Smithsonian Magazine ^ | January 2018 | Charles C. Mann
Half the world is now middle class or wealthier Homi Kharas and Kristofer Hamel Thursday, September 27, 2018
For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty. By our calculations, as of this month, just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, live in households with enough discretionary expenditure to be considered “middle class” or “rich.”
23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much [better] ...
The Lancet: World population likely to shrink after mid-century ... www.healthdata.org › news-release › lancet-world-pop... Jul 14, 2020 __________
The real "distinction event" is that which is a result of spiritual and moral degeneration, with the once significantly God (of the Bible) fearing West in particular having increasingly and incrementally forsaken the true God and ran after idols and partaking in the deception that follows, including that of electing proxy servants of the devil and promoting polices that are a perversion of what God ordained.
And thus the rise of justifying everything from atheism to vulgarity and profanity to rebellion to parents and just authority to murder (incld. infants) to theft to lusts to attacking and perverting marriage (and more) are all a result and evidences of America's spiritual decline, and a war against God that has cost immensely in souls, lives and money.
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? (Luke 12:56)
We are now increasingly seeing the rise of the radical Left, and with Covid-19 serving to condition the masses to endure long-term losses of freedom and expression (silence the facial expression, then the words) and imposition of other restrictions. Which will provide a foundation for imposing even longer restrictions under the premise of combating Climate Change, and which is part of a policy of social change that maligns, attacks and punished those who oppose moral evils as abortion and homosexual realtions.
And which will include China-type tracking and control, and the marking, censorship and punishment of those who expose deception and seek to preserve basic morality and freedoms. Resulting in provoking a certain fringe element of conservatives (mostly libertarians I suspect) or antifa anarchist to violence.
And which the Left will hypocritically use to mark all who will not signify their allegiance to the flag of Sodom (so to speak), etc. as domestic terrorists, and thus be treated as such.
The mandated requirements in order to be members in good standing with the community can easily extended to requiring some sort of indelible mark, which both the rise in tattoos as well as vaccinations (and I am not against all vaccinations) help condition the masses for.
Which scenarios does sound like what end times "rapture" movies (i think this is the best one, if dated) but some scenarios seem more plausible every year (I believe the rapture at the end of the great Trib, with the resurrection of all believers, but if you just use the believing remnant in such movies as representing all believers then it fits with my understanding).
However, this all awaits the rising of a powerful world leader, a demonic alternative to Christ to deceive those who do not want the Truth of the gospel, as they reject contrition and His authority.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (Revelation 13:10-14)
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:15-18)
Oh, it is certainly getting worse on earth. The place has gone to hell. It can not support life. All the evidence points in that direction, except a declining global human population. Isn’t that after all the true acid test?
Agriculture had minimal effect on the ecology until roughly 100 years ago.
This is ideological posturing masquerading as "science".
No worries. The dems are in control, so between now and when pedo joe leaves office and commie-la “fweedumb” hawiss assumes command, they can just cobble up some legislation to save muvver erf. 😷🐂💩🙌
“...17 leading scientists...”
Just more BS.
Big problem for them. The earth will. Be here sustai ing life for a grunted 1007 more years at the very least, likely much longer.
7 years of tribulation, when .iterally all hell will break loose, then another 1000 years of Christ’s millennial reign.
The world is fine. Were note gonna spontaneously burst into flames for at .east another 1007 years.
But despite that fact, the liars on the left are foisting a global delusion on everyone. Now apparently “food shaming” is the new tool of those who self loathe
One of our instructors was giving us a very detailed description of the symptoms we would suffer from exposure to a Soviet nerve agent.
A Marine Lieutenant raised his hand and asked if he would have time to draw his pistol before he died if he was exposed to this agent.
The instructor told him he wouldn’t be in a position to shoot any enemy.
The Marine said that he meant would he have time to shoot himself.
I guess if we don’t kill all the people off, then all the people are gonna die....just like they’ve been doing since Covid came along and created death in people....or sumpin like dat
Sterilize the 95% of people who can’t feed their children.
So many problems solved.
What is the “correct” number of species that should be on Earth??
I can smell the fresh ‘research grant’ application through my computer.
The real problem, that must not be stated is ‘turd world’ scumbags are trashing the air & oceans but we cannot blame them because only white people can be blamed in western societies today.
Europe & North America are the cleanest land masses on the planet(okay Antarctica, but no one lives there) with 90% of the crap(real crap too) in the ocean coming from Asia and Africa.
That said there is no shortage of humans...
I’m donating my “bio-mass” to the environment when I kick off. My contribution.
Change is a bitch.
Guess what, earth and LIFE writ large have survived more change than the catastrophe pushers can even imagine, and meanwhile humans have never been better poised to handle, mitigate and adapt to earth’s changes than it has ever been in all history.
So why do they want you to run scared?
Like the response to the pandemic, it’s now all about control - controlling you and controlling the world.
“Our paper was authored by 17 leading scientists...”
If they all killed themselves, it would go a long way toward eliminating the problem.
I do not see how the list of “solutions” is anything other than the same wish-list of totalitarian minded socialists, repackaged. Nothing in those “solutions” addresses any environmental problem.
In reality, if one looks at where the worst ecological situations are, they are in third world countries, where people cannot afford clean energy or proper waste and trash treatment. Developed nations clean up after themselves and use technologies to prevent the escape of some pollutants into the environment. Clearly, someone who is genuinely concerned about environmental degradation would support efforts to develop third world countries, not to dedevelop first world countries.
Furthermore, people who are concerned about the growth of human population would also support the development of third world countries. This is because the birth rate in developed countries is lower than replacement rates. Although birth rates have declined in third world countries as a result of better health care and vaccination programs, they are still quite high when compared to the birth rates in developed countries. A big reason that birth rates go down is that better health care and childhood vaccination programs result in high levels of survival to adulthood. Parents who are confident their children will survive do not typically strive for large families. Parents whose children are likely to die have more children to increase the odds that at least one will survive to adulthood. I think another reason people cut down on the number of children they have is crowding—they do not see a need to produce a lot of children when they see massive numbers of people around whenever they leave their houses.
I highly question the assertion that “Consumption, as a percentage of Earth’s capacity to regenerate itself, has grown from 73% in 1960 to more than 170% today.” What does that even mean? Clearly, we have not converted 170% of land mass to human use (an impossibility in any case). And if there is a genuine shortage of land, then why the aggressive marketing of “organic” farm products? Since “organic” methods of farming/ranching necessitate the use of more land area for agriculture and raising animals (in part because of high losses from pests), wouldn’t it be desirable to avoid “organic” methods of food production in order to preserve natural areas?
There is no need to pay attention to attempts to rebrand socialism as “saving the earth.” Instead, there is a strong need to teach people to be critical, to question the assumptions behind these attempts and to question whether the proposed “solutions” actually do anything about the problems. Socialism is frequently advocated as a cure-all, when in reality, the problems it is supposed to cure are not easy to solve and must be specifically studied and addressed. For example, you can’t stop pollution by imposing tyrannical socialism, you can only address pollution by studying it to understand its sources then applying mitigation measures.
Time to move to another solar system. Since the Earth is doomed why linger?
The bad news is that China is winning the war they started with that virus of theirs. Kind of sad with automation so close to the point where space commerce can really become profitable. The ChiComs figured out RATs were our greatest weakness.
Ah yes, the middle class - the group hated by Rich and Poor.
Yes, they are what is destroying the planet that the wealthy so richly deserve.