Consequences 2

The human race is dependent on the natural laws of the planet, the best way of looking at it is whirlpool, or tornado, the outer edges are moving, but slow, it picks up speed as it nears the center, the final stages are extremely fast and of short duration. 
This is directly relative to 'Consequences 1'. 

I'm still watching the 'barometer' of: 
1. population 
2. energy 
3. water 
4. food, and .............. 
5. Money 

Population is still rising at a phenomenal rate, the worse part is migration rates are rising exponentially, Bush and Blair would have us believe it is created by terrorism/dictators/etc. however, they are a product of lack of resources. 

Energy is on a plateau, if not falling. 

Water is getting shorter, even the UK is flagging up water problems. 

Food, directly related to the water problem, wheat mountains will be gone by 2008, the EU is proposing halving set-a-side (from 10% to 5%) to produce another 7m tonnes to make-up for this year's bad harvest (peanuts compared to the 100m ton potential shortfall in 2009). Wheat is a recognised way of shipping water i.e. it takes a 1000 ton of water to make 1 ton of wheat so shipping 1 ton saves the recipient 1000 tons of water. 

None of the above includes the loss of production land consumed by development, salinity, erosion, etc. etc. nor does it include the effects of global warming. Money, the escalating debt (countries and population) is unsustainable by any standard of delusion, it covers the spectrum of third world to first world. Every first world country should increase their bank rate, but they can't for fear of triggering a collapse, not increasing it is making the situation worse.   

All this is happening now, we have been picking up speed for the last 50 years (exponentially compared with previous x000 years of man's existence), we are part way down the chute of the tornado with no way back.   

The first question is, if we get democracy, what would the people vote for? More technology? energy? money? food? water? 
We have democracy now, the people are voting with their wallets of borrowed money, what kind of reality will change that? 

The second is, our concepts, beliefs etc are 'ideas' of an artificial reality, so what is truth?   My guess is that nature is about to enlighten us. 

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