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LostMyShirt said:
Julia/Kennas;

Sorry - but there is no impending doom on the way, unless you know of an asteroid on it's way (besides Apophus)...

Increased population - National unrest etc. These things have existed all through time. Increased population is due to the ability to sustain it. The Earth is NOT running out of room and Nature is not going to be eaten up from a mere 6b.

If I do read the news from a decade ago, untill now, it will begin with 911, and end here. There is nohting abnormal happening to this world - and I am going to be bold and say; Kennas, I do believe you are indirectly reffering to what some con-theorists call, "NWO" (New World Order). The deliberate creation of unrest in order to whisk the world into some totalitarian single Governmental state, but not before the break-out of harsh war.

Sorry, Pish-Posh... We were never settled to begin with to take notice of a sudden shake-up of our peace.

There will be change - big ones. No doom. The world, is on the brink of nothing. The world has been said to be on the brink on so many different occasions. There is no brink - only change.
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LMS, Not saying that the Earth will explode, more like the Earth will win over Humans.

At the moment, 'the brink' is more to do the the culmination of geopolitics, world economics, globalisation, natural disasters, and overpopulation. Overpopulation being the key imo.
 
kennas said:
LMS, Not saying that the Earth will explode, more like the Earth will win over Humans.

At the moment, 'the brink' is more to do the the culmination of geopolitics, world economics, globalisation, natural disasters, and overpopulation. Overpopulation being the key imo.
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No apparently they think our population will peak in 50 years time, food is the key, we will not be able to grow enough to feed everyone so it will all implode.
Obviously they haven't seen McDonalds business plan. :D:D
 
wayneL said:
Maybe this is more likely? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

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From that Wiki article - "Two ordinary people... awaken 500 years in the future...They discover that the world has degenerated into a dystopia where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility and coherent notions of justice and human rights. Rather, this future society emphasizes anti-intellectualism, popularity, sexual attraction, and hedonism.
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LOL. I could have sworn that description pretty much fits TODAY'S world, let alone 500 years from now! LMFAO :D
 
World Must ’Get House in Order,’ [size=+3]Not Rely on China[/size]: Wen

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, facing calls to widen support for indebted European countries, signaled that developed nations should cut deficits and create jobs rather than relying on China to bail out the world economy.

“Countries must first put their own houses in order,” Wen said today at the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China. “Developed countries must take responsible fiscal and monetary policies. What is most important now is to prevent the further spread of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.”
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...must-cut-debt-and-deficits-increase-jobs.html

Oopsies! :eek:

Them's fightin' words, mister! Doesn't this guy realise the WHOLE WORLD is relying on China to bail it out?

What hope now?

"Game overr, man.... game overrrr.... "
 
More Americans are living in poverty than at any time in the past 50 years, according to the latest US Census Bureau report.

The figures paint a grim picture, with 46.2 million Americans, or just over 15 per cent of the total population, now living below the poverty line.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-14/more-americans-living-in-poverty/2898076

Appalling. Obviously, we too should aspire to be as wealthy as our American cousins. :cool:

Apply GFC 2+3 and imagine the result...
 
i don't know why you are so worried about the world being on the brink, we've got a bigger problem now :D

A CSIRO study has shown why the lights are going out in the Universe. The Universe forms fewer stars than it used to, and a CSIRO study has now shown why: the galaxies are running out of gas.
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kennas said:
Yep. Human society has generally peaked by proportion of intelligence to stupidity. It's a downhill ride from here into oblivion.
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It was the beginning of the end from the first thought. The planet and life on it would have been better off if we didn't start thinking.
 
DEVO had it right!

One of new wave's most innovative and (for a time) successful bands, Devo was also perhaps one of its most misunderstood. Formed in Akron, OH, in 1972 by Kent State art students Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo took its name from their concept of "de-evolution" -- the idea that instead of evolving, mankind has actually regressed, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society. Their music echoed this view of society as rigid, repressive, and mechanical, with appropriate touches -- jerky, robotic rhythms;

The trio adapted the theory to fit their view of American society as a rigid, dichotomized instrument of repression which ensured that its members behaved like clones, marching through life with mechanical, assembly-line precision and no tolerance for ambiguity. The whole concept was treated as an elaborate joke until Casale witnessed the infamous National Guard killings of student protesters at the university; suddenly there seemed to be a legitimate point to be made.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/devo-p4080/biography
 
Some interesting thoughts in this article,

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2941610.html

On China,

China's headline debt to GDP ratio of 17 per cent (around $1 trillion) is misleading. If local governments, its state controlled banks, state owned enterprise, and other government supported debt are included, then debt levels increase to 60 per cent ($3.5 trillion), compared to America's 93 per cent of GDP. Some commentators argue that China's real level of debt is far higher in reality, well above 100 per cent.
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And more generally,

The most likely outcome is a protracted period of low, slow growth, analogous to Japan's Ushinawareta Jūnen – the lost decade or two. The best case is a slow decline in living standards and wealth as the excesses of the past are paid for. The risk of instability is very high; a more violent correction and a breakdown in markets like 2008, or worse, is possible. Frequent bouts of panic and volatility as the global economy deleverages – reduces debt - are likely. Problems created gradually over more than the last three decades can only be corrected slowly and painfully.
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To me, the bit in bold it to me is what the major western governments are aiming for through increased inflation. The problem as highlighted above is whether it can be done orderly and whether the middle classes are expected to take a disproportinate amount of the pain. If so, this will only increase the gap between the rich and the rest with obvious implications for social unrest.
 

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