"So you're telling me, there's a chance?"
Posted on 02/18/2009 1:40:10 PM PST by Scythian
(NaturalNews) Jared Diamond is no doom-and-gloomer; he's a Pulitzer Prize winning author of thoughtful, carefully researched books about the rise and fall of societies. Diamond is best known for Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, both of which are among my top-recommended books of all time.
When you read these books, you'll quickly realize that Diamond is perhaps the world's top expert on what might be called the "holistic, interdependent nature of complex societies." Rather than limiting his perspective to immediate, short-term actions and consequences (as most national leaders and corporations do), Diamond intelligently examines the long-term, interdependent factors that lead to any society's success or failure.
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I think we should be subdued by a super race of amazonian women who help us re-forest the planet for snoo snoo ...
Unfortunately, I’m a doom and gloomer that kind of agrees with him.
Correct, plus a believer in global warming. Yikes!
Addressing an overflow crowd at the Cowell Theater about why some societies fail and others don't (the theme of his most recent book, “Collapse’’), Diamond three times cited global warming as a threat that could ruin modern civilization.
http://world2come.tribe.net/thread/d34f4832-910c-475c-8128-bfd6e336e926
Except that it will be a race a petite space women with six fingers each.
"So you're telling me, there's a chance?"
How so? Would not an "Encomic" crisis be a crisis related to a failure in our ability to provide encomium: "glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise?"
Wouldn't our problem be solved by promoting self-esteem among the financial wizards of the age?
Actually, I would try to pay off any short-term debt (not secured by equity) in the next year or two, before inflation really takes hold. If you have a fixed-rate mortgage, just make your regular payments. The value of your house will increase along with the general price level. Credit card interest rates far exceed the inflation rate, and none of that expense is tax-deductible, so get rid of it as soon as you can. Then cut up your cards and pay cash or use a debit card for everything. Variable interest rates applicable to credit will always exceed the inflation rate, but most fixed rate mortgages will soon look like a great investment.
Recessions sure do bring out the crackpots.
Don’t you mean “It’s Engrish, rike this...”?
OK!! Buy guns, germs and steel...er...ah...I mean guns and gold. Yeah...that’s the ticket.
Erudition will get you nowhere, bub. There’s a stuttering manchild in the White House, Keith Olberman has his own tv show and mediocrity holds sway.
Sounds like a dyed in the wool Greenie.
Finished. Jared makes some interesting points. Thanks for posting.
But our economy certainly is fra-gee-lay.
I stopped reading right here. This is a typical example of "academic speak" -- words without meaning or purpose.
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