Living on a Lifeboat: What repression keeps us from discussing something as important?

Living on a lifeboat

Garrett Hardin | Garrett Hardin Society | 1974

This article appeared in BioScience, vol 24(10), pp. 561-568 and in The Social Contract, Fall 2001 issue. Currently available in Stalking the Wild Taboo.

Susanne Langer (1942) has shown that it is probably impossible to approach an unsolved problem save through the door of metaphor. Later, attempting to meet the demands of rigor, we may achieve some success in cleansing theory of metaphor, though our success is limited if we are unable to avoid using common language, which is shot through and through with fossil metaphors. (I count no less than five in the preceding two sentences.)

Since metaphorical thinking is inescapable it is pointless merely to weep about our human limitations. We must learn to live with them, to understand them, and to control them. "All of us," said George Eliot in Middlemarch, "get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them". To avoid unconscious suicide we are well advised to pit one metaphor against another. From the interplay of competitive metaphors, thoroughly developed, we may come closer to metaphor-free solutions to our problems.

No generation has viewed the problem of the survival of the human species as seriously as we have. Inevitably, we have entered this world of concern through the door of metaphor. Environmentalists have emphasized the image of the earth as a spaceship -Spaceship Earth. Kenneth Boulding (1966) is the principal architect of this metaphor. It is time, he says, that we replace the wasteful "cowboy economy" of the past with the frugal "spaceship economy" required for continued survival in the limited world we now see ours to be. The metaphor is notably useful in justifying pollution control measures.

US Naval Services Long-Term Study: Global Tipping Points on Food, Water, Energy, Pollution, Population, & Natural Resources & Population Explosion...

US Naval Services Long-Term Study: Global Tipping Points on Food, Water, Energy, Pollution, Population, & Natural Resources & Population Explosion...

State of the Worlds Future: According to a long-term study just released by the U.S. Naval Services Department, a series of tipping points could dramatically alter the global prospects for economic growth and humanity — for the worse.

Right now, for instance, fully half the world is vulnerable to social instability resulting from rising food and energy prices, lack of water, failing state governments, and pollution.

The Population Explosion: The Most Powerful Force on Earth: The population explosion is beyond control. It has emerged as the single most powerful, immutable force on Earth, driving geopolitical change, stimulating economic growth and generating global inflation. Ultimately, it is the most persistent but least understood factor underlying virtually everything weve been warning you about here in Money and Markets: It is behind food prices ..... It is behind the cycle of debt...... It is behind a new crisis in the Persian Gulf..... It is behind Peak Oil ...... This is just a small sampling of the massive scope and overpowering momentum of the population explosion. And what weve told you about in Money and Markets is just a sneak preview of its consequences...... At some point in the not-too-distant future, this explosion in population, consumption, and the exhaustion of scarce resources will inevitably collide with limits to growth. Brazil, China, India, the United States and most of the worlds economies will reach a breaking point beyond which further acceleration is virtually impossible. Prices will be so high, and incomes so low, that the demand for goods will plunge. Governments will fall. Economies will collapse. Thats when you will see the other side of the parabolic growth curve. Thats when you will see deflation.

State of the World's Future

Larry Edelson | MoneyandMarkets | 14 August 2008

According to a long-term study just released by the U.S. Naval Services Department, a series of tipping points could dramatically alter the global prospects for economic growth and humanity — for the worse.

Right now, for instance, fully half the world is vulnerable to social instability resulting from rising food and energy prices, lack of water, failing state governments, and pollution.

102 countries are at risk of chaos. 46 countries, comprising 2.7 BILLION people, are at risk of armed conflict with lack of adequate natural resources as the root cause for many of them. Another 56 countries, with 1.2 billion people, are at risk of severe social instability.

1996: US Army War College: Parameters: The Culture of Future Conflict: Overpopulation & Resource Scarcity will be the Direct Cause of Confrontation, Conflict, and War

Moved to: * SQ Swans: Hardin & Peters: We Have Met the Enemy; It is Us: Food Aid to Enable Our own Colonisation by Immigration; * US Army War College: Parameters: 1995-96: The Culture of Future Conflict: Overpopulation & Resource Scarcity will be the Direct Cause of Confrontation, Conflict, and War

EcoFeminists Deep Green Ecology Indigenous Rights Application Filed in Norway v. Breivik Supreme Court

EcoFeminists Deep Green Ecology Indigenous Rights Application Filed in Norway v. Breivik Supreme Court

EcoFeminist is a Jus Sanguinis Indigenous European | EcoFeminists Jus Sanguinis Settler Progenitor/s traveled to South Africa as ‘settler’ farmers, soldiers, medical personnel, religious and political administrators, in response to, and as a result of, their Nations Geopolitical ‘Colonial Empire’ Decision-making policies, to find only the Bushman, as indigenous natives | ‘Colonial Empire’ actions were motivated by their decision thousands of years ago to give up their sustainable hunter gatherer / agrarian policies founded upon the Law of Limited Competition, and instead to adopt unsustainable Totalitarian Agriculture policies.

Andrea Muhrrteyn | 10 May 2012 | Norway v. Breivik

A Deep Green Ecology Indigenous Rights application has been filed in the Norway Supreme Court by an African EcoFeminist member of the Radical Honesty culture. The application includes the UN Special Rapporter on Indigenous Rights, James Anyana (http://unsr.jamesanaya.org/) as one of the respondents.

The Norway Supreme Court are asked to approve the African EcoFeminist Applicant to be admitted to the Norway v. Breivik matter as a Jus Sanguinis Radical Honoursty African EcoFeminist White Refugee Applicant.

If approved, the EcoFeminist Amicus Curiae written submissions would (a) address alternative legal arguments to those of both the Prosecution and Defense, i.e. from a Problem Solving Radical Transparency EcoFeminists perspective as opposed to the Prosecution & Defense’s Parasite Leeching Masculine (Reason and Logic) Insecurity Patriarchal perspectives; (b) ‘argue points deemed too far reaching for emphasis by parties intent on winning their particular Parasite Leeching Masculine Insecurity case’ ; (c) ‘apprise the court of Problem Solving Radical Transparency EcoFeminists legal, social, economic, ecological and cultural enquiry implications for its consideration’ to allow the court to base its decision on a larger, more comprehensive, and more accurate reality based natural law deep green ecology legal framework.

The EcoFeminist applicant states that she is a Jus Sanguinis (Right of Blood) descendant of Norwegian artillery officer and citizen: Johan Pieter FÜRSTENBERG, who was born about 1760 in Bergen, Norway and then emigrated to South Africa.

The EcoFeminist applicant states that she is an Indigenous European, because she is Jus Sanguinis (Right of Blood) directly descended from Norwegian, French, Dutch, British and German Settler Progenitor/s who traveled to South Africa as ‘settler’ farmers, soldiers, medical personnel, religious and political administrators, in response to, and as a result of, their Nations Geopolitical ‘Colonial Empire’ Decision-making policies, to find only the Bushman, as indigenous natives.

The EcoFeminist Application states that her predecessors ‘Colonial Empire’ actions were motivated by their decision thousands of years ago to give up their sustainable hunter gatherer / agrarian policies founded upon the Law of Limited Competition, and instead to adopt unsustainable Totalitarian Agriculture policies.

Error in Bridgewater Publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On: How the Economic Machine Works: Disregard for Peak Oil and Peak Non-Renewable Natural Resources as the Ecological Foundation of Economic and Political Reality

Peak Oil/NNR Error in Bridgewater Publication: T4U: How Economic Machine Works

RE: Error in Bridgewater Publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On: How the Economic Machine Works: Disregard for Peak Oil and Peak Non-Renewable Natural Resources as the Ecological Foundation of Economic and Political Reality

From: Lara Johnstone
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:38 PM
To: US: BWater: Paul Darrah; US: BWater: Joel Whidden; US: BWater: Jim White; US: BWater: Kylee Gioiele; US: BWater: Chris Mascarinas
Cc: Dick Smith; Presidency: Dumisa Jele - Ch. Of Staff; Minister of Planning: Ellen Mabunda - Pers. Asst; Min of Finance/Treasury: Lindani Mbunyuza; Treasury: Kershia Singh;
Subject: Peak Oil/NNR Error in Bridgewater Publication: T4U: How Economic Machine Works

CEO: Ray Dalio
Bridgewater Associates
One Glendinning Place
Westport, CT 06880
c/o BWater Employees

CC: (Radical Transparency) Minister of Finance: Mr. Pravin Gordhan; National Strategic Planning Commission: Mr. Trevor Manuel
CC: Peak Oil Org's & Individuals

Dear Mr. Dalio,

RE: Error in Bridgewater Publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On: How the Economic Machine Works: Disregard for Peak Oil and Peak Non-Renewable Natural Resources as the Ecological Foundation of Economic and Political Reality

On 08 April I wrote you an email wherein I informed you of my opinion that there is an error in your Bridgewater Associates publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On[1]. Specifically that your No.1 Trend Line Productivity Graph was incorrect.

I stated that your graph was a ‘small picture’ graph, and that if you had a ‘big picture’ reality perspective, your graph would look more like that of Mr. Chris Clugston in his Peak NNR book: Scarcity: Humanity’s Last Chapter: A Comprehensive Analysis of Nonrenewable Natural Resource (NNR) Scarcity’s Consequences.

Put succinctly: (I) Peak Oil & Peak Non-Renewable Resources = End of Economic Growth (II) Sustainable Economic Growth is an Oxymoron; (III) Ecological Sustainability = (A) Urgent Population & Consumption Reduction, (B) Political Secession & Economic Relocalisation

I have not received a response from you or anyone at Bridgewater Associates to inform me whether you enquired into the information provided to your offices and what conclusions you reached based upon your enquiry.

Attached PDF includes information on above Peak Oil and NNR realities as well as philosophical perspectives to Masculine (Reason and Logic) Insecurity EgoCentric Denial of the Impending Collapse of Industrial Civilisation.

I am aware of the fact that your -- Daily Observations -- Newsletter is "one of the most widely forwarded pieces of market analysis" read by "practically everyone who is anyone on the Street", including "leaders of central banks, managers of global pension funds as well as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner and President Barack Obama."[2]

Why is Haiti Overpopulated and Poverty Stricken? Is restavac procreation a la Brave New World? Should Haiti “stew in its own juice”?

According to Meshack Mabogoane, the Secretary General of the Forum of Black Journalists (PDF), AIDS is a preventable disease, and poverty can be significantly reduced by people acting like humans, not savages on viagra, and breeding less poverty stricken and unwanted babies, if families concentrate their wealth and education, prior to procreating:

That South Africa has the highest Aids infection and death rates is neither altogether Mbeki's doing, nor coincidental. Legislation and other government-driven policies and programmes have engendered an environment that has escalated the pandemic. For example, the permissive pregnancy rules and social grants (especially for children) introduced by the Constitution and government have encouraged teenagers and unmarried women to have children on a large scale. The spread of Aids has been a consequence; the evidence is there for all to see. And so too there is a high correlation between this abnormal government-sponsored population explosion, on the one hand, and the deepening of the Aids crisis, of Malthusian poverty aggravation, moral degeneration and social disintegration on the other.

So moving on to Haiti; whose black leaders also could not be -- it appears -- bothered with the clear logic of Mr. Magoboane, but instead prefer the ANC's logic; is Haiti population demographics self inflicted:

The population of Haiti in 2003 was estimated by the United Nations at 8,326,000, which placed it as number 90 in population among the 193 nations of the world. In that year approximately 4% of the population was over 65 years of age, with another 43% of the population under 15 years of age. Haiti is the most densely populated country in the Western Hemisphere; the population density in 2002 was 254 per sq km (659 per sq mi).

Easter Island, Earth Island: A message from our past for the future of our Planet; By Paul G. Bahn, John Flenley [*Amazon*]

Who forced all these Haitians to breed like rabbits on viagra? It sure wasn't Joyce Tarnow, from Floridians for Sustainable Population, a gray-haired mother of three who's a feminist, an environmentalist, and very concerned with population growth; and former owner of an abortion clinic, who frequently went to work in a flack jacket, because there are quite a few conservative white males in America desperately -- In Gods Name -- concerned that black women be allowed to breed as many black poverty stricken babies as possible:

Fertility is an environmental issue. That's why I try to get as many people sterilized as are in my way! America can't take all the people in the world. We need to help nations that can subsist and let others wither on the vine. Haiti has denuded the whole land. Stew in your own juices!

Which echoes Garret Harden's Tragedy of the Commons:

If each human family were dependent only on its own resources; if the children of improvident parents starved to death; if thus, over breeding brought its own "punishment" to the germ line -- then there would be no public interest in controlling the breeding of families. But our society is deeply committed to the welfare state, and hence is confronted with another aspect of the tragedy of the commons.

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Error in Bridgewater Publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On: How the Economic Machine Works: Disregard for Peak Oil and Peak Non-Renewable Natural Resources as the Ecological Foundation of Economic and Political Reality

Peak Oil/NNR Error in Bridgewater Publication: T4U: How Economic Machine Works

RE: Error in Bridgewater Publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On: How the Economic Machine Works: Disregard for Peak Oil and Peak Non-Renewable Natural Resources as the Ecological Foundation of Economic and Political Reality

From: Lara Johnstone
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:38 PM
To: US: BWater: Paul Darrah; US: BWater: Joel Whidden; US: BWater: Jim White; US: BWater: Kylee Gioiele; US: BWater: Chris Mascarinas
Cc: Dick Smith; Presidency: Dumisa Jele - Ch. Of Staff; Minister of Planning: Ellen Mabunda - Pers. Asst; Min of Finance/Treasury: Lindani Mbunyuza; Treasury: Kershia Singh;
Subject: Peak Oil/NNR Error in Bridgewater Publication: T4U: How Economic Machine Works

CEO: Ray Dalio
Bridgewater Associates
One Glendinning Place
Westport, CT 06880
c/o BWater Employees

CC: (Radical Transparency) Minister of Finance: Mr. Pravin Gordhan; National Strategic Planning Commission: Mr. Trevor Manuel
CC: Peak Oil Org's & Individuals

Dear Mr. Dalio,

RE: Error in Bridgewater Publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On: How the Economic Machine Works: Disregard for Peak Oil and Peak Non-Renewable Natural Resources as the Ecological Foundation of Economic and Political Reality

On 08 April I wrote you an email wherein I informed you of my opinion that there is an error in your Bridgewater Associates publication: A Template for Understanding Whats Going On[1]. Specifically that your No.1 Trend Line Productivity Graph was incorrect.

I stated that your graph was a ‘small picture’ graph, and that if you had a ‘big picture’ reality perspective, your graph would look more like that of Mr. Chris Clugston in his Peak NNR book: Scarcity: Humanity’s Last Chapter: A Comprehensive Analysis of Nonrenewable Natural Resource (NNR) Scarcity’s Consequences.

Put succinctly: (I) Peak Oil & Peak Non-Renewable Resources = End of Economic Growth (II) Sustainable Economic Growth is an Oxymoron; (III) Ecological Sustainability = (A) Urgent Population & Consumption Reduction, (B) Political Secession & Economic Relocalisation

I have not received a response from you or anyone at Bridgewater Associates to inform me whether you enquired into the information provided to your offices and what conclusions you reached based upon your enquiry.

Attached PDF includes information on above Peak Oil and NNR realities as well as philosophical perspectives to Masculine (Reason and Logic) Insecurity EgoCentric Denial of the Impending Collapse of Industrial Civilisation.

I am aware of the fact that your -- Daily Observations -- Newsletter is "one of the most widely forwarded pieces of market analysis" read by "practically everyone who is anyone on the Street", including "leaders of central banks, managers of global pension funds as well as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner and President Barack Obama."[2]