Most obviously, we’ll reduce our footprint on the planet. I’m Malthusian enough to know that with increasing poverty and its inevitable disease and famine, comes die-off. Personally, I think it’s about time. There are too accursed many of us, and those of us there are, are soft and redundant.You first, honey.
It's easy for wealthy people like ahansen to say this because they'll make out great in a depression. Meanwhile, for the 95% of us who aren't loaded it will wind up killing a lot of people and bankrupting the rest. Culling the heard and buying up assets cheap seems to be the goal.
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I've noticed very strongly that modern "environmentalist" are very discriminatory. They might say they're accepting and all, but only if you're one of them. If you agree with them.
And that usually means being white and rich.
I've always said (and to this day have not been proven wrong) that that's why you never have poor environmentalists.
But I think Norman Borlaug said it best a few years back.
Borlaug was a REAL "green", who saw a famine approaching after WWII sanitation rates allowed many more people to survive. While Paul Elrich became a celebrity for writing "The Population Bomb", and how it was inevitable that we would have famine in the 1970's, Burlag literally rolled up his sleeves and spent years amidst the poverty of Mexico developing hybrid wheats that would end up changing the world. In 1999, Atlantic Monthly magazine would estimate that Burlag's efforts would eventually end up saving one Billion lives.
But my favorite part about him? This quote:
"[Western environmentalists] have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they’d be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things."
I haven't been to the Housing Bubble Blog in a while as I grew tired of the bitter people on it. It seems like the loons have taken over there.
How do you reason with folks who think that a "die-off" is a good thing?
OMG The Housing Bubble Blog is the only blog I stopped reading longer ago than the Daily Dish. Thanks for reminding me that it still exists.
I am sure those dying folks would quietly go starve in the corner. What a maroon.
Imagine what a depression of that scale here in the US would do to our trade partners! The world wide unrest would lead to another world war. Perhaps a final war.
The loon bloggers just throw bombs out there to see people run around...disregarding them is the only solution.
Now the whack jobs in DC are a whole different matter...every day in every way the people need to speak up so that they know we are watching and will throw them out.
Those guys are really, really....dumb( besides ugly ).
Very rough numbers but something like 80% of the wealth, economy was spent getting food and shelter at the end of the 1890's. Now food is around 5-10 percent.
Everything else will go first before food.
House building could stop tomorrow, even repairs, and we would have enough living space/shelter for decades.
James Clavell wrote a book called, "The Rat'. Later a movie too. Even in Japanese prison camps, buying, selling and finance goes on.
Yet another wanker in his comfy chair thinking that a 'Road Warrior' future would be 'so cooool'.
loon bloggers.. hehe, that's what the mainstream called us bubbleheads back in the day. Has HBB really fallen that far?
I'm well enough acquainted with some Depression survivors to know that the lessons learned there were incredibly valuable. However, learning those lessons involves situations I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Isn't ahansen the woman that survived the bear attack some time back? The bear must have thought there were "too accursed many" of them dang humans. I wonder why she fought back instead of accepting her fate..
Hey, I found the bear attack story. You'll have to trust me when I say that I don't normally link to oprah.com:
When things fall apart
Doug, that's her. She went through something awful. It's strange then that she's so callous about the lives of others considering she depended upon others to save her life.
We've seen the biggest transfer of wealth EVER from us, via the Feds, through TARP, to the already-wealthy.
Another Depression will just complete it, making those of us who survive into peons.
Guess that's "change" for ya! Sheesh.
Good post, Lou.
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