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Catastrophe

We all know that things on Earth are going from bad to worse. We might even perceive that we are making our own environment unlivable, lethal, yet, we have the tendency to minimize things, to think that somebody will do something about it, that already, maybe, things are being done. No way! First of all, we very seldom even hear of some (partial) solution, the problems seem more interesting, and then only about parts of the problem, of the threatening catastrophe. We can hear or see programs or lectures on the cadmium problem, the groundwater disappearance, deforestation, files on the roads, monetary slumps, bombs in the market place, war, perhaps holes in the ozone layer, famines, un-employment, locust plagues, hooliganism, nuclear tests, alcohol and drug addiction, industrial pollution, threatened species, rising sea-level, etc., etc. without a single mention of the fact that the pressure on the boiler is through overpopulation with the sub-causes of superstition. This pressure is roughly a thousand fold over the safety margin. That we reward the begetting of children with money that usually is spent on motor scooters, washing machines or booze, instead of taxing children heavily is never spoken of. Yet every child, on an overcrowded planet is a very heavy tax indeed, a deadly one. The partial solutions we hear of, are childish and simpleminded, not fit for an earnest, commonsensical thinking person with a shred of conscience, with world problems on his hands. So-called scientists even investigate the aftereffects of a mondial nuclear war, a nuclear winter they call it, forgetting such important factors as the atmosphere streaming off into space, the binding of all oxygen, including the ozone layer, etc. (32). W.W. 3 cannot be survived in spite of the fantasy that Hackett wrote about it. Naturally, when the dumping of waste, for instance, is regarded as bad, we should not do it. That is a solution for a six year old kid, not of a grown up thinker, a reasonable man. Because these childish solutions are often framed by scientists, I would not call this book, a letter to scientists, but an earnest appeal to all thinking people, which may include a scientist when he is prepared to think commonsensical and free from superstitions, free from rumors taken seriously as facts. It is therefore too, that I shall not mention disputable facts, no precise data, means, averages or significance levels, no absolute numerical values that may invite mathematical discussion and endless balderdash. Some able scientists think that our future is measured only in decades, and, seeing the relative ignorance about the whole complex of interlaced living conditions, we may think of one decade (i.e. before 2000 AD), of two, but also of a half, which would make it 1990 or so. Even the most optimistic figure would still mean total death, for me, for you, for your children. I would not mention precise data, but there are plenty of adamant facts, indisputable facts, facts not deniable by whatever sort of intellect. It is such a fact that e. g. our climate has been tempered, always, by life (33), AFTER the development of life, that this means a control-mechanism, a life-typical trick but not feed-back (34), a kind of pendulum balance that, like feedback, can go mad too, and that bf our climate is now showing tendency for extremes, for an unbalance, and that this will end in a life-less, sterile planet. We know also for certain, as indisputable fact, that this process of homothanatia has started long before Homer (through the invention of fire, the saw, the axe, etc.) (read Herodotus, see also Waln, 1938 (35) ), that Sahara, Mediterranea, Asia, etc. was once lushly green instead of the brown and yellow of today, that it is in some form of asymptotic behaviour because of the absolute-, and minute-, interdependability of all gossamer tiny influences thinkable. Just do not remark at the occasional bad summer you might have. That has been so for ages. But do note the extremes that you can deduct from the media, these things that never happened before, that are records of the century and so on. When the water of an entire year comes down in a week, the rest of the year dry, it only seems a normal year. Note that these extremes come faster upon each other every time, centuries becoming decades, decades then, years. They show the tendency towards generation, the disturbed balance, the snow-ball, that has become the normal today in the newsreels. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, even the size of icebergs, ocean waves, are not solely remarkable, but they point to a stampede in climate. Do note such between the lines remarks as: every year we have to drill deeper for water (India, America, Africa, etc.). It means not only that when people have cut their trees, and produced drought, they have to get water from wells, but that in times to come, there will be no wells. It all is very well known or it should be so. But, ... Nowhere Do We Recognize Any Honest Attempt To Think About It, In A Rational Way! A world problem - a world solution, (not agreements between nations) ! Let us start with that as soon as possible, for, if not, you, your-, our-, children will be killed by us.
We shall manage to postpone the worst one way and another but postponement is not solution and when the breakdown comes, there'll be something so ghastly that the hydrogen bomb will be humane by comparison. Wyndham.

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