By: Stewart Brennan
The combination of Earth’s ongoing Magnetic Pole Shift, Solar Variation, magnetic interaction between the Earth and the Sun, and the exponential increase in industrial pollution, toxins and radiation are all coming to a head with the destruction of our present biological cycle on Earth the end result.
The fall of civilization has begun and regardless of what is done there will be no stopping it from happening in our lifetime. The warning signs can be seen through the shifts in climate to the steady increase of extreme weather, which will, over time, become exponential, leaving long term weather extremes, widespread chaos and a decline in biological populations and species.
Making matters worse is the exponential increase in Industrial pollution brought on by the exponential growth model we adopted as our way of life 100 + years ago. The extreme greed of this economic model of supply and demand is fuelled by finite fossil fuels which have now been extracted way past their peak. The evidence of this is where we are finding new supplies of oil…ie: Fracking and Tar sands. Or the new way in which electricity will be created ie: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Nighmare
Nuclear power plants produce Nuclear Waste which are like time-bombs just waiting to go off on a planet that is experiencing extreme weather and climate extremes. Eventually these nuclear time bombs will unleash upon the planet as the weather extremes and natural disasters intensify. Do I need to remind anyone of the ongoing meltdowns of Fukushima Japan?… and as Mike Ruppert of “The LifeBoat Hour” correctly states, “Mankind has yet to build a structure which will last 50,000 years, let alone a million”. So how will we contain millions of tons of nuclear waste from breaking from their containment let alone be safe from extreme weather? The answer is we can’t, so why do we continue to pile up this manmade life destroying industrial waste? To produce more energy to feed an exponential economic growth model that fills the pockets of a few? The World’s leaders want to build thousands more of these nuclear time bombs in an age of peak oil so they can continue the illusion that money is what life is all about…It’s completely insane and suicidal on a Planetary scale!!
Giving Life a Chance
If we are to give life on this planet a fighting chance to survive, then all Nuclear power plants must be shut down now and all nuclear waste must be dealt with as a top priority immediately. All fracking must stop and we must begin to repair the damage we have done to the planet by our industrial contamination…there is a better way to live, just look back 100 + years ago…
Deep down, everyone that has the capacity to use common sense knows the truth of these words…most people know it in their hearts, minds and souls to be true but unfortunately they will not consider making changes in the way they live simply because they are afraid to let go of the illusions that the economic system places in their minds…Just a word of caution to those that don’t get it; when the economic system crashes, it will unleash a series of the worst events in human history…the details I’ll leave to your own imagination…But the path we take doesn’t have to be that way, if we change our values…it comes down to 4 words…”Values change for survival”
Have a listen to what Michael Ruppert has to say and then listen to the back up videos attached at the bottom of this post for a clear picture of what we are facing.
Audio Podcast: The LifeBoat Hour Dec 29th, 2013
By: Michael Ruppert
TEXT of Michael Ruppert’s The LifeBoat Hour Dec. 29th2013
There are three things which unequivocally and absolutely guarantee the Near Term Extinction of the human species and quite possibly all life on the planet. They are out on the table, acknowledged, repeatedly confirmed and corroborated and they are having direct, painful and tangible impacts on our lives this minute. And they all have direct bearing on each other.
The first of these is Global Warming and Climate Chaos caused by human industrial activity (infinite growth). Of a certainty a four to six degree Centigrade temperature increase is in the very-near future, and -- by what is now not an extreme calculation – the last of our species should be gone by 2030 because the ecosystem which we need to provide us food, water, air and habitable climates will have been destroyed, the web of life ripped to shreds.
It may very well happen much sooner than that.
According to Guy McPherson, the only thing which might have the slightest mitigating impact on Global Warming – over which humankind has any control – would be the immediate cessation of all industrial activity on a planetary level, immediately removing the ever-increasing release of carbon into the atmosphere, by a meme which runs us and owns us, rather than the other way around. It is a meme which must play itself out.
The second of these “causes of death” is radiation. By now we understand fully that the totally unresolved and uncontrolled disaster at Fukushima has for 33 months bombarded the entire Northern Hemisphere and Pacific Ocean with radiation. A lesser realized truth is that there are some 60 nuclear power plants around the United States that are boiling along long past their planned operating lives. They are rickety. They have fires. They have leaks. They have cooling system failures. They flood. There are also many nuclear storage facilities like Hanford and West Lake outside of St. Louis which in the case of Hanford are releasing or Westlake (in danger of releasing) additional enormous quantities of radiation into the air, the water tables, or the soil.
It takes 40 years, a lot of money (energy) and an enormous amount of fossil fuel to fully decommission a nuclear reactor. Absent industrial civilization it will never be possible to safely shut down all 450 operating nuclear reactors and recover or maintain control of perhaps thousands of nuclear waste facilities around the world. And our obligation is to provide safe and secure storage for all of that radioactive waste for one million years.
Mankind has yet to build a structure which will last 50,000 years, let alone a million.
Damned if we do. Damned if we don’t.
But there is a third element that triply seals our fate. It is called Exponential Growth… Just recently on Facebook a friend posted a great video from the late Professor Al Bartlett of Princeton who, throughout his career, was the Champion of sounding the alarm on what Exponential Growth means. He was a fabulous human being with a wicked sense of humor. It isn’t higher math. It’s actually simple arithmetic. If one starts with a square on a checkerboard and puts one grain of rice on that square, two on the next, four on the next, eight on the next, doubling for each square, by the time one reaches the last of 64 squares there will be an amount of rice greater than the annual output of most Asian nations combined.
Now let’s look at infinite growth as though it were taking place in a glass, or a Petri dish, or on a finite planet which -- when full and containing no more resources – spells the complete die off of whatever was growing inside due to resource exhaustion. It’s true for Caribou. It’s true for bacteria. It’s true for human beings. As the late Terrence McKenna warned as he predicted “the end of history” in the late 1990s, if the doubling takes place every minute, then just one minute before the inevitable population collapse, the Petri dish would only be half full. When McKenna sounded these warnings, roughly a decade before I started, human population was only 3.5 billion. Human population has since doubled in less than 20 years. With enough resources it would double again in less than 15. But we can clearly see that the Petri dish is full.
As we go live on the air tonight:
Fukushima’s ongoing deadly release of radiation has not been contained for 33 months. New records for radioactive emissions are announced weekly. The Japanese – as they have done continually for more than 30 months -- are incinerating tons of highly radioactive waste directly into the atmosphere. The International Atomic Energy Agency has granted TEPCO permission to release ALL of its radioactive water into the Pacific.
The carnage that is human industrial civilization continues absolutely unabated and unrestrained. Tens of thousands of coal fired generating plants continue to operate around the world. Tens of thousands of natural gas fired plants using fracked gas continue to destroy water tables, cause earthquakes and add to the ever-increasing amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere. The plants themselves may not, but the extraction of the gas they burn is one of the most carbon intensive and destructive, toxic processes known. In Canada the tar sands are being voraciously mined with continuing release of carbon, environmental destruction, and rapacious ruination of fresh water supplies. In North Dakota, so-called “shale oil” production proceeds with ferocious intensity. Factories and corporations required to show “growth” and profit continue to churn out cars and TVs and cell phones and junk, all wrapped in plastic which will last about as long as radioactive waste. And because the cheap, easy energy is gone, every year industrial nations resort to more damaging, more desperate, more carbon-intensive means to get their hands on less and less energy, often expending more energy to obtain what they all fuel than they get from burning it.
Absolutely nothing has been – or is being – done about the things that are really killing us, and not just us, but every living thing on the planet. Just a lot of talk. Well I’ve been talking for 35 years and I’m almost done with it.
Every day, as more than 250,000 new humans arrive on the planet, more than 200 species go extinct… forever. Exponential growth of human population has never been addressed, in large part because the economic mandate for infinite growth has never been addressed. Thus the pressures to not do anything at all about the first two problems are ever greater. I call it “Catch 22 Cubed.” More people need more heat, more power, more food grown with fossil fuels… More, more, more.
This is the end of More.
As the Eschaton event emerges, and as we approach it with ever-increasing clarity about what “it” is I have noticed on Facebook -- where I have invested enormous energy in community building and consciousness raising -- a disappointing trend of late. Briefly summarized, it goes like this: The more clearly we see our imminent physical demise, the more people tend to talk about things that are irrelevant to it. They want to talk about Ed Snowden. They want to talk about disaster capitalism. They want to talk about Iran-Contra. They want to talk about whether a specific and alarming radiation reading, in Death Valley, or Idaho, or Colorado, or Washington actually came from Fukushima or not. They want to talk about who did or did not make a good reading somewhere. They want to talk which competing theory/hypothesis on the actual conditions at Fukushima is correct instead of abut the fact that we know what we are being told is an absolute lie. They want to talk about Albert Bartlett’s personality as opposed to the simple arithmetic he presented which they still refuse to see.
My sense of Facebook now is that people are using more and more intelligence and effort to find things to divert their attention away from, rather than towards a reality that is becoming more and more abundantly clear to millions, tens of millions, and soon to be billions of people on this deeply wounded planet. Well baby, if that’s your game… and I play it… Then all I’m doing is validating your game…
I have reached a point of diminishing marginal returns on Facebook and this week I pretty much exiled myself from the page. I do not need to read all these stories that get posted. I find about 90% of them irrelevant now. And I’m real confident that I’m doing some of the best work of my entire life right here on the Progressive Radio Network with you every Sunday.
My Facebook page is an amazingly useful, safe, well-crafted and productive space, free from disinformation. In my absence it will be cared for and protected by loyal friends and tribal members who have been there for the whole ride. I will check in from time to time and make announcements about upcoming shows or when something really serious happens.
We know what’s here. We are beginning to understand what it means. And it’s high time we turned our full gaze and attention to it. This is the culminating event of all of what we have called history.
It’s here. It’s now. It’s what we came here to witness and be a part of. There’s no game left to play but to face it. Not facing it will produce what Terrence McKenna called “A fire in a madhouse.”
In upcoming shows I’ll be discussing more of the only thing that makes sense of it all – and is doing more so every week -- and of my own life’s long and arduous journey. I call it “The Safety Valve at the End of History”.
Hint: Terrence McKenna.
It’s time to sit back, put my feet up and focus on center stage because this is the finale and I don’t want to miss it. It’s what I came here for. So did you.
Michael C. Ruppert
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Sustainability 101 - Professor Al Bartlett (Exponential Growth Explained)
Fukushima and its Long Term Threats
NOVA – Magnetic Pole Flip 530,000 Years Overdue and Happening Now
Russia Launches “Swarm” Satellites to Monitor Earth’s Magnetic Field
Cliemate – What Doesn’t Make the News
Extreme Weather Events and Disasters of 2013
Terrence McKenna – Final Earthbound Interview
Collapse – Michael Ruppert
