Oh Look, It's Back! (Sustainable Development)

The Market-Ticker ^ | March 23, 2014 | Karl Denninger

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Gen.Blather:" .. So, we’re all going to die because we’re not doing what these authors say we should? "

Exactly true !
There are "elites " in every age and generation who 'know better than us on what we should be doing'
but who don't follow their own advice .. paging Al Gore , paging Al Gore ...

[Steve_Seattle]

I think the long-term goal of the environmentalist is to have 90% of the population living in clusters of massive high-rise apartment buildings, partially powered by solar power, and that the private home will gradually be phased out except for the government/media/entertainment/corporate/scientific elites. A city of a million would consist of about 100 of these towers with about 500-800 hundred private homes or luxury condos for the elite. The Left has always been offended by the ownership of private property by the “unworthy” middle class.

[publius911]

There is a substantial percentage of the population, perhaps even a supermajority, who will do as little as is possible to "get by." This is a serious problem because in order to "reduce inequality" one must take from those with more capability [willingness to contribute] and give to those with less. This inevitably results in anyone in the group that will do as little as possible doing less than they did before, and then the cycle repeats quickly spirals towards total system failure.

The article could have ended right there, and been functionally complete to define the eternal fallacy.
Amazing, how an otherwise excellent analysis of the problem is clouded by the current social imperative to bow to the God Of PC.

A little editing makes the issue perfectly clear.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Yup. Next up, Overpopulation hysteria and a call for Evil Elits (um, "caucasians") to off themselves in the name of Gaia."

Hell, no. The anti-1% rhetoric is a smokescreen; Dems draw a lot of their support from the 1%. Their real enemies are middle-class affluence and lower-class breeding. The ongoing affluence of the 1% IS sustainable, and the planners need the help of the 1% to accomplish their goals. (See how quickly corporate America has rallied to the gay-rights movement?) Efforts to destroy the middle class and control the population of the lower class are well underway, and will accelerate.

[Nip]

I don’t think the people who produced this report are “politically militant foreigners”.

Like any good bureaucrat they didn’t start the study until they knew what the study was supposed to prove.

One final thought - since when has NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center had anything directly to do with national socio-environmental synthesis other than on the orders of Washington based bureaucrats?

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[markman46]

this is who this group is:

A national research center funded through a grant to the University of Maryland, SESYNC is a resource for the scholarly community, facilitating innovative, cross-discipline research by providing a unique array of support and activities, as well as a physical collaborative space, to accelerate socio-environmental research and synthesis.

[GAFreedom]

There is a substantial percentage of the population, perhaps even a supermajority, who will do as little as is possible to "get by." This is a serious problem because in order to "reduce inequality" one must take from those with more capability and give to those with less.

While this is not an invalid assumption, it relies on premises that may or may not be true. Doing as little as possible to "get by" is actually a superior trait; in my world it's called "doing minimum effort for maximum gain", also known as "working smart, not working hard". I work smart all the time. Why work hard when working smart will net you as good or even better result?

Assuming that working hard is the way to go is not borne out historically. One person can use a lever to lift something that takes many men to lift without it.

There is no free lunch in this regard, and "renewable" energy sources are a crock in the main, because in most cases the end-to-end energy return poorly compares with the end-to-end energy investment.

Currently. Currently. Never assume that there won't be technological breakthroughs on energy. There are a ton of people working on renewables, especially the US military in conjunction with the DOE (easy enough to figure why too).

Finally we must put a stop to the subsidizing of those who insist on breeding like rabbits.

To do that requires some serious MANDATING of birth control and abortion and there is NO WAY that a good Christian is going to endorse that. So you can forget it.

I am not in the "doomer" camp, but I do recognize that we have done a terribly-poor job when it comes to longer-run planning, particularly in the energy paradigm

In ALL paradigms, buddy. And that was started back in the 1970s with the "shareholder value" thing. All short-term, all quarterlies, and no real planning for the future. Only for the now.

In the Eighteenth century Thomas Malthus said that the food supply would never keep up with population growth for mathematical reasons. He was wrong

The only reason he was wrong though is because of the British & Scottish Agricultural Revolutions and the Green Revolution of the 20th century. He couldn't forsee our technological advances.

Much like this fellow is doing in the article.

[Organic Panic]

NASA’s most important mission is to make Muslims feel good about themselves. -Charle Bolden

Now they want us all to be equally miserable living in third world standards.

[familyop]

"But what we can do is put an end to the perverse incentives for people to reproduce solely due to their ability to steal from others as a consequence of doing so -- and there are a hell of a lot of those people right here in the United States."

And the political/regulator class engages in "sustainable development" and "open space" as the answer to that problem while playing "good guy, bad guy" (Republican, Democrat--all socialists). Some pretend to complain about it while keeping the owner-builder, small manufacturing, engine-overhauling riff-raff out of their rural counties, so-called developments and on the dole.

About "70 million" people receiving incomes from various levels of government and government-linked businesses receive large incomes but are steeped in debt and spending all that they receive.

Meanwhile,...

More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005481/posts

All useless eaters, according to favored political constituents.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

Downton’s Class System — and Ours: We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024119/posts

"The War on Humans" documentary Feb. 17, 2014
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3122505/posts

"Conservative" state and local interests? Chuck the 17th Amendment to allow their bosses to choose your senators?

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
“2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

Debt Ceiling (shocking true info)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136216/posts