Definitely, and we're also facing peak oil. In addition, green energy isn't green because it requires a lot of fossil fuel inputs. Thus, we face a combination of environmental damage plus the effects of climate change and a resource crunch. That's why the U.S. military and companies like Lloyds of London have been issuing reports for their personnel and clients on these matters. I don't think totalitarian governments will force us to do that. Rather, nature will. Natural cycles have shown that any slight changes in one or another factor can lead to amplification of predicaments. With that comes shortages in energy and material resources, which is equivalent to living on two dollars a day, to be followed by increasing infant mortality and death rates. Finally, the predicaments can be accelerated through black swans like pandemics and wars. Human beings can help along using weapons of mass destruction.
Looks like a nice big ole sugar cookie. None in my family even owned an air conditioner while we kids were at home. We made it just fine and the best part was living in a house that had an attic fan, you could stand in the hallway under the suction vent and you could feel your feet lift off the floor when it kicked on. Lovely time to be a kid. Later in life for me it was sleeping with my nose near a cracked window in Galveston while there was a soft cold winter rain outside, now that is what you call beautiful. No wonder so many people in America are unhappy and unhinged, they all were born to late.
I I remember the Rothchildes? which were slightly changed to the Bilderbergs, now it is the New Economic Forum. The elite rich that play the world like a chess game. Maybe we are the pawns? Central Banks were set to wind down in a century (now) Present gov'ts tried using fear big time to get control with the control of the media. Did not quite work out as well as they wanted. We got grumpy being confined. They need to turn the majority against our guns to complete 2021/30 Trump screwed things up which is why they fought so hard even before he was elected President and ignored the transgressions of the Biden clan. Well we are back on a downward spiral. If we can get a good crash and burn and needed laws passed, no matter who is President next, we cannot be fixed. World domination!!!! Yay!!! That is why I am heartened by the Supreme Court surprisingly going back to and through the Constitution. They are our last hope, at this point. Too many in Congress on the take.
The world economy is controlled by only a few corporations, and the top 50 are listed here: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...d-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/ They are the ones that fund governments and businesses, and that includes science organizations that confirm or question climate change. In the US, 10 pct of the richest people own almost 90 pct of assets. Just one company, BlackRock, manages at least 30 pct of the country's assets. That means even U.S. Presidents work for them. Here's the problem: they can only earn more if there is more economic activity. More economic activity means more pawns producing, buying, selling, consuming, investing, and borrowing. All of that means not only more fossil fuels to but also more "green" energy needed as fossil fuels reach a peak in production. And just like fossil fuels, there are also limited supplies for minerals and many other things. And that's where the idea of Agenda 21 comes in: sustainable development. Many think that its purpose is to lower consumption in order to conserve, but in reality the goal is to sustain development: in short, sustain economic growth. How to do that? The rich believe that because of environmental damage, climate change, the threat of a resource crunch, and many other black swans, then the global economy they control is threatened. What kind of economy is it? It's capitalist: it needs to grow continuously so that the rich can earn more money, and so do the pawns who like to retire early, receive pensions and go on vacation, get promoted, receive higher pay, receive higher returns on their investment, and buy more of the things that the same pawns produce and sell to each other in businesses where the rich are investors. Hence, more money invested in the rich in climate change mitigation, minimizing pollution, and looking for "game changers" to reverse a resource crunch, not to mention vaccines against pandemics and investments in armaments given the belief that mutually assured destruction will lead to deterrence. Agenda 21. But it's not working anymore, and mainly because the increased economic activity is negating them.
What if THE powers just want all the chips and control of how things go. The book Agenda 21 was a fictional possibility which penned people into areas, made them make their own power to be given food and what they need to live. Not freedom. Not what they wanted. Just what they needed to live. The wealthy got what they wanted. The rest of us got what we were given. Sustainable? Probably. Not the way I want to live and I don't need much.
What kind of economy is it? It's capitalist: .... Not really. When capitalism becomes heavily monopolistic it is no longer capitalism. In the current case we have those top 50 global corporations you mentioned, and more, working closely with each other to do nothing less than control the world. The powers that should not be cabal combines the worst elements of fascism and communism and they dislike real competition intensely. The only solution they see to ecological damage is to severely reduce world population, with most of the survivors being reduced to obedient slaves. Much of what you propose as solutions coincide with that agenda. They are coming at us in myriad ways. I agree that unfettered growth is not always good, but the populace at large needs to discard this left and right nonsense and see the real enemy.
They just keep tightening the noose. And so many people believe all the garbage. FWIW about my Twitter link: I assumed SOC would reproduce the Tweet image etc. by just posting the link. I guess not. If I'd entered the link with the chain link icon would it have worked then?
Was it a direct link to the image? You may have used a link to the webpage instead. Right click on the image and choose 'copy image address'. If you don't get that option you may have to take a screenshot and save it in an art or photo app. You probably already know this.
Normally I just copy the Tweet from the address bar on my browser, paste that link in the body of a post, and a duplicate of the Tweet -- image, text, etc. -- shows up (this is on the Corvette forum). The forum/browser is doing all the work automatically behind the scenes. Ha, yes I used to do the screen shot thing, but it was a lot of work so I didn't bother much with it. Then I read how others were doing it -- way simpler. I assumed nearly all sites were like that. This also works with You Tube and other similar sites. Maybe that method isn't possible here.
I don't know where the idea that the population of the earth is being worked on to be reduced came from. Can someone help?
I agree with your comment more than any other that anyone else has ever made on SeniorsOnly. If only these other women had your excellent perception.