Make War, Not Love

You've read The Musk Ox opine on population collapse if we (read: upper class white people) don't start pushing out babies like bad colds. He, his own self, is breeding for his own country. He's an idiot.

Like it or don't Ehrlich was right back in 1968. He was just off, a bit, on the timing due almost wholly to the exponential growth in petrochemical fertilizers. I don't recall where I read it, and it was a lot of years ago, but one large corn farmer put it this way: "the soil is just there to hold up the plants". IOW, the soil has become empty of nutrients and the only way to grow crops, at scale, is with these petrochemical fertilizers.

Now comes more. It's been known for some decades that subsistence Brazilians have relied on slash and burn farming. Well, the chickens have come home to roost. Of course, the dictators of the world will claim that this is all woke science lies.

Less rainfall doesn't just mean less water for plants and animals. As the forest becomes drier, it becomes more prone to wildfires, which, in turn, eliminate more trees. The region has been plagued by slash-and-burn agriculture, in which fires are used to clear big tracts of land for ranching and farming. Sometimes, these fires burn out of control.

Here's the dire truth: the kids of today's 20-somethings may be able to live, but their kids? Not so much. Ole Mother Earth has a finite carrying capacity. Some estimate we're already there A steady reduction in population is the only way out. A plague or nucular war might end up being the only way out. The former did nicely in Europe long ago, and the latter in a couple of towns in Japan more recently. And the notion that most of the population can live the 90210 lifestyle?

There are a few ground truths in econ. The groundest of them all is that the individual's craving for consumption is infinite. What does that mean, in this day and age? That exponential population growth and infinite consumption are fatal. It also means, should we be wise, that economies can keep spewing ever more widgets to a population that is fixed, or even slowly declining. There's a reason that the pharma world loves them their Seniors: infinite demand. Of course, it was the Damn Gummint that handed pharma the Mother Lode by requiring Medicare to cover all drugs (very nearly, anyway). Yeeha!!!

Reactionary Futurists

One of the niggles floating around the drug approval process, and went on lightning speed during Covid's first year or so, is that FDA is too strict in approval. Of course, those self-same nigglers complain that mRNA vaccines are Toxic, and should never have been approved by any metric even though mRNA has been studied and tested for at least 60 years. It didn't spring out of some Big Pharma lab in just a couple of months, paid for by Operation Warp Speed taxpayer Bongo Bucks, with no understanding or testing. But, then, neither Bobby nor any of his bootlickers know shit about any kind of science. Well, beyond the efficacy of bleach wrt Covid-19.

And, naturally, the Office of Policy Integrity strikes again, with the interim appointment of the CDC head.

Mr. O'Neill has long criticized the Food and Drug Administration as too cautious in approving drugs. He has suggested that the agency approve drugs as soon as they are demonstrated to be safe, even without data on effectiveness.

More than once, these missives have offered the strict approach to getting us back to those thrilling days of yesteryear: repeal the damn 1962 amendments that forced FDA to adjudicate efficacy. But, naturally, that will require some proof that those above the grade of sub-GED knuckledragger will believe. OTOH, there were/are a lot who bought the bleach therapy approach.

Unleash the power of American industry to crank out tons of snake oil every day!!! Hark!! Do I hear the song of Executive Order? Why, yes. Yes I do. Coming to a pharmacy near you, real soon now. It can't hurt, right? Will any of Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don's congresscritters have the balls to say no way? One can only hope. The evidence is pretty clear that Red State congresscritters are geldings (what's the word for a gelded mare?). I suppose we can't count on them.