La trahison des élites

source: Le Monde

18 mars 2014

SELON UNE ÉTUDE – La NASA prévoit la fin de la civilisation

Une étude du Centre de vols spatiaux Goddard de la NASA relayée par la RTBFexplique que la civilisation tel que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui pourrait bien disparaître dans les prochaines décennies en raison d'un problème de gestion des ressources naturelles et d'une mauvaise répartition des richesses.

L'étude se fonde sur un nouvel outil analytique, baptisé "HANDY", pour Human and Nature Dynamical, mis au point par le mathématicien Safa Motesharrei du Centre national de synthèse socio-environnemental. L'étude a été publiée dans le Elsevier Journal Ecological Economics.

En étudiant l'histoire des civilisations, les chercheurs ont ainsi mis en évidence les raisons qui ont contribué à leur chute, que ce soit les Mayas ou encore l'empire romain. Une série de facteurs liés entre eux seraient donc à prendre en compte, parmi lesquels le climat, la population, l'eau, l'agriculture ou encore l'énergie.

Selon la RTBF, Safa Motesharri et ses collègues expliquent qu'il y a deux scénarios possibles pour l'homme du XXIe siècle. Le premier serait la réduction, par la famine, des populations pauvres. "Dans ce cas, la destruction de notre monde ne serait donc pas due à des raisons climatiques, mais à la disparition des travailleurs", note le site belge d'information.

"Le second scénario catastrophe repose sur la surconsommation des ressources qui entraînerait un déclin des populations pauvres, suivi par celui, décalé dans le temps, des populations riches", ajoute-t-il.

Fait notable, selon les chercheurs, plusieurs empires ont disparu notamment à cause de l'aveuglement des élites qui, jusqu'au bout, se croyaient protégées et ont refusé de réformer leur système de vivre-ensemble.

Si ces scénarios paraissent difficiles à éviter, les scientifiques mettent en avant la nécessité urgente de "réduire les inégalités économiques afin d’assurer une distribution plus juste des ressources, et de réduire considérablement la consommation de ressources en s’appuyant sur des ressources renouvelables moins intensives et sur une croissance moindre de la population."

VanderKelen versus Van Ranst: an accusation of Soviet Medicine by a Populist rumor-spreader: 0-1

Belgian National Flu Commissioner Marc Van Ranst, widely regarded as a solid scientific, and widely recognized by the political and medical establishment as pulling off a great job re: the Mexican flu pandemic in Belgium, has had his ass kicked this morning by a commentator from populist newspaper 't Laatste Niuews.

In a reaction on what he thought about Belgian soccer players getting themselves vaccinated in the horizon period reserved for "at risk" populations, the Flu commissioner stated that he found this to be uncivil, totally unacceptable and threathening all the good work that had been done.

The journalist now accuses the Flu commisioner of practicing soviet medicine.

My comments: long live the stalinist doctors if they manage a pandemic of this scale and scr*w the commentators (and the soccer players): the soccer players have NO right to be the first in line (even if they were pulling off great stunts like winning world chamionships or something, NOT) and the commentators should focus on the defficiencies in soccer training for kids rather than defend an already tarnished national competition, unworthy of that name... Quit whining Vander Kelen, and go write something really useful.

The Age of Stupid

“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?” - http://www.ageofstupid.net/the_film


Reading: The Black Swan - (****)
Listening to: Viva la Vida II - Coldplay
Thinking: see above
Travelling: on Bike

Inglorious Bastards Movie Trailer!

The planet is fine... the people are f$cked

George Carlin is simply too much
- the planet isn't going anywhere, we're going... Pack your shit folks
- why are we here? because the Earth wanted plastic and needed humans to make it...

Climate Change: Expert-Lord Stern admits he was underestimating...

Lord Stern, author of the landmark 2007 Report for the UK Gov't admitted earlier this month that he underestimated the
- risk
- damages
-.... and probabilities of
increasing temperature beyond +3°C over the next 100 years.

In the report, he estimated the costs of climate change at between 5 per cent and 20 per cent of global gross domestic product. But Lord Stern said data published since the report came out had led him to change his mind.

Victim of ferocious attacks, calling Stern a "scarmonger", his Lordship traveled the world trying to convince public opinion and world leaders that immediate, thorough and desperate actions are needed... which led to the December 2007 UN Agreement in Bali that we'd negotiate for another 2 years to find some way of following-up on Kyoto.

You'd become a sceptic reading this stuff... or you could go about changing your own habits?

Find a bunker (now!)

Blogging from UFA, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation:


German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures

Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported.

NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told its sister organisation, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young whizzkid had got it right.

Both NASA and Marquardt agree that if the asteroid does collide with earth, it will create a ball of iron and iridium 320 metres (1049 feet) wide and weighing 200 billion tonnes, which will crash into the Atlantic Ocean.

The shockwaves from that would create huge tsunami waves, destroying both coastlines and inland areas, whilst creating a thick cloud of dust that would darken the skies indefinitely.

The 13-year old made his discovery as part of a regional science competition for which he submitted a project entitled: "Apophis -- The Killer Astroid."