Post Reply - october 2024.....

   If I would make a top 3 of major global risks;
-1 by far is war....We have never been this close to all out nuclear war....

-2 Climate collapse, "Helene" was a shocker...a hurricane was not expected to move that fast in land...New-worse-storms are on their way...NW Europe very likely to see "Kirk" next week...

-3 Pandemics..."out of control"...so we give up testing...Reported cases of H5N1, Mpox, Marburg etc only a top of an ever growing ice-berg...

Of course these global disasters interact with each other...Are not isolated events. Economic/financial collapse, a break up of logistics/supplies (in part because of strikes, US, France, NL, Germany...)...

Social unrest in many countries-may result in civil war like crises...(US, France...). 

DJ-I do understand why I am the only one active on this -supposed to be- a forum. "It is a doom & gloom show"...not nice at all...

I have to balance myself-love music...Of course looking at history we may have seen "terrible times" even in the recent past...Famines in 1945-1947 Europe may have killed over a million people-after World War Two horrors killing tens of millions more...

The Korean War-1950-53, was just one of many bloodbaths following World War Two-global rebalancing...

From that perspective most people in the west have had exceptionable "good decades"-from a history perspective very abnormal...

Untill around 1900 wars and diseases did slow down human population growth...Average age did take milennia from moving from 30-Roman times- to 40 around 1900...

The population explosion is a 20th century event...

"Good things never last"....