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The New Economics of Population Growth in a Finite world

February 20, 2017 March 2, 2021

Summary: Most of us now live under ‘finite world economics’, where population growth results in a smaller share of wealth for each individual and the

February 20, 2017

Power and Wealth: Farming Humanity

Why don’t climate scientists tell the truth?

Commenced: May 20, 2023

While part of the problem is like with the boy who cried wolf people are not listening, the recent revelation that the planet will most likely reach +1.5°C by 2026-2027 makes it seem very likely climate scientists are also being very guarded with how much of the truth they are prepared to reveal. It is […]

Oliver Zipse, BMW CEO climate denial or failure to read the room?

Commenced: May 24, 2023

It can be very hard being a CEO. In a company the size of BMW, harder than anything I have experienced. But does it explain a failure to “read the room”, or is there a degree of climate denial required? This week there are headlines such as from Top Gear: BMW boss: July 2025 target […]

Religious environmentalism.

Commenced: May 20, 2023

There is a real need to protect the environment, and advocacy for the environment is necessary. However, for some, elements from religion and spiritualism can, to varying degrees, become associated with environmental activism, creating what I refer to as “religious environmentalism”, where environmentalism must compromise living standards. Against this religious doctrine is goal of a […]

Australian fuel efficiency standards: A stall tactic?

Commenced: April 26, 2023

At a time when much of the world is preparing for a transition to EVs, Australia is finally doing what other countries did decades ago and adapting a fuel efficiency standard for internal combustion engine vehicles, or ICE vehicles. While many advocates for the environment are heralding this as a good thing, I have to […]

SpaceX: Should we colonise the solar system?

Commenced: April 24, 2023

I heard an on-air debate about the merits of the program in light of the explosion of the SpaceX starship rocket on April 20th. Viewpoints were of course varied. They included the “we have this beautiful planet already and it makes no sense to be spending so much to go elsewhere” and very much focused […]

Farming Humans & Trickle Up Economics: How the wealthy get wealthy.

Commenced: January 26, 2017 Updated: April 9th, 2023

2023 April 9 th: Synopsis updated and new image

It was a reference to the wonderful children's politician's fairy tale of 'trickle down economics' that started me on the question: How do the wealthy get wealthy? The answer is by collecting wealth from many people, the more people contributing wealth, the more wealth to be gained. The effective path to great wealth is farming humans to collect a small amount of wealth from each human 'in the farm'.

Why Car Makers are Lying about the storm.

Commenced: September 10, 2021

If you follow car industry publications, there both facts and well recognised predictions that combined, signal a storm for the car industry. Reality: Why The Makers Are Lying. In less than 5 years, electric vehicles will become less expensive than ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles, and are already significantly less expensive to maintain. Lower cost […]

COP27: Climate change action sabotage?

Commenced: November 16, 2022

Reports from COP27 seems indicate the key initiative this year to make wealthy nations cover the cost of the damages poor nations will incur as a result of emissions that have main originated from those wealthy nations. The proposal as it stands has a missing an essential piece, and trying to cover for that essential piece, appears most to likely to increase emissions, and move COP away from a focus on solving the climate crisis and instead toward just fighting over the cost. This is a troubled look at the key flaw in what has been put forward and the real solution that should be in place.

Wealth & Happiness Vs Population: Farming Humans?

Commenced: December 8, 2017 Updated: July 22nd, 2022

2022 July 22: Add 'Fact check', Expanded Population and Happiness to a full section, linked 2022 happiness list.

The powerful and the wealthy argue that increasing population is good for the economy. But while, the larger the population, the greater the power in being leader of the population, if anything this leads to less individual wealth and happiness. Countries are a finite size with finite resources. More people means, on average, a smaller share each. Of course, everyone's share isn't equal, and those with enough wealth, can still even grow their share, leaving less for everyone else. It is not just politicians who benefit at the expense of the masses, as the larger the population, the greater the wealth of the most wealthy, and the more revenue to monopolies and the largest businesses on the stock indices.

Can Peter Dutton repair the democracy ‘loyal opposition’.

Commenced: June 6, 2022

Democracy is under threat, and a significant part of the problem stems for the distortion of the current model of 'opposition'. While the politics of division and polarisation of the USA Trump republicans vs Biden democrats attracts most attention on the world stage right now, what happens in Australia following the recent election which saw democracy strike back (page coming soon), has the potential to provide the world with an alternate blueprint for the role of the opposition party, which could reinvigorate democracy and spread to the US and elsewhere. Is there an alternative to the current Republicans vs Democrats style, where 'opposition' is about each party demonising the other?

The innocent child assumption: even Hitler?

Commenced: April 6, 2021

I recently watched an episode of "Comedians in cars getting coffee",(C6:E4 11:55) where Ricky Gervais has a photo of Hitler as a baby. And relates, "I talk about sci-fi, and I always go back and kill Hitler". And I go, I go, they go "well people tried all the time", and they go "No I'd go back and kill him as a baby". I go, "You'd go back, and kill baby Hitler, who hasn't done anything wrong yet, and just strangle him? Have you seen Hitler as a baby" and I pull out this photo and I go "He was adorable".

News & Updates.

Commenced: May 11, 2022

News and updates for early May 2022. Climate at +1.5 within 5 years confirmed as realistic threat.

News In Brief.

Commenced: April 26, 2022

It is now war until the end for Putin. If Putin is to win in Ukraine, he would simply have to start a new war elsewhere, as relations with Russia could never again return to 'normal' without charges of war crimes being held.

Economic Growth: The Holy Grail, Or Another Myth?

Commenced: October 13, 2019

Economic growth. The holy grail of ensuring a prosperous society. Or is it, that, in the 21st century, increasingly economic growth could mean as few as just the wealthiest 1% get richer, while all others get poorer? Economic Growth: Is Economic Growth The Holy Grail, Or Is Its Desirability A Myth? Two sources of myth […]

Exploring The Roles Of Employment In Society.

Commenced: April 3, 2022

This is an an examination of the roles of employment in society. This a reference page as background to deeper explorations on the impact or robotics, the arguments for a 'living wage' or basic income, and other topics.

Wealth Tax: Good Idea? Bad Idea?

Commenced: October 17, 2019

Yes, another post on finances…but the Democrat candidates debate gets one thinking….now to the point. I do not like the idea of wealth tax. There is an enormous wealth inequality problem and while a wealth tax sounds like a direct solution, I feel there are problems with any implementation, such that there just must be […]

Flatten the curve: Misleading?

Commenced: March 26, 2020

The phrase ‘flatten the curve’ has become popular, and perhaps, overused. The term has come to be associated with any strategy to manage Covid-19 that includes some measures to reduce the rate new infections. This page provides analysis of what different things can be done (at least in theory) to manage an outbreak, and the […]

Long Covid.

Commenced: February 14, 2021

I will collect information on ‘long covid’ and add to this page. These articles are the starting point, but I plan to add more. UK studies reveal long covid may cause brain damage. Long Covid: what we know so far . For many sufferers of long Covid, proving they are sick is a big part […]

Population Growth Change Lag: The Population Pipeline

Commenced: May 16, 2016

There is a life-time length lag or delay between any change in birth-rates, and those birth-rates being fully reflected in the population growth (or reduction) rate. This can create the paradox where a country with low birth rates, may still grow in population for decades. It is also why the world population will continue to […]

Coronavirus: Facts, Myths and Surprises (March 13th)

Commenced: March 14, 2020

(go here for link to latest update) This is a collection of facts on the ‘novel’ coronavirus, together with some discussion on myths and surprises such as: how quickly it could all end we do not know the mortality rate how the world will probably forever changed the debunking and fact exploring on topic of […]

Might vs Right and Persuasion

Commenced: February 21, 2021

I have just started on this page, but will post updates over coming months. Updating my Facebook Dilemma thoughts today was a key driver to start this page.

The New Economics of Population Growth in a Finite world

Commenced: February 20, 2017

Summary: Most of us now live under ‘finite world economics’, where population growth results in a smaller share of wealth for each individual and the majority of the population, but increased revenues for Governments, nationwide businesses and multinationals who gain revenue from the entire population. The rich win, the rest suffer. The now finite World […]

Wuhan Coronavirus: The Real Threat Level

Commenced: January 27, 2020

I use the label ‘Wuhan Coronavirus’, but it is also described as ‘novel coronavirus’, and other names including perhaps confusingly just ‘coronavirus’. This is a disease that has managed to raise alert levels before even getting a unique name. What is a Coronavirus? First, The Good News Getting Infected? Now, The Bad News The Rate […]

Wealth Inequality: Who wants More Inequality?

Commenced: August 18, 2019

The Wikipedia article on Wealth inequality in the United States describes wealth inequality as a problem almost every would like to see reduced. Yet wealth inequality is increasing, not decreasing. What gives? Is humanity unable to address this problem? Or is will to address the problem not as universal at it might appear? Either consensus […]

Left vs Right Perception Bias: Idealists vs The Economy?

Commenced: November 17, 2020

Vote centre left (e.g. Democrats in the US) to increase support for ‘idealist’, issues, such as climate change, or vote centre right (e.g. Republicans in the US) for a better economy. I (and others) suggest this is conventional thinking and there is a perception that the economy will be better under the centre right, but […]

“driven too far by issues that he’s suffered”

Commenced: February 25, 2020

Are we really dealing with the root cause of domestic violence? It occurs to me that our society may itself also engage in ‘victim blaming’. The quote above refers to the tragic case of domestic violence that resulted in the death of an entire family. When I first heard that a police spokesman raised the […]

Solution: A quota system with equity?

Commenced: January 5, 2016

The ‘old boys network’ is real, and that is one key reason and many ethnic groups are unrepresented in positions of power and influence. 1: But why is this so? And 2: how do we change things?

Remdesivir: how does it change things?

Commenced: May 1, 2020

“The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the White House during a meeting with President Donald Trump. CNN: April 29th It this time remdesivir is not yet FDA approved, but it will be ‘fast-tracked’. The announcement came in a letter […]

Covid-19: Vaccines and Cures

Commenced: April 7, 2020

Vaccines Vaccines represent a path to ‘herd immunity’, without all the trauma. People become immune by vaccination, not by catching the disease as part of the outbreak. Some vaccines result in a controlled mild case of the disease to create immunity, while other vaccines boost immunity in other ways, with no exposure to the actual […]

Coronavirus: Facts, Myths and Surprises (Q&A and toilet paper Update)

Commenced: March 18, 2020

(go here for prior update or here for all on covid-19) I have been asked a few questions…here they are with answers: why toilet paper? herd immunity why such different mortality rates more on ‘the end?’ No Real Data: How many infections distorted data collection as a policy we should can could collect real data, […]

Covid-19 Cases

Commenced: March 17, 2020

I plan to record snapshots of points in time where the epi/pandemic is up to at the those times. I will reference this data in updates. See the Q&A for why the data varies so much. January 28th Status March 17th Reports Country Norway Cases 1,322 (but gov states infections will be more) Fatalities 3(0.2%) […]

Covid-19: Tipping point 3?

Commenced: February 17, 2020

The growth of the ‘novel coronavirus’ (there was no official name at the time of my previous post) has been largely as projected in my previous post on the topic. At that time just over two weeks ago the virus had no official name, and while cases have grown from 4,000 to almost 70,000, these […]

Andrew Yang: Dangerous? Or just honest?

Commenced: August 4, 2019

Andrew Yang is a U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate with several policies fit well with conclusions reached by the deliberations on this website. Recent stories on gizmodo and the atlantic have branded the views expressed by Andrew Yang as dangerous(gizmodo) and ultra conservative(the atlantic). So what are the views, and what is ‘dangerous’? The Yang […]

Highlander Economics: Does it end with only one?

Commenced: January 31, 2017

Back in 1986, the movie Highlander was released. It was actually sufficiently successful to inspire four sequels, plus spin offs and even a reboot. Something in the original clearly stuck a chord, and the tagline and concept ‘in the end there can only be one’ could be part of this. The plot centres around a small group of […]

The alliance: Conservative politicians and ‘secondary terrorists’

Commenced: December 19, 2015

Two groups who benefit from the exact same outcomes. Whether by design or by accident, both thrive when their actions produce the exact same outcomes. How do we stop these groups working in harmony?

Tribalism, Racism and Despair: The xenophobia cycle

Commenced: September 23, 2016

It feels like the world is in the grip of a wave of xenophobia, and we just seem so far from a solution. From extremist Muslim terrorists through to the Donald Trump presidential campaign and the British ‘Brexit’ vote, the is a worldwide rise in at least the visibility of intolerance, if not intolerance itself. […]

The ‘perfect’ everyday bag: messenger bag, shoulder bag or backpack?

Commenced: May 7, 2017

I am on the hunt for the perfect bag to carry things with me, but is this a backpack, a messenger bag, or some hybrid of the two. The strongest candidates right now, are the peak design backpack, or the ‘urban disguise’ series from Thinktank. Peak design make a messenger bag the can work as […]

Population: just how did the ‘engine’ switch off

Commenced: May 1, 2016

I have commented several times on how the ‘engine for global population growth’ has been switched off. Most of us will have noticed how family sizes have dramatically reduced in recent generations even if we have not linked this to population growth. Many of us have stories of families just one or two generations ago […]

How the ‘basic income’ proposal could change society

Commenced: February 6, 2017

The current wealth distribution system is an already a broken system about to face severe attack. As discussed in Robots & Job Terminators, the role of employment is set to change. On engadget, the post How will you survive when the robots take your job? outlines the ‘basic income’ proposal, as put forward by many in the tech […]

Is our wealth distribution system really broken?

Commenced: February 5, 2017

A first reaction could be: “ok, the people who voted for Donald Trump clearly feel it is broken, but I am not sure they are that smart”, or “I am doing ok, and I think the system is fair. Yes people like that Elon Musk character have ‘X’ times more than me but he is also […]

Australian Record Trade Surplus: good news, or a warning on automation?

Commenced: February 3, 2017

As explained by ‘Alan Kohler’ of the ABC, the record trade surplus is largely due to “A huge rebound in iron ore, coal and gold exports delivers a record trade surplus of $3.5 billion in December, providing a big boost to national income.”, with no proportional increase in imports. I suggest an analysis of the impact […]

Inferno: How could we limit the population?

Commenced: October 18, 2016

There is an argument that we currently have more people on Earth than ideal, but even if you accept that we have an overpopulation problem, the idea that a sudden reduction in the population would solve the problem is both absurd, dangerous and damaging. The premise of the movie ‘Inferno’ is that a virus could […]

The Growth Age is Over

Commenced: May 31, 2016

The reasons the growth age is over are: the unprecedented population growth has come to an end there are no more ‘new worlds’ further improvements to travel time will have little impact on trade Unprecedented Population Growth is Over I have more detailed posts on this topic already, but in summary, the rate of population […]

Population: Why more than the current change is required.

Commenced: May 3, 2016

If you are not aware that the rate of population increase has slowed significantly, then you can refer to some of the pages in this section. The red line on graph here may also help. As you can see, although the rate of growth has dropped significantly, the global population does still continue to grow. […]