Man vs. Nature: Man vs.Man

Man vs. Nature: Man vs.Man

The world is much more worrisome today than in previous years; Super storms, mega earthquakes, title- waves and perpetual warfare are nothing new; yet somehow in this late day they all seem more perpetuated by some force outside nature.

Warfare and malevolence seems to be man’s worldly claim to fame, not even biblical accounts of the heavenlie’s can claim such a legacy, however Super storms and earth changes are a combination of mankind’s activity’s and natures processes.

Nature:

Observations of Nature dictate that all Life forms as we know them operate on principal cycles, as much as man would like to lay claims to Natural processes and in fact are close with new technology and biological sciences to mimicking some creative ability’s, man cannot force the cycles of life that nature has placed natural limits on, The closer man gets, the more arrogance he displays the more destruction he creates within Nature and to himself.

Man:

Fukushima, Chernobyl, multiple oceanic oil spills, laboratory created super-bugs, chemical waste dumping, billions of metric tons of trash daily, deforestation, disposable products that mother earth cannot digest, chemicals in the food supply and not so fresh drinking water supply, tons of waste water runoff, factory’s pumping metric tons of pollution into the atmosphere, multi millions of automobiles and air craft spewing out poison gases all on a global scale, not to mention chemical warfare and nuclear weapons that without a doubt can destroy life in our solar system several times over, Yes with certainty I can state with ease that mankind has played a hand in the quickening of negative Earth changes.

Adding fuel to the fire now we have to deal with genetically modified organisms; in which the health effects to the human population and nature will not be understood for years to come. 

Another trait that affects our Earth that academia refuses to discuss is weight displacement, as man multiplies on the earth we concomitantly create weight, adding this into the equations for mass and velocity could have profound effects on our planet and her relationship to the other luminaries within our solar neighborhood, now take millions of heavy motor- vehicles etc. moving about the surface; there is no doubt in my mind that man has impacted planet earth; her biological systems as well as how she operates within time and space.

Mindset & Control:

Thomas Malthus (February,13  1766 –  December,29  1834) was an English cleric and scholar, in the fields of political economy and demography(the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations)”Now to include perpetual warfare and laboratory created super bugs.”,

His Essay on the Principles of Population addressed that sooner than later population will be checked by famine and disease, perpetuating to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society:

With advancements in refrigeration, Medicine, Etc. Humans are living ever longer lifespans that compound Malthus' projections about population and resources.

Malthus wrote:  "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man”. Malthus saw this situation as imposed to teach virtuous behavior.

The increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence,

Population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and That the superior power of population is repressed and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice".

Thomas Malthus believed that natural rates of human reproduction, when unchecked, would lead to geometric increases in population: population would grow in ratios of 2, 4, 8, 16, However, he believed that food production increased only in arithmetic progression: 2, 4, 6, 8.

To Malthus something had to keep the population in check to prevent collective starvation, he beveled in two general kinds of checks that limited population growth: preventative checks and positive checks. Preventative checks reduced the birth rate; positive checks increased the death rate.

Moral restraint, vice and birth control were the primary preventative checks. Moral restraint was the means by which humans limited their family size in order not to dissipate their wealth among larger numbers of heirs, vice and birth control were the means by which their numbers could be limited - but Malthus believed that these were insufficient to limit the vast numbers of the less fortunate.

Positive checks are famine, misery, plague and war; do to the fact that preventative checks have no limit; Malthus thought that positive checks were essential to do that job. If positive checks were unsuccessful, then undoubtedly famine would be the resulting way of keeping the population in check Before starvation set in, Malthus advised that steps be taken to help the positive checks to do their work.

“It is an evident truth that, whatever may be the rate of increase in the means of subsistence, the increase in population must be limited by it, at least after the food has been divided into the smallest shares that will support life. All the children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to this level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the deaths of grown persons.

To act consistently, therefore, we should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operation of nature in producing this mortality, and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel nature to use.

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations. But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases: and those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders.

If by these and similar means the annual mortality were increased ... we might probably every one of us marry at the age of puberty and yet few be absolutely starved.”

To Malthus the masses were incapable of exercising moral restraint, which was the only viable remedy for population control. They were therefore doomed to live always at impoverished levels if income and wealth were distributed among them, it would be totally wasted within one generation because of profligate behavior and they would be as poor and destitute as before they received monetary gain. Paternalistic attempts to help the poor were therefore likely to fail. However they were a necessary evil because they drained wealth and income from the wealthy ranks of society.

(The Elite: A select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities.) do not exist other than in the minds of the ignorant)

Understanding the mindset of the malevolent ones will greatly increase one’s chance at life in the pursuit of liberty and happiness.

there are hundreds of examples just like this set before our leaders to deal with population growth and dwindling global resources, Trust me Money/Monetary value is the least of man’s worries.

by Mark Varricchio