The elephant in the room when it comes to the Great Global Warming Scam is that of population control. Its supporters have previously been ignored and relegated to the back as cranks and nutters. Coming from the global warming alarmists that is quite amusing but in reality all their policies must lead to the downsizing of the human species and turning back the clock to where we all work the land to produce our food in a low carbon way. However, lately their voices are being heard and listened to but, thankfully, just ignored by those in power. For the moment anyway.
Their cries are intended for us to sacrifice ourselves and save the Earth. But saving the Earth for what? Not for us humans anyway as we would start dying earlier after hard working lives and our population would decrease. Of course our ancestors would then move towards the industrial revolution 2 and it would all start again. Greenies having died out because of the harsh life or being killed by people like me hunting them down for revenge.
Now the interesting thing is that all the people talking about population control, or not, as the case may be are all in the West where we actually have negative population growth. It seems that we are enjoying life so much and don’t want to be lumbered with baggage that we are not even replacing our kids.
So where are our kids coming from and why is our population growing? Well, it’s easy. We have the people incentivised by benefits to have the kids. They are getting paid to have them and they respond by having more. However, even they are not replacing those from the UK. For population growth we can thank the immigration of people from third world countries who have dozens of kids by their many wives.
Now there is the reason why our population control supporters don’t want to talk about it. In the West we already have population control in a way. We have negative growth. It is other countries that seem to have unrestricted population growth. We should actually be telling them that they need to restrict this growth but the irony is that we can’t because it would be classed as racism. You have just got to laugh.
Now, it seems to be that when a society is raised to a certain level its children stop dying for lack of basics and the people can look beyond the daily grind and then that society starts to have less kids. They want to have the good life. Time to themselves and their culture changes.
My view is that the way forward from this then is not population control but to raise the people to a level they don’t need 10 kids to ensure that they have enough to eat and a roof over their heads. Then they would be the same as us. Cultural differences would be reduced and population growth would then be stagnant. All without having limits on people but clearly the longer we wait the higher the number will be.
A key component of this though is that we no longer subsidise someone having kids. You have what you can afford. Want a kid? You have to earn enough to feed and clothe it. Have one you can’t afford. Take it away for adoption to childless couples and make the parents pay support to them. Harsh but necessary. Contraception is free and nobody nowadays needs to bring an unwanted kid into the world. They do it for selfish reasons. That subsidy would need to be removed worldwide though. What is the point of us doing this to ourselves and allowing other countries to take up the slack and increase their populations? We after all are paying for foreigners to have kids to squeeze out the kids we are not allowed to have. It needs to be one rule for all.
The real issue with population control is that the people that need to do it won’t and unless we use force and a smidgen of nuclear fire (imagine getting that past the UN council) we really can’t do anything to change them. The only way is through incentives and, ones that are suitable, or we will be classed racists.
So no practical population control and the greenies can go to Africa or Asia and push their population control agendas. See how they get on there. For those really serious about it they can simply sterilise themselves and know they have done the best they can for the planet. Preferably before they have kids.
As there is no way we will get these other countries to limit population growth so how do we bring their societies up quickly to western levels? That is a bit of a quandary as in the current climate we can’t even look after our own people. However, allowing free trade would be a start and it would even help us with the recession. Not much change of our politicians letting anything relax at the moment though. Damn them.
It is well known that processed food is bad for you. The chemicals used in the processing are understood to be carcinogenic or harmful in some way or another. That’s how they actually make the food last longer by adding chemicals to kill the bacteria that make it go bad. Fridges and Freezers basically slowing the growth down by making the environment too cold for bacteria to grow easily.
Now in the olden days before we had fridges food went off rather quickly and this meant that it was eaten quickly or it was wasted. This meant someone had to go and purchase the food daily. An onerous task which basically took up someone’s time to purchase and prepare the meals. It also meant that food being expensive it was allocated to the breadwinners with the others having reduced rations. It being necessary to ensure that the breadwinners were healthy and strong. People starved or were ill with malnutrition type illnesses. Very few people lived long and healthy lives. Cold stores not being anywhere near the efficiency of modern fridges and freezers non existent, except in winter.
Then along came processing of food and the technology of fridges and freezers which meant that anyone could buy food cheaply in bulk and store it. Now it would last much longer no longer requiring daily purchases. Nowadays many go for a shop once a month, only buying items like milk and bread once a week. Processed foods being put in the freezers or left in the fridges where they can last for weeks before being brought out and put in the microwave. One carton is one meal. Cheap and easy.
So now people were eating well and malnutrition and starvation were things of the past we inevitably hit the next things in life that were destined to kill us. Mainly diseases like heart disease and cancers. Both increased by the availability of cheap processed foods making people live longer. Inevitably hitting one of the next hurdles along. After all when you eradicate the biggest killer in society what was number two is now the biggest killer. We can’t win… yet.
Nowadays we look at the causes of death and examine them to see what they and see if there is any action that can be taken. We have gathered together data that indicates that the chemicals used for processing have a hidden impact. They cause many of the illnesses we are getting. For every advance there is a cost. Some inconsequential. Some, as in this case, not. The results from this show that cheaper processed food can increase the risk of cancers. You simply just have to look at the ingredients on the food and examine what each one is. Some are there simply to replace the tastes and colours removed by the processing but all have some side effects.
Now this report has been created that show that 40% of people are not aware of these risks. 40% sounds a lot to me but I’m willing to accept that in this age of ignorance that 40% of people are not interested in their health. On the other hand I would guess that out of the remaining 60% most of them will not have changed their lifestyles one bit. You see if they spent more money on better quality food then they would have less to spend on booze and cigarettes and they would have to spend more time on the preparation of their meals. That would impact on their television viewing. Tut tut. People have already made their lifestyle choices and yet again it is not what you would expect. After all 100% of those smoking know that it is bad for them and yet they all still smoke. Cigarettes may be addictive but food is something we have no choice about eating. And let’s face it bacon is bad for you but the taste…. the taste. Who wants to give up the best things in life and live a few extra years sucking tofu through a straw and sitting on your own in a old folks home forced to watch the daytime TV you despise?
Now what can the government do? It could legislate against the supermarkets and force them to stop selling processed foods. After all, in reality, we have freezers and fridges. We do not really need a loaf that can remain ‘fresh’ for eight weeks and tastes like cardboard. We could have food that lasts for a week or so and have significantly less chemicals in it. The downside of course is that food wastage would go up and so would food cost. Not a good idea in the current climate so we can’t do that. Plus I would envisage that the bulk of those on some form of benefits are the main users of processed food. We might need to increase their payments to compensate for the extra costs. Oh dear.
The good news however is that the report is about peoples awareness not their health. Thus a simple informational campaign at a cost of £10m or so would make the 40% turn to 10% or 5% and so we have a result where everyone can feel good. The government doesn’t have increased food costs blamed on them, or the Americans anyway, and nobody has to give up their booze or daytime TV so everyone is happy.
Somehow I feel that the report should have gone further. Not a call for action from the government but a report that may have led to action from the corporates. With some lifestyle changes and better food we could all be healthier. Maybe that is the problem. They don’t want us to be. Those in power don’t want us living longer lives as it costs more after retirement. Dropping dead at 60 to 80 is fine by them. After all they certainly don’t live on processed food at all with their state banquets and their lavish expenses.
There is clearly an opportunity here for corporates to make some money. A leap in a new direction for our food supply and yet we seem to hear so little on this front. We have tried quorn and it hasn’t really taken off although it is still here. Organic food has worked out to be too expensive and if we all went that way we couldn’t produce enough using current production methods. We need some new ideas. Never mind though. Soon we will run out of food and processing has reached its limit. Once people in the west start starving then we will do something about it.
Why we never really plan ahead is beyond me. And it’s not like the issue with food isn’t already hitting us in the face.
It seems that there is a proposal that we should be leaving more land uncultivated and to encourage this we are going to make payments to those that do. Read here.
In the meantime we still have millions of people starving in the world and food prices are rising all over.
The EU abandoned this policy but the UK seems to want to reintroduce it because some greenies whinged. Priorities seem to be a little bit screwed up here.
It seems Tessa Jowell wants to end the discrimination that is still in the Olympics that allows men to enter more events than women. Read here.
Now I am a firm believer in equality in many things. Men and women should be treated the same and given the same rights. However I notice that when the bias is aiding the women then the cries for equality are ignored. These feminists want it both ways and at the moment they are getting it all their way. Laws are being made and changed to suit their agendas by our politically correct vote grabbing politicians.
To be honest in the case of the Olympics I believe that we should differentiate between men and women but that is because I am an old lumbering dinosaur and believe that women and men are different and women should be treated with respect.
However, in this case I’m with Tessa Jowell. Let’s allow the women to compete the same as men. And to show that we mean it we should cancel any separate contests such as the Mens 200m and the Womens 200m and make it simply the 200m. Both sexes, being equal, can compete equally.
Then we should roll this out to everything else, Wimbledon would be a good start and how about Boxing, that would be interesting.
True equality is a double edged sword. If it was truly applied but positive discrimination seems to be applied here more than anywhere else. The feminists have the best PR and we are, as usual, lethargic but what resentment they are building up. It’s amazing how much we follow the law even when we know it is unjust. It won’t last forever.
We need to come out with a system that gives true equality where practical, differentiate where it should be differentiated and where we all work together.
As we can see, if you watched of course, was a demonstration of a new way to interact with computers. Personally I see that being an excellent way of teaching kids basic skills. There are probably many more uses that the developers and the programmers have thought of that I can’t even think of.
As far as teaching tools are concerned I would advise that when they programme them that they do it without the aid of any of the UK’s teachers. That way they may be of aid to the UK’s children. Just a though after the recent revelation of our kids IQ’s.
Now these devices are far from simple and there is clearly a lot of electronics and programming in them. However their uses are limited by the fact they are cubes with limited interfaces and that is a good thing for some functions.
I have always said that no matter how small and fast they make computers the biggest issue is the MMI (Man/Machine Interface) or as it was called IO. We need to get our information in, I, the keyboard, and we need to get the answers out, O, the monitor. Until we can plug in directly we will always need some devices between us and the machine. This limits how small we can make them. After all what good is a computer 1 inch square that you take ten minutes to enter your name via a stylus.
However a computer that has a limited purpose can ignore this limitation. If it just has a few simple commands that may be entered by voice or by touch or something else then something like these cubes can be very useful and without complicated casings or peripherals then the cost will drop significantly.
I see us dropping sugar cube sized devices in the garden to watch for intruders and they use bluetooth or WiFi to call our phones to warn us. Put one in the frame of your bike and it will shout out if it goes missing. Get the kids to swallow one in the morning so you know where they are every minute of the day.
Keep the use simple and the IO minimal and then the hardware costs will drop and the work will just be in the programming. Which will allow these devices to be reprogrammed and reused as required. One breaks simply throw it away and reprogramme a replacement.
Human ingenuity. Thinking ‘outside the box’ to use a very accurate and overused phrase. It will solve all our problems if given a chance.
Well it seems that yet again someone paid by the government is telling us we need someone like him to give us advice on how to live. Read here.
Now correct me if I am wrong but we have done without these peoples advice for over 50,000 years. Slowly advancing, extending our life span and improving the mortality rate all based on us looking at a mass of conflicting advice yet making our own choices. Clearly the right choices. I myself don’t drink, a lifestyle choice recommended by people like Maryon-Davis which I recently discovered is not a good thing. These people make their statements and a years later come out with the opposite advice when their big experiment goes wrong and the facts come in. That’s OK when we can make up our own minds. It’s human progress and we do tend to listen to people we trust. (Personally, I hate the taste of most alcoholic drinks and wouldn’t drink anyway) but when it becomes something legislated by our fascist government and we are forced to take this advice reinforced by the full weight of the law that makes it different. You have to take advice from someone you don’t trust no matter what.
On the plus side we all know prohibition doesn’t work. The cost of illegal drugs in the world shows that and soon it won’t be long before we all have links into our local street drug dealer. The main drugs he will be selling then will be alcohol and sugar based with the odd heroin fix.
Now think what would have happened if these whingy whiney people had been around when penicillin was discovered. ‘Clean up that dish. You might catch something’. What about the first organ transplant. (Not so ) NICE says ‘Oh too expensive and its high risk’. Even before that they would have been whining about leaving the village and so we would never have left our villages and we would all still be reliant on local produce. I would never have tasted a mango or banana. In fact if these thoughts had been around millions of years ago we would have had one slimy sea creature saying to other slimy sea creatures ’We need a law to stop people leaving the sea and living on land.’ ‘It’s just too dangerous. It’s for your own good and you need to think of the children.’ Perhaps there were people and slimy creatures who did that back then but we ignored them and progressed.
Surprisingly the progress we have made in such a short period of time is seen by quite a few people as a bad thing. Although I notice that none of those that think there is too many people ever remove themselves from the gene pool and most have children themselves. They are too important. Like Al Gore. No wonder progress has stalled in the last thirty years.
Now I’m all for Doctors examining things and coming to conclusions that this is bad for you and this is good. Let them produce the facts, talk about it and come to a consensus. Let them put this out to the world and then shut up and move on to the next thing. Revisit it if new evidence comes up that does not fit the facts but that’s it.
Nothing justifies these people forcing their views on to others. Nothing. Only the fact that our government seems to believe that we are all going to do what they legislate allows these people to suggest these things to add to the list. Let them have their 15 minutes of fame. Our nature will not allow it and although it will lead to many giving up the hard earned, but not by them, liberties, many will simply turn to crime and eventually it will fail. The sooner the better and let us remember the French Revolution. Maryon-Davis seems like one of the elite to me.
I like the idea of doing testing at home. Many people wait and wait, myself included, until we are convinced something is wrong before we go and see a Doctor. By then it may be too late.
Home testing however seems an ideal solution such as was proposed here for bowel cancer. However it has the two fold disadvantages that it is sent out every two years to those on the high risk age group, and this changes depending where you live, and that you need to send it away for analysis. However it is a step forward in diagnosis.
As well as this we have a potential test that can be applied to urine to identify aggressive strains of prostrate cancer. Read here. By the looks of this it will be a test where a sample is taken at the surgery and sent away for analysis as well.
These are just examples of the many non invasive tests that can be carried out on our waste products to provide information on our health. We need some tests that don’t need to sit in a lab to mature and the results can be read on a display.
Although what we really need is a toilet designed to be very water efficient with a build in analysis capability for analysing our waste for any diseases. Then letting us know that something has been detected and providing a very rapid detection system. First whiff, excuse the pun, of anything up with our waste and we can get it looked at straight away when there is the best chance to do something about it.
It’s a pity that blokes don’t have as good agents as women. They have regular smear tests and breast exams from a much early age and yet for men’s issues it is left until we are significantly older. This coupled with the ‘tough man’ attitude means many men don’t detect these things until it is way too late, particularly at a young age. This must be sexual discrimination but as men are the victims is fine. As usual.
Early detection and diagnosis of anything saves money and, with health issues, lives.
The Internet makes openness in politics not only possible but unstoppable, says Bill Thompson.
It is my belief that it won’t stop our government trying though. Read the full article here on the Internets first big win according to Bill Thompson. Personally, I believe there have been other wins by the Internet but the media have usually claimed credit. Not a biggie. A win is a win after all.
Now I have the same belief as Bill that this openness is unstoppable and I think it has to start by making every action in politics recorded and public. First their expenses. Then the budgets of the departments and then the minutes from the meeting until the minutiae of public office is available for all to see and investigate. There are many people out there who would pore through these documents looking for inconsistencies in policy and abuse of the system. Once they are held accountable, even if that is via media, for their actions they will be less inclined to take risks with our money and lives.
It seems that people are again becoming concerned about our use of water. Fresh water being finite on this planet. Read here. It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last.
Now as well as saying that people are already using water more efficiently and that work is progressing to improve that it does state that ‘The only solution is to learn how to live with less water by making much better use of what we have.’ There are suggestions, as usual, in the comments that we need to cull humans and keep our numbers down. (When the global warming scam is finally debunked it will be these nutters next.)
Now I’m not sure I agree with that single solution. Like everything that seems to be said about environmental matters it seems to be taking a very simplistic view. You see we have plenty of saltwater. There are several ways to make this into freshwater but all are expensive. Expensive for now anyway. Perhaps as we hit water problems and it becomes expensive someone could make a mint if they get working on developing this now. Plus we seem to have plenty ideas about water management in submarines and for our space exploration. We should have someone looking at these as well as simply doing what we can to reduce reliance on the limited resources.
However, I do believe that once we start our ‘Wagon train to the Stars’ we will find plenty of water in asteroids and on other planets in our solar system. We might not be able to colonise them all but we can certainly mine their resources.
Another article on interfacing humans to machines via a system that is worn rather than attached via surgery. via Theo Sparks site.
Now obviously this is a nice way in which to attached devices. Nobody is being cut open or at risk of infection. However, I would have thought this would require recalibration with every wearing. Nevertheless, a step forward for helping disabled people get on with their lives and very likely the next stage in a gaming revolution.
I wonder how far this is away from recording peoples thoughts and, even further, to playing them back like in the film Strange Days. Buy it here. I can see many uses for that technology and strangely not all of them educational.
The issues with population control
The elephant in the room when it comes to the Great Global Warming Scam is that of population control. Its supporters have previously been ignored and relegated to the back as cranks and nutters. Coming from the global warming alarmists that is quite amusing but in reality all their policies must lead to the downsizing of the human species and turning back the clock to where we all work the land to produce our food in a low carbon way. However, lately their voices are being heard and listened to but, thankfully, just ignored by those in power. For the moment anyway.
Their cries are intended for us to sacrifice ourselves and save the Earth. But saving the Earth for what? Not for us humans anyway as we would start dying earlier after hard working lives and our population would decrease. Of course our ancestors would then move towards the industrial revolution 2 and it would all start again. Greenies having died out because of the harsh life or being killed by people like me hunting them down for revenge.
Now the interesting thing is that all the people talking about population control, or not, as the case may be are all in the West where we actually have negative population growth. It seems that we are enjoying life so much and don’t want to be lumbered with baggage that we are not even replacing our kids.
So where are our kids coming from and why is our population growing? Well, it’s easy. We have the people incentivised by benefits to have the kids. They are getting paid to have them and they respond by having more. However, even they are not replacing those from the UK. For population growth we can thank the immigration of people from third world countries who have dozens of kids by their many wives.
Now there is the reason why our population control supporters don’t want to talk about it. In the West we already have population control in a way. We have negative growth. It is other countries that seem to have unrestricted population growth. We should actually be telling them that they need to restrict this growth but the irony is that we can’t because it would be classed as racism. You have just got to laugh.
Now, it seems to be that when a society is raised to a certain level its children stop dying for lack of basics and the people can look beyond the daily grind and then that society starts to have less kids. They want to have the good life. Time to themselves and their culture changes.
My view is that the way forward from this then is not population control but to raise the people to a level they don’t need 10 kids to ensure that they have enough to eat and a roof over their heads. Then they would be the same as us. Cultural differences would be reduced and population growth would then be stagnant. All without having limits on people but clearly the longer we wait the higher the number will be.
A key component of this though is that we no longer subsidise someone having kids. You have what you can afford. Want a kid? You have to earn enough to feed and clothe it. Have one you can’t afford. Take it away for adoption to childless couples and make the parents pay support to them. Harsh but necessary. Contraception is free and nobody nowadays needs to bring an unwanted kid into the world. They do it for selfish reasons. That subsidy would need to be removed worldwide though. What is the point of us doing this to ourselves and allowing other countries to take up the slack and increase their populations? We after all are paying for foreigners to have kids to squeeze out the kids we are not allowed to have. It needs to be one rule for all.
The real issue with population control is that the people that need to do it won’t and unless we use force and a smidgen of nuclear fire (imagine getting that past the UN council) we really can’t do anything to change them. The only way is through incentives and, ones that are suitable, or we will be classed racists.
So no practical population control and the greenies can go to Africa or Asia and push their population control agendas. See how they get on there. For those really serious about it they can simply sterilise themselves and know they have done the best they can for the planet. Preferably before they have kids.
As there is no way we will get these other countries to limit population growth so how do we bring their societies up quickly to western levels? That is a bit of a quandary as in the current climate we can’t even look after our own people. However, allowing free trade would be a start and it would even help us with the recession. Not much change of our politicians letting anything relax at the moment though. Damn them.