Why Ignorance, Stupidity & Violence Plague Mankind!

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Lovelock says the events of the recent months have seen him warming to the efforts of the "good" climate sceptics: The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. You need sceptics, especially when the science gets very big and monolithic. Lovelock, who 40 years ago originated the idea that the planet is a giant, self-regulating organism — the so-called Gaia theory — added that he has little sympathy for the climate scientists caught up in the UEA email scandal.

He said he had not read the original emails — "I felt reluctant to pry" — but that their reported content had left him feeling "utterly disgusted". It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards. The contemporary history of Japan and Germany demonstrates unequivocally that the Japanese and Germans are superior people. The mindset and behavior of the Japanese was programmed by Chinese concepts of kata [form] and shikata [way of doing things] that had been imposed on Korea by its Chinese overlords from around B.

This exclusion policy was instituted to prevent the country from being invaded and colonized by England and Spain, the two most powerful European countries. In the next 20 years the Japanese transformed the country into an industrial and military powerhouse on the same level as the U. The ex-samurai leaders also quickly began British-style military campaigns to conquer and colonize Korea, Mongolia, big swaths of China and large areas in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.

Japan attacked the Hawaiian Islands in November , starting a four-and-half year war with the United States. What they learned was that the Japanese as a whole were the most technologically advanced, most skilled and most ambitious people they had ever encountered. What they did not discover was the reason for this superiority. And that reason was the kata [form] and shikata [way of doing things] that had been programmed into the Japanese way of thinking and doing things from around A.

It is available from Amazon. And by the way, it includes the fact that the younger generations of Japanese are no longer being programmed in kata and shikata, inferring that Japan is losing its secret weapon! The roots of Germans go back to Roman times. When Rome attempted In the 7th century A. German universities became world-class centers for science and the humanities. Music and the arts flourished. Defeated and partly occupied, Germany was forced to pay war reparations by the Treaty of Versailles and was stripped of its colonies as well as Polish areas and Alsace-Lorraine.

Unemployment soared and people lost confidence in the government. In the Nazis [Socialists] under Adolf Hitler came to power and established a totalitarian regime. Political opponents were killed or imprisoned. Nazi Germany took control of Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia. Its invasion of Poland initiated the Second World War. In June Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. His regime then began the systematic genocide program known as The Holocaust, killing six million Jews as well as five million Poles, Russians and others.

In the German invasion of the Soviet Union faltered, and after the United States entered the war Britain became the base for massive Anglo-American bombings of German cities. Germany fought the war on multiple fronts through —, however following the Allied invasion of Normandy June , the German army was pushed back on all fronts until its final collapse in May Like the Japanese, Germans used their incredible technical skills and work ethic to recover from the devastation of World War II in just 20 years, becoming the largest and most powerful industrial nation in Europe.

The traditional programming of the mindset and behavior of Germans followed the same pattern as the traditional kata and shikata of the Japanese—but there is less indication that this programming is weakening among the new generations of Germans. Germans posted in Uncategorized. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U. To see a full list of his plus books go to: In Japan some young women are taking another approach to revealing fashions.

As we have noted before much of the Westernization of the Japanese lifestyle since the introduction of democracy in the mids—particularly on a personal level— has been initiated and spread by teenage girls and young women. One of the largest and most important of these changes occurred in the night-time entertainment industries that had previously served only males. By the s huge numbers of single women and wives had begun to patronize coffee shops and restaurants in twosomes, threesomes and larger groups—a phenomenon that was totally new to Japan.

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Another of the more conspicuous changes in Japan was the huge number of girls and young women appearing as actors and entertainers in the radio, movie and television industries. Most of the best-known stars of the day were females. Female domination was especially prominent and conspicuous in the fashion world. While virtually all of these changes and customs originated in Tokyo they spread like wildfire to all of the major metropolitan areas of the country [Japan has more large cities than any country in the world except for the United States], prompted by televisions and fashion magazine coverage and the Japanese cultural penchant for picking up on and adopting new customs and practices.

Over the years many of the new fashions were so far out they had a short lifetime, but the innovators are still at it—and now they have been joined by large manufacturing and retailing companies that have major clout. A new fashion that appeared in the spring of was made to order for national publicity—a fashion based on the use of translucent [see-through! And as said, this time it was not individuals or small innovative entrepreneurs working in one of the thousands of person fashion shops in Tokyo and elsewhere. It was larger well-known high-end brands that began experimenting with the new see-through materials that had begun to show up some three years earlier.

Teenage girls and young women who go for the new see-through fashions are not showing bare skin beneath the blouses, skirts and shoes. Some of the see-through skirts are see-through only on the bottom half, revealing only the legs.

Some of the girls opting for this style wear colorful tights under their skirts, thereby ostensibly retaining their modesty standards. As also noted in previous columns young Japanese girls were traditionally programmed to behave in a subtle but sensually tantalizing manner, and that heritage is still very much alive. It will be interesting to see how far this new trend goes.

Curious females and ogling males may mostly concentrate on the see-through blouses and skirts, but there is more. A handbag manufacturer has introduced a line of see-through bags. It is not that the buyers of these handbags want people to see what they are carrying around. It is the novelty and the avant-garde aspect of the material of the bags. The Japanese are not the only ones getting into the see-through act. In an American company introduced a see-thru vinyl backpack. Will blouses be next?

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These differences relate to the regions of the huge country, the distance from Beijing, the size of the cities, the political views and clout of government officials on all levels, the age and background of the individuals involved, any international experience they may have had, and so on. This book addresses both the traditional and modern-day aspects of how business is generally done in China, and offers insights in how to deal with them effectively. To see a full list and synopses of his books go to: To go directly to the Amazon. The book is available from Amazon.

The experiences of most people who visit Japan are limited to a small sampling of the diversity and richness that make up the essence of Japanese culture. The depth and breadth of the whole Japan experience is, in fact, incredible and cannot be packaged into several days or even several weeks. This book gets down to the nitty-gritty on: It includes Japanese expressions in English phonetics that allow you to communicate in Japanese without prior study or experience! It is available in both printed and ebook editions from Amazon. To see a list and synopses of his books go to: You Can Communicate in Japanese Instantly!

This home course is based on the pairing of English phonetics with every word and phrase in the book, making it possible for the user to instantly pronounce Japanese correctly without any previous study. The word for the Japanese language, Nihongo is one example. The results show that the world might be closer to exceeding the budget for Subtropical gyres are huge, sustained currents spanning thousands of kilometers across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, where very little grows.

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Perhaps extinct by is a bit excessive. For sure most other animals will be, we will living off soylent green and loving it. Plus there will be the problem of the distribution of wealth and resources. It is already out of balance and getting more so. With more people the super rich will be so wealthy that they will be able to match the wealth of a lifetime of work for a normal person in less than a day.

Wait this may already be happening and it is extremely unhealthy for society. I don't think we'll be extinct years from now, but I do think we will be post-industrial and massively diminished in numbers with small pockets of humans ekeing out a living in a very harsh man-made environment. Our grandchildren will reap what we are sowing.

This is just alarmist fear-mongering, which is surprising and disappointing from a scientist of his supposed caliber. Drastic reduction in population, again, entirely possible, all it would take is one kick-ass airborne virus. But you always have to take into consideration that the ARE communities of people living in isolated and remote areas that will not be hit as hard by whatever hits densely populated areas.

More so, most countries have various fall-back mechanisms in case of catastrophe to ensure some level of survival of the species bunkers, shelters, seed vaults, etc and certainly more than we as a public know of. So it would be fairly safe to say that excluding the most catastrophic of events, we will NOT go extinct anytime soon.

A lot of us might die, granted, but then again, within years, all of us discussing this here will be dead anyway. Concern should be raised and educated, but not through extremist stances and statements, just IMHO. It's such a shame to see a great contributor to science in the past century go senile but I suppose it happens to even the best of us. The guy is 95, give him a break. This is just his way of saying get off my lawn your damn kids! When I'm his age I'll be telling stories about how in my day computers had to process information 64 bits a time and we liked it.

Humans might end up extinct in a years if we stopped all technical innovation right now. But considering how fast our society is advancing, in a years we might not even need bodies, let alone food. I applaud Fenner's work in eliminating the smallpox virus, but it seems he's forgotten about man's ability to change his environment. Fenner seems to not recognize that human populations have always been rather large.

Population growth is not exponential. It's greater than linear but not exponential. Most people have no idea how stupid they are Wonder who paid him to make such stupid and poorly thought out comments. Holding out hope for technology to save us is as wrong and misguided as holding out hope for the gods to save us.

JerryPark and ealex are examples of the Easter Island mentality he quoted, mysticshakra is an excellent example of denila and as for zz it is the fact that our population growth is becoming exponential that is going to be the source of modifying our environment that will kill most of us.

The very quality he thinks will save us is what will harm us, because we are too stupid to see past our greed or immediate needs. Kynos21 makes more sense than the others. The danger is really. Too bad that this - once great- man has become old and senile, unable to differentiate the relevance of certain informations. Population growth rate at the moment is not speeding up, but we have to understand that we're living a transitionary period.

The less people who take Earth's fate seriously will have children, the larger the proportion of those who don't will grow. There have been and always will be people who measure up others and themselves by their ability to make children. In the end times, our planet will be populated by billion people who breed like rabbits and enjoy it. Apparently Professor Fenner believes that technological progress ended the day he cured smallpox.

Depends on whether social mechanisms come into play. We've watched that education and wealth greatly remove the impetus to breed as can be evidenced by the population replacment statistics of first world nations and developing nations. China is a poor example of this due to the social controls involved, however, Canada, the US, and all of western europe are phenominal examples. I see what this guy's problem is. He has his dates all mixed up. Maybe he means years in stead of The only big paper I ever wrote in college was on overpopulation.

Same goes for the acid rain scare, global cooling, and I think probably now global warming will be the same. Back in the 80's the evidence for looming population crisis was irrefutable, the trends were clear, the science was rock solid. It was all wrong. I'm kind of amazed at the high degree of vitriol and low level of rationality in people's responses on this topic. Disagreeing with him is one thing -- basing your whole rebuttal on name calling which describes more than half the rebuttals doesn't really advance your pov.

We have absolutely no way of predicting what kind of technologies will exist 30 years from now. Perhaps we'll have a handle on atmospheric engineering. Trying to predict the future 50 to years from now is ridiculous when technology is growing exponentially along with the population. Malthusian nonsense; even Malthus later changed his mind. Academia has large contingents of doomsters, pessimists, and malcontents.

Population is leveling off. Prosperity is booming, food and health are soaring. There is less war and conflict than ever. The doomsters are usually socialists trying desperately to grab more power for big government. As for global warming, it is complete BS. We've had a half a degree, and temperatures are going down now. Things have never been better, except for government-induced catastrophes, imposing their socialist schemes by telling us lies about how terrible things are. Still, some people make children based on other than social needs, and the question is that will those peoples' groups stay strong or will they weaken.

There's little we can do about the need to make many children, unless we resort to extreme policies like those seen in China. I doubt that, since westerners value freedom more than rational thinking. For example, it has been predicted that muslims, with their average worldwide child count of six, will form the majority in many western countries in the future.

When muslims are in majority, we will live on their terms. Reading about global conspiracies like what you are talking about fuzz makes my head hurt. I think you need to check your tin foil hat to make sure it's working. Did you do the upgrade by glueing old real copper pennies to it so that you're protected from the newest version of mind control ray that THEY are using now? Come on, get real. This is patently absurd. Extinct in years? As mentioned before there are people living in secluded and self reliant societies that will survive just about anything short of a nuclear, solar or impact event.

Diseases may rampage population centers and trade routes until natural thinning is complete. Over consumption of available energy, water or food will cause rationing and wars - again thinning the population to a naturally sustainable level. I highly doubt it. Civilizations have grown to prominance before and collapsed for one reason or another into a subsequent dark age. What makes us so special this time so that it "can't" happen to us? Every thinking person knows there is a limit to the resources upon which our society depends.

Any remaining humanity will have to re-learn how to live with what nature provides. Unless of course we eventually learn how to leave the cradle and become a multi-planet species - before the next die off. I don't think so. I believe it would require a catastrophic event or series of catastrophic events to eliminate the human race.

I don't believe population increases or industrialism alone will lead to the extinction of the human species in just years. In the former Soviet Union you see the problem of not enough success. In ancient Rome you see the problem of too much success. Our modern global society self-regulates that to some extent, at least compared to previous human cultures.

Global communication and trade has an equalizing effect. For example you see companies outsourcing work from places where costs are high to places where costs are low. That allows market pressure to spread the wealth better than it ever was before. As we humans meet new challenges, we always seem to find some path of least resistance to overcome those challenges. That is a real trend that's always existed. I see no reason to expect that trend to suddenly stop. Otto, your conclusion is wrong.

Economic pressure places the cap on birth rates more than anything else. The number of children in poor countries that die from childhood diseases far outnumber abortions. Malaria alone kills more people than abortion. If you don't have lots of children and you live in Ethiopia for example, then the odds are that you will have no children who survive to adulthood.

Fenner hadn't gone and eradicated smallpox from the human race, perhaps we wouldn't be having this conversation today THAT will spell the end of us! Doubtful, that will just start a period of renewed interest in mining out every planet in the local system, then the local group, then the local galaxy group, etc. Since that is not the case I do believe that many advances will be made that will allow us to live elbow to elbow without much issue. We may look like the Borg but we will live. However, that will not occur. We will be living in space and the oceans, and we will be able to reorganize atoms to what ever our hearts desire.

I welcome the future and the issues it brings. If anything he has brought to our attention the need for faster innovation and invention. Wow, I love denial. It is amazing to see how so many people when confronted with a serious threat simply choose to ignore it until it is absolutely staring them in the face. Take a tour of history with in the last 10 years and you'll find a bunch of instances where we did not want to believe a disaster was coming and it came anyway.

The Housing market for one, the New Orleans levies for two and for three.

James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change

Humans have survived for thousands of years because we are smart, intelligent, and all out clever about how we survive nature not ourselves. Look back at the black plague, it is a perfect example of how a tightly packed civilization can go from flourishing to devastated by its own hand. While the plague itself was a product of nature the devastation it caused was a product of our own doing because of HOW we lived and the conditions WE produced. Many stamp their feet like children and refuse to believe even the most logical, finding any excuse to deny the possibilities.

SteveL, I would agree wholeheartedly with you, if disease, overpopulation, and resource overuse were the only factors involved. But there's also global warming key word there being "global" , and that leaves me a little more inclined to buy Professor Fenner's argument. Secluded and self-reliant societies might have trouble staying self-reliant when the climate they've depended on starts going south or north, as the case may be.

Mind, I'm not sure about the date, and I'd consider it wholly possible for some small pockets of humanity to survive, despite everything--and, given enough time, repopulate Earth. But IF we were to go extinct in the near future, then I'd be surprised if it took only years. There are a lot of us, and unless things get really bad, really fast, the odds'll still be in our favor for a time. Population growth is nowhere near being a problem. I like the way the scale was scrunched over the past years to make things more dramatic though - or is that just a mislabeling mistake.

When it gets down to sq. This is old propaganda successfully used to justify killing of the most innocent. Otto, I just hope they are getting some good stem cell research out of all that. I'm pro-choice and proud of it. Go cry about your anti-abortion politics on a political site. Your data on abortion rates don't seem to correspond with data on population rates. If anything, based on the data you present, I would say that abortion looks like a major contributor to population increase. The global population didn't really start to acclerate until abortions became widespread, and as abortions increased, so did the world population.

Now, with abortion rates on the decline, we are seeing a slowing of population growth. I'm just looking at the trends. I didn't make up the data. Nothing is going to be a threat to me in years. I'll be dead either way. I'm sure thats what many politicians and business men are saying as well Either way, the assertion that somehow humans will cause or experience a disaster that actually wipes out every single member of our species is ignorant at best.

I also say it is ignorant to believe that 6,,, people and counting are incapable of royally screwing up the world. Humans are capable of eking out an existence in very nearly all of the most inhospitable environments on this planet. It didn't even take climate change, they managed to do it simply by over-consumption of resources. Our ignorance leads our cleverness only to our detriment.

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