Posts Tagged ‘2013 report card’
December 31, 2013
- The global warming fantasy is falling apart
- Fossil fuels have no significant part to play in climate
- There is no over-population crisis as fertility rates decrease globally (but there may be a population decline by 2100)
- There is no food crisis
- Poverty levels have decreased globally and are continuing to decrease
- Infant mortality rates have decreased globally and are continuing to decrease
- Nuclear power policy is beginning to recognise that fears about safety (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima not withstanding) are grossly exaggerated
- Shale gas and methane hydrates have delayed any energy crisis by about 1,000 years
- Fossil fuels and nuclear power are recognised as being critical in withstanding a Little Ice Age or a new glaciation
- There is no resource crisis (whether for fuels or rare earths or trace metals), and finding new sources or alternatives responds to need and demand
- There is no crisis of culture as Occidental decadence and Oriental thrift are combining to rejuvenate a global culture
- Longevity is increasing
- The crisis of religious fanaticism continues and will remain till religion becomes obsolete
- The days of the nation states and their tensions are not yet over
- The conflict between individuals and authoritarian societies continues (irrespective of type of political system they exist in)
- Parents are increasingly abdicating their responsibilities for their children and passing them on to society
- “Fact” is being increasingly determined by majority opinion
- “Consensus” of belief rather than evidence is being taken as proof of scientific hypotheses
- Aging is increasing but the elderly are underused
- Democracies are getting less democratic
- “Democracy” is over-rated
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