DEPOPULATION GAMES: GATES, JOHNSON, DEAGLE, MEADOWS We know now, beyond any doubt: that was democide. Is. I thought so from the beginning. I’d read Bill Joy’s article Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us way back in 2008, and from there the Unabomber’s The Future of Industrial Society, and I’d checked out the Deagel.com population forecasts […]
HAVE YOU HAD IT YET? PHOTO — ANCIENT TREE, PHIMAI — BY PAUL DUNBAR REVISED MAY 2024 Carbon is the element of life, the chemical basis of all known life-forms. It is the fourth most abundant element in the universe, and the second in the human body, after oxygen. It is the unique and, indeed, […]
The appeal to ignorance is an appeal to lack of imagination. Without imagination, new knowledge is impossible. How can you believe something you cannot imagine? When deployed by a trained mind, the argumentum ad ignorantiam represents a cynical ploy to exploit these limitations. One man who has argued with keen logic and clarity against the […]
I first noticed it in Amsterdam, relaxing in friend’s motorboat as we pottered around town and out into the countryside south of the city. All afternoon, lying back in the bow, I watched plane after plane laying down white trails in a blue sky — trails which twisted like ribbons, ruffled at the edges, spread […]
THE REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN: ON THE POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE In 1967, a book was published by Dial Press which purported to be the report of a secret government commission, leaked by one of its members. Entitled The Report from Iron Mountain – On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, the book exposes […]
In late 2011, I was hiking through rainforest in the hills above Chiang Dao in northern Thailand with a hundred or so twelve-year-old children, five or six other teachers and a Thai guide. The forest was quiet, apart from the whooping and chattering of kids happy to be away with their friends for a few […]