining NNR reserves to levels at which they will become insufficient to support the economic output (GDP) levels, population levels, and material living standards associated with our industrialized and industrializing nations. Competition for increasingly scarce natural resources will escalate into resource wars, which will escalate into global societal collapse. It would appear that we have made our choice, if only by default."
The NNR Scarcity Analysis
"At the core of "Scarcity" is the NNR Scarcity Analysis (Analysis), which assesses current and future NNR scarcity, both domestically (US) and globally. The Analysis provides overwhelming if not irrefutable evidence to support the preceding assertions," said Clugston. "The Analysis is based on comprehensive quantitative and qualitative criticality and scarcity evaluations associated with the 89 NNRs that enable our modern industrial existence, and for which the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) maintain detailed information regarding domestic (US) and global NNR demand, supply, and utilization.
"The criticality and scarcity associated with each of the 89 analyzed NNRs are thoroughly profiled in Appendix A.
"In viewing the world from our firmly entrenched anthropocentric (human centered) perspective, there is always hope for a brighter future, because the fundamental assumption underlying our anthropocentric perspective is that there will always  be "enough" NNRs to enable a brighter future-and that humankind need only be concerned with using these NNRs to provide ever-improving material living standards for ever-increasing numbers of our ever-expanding global population.
"In viewing the world from the broader ecological perspective, however, there  is no hope for a brighter future, because the fundamental assumption  underlying our limited anthropocentric perspective is wrong."
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Chris Clugston launched Wake Up Amerika! (<http://www.wakeupamerika.com>www.wakeupamerika.com) in 2006 to investigate the nature and causes associated with the impending ecological and economic disasters currently confronting the United States, and to define timely and meaningful actions to mitigate the severity and duration associated with the lifestyle disruptions that will inevitably result. Prior to founding Wake Up Amerika! he spent over 30 years working with information technology sector companies in marketing, sales, finance, M&A, and general management the last twenty as a corporate chief executive and management consultant. He received an AB/Political Science, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Penn State University, and an MBA/Finance with High Distinction from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
 
 
 
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