Thank you all for the interesting and broad range of analyses and exceptionally realistic probabilities. Wasn’t able to get back to you sooner.
On the article, I was most interested in seeing some of the origins of some of the fears disseminated by the political left (climate change with the assumption of anthropomorphic causes, “nativist panic,” resource depletion, etc.). Some politicians receive their directions from the most influential constituents.
Thank goodness, we’re finally seeing leadership from politicians who work hard for their whole range of constituents.
Not all rich folks are so afraid or selfish. Some of them have the best interests of all of us in their minds and efforts. Yet others of them appear to have eccentric or even funny ways of showing their honest philanthropic tendencies towards fellow Americans.
Thank you, Mr. President. And Elon, climate change is being caused by enormous, natural though infrequent geo- (magnetic and core) and solar events—not smoke and methane generated by us teeny, tiny people. But sincere thanks for your other great and wonderful efforts, Mr. Launching-a-car-into-space-crazy-man. Please continue to support our President and those who are advising and helping him, and a huge thanks for the open source designs.
On what would happen after a disaster that would really disrupt some of our comforts and generation of wealth for a period of months or more, there are different kinds of disasters with many different possible effects. But here are a few things that I’ve learned.
When we human beings need civilization much, many of us tend to cooperate. There are vestiges of different cultures in different parts of our country, so people do vary from region to region on kinds and extents of cooperation (firsthand experiences).
Let’s have a look at the “tropical paradise” of Haiti for more food for thought. Nearly a third of Haitian soil is arable, but there are about a thousand people per .8 square kilometers of land in Haiti.
In the United States, there are now about a thousand people per 5.4 square kilometers of arable land and a seemingly endless stream of incoming, conflicting, conspicuously subservient cultures on the way from extreme southern latitudes.
http://en.worldstat.info/Central_America_and_the_Caribbean/Haiti/Land
http://en.worldstat.info/North_America/United_States_of_America/Land
Liberal biases are damning in the article.
They have raised the personality trait openness, love of novelty, to a moral virtue - the more diversity the better, the more exotic, the better, and the more unusual something is, the more morally superior it is to the boring, bland, BAD native culture they grew up in.
It leads to idealization of the immigrant and hatred for the native born. This is why they want and demand widescale immigration. And it explains why they see nativist panic as an evil movement to be suppressed, instead of admitting ... THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY DESTABILIZING THEIR OWN SOCIETIES AND CREATING THE BACKLASH.
Liberals, in fact, make the whole issue worse by telling the newcomers you’re better, you don’t have to learn the language or culture, YOU’RE BETTER. Liberals are bigots against their own culture and ethnic groups unless they count as a more moral diverse category.