Peak oil, global warming, poverty, and nuclear war all have one cause. They are all symptoms of our obsolete system of society. Change the system of society, and all those problems will go away. The same is true, for the most part, of religious hatred, racial hatred, sexism, political hatred, and most types of crime. Change the system of society, and most of those problems will go away. The same is true of "over population". The World's carrying capacity is dependent on the system of society. Under our current form of society, the carrying capacity is below the current population. Change the system of society, and that problem will go away. We'll have a new carrying capacity as much as 100 times a high as it is now, allowing a few hundred billion people to live very comfortably on Earth. The problem is, when I tell people this, if they listen at all (very few do), they flock to the systems already tried by man and proven to fail. Those systems are popular, so people flock to them, but they don't work. The people have forgotten what they seemed to know long ago. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Franklin, Benjamin “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” - John Adams Mention God or the Bible, and people stop reading. That's fine, you won't listen anyway. God has the solution, and put that solution into the Bible, along with a eerily accurate description of nuclear war, which proves that God does exist. People, however, are in deep denial, so they don't listen to anything about nuclear war. It is time you people wake up to the truth. God's plan is to save mankind, not destroy it. There is no heaven and hell, only good life and bad life, and death. The religions of the world say what people want to hear, not the truth. People don't want to hear the truth. People want to hear that they are better than everyone else, and that they'll go to heaven. If God didn't allow the people to believe that crap, nobody would listen, and mankind would be destroyed. Jesus told us the truth, and you killed him. If it wasn't for Paul, a murderer who told us all lies, nobody would even know that Jesus existed. So God tells us what we want to hear, or at least allowed Man to put in the Bible what people want to hear. Imagine there was a situation where you knew that if you told your child the truth, your child would not fully understand and would do something bad and die. Would you tell that child the truth? So why do you expect God to tell us 100% truth. In comparison, we are much stupider than a child. There is a far greater difference intelligence wise, between God and a man, than there is between a man and a child. God is a super intelligent super organism made up of all life on Earth. Therefore, the Great Commandment is to absolute first priority in your heart for God or mankind. This is a commandment that everyone breaks. You have to put it before yourself, before your money, before your family, before your soul (going to heaven), before everything. The Second Commandment, which means basically the same thing, is you have to put everyone else equal to yourself. You are not smarter than me. In fact, I'm so fed up with people on forums thinking they are so much smarter than me and everyone, that I'm very tempted to stop right here and say no more. Keeping your money to yourself is disobeying this commandment, as well as the Great Commandment. Sorry, but that is the law of God. Sure, under the current system of society, you'd starve if you obeyed these two commandments. There's a simple solution. Change the system of society to one which is according to God's law. You people love money far more than you love God. You save up money to send your children to Universities which will be vaporized by nuclear weapons long before your children grow up. You save up for your retirement, but you'll be dead long before then. Then you call people stupid for trying to find a solution to these problems. You call people a hero if they risk their lives in a war, but you call them an idiot if they risk their money to find a solution to save mankind. You people put a higher value on money than you do on life! It is insanity. You put a higher value on money than you do on the environment and the future of mankind. conceivia.com Tony
there's no magical replacement system that will make them go away immediately, but otherwise the premis is generally correct, or at least in the sense that currently dominant values motivate and exerbate the problems mentioned. ideological fanatacism, of any ideology is a big part of the problem, and certainly no part of any solution. many of those mentioned have simple engineering fixes, that a culture dominated by economic interests and romantacizing the dominance of aggressiveness in any form directly oppose the implimentation of. global climate change and the contribution of polutants to it? we have many and sufficient in combination ways of generating electricity and propelling transportation without having to burn anything. peek oil is no problem when they're implimented. if anything, peak oil is reality's contribution potentially to solving several of the other problems. economics? that is really almost entirely a matter of perspective. perspective yes, and emotional attachments and assumptions. clearly we ARE "doing it wrong". and here i think we can take a hint from nature. the way it reuses and recycles, and even more, how it stays diverse. and lack of acceptance of diversity as reality is one of those problems that cause other problems. population? the problem is we've been increasing life span without decreasing firtility proportionately, so the result is it can only continue to increase expotentially, until we either choose to deal with it, or nature forces us to. which it does in all plant and animal communities by famine and disease. there is no ideology that isn't both an excuse for and a vehicule of, tyranny. capitalism, or at least corporate capitalism, has absolutely proven itself to be no exception. if humanity is to survive, as i believe it will, we will have either choosen to change, or have been, by nature and reality, quite possibly painfully if we don't choose to first. all out nuclear war between major nations was only a real likelyhood during the 1950s and 60s. since then it has simply become no longer practical for anyone. there are several small nations that may have wet dreams about it, and who knows but one or another of them MIGHT lob a nuke or two at each other, but that's about it. the likelyhood of major powers getting into THAT act is almost nil.
I assume you are some alien being or some other life form than human. Everyone of your statements are "you did x y z" So you don't consider yourself a part of the human or race or what? All I see is yet another person setting themselves apart and "above" everyone else and then making proclamations as to what "we" did to mess things up and now "you" are here to show us all the errors of our ways and set "us" on the correct path. If you are not willing to join in the responsibility, than you have absolutely NO right to dictate what is wrong or how to change it. When you decide that YOU are also a part of humanity with all it's faults, crimes and warts, then nothing you say carries much weight or validity. And you wonder why people don't listen and take to heart what you "chastise" them about. Go purchase a mirror and spend some time looking into it before you proceed to declare to the rest of the world how "they" fucked it all up. I don't disagree with the sentiment or intention of what you say, just the appallingly condescending and arrogant attitude with which you communicate it.
there IS a point i have to agree with here too. if everyone ELSE has to change everything so no one's self ever has to, gee, i can't imagine why it doesn't happen. derp derp.