Humanocide.
introductory remarks
If you are of the opinion that the present humanity of more than 7.5 billion people and their earth, which according to forecasts will rise to 11 billion at the end of the century, existentially from the resources, the habitability per /qm earth, the environmental exposure as well as from the valid definitions of the human being – and if you have no concern about it – can still be „liveable“, then you do not need to read further here.
Neither for this biological mass of people, – I once called them „evolutionary biological consumables“ in a lecture without attributing a „meaning“ to evolution, – nor for the planet itself, there seems to be no salvation under the present living conditions of the work of the Anthropocene, so the representatives of the Anthropocene think, to this I come back further down.
- Preliminary remark:
In his two books „Carbon Ideologies“, W.T Vollmann has written ruthlessly in two volumes about our age, about how mankind ruthlessly laid out, mined, consumed, burned and „irradiated“ the fossils of millions of years in and under the earth.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/carbonideologies/
The whole follows the dogma of the unstoppable growth of human needs in the aftermath of the post-industrial age. Under the dogma of „progress“, people no longer recognize borders across all continents and cultures. The 2nd volume is called „No Good Alternative“ – unfortunately a leitmotif of the devastating industrial policy – and culture also in Germany.
After 1200 pages, Vollmann concludes that „the only hope for mankind is to reduce demand“. Here I come to my criticism of the humanities, which is listed below, because according to Wikipedia „William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, author of short stories and essayist“. What can such a man say to us? How to „reduce demand“ in a biologically driven human race. Biologically it could in my opinion be inexorably too late, but I am still discussing that – only „humanists“ cannot think in this dimension.
The dogma described above is one side of the human coin, that of „the hitherto and presently thinking and feeling human brain“.
The other side not or rarely discussed so far in this context is precisely that of „human biology“ with the code to an equally ruthless multiplication, the second dogma.
In order to „save“ the earth from mankind, a worldwide helpless concern, just this second side of the existential medal of humans plays a role above all, if one considers the distribution and development of the world population (see below).
Does it seem meaningful, ethically allowed and at all feasible to think about whether too many people on earth simply live with the claim to live the first dogma? With about 3 billion people, could the first dogma be liveable for the planet without damage? If so, how is that possible? Such considerations lead to the „humanocide“ (a reduction of the human mass), – a way out of the anthropocene? I’ll think about that in the following.
Statements on humanozide
I cannot verify that the statements of significant economists, billionaires, thinkers and politicians in the following quote are really true and I leave it to the reader to verify that:
https://www.zeitenschrift.com/artikel/ueberbevoelkerung-eine-milliarde-ist-genug
2nd preliminary remark
Then, as I’m working on the manuscript, I read the NATURE report on species extinction on 30.10.2018:
I quote:
The populations of Earth’s wild mammals, birds, amphibians, fish and other vertebrates declined by more than half between 1970 and 2012, according to a report from environmental charity WWF and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).Activities such as deforestation, poaching and human-induced climate change are in large part to blame for the decline. If the trend continues, then by 2020 the world will have lost two-thirds of its vertebrate biodiversity, according to the Living Planet Report 2016. “There is no sign yet that this rate will decrease,” the report says.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-2016
The Poo-uli, last seen in Hawaii in 2004
Is it comprehensible that in the past 40 years 58% of the non-human vertebrates have disappeared from human planet Earth? The report of the Living Planet Report states that under the current living conditions of the Anthropocene by 2020, this animal world would probably shrink by 67%.
I’m going to call this the animalocide.
This is what mankind does to its evolutionary fellow beings on planet Earth, and? If we now transfer these numbers of the Animalozid to mankind, at present 7 billion, then in the Humanozid 4.1 billion humans would have to disappear. Then we would have a biological equilibrium on the planet again.
This corresponds roughly to the number games that experts calculate that think of a humanocide to keep the planet Earth habitable for the future of mankind, with about 3 billion.
Is there an evolutionary „Gaia“ behind it, which we may not have considered yet?
3. preliminary remark
The desperate climate change in the light of the world population and its
rising „standard of living
Here is an introduction to the current figures on the world population and their forecast
Even more important, however, are the largest CO2 emitters:
world population
- Asia 59.5 %
- Africa 16.8 %
- Europe 9.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.5 %
- North America 4.8
CO2 emitters:
Figures in % of total emissions in 2016 correspond to 35 billion tonnes of CO2.
The current efforts to mitigate climate change are aimed at the political rationality of a few developed industrialised countries, with the USA, as the second highest air polluter to date, undermining all the efforts of the Paris Accord and the latest ones, and having resigned – after all, it relies on „Intended Nationality Determined Contributions“ and the USA under President Trump does not care about the planet.
https://www.lpb-bw.de/pariser_klimaabkommen.html
- China 25
- USA 17
- India 5.3 %
- Russia 4.9 %
- Japan 3.9 %
- Germany 2.4 %.
On the basis of these numbers one can make an interesting thought game:
The USA accounts for only 4.8% of the world’s population but 17% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Since the total number of the USA population hardly changes any more, the increase there will hardly increase under the assumption of the little changed living conditions of their immoderacy.
Here only exemplary political reason can lead to a reduction, but such a policy is not discernible. To what extent such behaviour is to be classified as a „crime against humanity and its planet“ can at least be considered „on the margin“.
More important, however, as far as the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are concerned, is the following consideration:
Asia (see above) has almost 60 % of the world population. The Chinese people are transforming into a highly industrialized country and the population’s need for the achievements of technological progress from all areas exemplified by Western industrialized countries is rapidly increasing. Even if the electrification of the automobile there is currently being promoted, all other producers of CO2 in all urban areas of the megacities will increase and not be reduced and the current share is indeed already more than 30%.
For political reasons, China has stuck to the Paris Agreement, but is allowed to keep its CO2 emissions high until 2030. China’s CO2-producing economy will be able to be reduced, but not the enormously rising demand for Western living standards. The production of food alone will produce huge amounts of CO2. Furthermore, of the sheer crowds of people in China and Asia and their growing demands on the standard of living in Asia as a whole, CO2 emissions in Asia will overtake those of the rest of the world and not decrease, as the Paris Agreement may suggest. Because it has no influence on this development.
Here is a recent calculation of meat consumption, for example:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaam5324?cct=1925
and also for water consumption:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/222?cct=1925
Then the same goes for India already. One can well imagine that the CO2 emissions there will soon rise from 5.3 % to at least 10 %.
In the near future, further industrial development in Africa and the population’s need for a standard of living will significantly increase CO2 emissions there in the coming decades.
Western cynicism: „renunciation
No one in the Western industrial world, whose ideas have fed the Paris Agreement, can demand from these people a „reduction“ of claims, a „renunciation“ as demanded by Vollmann and Harari. This is for me the absurd of such efforts and the cynical conclusions of the books by W.T Vollmann, whose „preaching“ currently have a hype like gospels of bad conscience.
The population increase on one side and the inexorably rising demands of the standard of living of the „developing countries“ (to which one should not count the second largest industrial nation China and soon India any more at all) The new CO2 emissions from the Earth’s atmosphere, which in my view cannot be slowed down by any political or social measure of any kind, will cause a dramatic increase in the CO2 content of the Earth’s atmosphere worldwide.
I see this completely independently of the current reduction efforts and don’t understand why one puts hope in them for the planet.
And there are some completely new, up-to-date data on this at the moment:
https://www.iea.org/geco/emissions/
commented in:
(From FAZ)
From my point of view, it is downright naive, if not cynical, to bet on climate change. Who else has responsibility for the planet and its future?
So I continue to think about the humanocide, which many consider the only salvation, an uncanny idea
Fourth preliminary remark.
In the issue of NEWYORKER on 26. 11.2018 we will have read a depressing article about how the CO2 producing industry is devastating our planet and making it uninhabitable soon. It rejects any responsibility and continues its devastating business with political support.
The article is long and it takes effort to read it. It will also have no effect, except that mankind will helplessly „watch“ their downfall.
„How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet“
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.“
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet
We’re probably organizing the humanocide ourselves.
I put this into the „horror“ that I have always described on my website – the biological curse on mankind.
https://hesch.ch/toeten-kann-spass-machen/
Anthropocene
What is meant by anthropocene?
I like to rely on Wikipedia in important information rooms (despite all criticism):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropoz%C3%A4n
There I find the abundance of metrically inviolable material to which I consistently attach importance.
However, the contribution to the Anthropozene receives criticism from the so-called „humanities“ (see also here again):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisteswissenschaft
The intentions of the „humanities“ described there, are basically because of their indefinable activity, actually no science in the metric sense. That’s where we read:
„In 1986, Odo Marquard argued that it was the task of the humanities to offer an asylum for culture and tradition and thus make modernization bearable, while the upheaval and modernization of living conditions in technical-civilizational society continued.
An „asylum for culture and tradition“ in my earlier remarks is only the escape route of favoured elites from horror, as long as they do not contribute to it themselves. I have long considered „humanities“ obsolete, especially in the context under discussion here, as an „intelligent rhetoric hut“. The humanities, (besides religions and world improvement theories in general), have contributed nothing, but nothing at all to the problem of the possible finiteness of human life on earth mentioned here.
Not to be misunderstood: Every day I live the enjoyment of „culture“ as the beneficiary of a minority in my place on earth itself, which is so to speak „close to my heart“, but also as an escape route from the horrors of the Anthropocene in everyday life. This is an elitist privilege without wealth and power.
Criticism of the anthropocene by the humanities:
(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropoz%C3%A4n):
„In the literature of the humanities, the concept has met with criticism. The Anthropocene would emphasize the role of the human being as a species elevated from nature and would not be an alternative to the uninhibited
Instead, a (re-)integration of the human being into the natural environment would be necessary, which would not be compatible with a prominent position. …Instead of more technology and more knowledge it is necessary to initiate a cultural change. To this end, civil society would have to be transformed into a cultural society. The counter-concept to the idea of the Anthropocean is a new human ecology, which shows ways to the cultural renewal of humans and at the same time participates in creatively developing new structures, which help to develop basic abilities, which enable humans to lead a humane life in view of the climate catastrophe. [51] „
I have the following opinion on that:
The humanities demonstrably have no alternative or at least no mental solution to offer. How do the humanities envisage a „reincarnation“ of more than 7 billion current human beings into a „natural environment“? What are you gonna do
The „paths to the cultural renewal of the people“ are, in view of their „cruel“ increase to 11 billion people by 2050, of whom more than 75% will live in cities or megacities at this time. (file:///C:/Users/Dieter%20User Account/Documents/Master Thesis.pdf)
What is there then a „natural environment“, i.e. a life of people in a balanced participation in the nature of the environment on earth, about which I will describe my ideas below. This „environment“ will no longer exist, and it is pure intellectual cynicism of the humanities to get into such worlds of thought, which may have fatal socio-political influence when advising politics.
In earlier contributions I have repeatedly written about the phenomenon of „horror“ as the inescapable biological action of man (see above) and now add to it the concept of humanocide, which is offered as a final solution. Are there other scenarios of horror than humanocide?
If you have read this far, you might think that the earth and its humanity only have a future if the biological human mass is reduced to a geobiologically bearable value. It is not yet possible for me to describe this value if I should do so, because humanity’s resource research and habitat possibilities are making such progress that humanity would benefit biotechnologically? But at present, from our current point of view, these advances will not be sufficient for the total amount of humanity described above, because the extra-human biology of life and living beings on Earth must also be taken into account in this context.
That is why many thinkers arbitrarily assume a resting crowd of around 3 billion, but here too there are very different considerations. So theoretically there should be 4 billion fewer people on earth, an almost unbearable game of thought. A brief look at the history of this:
Around the turn of time, between 170 and 400 million people lived on Earth.
Quote Wikipedia:
„500 years ago, the world population was between 425 and 540 million, and the UN estimates it at 500 million. In the course of the 16th century, the American population (Indians) is supposed to have decreased from about 50 million to only 5 million through imported epidemics, while the population continued to increase in Europe and Asia. Global growth in the 18th century was permanently above 0.5 % in the year and in the middle of the 20th century even above 2 % for some decades, so that one can speak of a population explosion. After the year 1700 a rapid population growth began and for the first time in human history the doubling time was in the range of centuries and finally decades. Around the year 1800, the world population exceeded one billion people. Within the 20th century, the world population has almost quadrupled. 1927: 2 billion, 1960 (after 33 years): 3 billion, 1974 (after 14 years): 4 billion, 1987 (after 13 years): 5 billion, 1999 (after 12 years): 6 billion and 2011 (after 12 years): 7 billion people. With an annual population growth of around 80 million people, the number of Earthlings is rising by almost 220,000 every day and by over 150 people every minute. “
At this point it is necessary to avoid asking about the „sense“ of the unrestrained reproduction of humans on earth, just as it does not make sense to ask about the sense of the biomass of ants identical in weight to humans.
The mass of all people is worth 0.4 billion tons (number of people currently 7.5 billion). That would correspond approximately to the mass of all ants. – only that they destroy their planet, at least not recognizable to me. It is not possible for the human brain, which is thinking up to now and now, to recognize a sense in biological evolution in general and in human life in particular. I have discussed the dramatic comparison to ants and their eusocial order (according to E.O. Wilson) elsewhere:
Further data on this:
http://www.brefeld.homepage.t-online.de/leben-auf-der-erde.html
I want to think about how, by the end of the century, 11 billion people on this planet will be able to live an existence that is liveable for human life, or how some scenarios suggest that they cannot live either: „humanocide“.
I also include genetically modified humanoids, chimeras and hybrids in such a humanity, whose breeding is in progress. Fact for a biologically liveable human existence in the present unmodified organism (without questioning its meaning, see above) is and will remain necessary according to my theory of the „Code of Life, Aging and Disease“.
https://hesch.ch/aging-english/ T the following:
Suitable „planetary air“, space (habitat, dwelling), biologically usable water, soil or substrate for chemical building blocks for „food“ to build and maintain physical functions, and a non-toxic energy for the necessary catalysis obviously requires every biologically conceivable „life“. These conditions for life on earth are widely known. So far, anyway.
But I think that with the planetary modification in the Anrthopozän also new biological scenarios emerge, in which what we call life can also tolerate other basic conditions.
New people needed?
Gene modifications and hybrid IT technology in fusion with biology will produce new humanoid beings in the body and brain that adapt evolutionarily to planetary changes. We may not want that, because we don’t know what we want anyway, and we can’t know that either, but it is becoming apparent.
This is where my considerations for a „humanozide“ come in. What possibilities can our currently thinking brain, in this case mine, think of for the evolution of the „consumable“ human being and a possible humanocide? There are numerous fictions, conspiracy theories and organizations, but I do not want to „evaluate“ them in connection with my considerations – I cannot pass judgement, as Noah Harari the „observer“ of the world does not. I will try to think about how a humanocide could take place and not evaluate its possible necessity in the light of the above facts, their discussion of meaning and possibilities.
Distribution of world population by continent:
the distribution of the world population by continent, again:
- Asia 59.5 %
- Africa 16.8 %
- Europe 9.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.5 %
- North America 4.8
These figures must be related to the possible „intentional reduction“ of the world population. I will deal with this topic after the topic „Planetary catastrophes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change, asteroids“.
In the following I will describe the scenarios of the humanocide, its biodiversity, the „coincidence“, and the meaningfulness of the „intentionally“ planned possible humanocides.
I’ll start with:
1. planetary disasters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change (partly „intentional“), asteroids
Toba Catastrophe Theory:
I quote from Wikipedia as follows:
„Modern man (Homo sapiens) is the only surviving species of the genus Homo after
the extinction of the Neanderthals 30,000 years ago and the Homo floresiensis 60,000 years ago. According to the theory of the genetic bottleneck, modern man suffered the most threatening decline in his population 75,000 years ago, when only 1,000 to 10,000 people worldwide were able to save themselves after the eruption of the supervolcano Toba (today Lake Toba on Sumatra) (see also Toba Catastrophe Theory). After that, modern man spread from Africa to all other continents. By the end of the last cold period 10,000 years ago, about 5 to 10 million people lived worldwide.“
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba-Katastrophentheorie
The theory is not uncontroversial, but this does not play a role in this context.
More volcanoes:
The list of further volcanic eruptions on earth shows no mass death as it was postulated for the Toba catastrophe.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_großer_historischer_Vulkanausbrüche
There are new data on the most dangerous current volcanoes, some of which, like the Iwo Jima, can also cause devastation in distant China with a tsunami wave.
<font color=“#ffff00″>Sync by honeybunny <font color=“#ffff00″>https://www.galileo.tv/earth-nature/die-10-gefaehrlichsten-vulkane-weltweit/
Volcanoes, however, do not appear to be suitable at present as a threat to the extinction of billions of people, but other forces of nature can kill many people, such as the earthquake in Haiti with 230,000 deaths.
<font color=“#ffff00″>Sync by honeybunny <font color=“#ffff00″>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdbeben_in_Haiti_2010
But 66 million years ago there was also a huge volcanic event in India after the asteroid catastrophe with a biological mass extinction by an asteroid (see below):
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps.
Further natural disasters can cost many people their lives.
The earthquake with tsunami in Indonesia in September 2018 cost 1400 people their lives.
For a mass death these events are not yet suitable, since they represent no or still no, planetary danger and whether Toba can repeat itself is unclear.
But there are new data on possible eruptions of supervolcanoes:
Supervolcanoes:
Rougier und Mitarbeiter von der Universität Bristol habe interessante Berechnungen zu Ausbrüchen von Supervulkanen gemacht. Etwa alle 17.000 Jahre brechen sie aus ….“ which is substantially shorter than previous estimates, indicating that volcanoes pose a larger risk to human civilisation than previously thought.”
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They conclude that there may be signs that major volcanic eruptions are imminent, but the authors cannot make any predictions.
Great super eruptions were those of Taupo in New Zealand and the Aira in Japan 25,ooo years ago.
A summary of the metric volcanic eruptions can be found here:
http://www.meta-evolutions.de/pages/artikel-20000514-supervulkan.html
The last and most serious natural disaster of modern times occurred in 1825 when the Tambora volcano exploded on Sumbava. The following year went down in history as the „year without summer“, because a huge ash cloud darkened the sky around the globe, 100,000 people died directly, many died of starvation in Europe and the USA, because harvests failed. Likewise the Krakatau darkened the sky in 1883.
Remarkable is the movement of Mount Etna, which is home to a huge volcano. A possible danger, however, does not emanate from the volcano itself, but from the fact that it moves east downwards into the Mediterranean Sea. If there should be a gigantic slide, a big tsunami in the Mediterranean could cause devastation.
Humanocide by volcanoes?
In summary, there are still large extinction possibilities of large crowds on earth, but so far these are not sufficient for a humanozide, which could extinguish billions of people.
Calculation of masses extinction,- the 6th masses extinction?
From the fifth mass extinction to the sixth?
So far there have been 5 mass extinctions on planet Earth.
This is a long time ago and is only historically interesting for us humans today, especially because they concerned the extinction of „species“ and not of humans and mostly we know today only about the extinction of the dinosaurs. The last one was 66 million years ago and at that time 76% of all living beings were destroyed:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/big-five-extinctions
But why is this now interesting for planet Earth? Because there are serious studies which are of the opinion that the 6th mass extinction begins at the moment. Again, it’s more about the demise of „species“ than extra-human life:
I will explain below that this time it will not only be „species“, but the 6th mass extinction is also about the existence of mankind with the possibility of a self induced humanocide?
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
“Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species and to alleviate pressures on their populations—notably habitat loss, overexploitation for economic gain, and climate change . All of these are related to human population size and growth, which increases consumption (especially among the rich), and economic inequity . However, the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.“
Interesting in this context is a study in Science from 7.9.2018 on „The mathematics of mass extinction,- transient phenomena in ecology“.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/eaat6412
I have been involved with chaos theory for decades, and this in the article „Code of Life, Aging and Disease“.
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summarized.
The authors in Science do not describe easy to understand dynamic systems, which understand and possibly calculate biodiverse catastrophes. Normally, they write, planetary ecosystems behave on stable long-term tractors. An attractor is a point on which non-linear chaotic systems, typically also our ecosystems, can run and stay for a long time. The catastrophic state of Crateceous Paleogone caused by an impact of a giant asteroid 66 million years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event
was located after the Teccan Traps volcanic eruption described above. It is an example for a temporally stable long-term attractor, which is planetary rare in this form. Such events have led to massive extinction of biological life on Earth. A long time lay between these two and the Toba outbreak. So you can’t really calculate such temporal superattractors.
What the authors attach importance to, however, is that one can calculate a „ghost attractor“ as an ecological attractor event, which can predict shorter occurring biological mass destructions along the above described „eternal“ attractors with nonlinear mathematics. The whole thing is to be understood as a „technique“ of nonlinear systems and their attractors in ecosystems, but the authors do not give concrete examples, but write that their method „can predict an approaching environmental catastrophe, in the sense that our study will guide where to look for the signs of the catastrophe and what the relevant time periods will be: Changes in the environment (whether natural or man-made) which eventually lead to major changes may have occurred a very long time before“.
This observation is interesting with the climate change currently under discussion, the current consequences of which are „visible“, but which can trigger real catastrophes in much later periods.
Is extinction so new at all?
Evolutionary biology has some answers to this question:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%C3%A4re_Entwicklungsbiologie
climate change
SCIENCE has recently dedicated an entire issue to the future of the Earth with relevant contributions to the fate of our planet:
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I find Gaia 2 the most interesting myself:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6407/1066?cct=1925
It is not necessary for me here to comment on the billions of years of pointless climate conferences (the meaningfulness of which I had repeatedly questioned elsewhere), but the report of the „Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)“ has just appeared in NATURE, which is to be understood as a „last call to mankind“ to dam the rise in temperature on Earth.
„The world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 to meet this target, according to a summary of the latest IPCC report, released on 8 October.”
This statement thus aims at efforts around 2050 to achieve a climate neutrality of the present human soil, but the „ghost attractor“ is on track for later disasters of a „mass extinction“ and this is irreversible.
This year’s Nobel Prize will not change that either. For many years now, the prizewinners have published models on the consequences of climate change, which, as always, pass the responsible elites of globally networked politicians of the world economy and the financial systems of neoliberalism by coldly.
After all, the people and their earth know what is going on around them, even if there is probably nothing more that can be changed? THIS is the big question for present and future mankind. Will the currently living people be able to implement the currently set goals immediately – there is only a short period of time left.
Climate change can soon lead to ecocatastrophes with the extinction of life:
“They have “medium confidence” that there will be more extreme storms in areas such as high-elevation regions, eastern Asia and eastern North America. The risk of such severe weather would be even greater in a 2 °C world. Temperatures on extreme hot days in mid-latitudes could increase by 3 °C with 1.5 °C of global warming, versus 4 °C in a 2 °C world. Two degrees of warming could destroy ecosystems on around 13% of the world’s land area, increasing the risk of extinction for many insects, plants and animals”
CO2 origin and its problems
Interesting is where most CO2 gases come from:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_größten_Kohlenstoffdioxidemittenten
The main focus is on „energy“ use and attempts are made to locate the necessary reductions there.
In 2015, electricity and heat generation accounted for 42 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. This corresponds to around 13.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
But what really produces the greenhouse gas? Animal husbandry?
According to the official report „Livestock’s long Shadow“ of the FAO in 2006, 18% (7.5 billion tons) of the total of 41.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted annually (measured in CO2 equivalents) are attributable to livestock farming.
Animal husbandry is thus already one of the main contributors to the global greenhouse effect and causes more greenhouse gases than all transport worldwide (13.5%).
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Why is this source of CO2 emissions so neglected politically? Animal husbandry mainly serves the growing demand for meat in countries with high and rising living standards.
In addition to reducing energy emissions from fossil sources, CO2 production from animal husbandry must also be reduced worldwide. Interesting in this context is the progress in protein/meat production from plants. That’s what I’m going to talk about below.
Cruise ships:
Cruise ships are a huge worldwide leisure trend, but is the following statement correct?
„The 15 largest ocean-going ships in the world emit more harmful sulphur oxides every year than all 760 million cars in the world. “
http://www.notopia.net/blog/2306/kreuzfahrtschiffe-schwefeloxid
Such huge ships have been and will continue to be put into service.
https://www.cruisetricks.de/die-groessten-kreuzfahrtschiffe-der-welt/
Climate change therefore has many original components, which are mentioned in the current discussion among the population and politically conflict-laden and probably because of the extreme conflict of interests and the often unclear data situation one hardly gets further in its fight.
That is the real reason why the above reminders are so difficult to implement.
But to stick with humanocide:
After all that has been written, climate change has triggered the stuff of catastrophes that can trigger a limited humanocide in different regions of the world.
Climate change in the light of the world population and its „standard of living
Here once again the present numbers of the world population and their prognosis, which I had mentioned above:
Even more important, however, are the largest CO2 emitters:
world population
- Asia 59.5 %
- Africa 16.8 %
- Europe 9.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.5 %
- North America 4.8
CO2 emitters:
Figures in % of total emissions in 2016 correspond to 35 billion tons of CO2.
The current efforts to mitigate climate change are aimed at the political rationality of a few developed industrialised countries, with the USA as the second highest polluter having undermined and resigned from all efforts of the Paris Accord – after all, it relies on „Intended Nationality Determined Contributions“ and the USA under President Trump does not care about the planet.
https://www.lpb-bw.de/pariser_klimaabkommen.html
- China 25
- USA 17
- India 5.3 %
- Russia 4.9 %
- Japan 3.9 %
- Germany 2.4 %.
On the basis of these numbers one can make an interesting thought game:
The USA accounts for only 4.8% of the world’s population but 17% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Since the total number of the USA population hardly changes any more, the increase there will hardly increase under the assumption of the little changed living conditions of immoderacy.
Here only exemplary political reason can lead to a reduction, but such a policy is not discernible. To what extent such behaviour is to be classified as a „crime against humanity and its planet“ can at least be considered „on the margin“.
More important, however, as far as the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are concerned, is the following consideration:
Asia (see above) has almost 60 % of the world population. The Chinese people are transforming into a highly industrialized country and the population’s need for the achievements of technological progress from all areas exemplified by Western industrialized countries is rapidly increasing. Even if the electrification of the automobile there is currently being promoted, all other producers of CO2 in all urban areas of the megacities will increase and not be reduced and the current share is indeed already more than 30%.
For political reasons, China has stuck to the Paris Agreement, but is allowed to keep its CO2 emissions high until 2030. China’s CO2-producing economy will be able to be reduced, but not the enormously rising demand for Western living standards. The production of food alone will produce huge amounts of CO2. Furthermore, of the sheer crowds of people in China and Asia and their growing demands on the standard of living in Asia as a whole, CO2 emissions in Asia will overtake those of the rest of the world and not decrease, as the Paris Agreement may suggest. Because it has no influence on this development.
Here is a recent calculation of meat consumption, for example:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaam5324?cct=1925
and also for water consumption:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/222?cct=1925
Then the same goes for India already. One can well imagine that the CO2 emissions there will soon rise from 5.3 % to at least 10 %.
In the near future, further industrial development in Africa and the population’s need for a standard of living will significantly increase CO2 emissions there in the coming decades.
No one in the Western industrial world, from whose ideas the Paris Agreement is fed, can demand from these people a „reduction“ of claims, a „renunciation“ as demanded by Harari. For me, this is the absurdity of such efforts and the cynical conclusions of the books by W.T Vollmann and Harari, whose „preaching“ is currently hype like gospels of bad conscience.
Climate change and renunciation:
The population increase on one side and the inexorably rising demands of the standard of living of the „developing countries“ (to which one can no longer count the second largest industrial nation China and soon India at all) The new CO2 emissions from the Earth’s atmosphere, which in my view cannot be slowed down by any political or social measure of any kind, will cause a dramatic increase in the CO2 content of the Earth’s atmosphere worldwide. Why comfort ourselves with the gospels of the climate and ethics conferences when the facts reveal a completely different reality?
Again on NATURE, the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (see above), which is a final appeal to mankind to curb the rise in temperature on Earth.
It is not evident that in reality, far from IPCC, we will succeed in reversing climate change and its planetary consequences.
Destruction of biodiversity on Earth:
The destruction of species on Earth observed in the context of climate change has not yet received enough attention. In particular, insect mortality is threatening because these in turn serve to feed birds and other animal species that are also on the decline.
Over the past 27 years, more than 75% of the biomass of insects on Earth has disappeared, with dramatic consequences that may have an impact on food production (fertilization).
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1722477115
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1722477115
„Amusing“ and casually mentioned is the fact that due to drought beer production has decreased worldwide due to drying of hop cultivation regionally from 3 to 17%.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0263-1
It looks like it’s too late: IPCC
The just issued call to the world by the „Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)“ as „A last call to mankind“ will die away after my considerations, without the atmosphere of planet earth in its present form, I say expressly “ in its present form“ for mankind can be preserved. Unfortunately I have to say this because of the above mentioned statements and later I think about other alternatives.
https://www.de-ipcc.de/media/content/Hauptaussagen_IPCC_SR15.pdf
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change
If I see the above correctly, it is unclear to me why there are still political efforts that have been going on for years in demands of the IPCC that have achieved nothing and can no longer achieve anything. The climate conferences have also had no effect so far, and the Paris conference goals have been shaken.
The reader should take a look at the whole „circus“ of the UN climate conferences for himself:
https://unfccc.int/news
Last autumn 2018 the 22nd Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, one year after the Paris Conference:
Nearly 50 states announced that they would completely convert their energy supply to renewables by 2050 and limit global warming to „below 2 degrees Celsius and preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius“. So there is a timetable, but how it is to be implemented is not yet clear. The national climate protection targets presented so far by the countries are still far from achieving the global target when added together.
And then Katowice:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/12/14/18139402/cop24-climate-change-katowice-poland
There a big step was made, but where we will lead is unclear, because everything I wrote above about population growth, and „consumption“ by ruthlessly exploitative world economy, has not been nearly appreciated. (See „Climate change and renunciation“ above)
Critical remark:
Throughout the history of mankind there have always been major climate changes that were not man-made. I’m not talking about the last ice ages here. There was an extreme drought in Europe around 1540.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrre_in_Mitteleuropa_1540
This was followed throughout the 17th century by the so-called Little Ice Age, the longest period of low temperatures with devastating consequences.
Philipp Blom: „The world from the hinges. A History of the Little Ice Age from 1570 to 1700 and the Origin of the Modern World, Combined with Some Considerations on the Climate of the Present“ (Carl Hanser Verlag Munich 2017.)
The danger of acceleration to 6th mass extinction
So what always happened spontaneously in planetary evolution is now being accelerated by man, in my opinion this is the danger.
I mention here again „The 6th mass extinction“ which is on the way and this time is caused by humans to me considerable repercussions on the life of humans themselves on earth. This time it will not only be „species“, but it is also about the existence of mankind in the 6th mass extinction. Compared to the natural loss of species (not populations) along evolution, the loss of vertebrates in the last century is 100 times faster, i.e. an extremely accelerated loss of biological diversity that would „normally“ have taken about 10,000 years. For the authors this means that the 6th mass extinction is already on its way.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
I deliberately quote here the original text of the discussion of the work of Ceballos and co-workers
“Arguably the most serious aspect of the environmental crisis is the loss of biodiversity—the other living things with which we share Earth. This affects human well-being by interfering with crucial ecosystem services such as crop pollination and water purification and by destroying humanity’s beautiful, fascinating, and culturally important living companions.
Our analysis shows that current extinction rates vastly exceed natural average background rates, even when (i) the background rate is considered to be double previous estimates and when (ii) data on modern vertebrate extinctions are treated in the most conservative plausible way. We emphasize that our calculations very likely underestimate the severity of the extinction crisis because our aim was to place a realistic “lower bound” on humanity’s impact on biodiversity. Therefore, although biologists cannot say precisely how many species there are, or exactly how many have gone extinct in any time interval, we can confidently conclude that modern extinction rates are exceptionally high, that they are increasing, and that they suggest a mass extinction under way—the sixth of its kind in Earth’s 4.5 billion years of history.
A final important point is that we focus exclusively on species, ignoring the extirpation of populations—the units relevant to ecological functioning and the delivery of ecosystem services .Population extinction cannot be reliably assessed from the fossil record, precluding any analysis along the lines of that presented here. Also, although it is clear that there are high rates of population extinction, existing data are much less reliable and far harder to obtain than those for species, which will remain true for the foreseeable future. Likewise, we have not considered animals other than vertebrates because of data deficiencies.
The evidence is incontrovertible that recent extinction rates are unprecedented in human history and highly unusual in Earth’s history. Our analysis emphasizes that our global society has started to destroy species of other organisms at an accelerating rate, initiating a mass extinction episode unparalleled for 65 million years. If the currently elevated extinction pace is allowed to continue, humans will soon (in as little as three human lifetimes) be deprived of many biodiversity benefits. On human time scales, this loss would be effectively permanent because in the aftermath of past mass extinctions, the living world took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to rediversify. Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species and to alleviate pressures on their populations—notably habitat loss, overexploitation for economic gain, and climate change. All of these are related to human population size and growth, which increases consumption (especially among the rich), and economic inequity . However, the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.”
Here it is clearly written that the 6th mass extinction is caused by the acceleration of the increase of the world population, by the increasing „consumption“ (which means all living conditions in the industrial countries and the developing countries on the way to it, see above). The authors of the article in the renowned SCIENCE are not afraid to see the evil in the „rich“ of mankind and in the injustice of the distribution of goods, as I had already pointed out above in connection with the desire for „renunciation“ of those who are not allowed to participate in the wealth of the rich and who multiply unrestrainedly as „way out“.
Now you could think „so what“? What does that concern us humans?
The loss of the biological diversity of the planet means a not yet calculable loss of resources, because what is going on here is the consequence of the human influence on climate, on the destruction of forests and landscapes, on draining, overfertilization, insect destruction in agriculture, and provocation of environmental catastrophes (earth shifts, storms, rising sea levels).
The loss of biodiversity is an alarming symptom of the impact of the Anthropozene.
According to my analyses it is too late for a change, something „different“ or „additional“ must come to solve the problems of mankind and the planet – is geoengineering an additional option?
Geoengineering:
One idea that I like is to continue the CO2 reduction projects (see above: „It looks like it’s too late“), which have looked in vain so far, in combination with the courageous research of geoengineering.
What does that mean?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07533-4
It is definitely worth reading Tollefson’s provocative article at this point. Researchers around Frank Keutsch, his doctoral student Dai, at Harvard have translated observations of volcanic eruptions into experimental research to dim sunlight. After preliminary experimental investigations it is planned to „scatter“ 100 mg calcium carbonate into the stratosphere and to spread it as a flat cloud. A stunt kite at a height of 20 km above the southwest of the USA is to document the influence on the absorption of sunlight. Because it is less a scientific project than an „experiment that crosses social norms and boundaries,“ a committee was formed. This will monitor with great vigilance all the consequences of the experiment for the planet. It is planned that a global coat of fine dust will protect the entire planet. There is a general concern about incalculable consequences.
A problem could also be that CO2, as described, would continue to rise and the oceans would be even more acidified.
Furthermore, it is conceivable that one of the well-known billionaires will push such a project on his own, as the current investigations are going too slowly for him. Bill Gates himself and not his foundation has already financially supported the current research.
Life without the earth’s surface, possibility for a new evolution?
Is there life under the earth?
Even if humans have destroyed themselves and the biodiversity on the surface of the planet, what remains of it is a living treasure from which a new evolution could emerge?
asteroids
The 30th of June is every year from now on the World Asteroid Day proclaimed by the UN General Assembly.
The biggest asteroid impact known to us was the one that is said to have killed the dinosaurs 100 million years ago. Such events are therefore extremely rare. But when they do occur, they have catastrophic planetary consequences. That is why intensive research is being carried out on asteroids and possible impacts on the earth.
This is connected with the fact that the most recent impact in history with considerable consequences occurred on 30.6.1908 over the Tunguska region in Siberia. The 30-40 meter asteroid devastated 2000 square kilometers of uninhabited area.
Asteroid Impacts are accidental possibilities for a humanozide not controlled by human behavior. Numerous asteroids have flown past the earth, as can be seen in the figure below. These are usually destroyed when entering the Earth’s atmosphere, but there are events such as that in 2013, when a 20 meter asteroid exploded above the Russian city Chelyabinsk and its shock waves destroyed 7000 houses with 1500 injured but without any deaths after all.
Obviously, there is a real fear of asteroids in the population, which is partly supported by SF films, but also by numerous international committees dealing with research. The study by Clemens Rumpf from March 2017, from the University of Southampton, is currently important. He has simulated 50000 artificial impact events on Earth with asteroid sizes between 15 – 400 meters and their consequences for a humanocide through extreme storms, overpressure events, heat rays, crater formation, seismic shocks, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami formation. We can learn the most from this at the moment, even though the system does not, of course, allow for forecasts of events per se.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017GL073191
But there is also a study on the large number of smaller impacts up to 2013: (From NASA/Planetary Science – http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-397)
There are very concrete plans to monitor and ward off possible asteroid impacts. These are summarized in numerous plans for planetary defense, which I will not go into in detail here. After all, there are enough scientific activities that indicate a serious danger of such impacts and their prevention. Wikipedia provides a good overview:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetare_Verteidigung
Asteroids as suppliers for „life“ on Earth?
The question of how „life“ originated on earth is still of interest. A serious idea is that asteroids brought molecules to Earth that were able to catalyse the synthesis of basic building blocks of life in the surfaces and hot waters of the Earth.
„Coe of Life, Aging and Disease: The “Dynamic Code”
https://hesch.ch/aging-english/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/chemists-find-recipe-may-have-jump-started-life-earth?utm_campaign=news_daily_2018-10-18&et_rid=180785409&et_cid=2437393
Recent experimental studies by J. Blank University of California, Berkeley, could support this idea.
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/04/05_comet.html
So asteroids can have created life on earth and at the same time have the inherent possibility to destroy life on earth.
In contrast to climate change, asteroid impacts are not man-made catastrophes.
2. other more „accidental“ events that may lead to humanocide
Nuclear accidents:
Kyschtym stands for a 30-year secret nuclear accident that occurred on 19 September 1957 at the Majak plant in western Russia, releasing twice as much radioactivity as Chernobyl. But the emission remained on the ground, so to speak. But at present there are warnings of the potentially devastating long-term consequences:
https://www.huffingtonpost.de/2017/02/09/atom-katastrophe-kyschtym-majak-bedrohung-russland_n_14657012.html
Chernobyl symbolizes „accidental“ catastrophes. The accident was not intentional, but arose as a result of a conducted simulation of a complete power failure under the leadership of engineer Stepanovich.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuklearkatastrophe_von_Tschernobyl
Serious breaches of the current security regulations have been committed – man-made, but not intentional. This statement is important to me because I will report on intentional disaster scenarios.
Fukushima is the latest nuclear accident.
Japan was shaken by the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. The shock waves and the subsequent tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. More than 100.000 people had to leave the region, the region and the water are still contaminated.
So far there is no spontaneous nuclear catastrophe whose magnitude would be enough to kill a crowd of billions of people.
Spontaneous Organic Hasard
By this I mean influences on the planetary ecosystem caused by pathogens and, if they are cross-country and cross-continental, then epidemics are called pandemics. In the following some historically significant. Such pandemics can eradicate entire populations in certain regions with historically tragic consequences, such as the plague in Europe or the Spanish flu, as well as in modern times HIV. Ebola in recent times has been regionally dramatic with much worldwide attention. At present, however, we cannot assume that spontaneous pandemics with natural and naturally mutated pathogens, as the flu virus spontaneously demonstrates almost every year, are capable of triggering a biological impact in the sense of a humanocide worldwide in the above-mentioned dimensions, i.e. a reduction of mankind by several billions (in order to list here not again discussed for the planet as orders of magnitude considered „reasonable“ by some experts). But the current discussion is about billions of people).
1347-1352 | plague | Europe | about 25 million |
1894-1944 | plague | China, India, Africa, Australia, America | 12 million |
1918-1920 | Virus influenza, so-called Spanish flu | Europe | 27 million |
since 1980 | AIDS | Worldwide | 35.4 million dead, 77.3 million infected so far |
Latest statistics : https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics |
Starvation spontaneously from environmental conditions and war
Hunger can drag millions of people along, but spontaneously dividing and persistent regional famines are not enough for humanocide of the magnitude discussed.
The world hunger index calculates the situation from 51 countries worldwide. 821 million people, almost one billion after all, are currently starving on earth.
https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/821-Millionen-Menschen-leiden-Hunger-article20666252.html
This number is mainly due to climatic (droughts, floods) and political (wars) conditions. Examples are sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, these conditions are reinforced by wars, 490 million starving people live in conflict zones.
If such famines spread as a result of climate change or other natural disasters as described above, a larger dimension of over a billion can quickly be reached, slowly approaching the dimension of a humanocide.
Even more, intentionally added famines by influencing agriculture in Asia and Africa can lead to an apocalyptic humanocide (see below).
Infant mortality due to hunger
http://www.globalincome.org/Deutsch/Fakten.html
Every year, 10 million children die at the age of five years or younger. Malnutrition is the cause of 55 percent of these deaths: an estimated 5.6 million children die of malnutrition every year.
1 child under 5 years of age | every sixth second dies of malnutrition. |
11 children | every minute … |
600 children | every hour … |
15.000 children | every day … |
5.6 million children | every year … |
It hurts to list such numbers in this context but they belong in a „cool“ discussion of humanozide, especially because child hunger will be exploited by „strategists“ of intentional humanozide (see below).
Mortality from air pollution:
The following report has just been published:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2018
It is estimated that there are 391,000 deaths from particulate matter in Europe and that 93% of children are expected to be affected. Europe ranks 2nd ahead of the USA Worldwide, 4.28 million people are expected to die in 2015, 3.4 million of them in Asia.
Africa comes third. There, the probability of dying because of poor breathing air, poor medical care and malnutrition is particularly high. In sub-Saharan Africa, around 20 percent of child mortality is caused by air pollution. In 2015 alone, more than 400,000 children died there as a result of particulate matter.
http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-22895-2018-07-02.html
Particulate matter is sufficient for expensive phases of illness before one million deaths and not for the dimension of a humanozide. It is unclear whether intentional fine dust emissions can be caused, but in Asian cities this is already a considerable problem, so that it could be used intentionally, since it is easy to produce and distribute.
- Intentionally induced disasters
The latest warning from the doomsday clock:
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https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
german described in:
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Weltuntergangsuhr-steht-auf-zwei-vor-zwoelf-article20827244.html
Quote:
„The „Bulletin of Atomic Scientists“ left the „doomsday clock“ at its annual press conference in Washington at two minutes to twelve. The time – with which the researchers symbolically express the danger of the destruction of mankind – thus remained unchanged from last year. So close to their own extinction was humanity last before that in 1953″.
Use of nuclear weapons and agricultural destruction:
(Note for German readers: Historically, the foundations for nuclear weapons originated in German research on nuclear fission, as did the devastating agricultural destroyer „Agent Orange“, whose origin can be traced back to Germany).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
atomic bombs
Enrico Fermi and his team from the University of Chicago developed the first experimental nuclear reactor. This reactor, called CP-1, started the first controlled chain reaction on 2 December 1942.
The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 as part of the Manhattan Project at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. She was nicknamed The Gadget.
At that time in the USA and in Germany in principle the construction of an atomic bomb was possible, for cost reasons the USA were faster with the Manhattan project. The order was then given to pack the result of the New Mexico experiment into a bomb as quickly as possible. On 6 and 9 August 1945, a total of about 500,000 people died in the bombing raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Since then, no nuclear weapon has been used, a random „erroneous“ nuclear attack from Russia to the West was prevented by the prudent Russian engineer Stanislav Petrov in September 1983.
After the first Japanese horror, mankind paused for 73 years for fear.
Let’s see what the most powerful bomb is capable of: On October 30, 1961, the world was devastated by the world’s largest man-made explosion ever: the Soviet „Tsar Bomb“ had an explosive force of about 57,000 million tons of TNT, 4,000 times more than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The USA and more recently North Korea now also have such bombs at their disposal. What effect a dropping could have on the area inhabited by humans has not become known to me, since corresponding simulations do not reach the public.
At the end of 2018, the nuclear arms race between the USA and Russia will resume as in the Cold War. A war using these weapons would trigger a limited humanocide in Russia, Europe and the USA, but would certainly permanently radioactively contaminate the planet.
Who currently has nuclear weapons?
In nine countries on earth there are about 16000 nuclear warheads, 90% in the USA and Russia. The rest is widespread in Europe (France, Great Britain), China, India, Pakistan, probably Israel, also North Korea, not yet in Iran. 4000 are permanently operational.
In Germany 20 atomic bombs of the USA are stored, but Germany as a NATO country has a nuclear share, the bombs are transported by German airplanes.
A nuclear dumping over Europe would lead to a „Eurozid“, but humanity as a whole and its deletarian consumption would continue to multiply, albeit under increased radiation exposure, which would safely travel around the globe. However, she has already learned to deal with the consequences on the genome to a limited extent after exposure in Japan, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The total explosive power, probably more than a million times that of the bombs over Japan, of all atomic bombs exceeds any imagination, a political „bad decision“ or intention can quickly lead to a global nuclear war, which would certainly lead to the extinction of much of the life on the planet. There are enough unstable states among the nuclear powers with nuclear weapons that can trigger an inferno.
hydrogen bomb
Edward Teller invented this bomb. Its first explosion in November 1952 led to an unprecedented release of energy and even destroyed the island on which it was detonated.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike
It’s never been used as a weapon before.
The USA, Russia, Great Britain, France and China have demonstrably ignited a hydrogen bomb. North Korea has tested this weapon and probably possesses „mini hydrogen bombs“ which it can transport and drop far with its current missiles.
Conclusion:
All in all, the possible use of nuclear weapons, no matter who will order them, has everything needed for a humanocide and for the elimination of life on planet Earth in different dimensions. Only who dares this step, when and where, cannot be predicted at present.
Agrarian extermination:
The destruction of human food crops, farmland and forests is an absolutely proven means of exterminating human lives by starvation. So far herbicides have not been used for this purpose, but mainly for limited war purposes.
Agent Orange and others
Defoliants in general were used long before harvests to facilitate them. Later they were first used by the English Kingdom in Malaysia for war purposes and then by the USA in Vietnam. Recently, glyphosate has been accused of causing health damage, Bayer/Monsanto are probably lying to mankind about its toxicity if you read the literature. However, the Group’s and politicians‘ responses are also taken seriously. Only what’s true?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entlaubungsmittel
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
All these agricultural poisons have either caused minor damage to health or, like Agent Orange, severe and genetically anchored damage that is still effective today, from which the plant world has also fully recovered.
So far, agricultural destruction has not had the dimension that would be needed for an intentional humanocide, it has „only“ produced terrible regional human suffering, but that is nothing new in world history.
But what’s new now is the dimension that has been „concocted“ at the Pentagon. it must be said.
DARPA Gene Program for Plant Destruction
Agricultural extermination has just reached a new dimension through genetic research from the USA. The DARPA program of the Pentagon has launched a perfidious „research program“ under the pretext of being able to better protect the plants of arable farmers, questionable whether one still wants to call this „research“ in the classical sense, but Asian countries, Israel and emerging countries are following suit, a scenario similar to the atomic bomb.
In general, it seems to me, „research morality“ in the neoliberal and subsequently in the autocratic social and economic order has distanced itself from the earlier concern to serve the curiosity for knowledge and society. It seems to have become more utilitarian, political, corrupt and perverse in many areas of „war research“.
The DARPA research „Insect Allies“ is a good example of this, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute Plön, the University of Freiburg and Montpellier have just discovered and published in renowned SCIENCE:
Because of the significance of this publication with regard to a new dimension of warfare with the aim of at least genocide, which can rapidly expand to humanocide due to the possible lack of control or lack of antidots/antibiotics, I quote originally what is meant, namely:
„Whereas plant toxins were previously applied „vertically“ to agricultural land, i.e. strategically limited, the dispersion of genetically modified viruses, which inactivate plant seeds or produce aberrant plants that overgrow or destroy natural plants, is now carried out „horizontally“ by insects infected with the viruses. Infected bacteria can infect vast areas with viruses and render large agricultural areas unusable, causing an „incurable“ famine on a scale for which no data is yet available.“
But that means nothing else than „biological weapons“, which violates the convention for the prevention of such weapons by the USA.
Under the guise of „nature conservation“, the Pentagon sponsors numerous renowned research cities such as the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Texas, Austin. Are these universities naive or opportunistic, because this research is, as I said, „perverse“.
Agricultural genetic technologies typically achieve their agronomic aims by introducing laboratory-generated modifications into target species‘ chromosomes. However, the speed and flexibility of this approach are limited, because modified chromosomes must be vertically inherited from one generation to the next. In an effort to remove this limitation, an ongoing research program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to disperse infectious genetically modified viruses that have been engineered to edit crop chromosomes directly in fields. This is genetic engineering through horizontal transfer, as opposed to vertical inheritance. The regulatory, biological, economic, and societal implications of dispersing such horizontal environmental genetic alteration agents (HEGAAs) into ecosystems are profound. Further, this program stipulates that the means of delivery of these viral HEGAAs into the environment should be insect-based dispersion (1). In the context of the stated aims of the DARPA program, it is our opinion that the knowledge to be gained from this program appears very limited in its capacity to enhance U.S. agriculture or respond to national emergencies (in either the short or long term). Furthermore, there has been an absence of adequate discussion regarding the major practical and regulatory impediments toward realizing the projected agricultural benefits. As a result, the program may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and their means of delivery, which—if true—would constitute a breach of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Insect Allies was announced in November 2016, and it currently involves research contracts in excess of $27 million. DARPA is funding four teams (not three, as claimed in the report), namely the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Texas, Austin. The defence agency maintains that “all work is conducted inside closed laboratories, greenhouses, or other secured facilities,” and that the insects will have built-in lifespans to limit their spread. DARPA is hoping to see tests done in greenhouses in as few as two years, with maize being a high-priority crop.
The Allies programme begins with the infection of maize seeds in so-called „greenhouses“. I think one must seriously think about the „safety“ of these biological breeding sites also outside the USA, as the researchers in SCIENCE have already indicated, because an „accident“ can easily turn into a widespread biological fire.
In addition to maize, candidates for biological warfare of this kind are the huge rice and wheat growing areas as „staple foods“ for many peoples.
In this context it is of interest to know where the largest cereal growing areas are located:
The list of the largest grain producers in 2016 shows the People’s Republic of China as the most important producer of grain with 582.7 million tons. The next most important countries were the USA (476.0 million tonnes), India (294.7 million tonnes), Russia (117.7 million tonnes) and Indonesia (97.7 million tonnes). According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the five countries together accounted for 55.1 percent of the 2.849 billion tonnes of grain harvested worldwide. In Europe, France, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Spain and Italy were other important producers.
From the point of view of the USA, China, India and Indonesia are the main candidates for intentional warfare with the extermination of large crowds by a strategy based on „insect allies“.
There is certainly a warlike scenario between the USA and China, which so far has mainly been associated with classical warfare (including tactical nuclear weapons):
https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20160901312366261-usa-china-krieg-wahrscheinlich/
Biological Humanocide in Asia?
Both sides have certainly calculated the risk of this scenario, which is why alternative biological warfare makes sense from the point of view of the Pentagon, and the Chinese masses are particularly suited to a limited humanocide. I think such considerations might be behind „Insect Allies.“ Can also be used to reduce population growth in Africa (see above world population):
Biological humanocide in Africa?
While I was writing this text, the „World Health Summit 2018“ took place in Berlin, where a virologist from Nigeria is said to have given a lecture on „the fact that viruses can infect the root bones of manioc and thus threaten the nutritional basis of millions of people“.
https://www.wissensschau.de/synthetische_biologie/gene_drive.php
The activities against this virus infestation are supported by WAVE, a foundation of Melinda and Bill Gates.
An interesting scenario in the competition between Pentagon and Microsoft.
Vaccination as obsolescence for humanozide:
It is repeatedly claimed that Unicef and WHO had already developed a tetanus vaccine in the 1990s, which also contained the hormone HCG as an admixture. This would act as an antigen and sterilize vaccinated women. For the first time, it had been specially appointed in Nicaragua, the Philippines and Mexico.
Recent reports from Catholic medical circles in Kenya describe a planned sterilization of young women in Kenya.
I cannot verify this, but it is striking that the vaccinations had a non-standard application and that only 2.3 million girls and young women had been vaccinated with this tetanus vaccine, not boys or men. The people concerned have not been cleared up.
https://www.impfschaden.info/news55/611-massensterilisierung-durch-tetanus-impfung.html
http://www.kath.net/news/48248
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-world-health-organization-chief-involved-in-population-control-vaccine-
HCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World
January 2017
Open Access Library Journal 04(10):1-30
It is surprising that there is no real investigative scientific publication on this activity by Unicef and WHO.
However, this would not be a measure for general humanozide either, because the numbers of population reductions required for humanozide would not be achieved, but the experiment was apparently carried out.
Epilogue:
Already Prince Philipp,(German), an honorable influencer with very dubious opinions and contacts, gave the following in 1988:
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.” Prinz Philip, DPA, August 1988
I do not share the statements of the „Zeitenschrift“ and cannot check their statements either.
https://www.zeitenschrift.com/artikel/ueberbevoelkerung-eine-milliarde-ist-genug
But if the statements hold that the following is true, then it is remarkable what some influential elites think:
Gorbachev:
„We need to be more open about sexuality and contraception, about abortion and social values that determine population size. In short, the ecological crisis is a population crisis. Reduces the world population by 90 percent and there are not enough people left to cause significant ecological damage.“
Or Ted Turner:
„From a global perspective, 250 to 300 million people would be ideal, a 95 percent reduction in today’s world population.“
Jaques Costeau:
„To stabilize the world’s population, we must eliminate 350,000 people a day. It’s terrible to say that. Not doing it is just as bad.“
Henry Kissinger:
„The world population must be reduced by 50 percent.“
Likewise, I cannot look behind the strategies of the secret Bilderberg Conferences and even less behind the notions of the „Good Club“ of the supercharacters that humanocide drives around. Conspiracy theories do not help here, but an investigative and absolutely independent journalism would have an important task here, also in the analysis of the „opaque“ and contradictory intentions of Bill Gates, other billionaires and politicians (including German ones).
You have to check what to think of the following:
https://www.legitim.ch/single-post/2017/11/04/Prince-William-im-Zeichen-der-NWO-Es-gibt-zu-viele-Menschen-auf-der-Erde
But that’s the end of it, it’s not my intention to deal with it – already out of ignorance and caution. It’s worth mentioning, though.
4. alternatives to humanocide
But perhaps an innovative future as an alternative to humanocide can also be thought of, especially from climate change? I think about this intensively as an alternative to the „horror“ of humanocide.
In any case, the well-intentioned, Western thinking and its moralizing, unrealistic thinking and advice of the Club of Rome are of no use at all – we had all this already like prayer wheels of thinkers who are fed up:
https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/schweiz/denkfabrik-das-gewissen-der-welt-sitzt-in-der-schweiz-ld.81892
Regardless of this, I am concerned with the question of whether a humanocide is necessary at all, as our currently thinking brain and its leading thinkers suggest to us, with a reduction of humans to 3 billion:
This scenario has become almost obsessive and is scaring worldwide, especially the intentions of the „intentional“ horror of the current world powers and their struggles for supremacy, which have sufficient examples in world history.
I point out that for four millennia empires dominated large parts of the world and many empires went through a doom with millions. These were all tyrannies, their demise was still not always „intentional“, but owed to numerous causes.
The history of the world empires is important to me because in Asia new world empires are emerging with a population explosion whose future is uncertain with regard to an intentional humanocide, if my alternative considerations do not take hold.
Gehler and Rollinger have particularly drawn attention to the „European Empire“, which for the first time was not created by violence:
„The European Union does not have the military resources of China, Russia and the USA. But it is a post-national, perhaps even post-democratic empire because it is an elite project, but clearly a post-modern economic and world currency empire.“
Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger (Ed.): „Empires and Riches in World History“
Harrassowitz Verlag.
More literature on the downfall of world empires:
https://de.linkedin.com/pulse/wenn-weltreiche-untergehen-wer-aus-der-geschichte-lernen-feldkamp
http://dwz-kairo.de/die-10-groessten-imperien-der-geschichte/
New for the future of the modern world empires and their population masses of soon 11 billion people are means and possibilities to destroy the others, themselves and mankind with their planet – but these are absolutely new in their dimension and therefore it is worth thinking about alternatives.
Is it not conceivable that planet Earth, as long as it can offer sufficient biological „living conditions“ to sustain life, can create conditions through human intelligence which can keep the discussed increase in human mass biologically alive without violence? In addition, effective measures of reproduction control must be taken. These have so far always failed, even the one-child policy in China. We should think about how to limit humanity to 7 billion with the consent of people worldwide.
Megacities as a form of housing for billions of people
Megacities grow in height with homes that can house hundreds of thousands of people. This means that no more land will be consumed; on the contrary, more than 75% of humanity is expected to live in megacities by 2050. This frees huge areas of land for a nutritive agrarian environment that consumes CO2 if it is not destroyed, as described above. Further environmental poisoning can be prevented by modern technologies such as transport, alternative energies, pollution-free industry and water management.
For „peaceful“ coexistence, the principle of the „Smart City“ can serve the model of how China is already beginning to „guide“ its population to a socially acceptable existence through ubiquitous control systems into the private sphere. Artificial intelligence will play an important role, especially with robot systems.
<font color=“#ffff00″>Sync by honeybunny <font color=“#ffff00″>https://hesch.ch/smart-city-megacity/
Let us remember again and again the living biomass „ants“ about which I have reported
file:///C:/Users/Dieter%20User Account/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe/TempState/Downloads/Hormonal Governance-Epigenetics-and-Megacities-last-gültige-Version-04-11-2013-Copy%20(1).pdf
The biomass of ants, which is identical to humans, apparently manages to keep us alive without us noticing that they somehow destroy the planet Earth?
Ants do not create „weapons“ to destroy themselves, but use „war“ only to create a balance with other ant cohorts, not to exterminate themselves, if we know this, – they lack the „intellect“ to do so. That is the „disturbing“ thing about humanity, its consciousness, and its brain, to reflect about itself and to produce the „horror“ on planet Earth.
https://hesch.ch/?s=grauen
Exploiting sea-level rise, optimising plants, megacities
I can imagine that the currently discussed rise in sea levels can be useful, e.g. large desert areas such as the Sahara, which centuries ago was already a blooming landscape or other unused areas on earth can be „renatured“ again to produce enough food for this humanity. However, only 5 companies seem to dominate ¾ of world trade in food: Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfuss and most recently the Chinese group Cofco.
https://www.boell.de/de/2017/01/10/fuenf-agrarkonzerne-beherrschen-den-weltmarkt
A study from Germany propagates a completely different model:
https://www.slowfood.de/w/files/themen/final_landwirtschaft-am-scheideweg_de.pdf
This means the return to local production. Whether this has a future in a world with megacities seems questionable to me.
I think that it is more likely that the large corporations will divide up food production globally among themselves and will certainly also use a new technology that has just been published to increase yields.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/eaat9077
In the new study from the USA, researchers have succeeded in increasing the yield of plants by 40 %. The photosynthesis enzyme RuBisCO is one of the most abundant proteins on earth and is used for photosynthesis. In addition to carbon dioxide (CO2), it also metabolises oxygen in all plants. However, this leads to toxic by-products such as 2- phosphorus glycolate. This is a toxic substance. The metabolic pathway of light respiration in the chloroplasts detoxifies the 2- P glycolate, but this reduces the efficiency of the photosynthesis rate by about 50 %. The researchers now blocked a transport protein so that the toxic metabolism remains in the chloroplasts. This changes the photosynthesis in such a way that CO2 is more strongly metabolized by the enzyme RuBisCO. A smaller amount of toxic by-products is produced. This allows the yield of the plants to be increased by 40 %.
Even the rise in temperature and UV irradiation is technically solvable in megacities. If, as is well known, 90% of humanity will live in megacities in 50 years‘ time, „free land“ can be used for industrial agriculture. This is already operated by large corporations worldwide with monocultures. How is the use of the earth’s surface to produce food at present?
million sqkm | Percentage of area Earth | Percentage of area Land | |
Surface Earth | 510 | 100.00% | |
Area Oceans | 361 | 70.78% | |
Area Land | 149 | 29.22% | 100.00% |
ice desert | 15 | 2.94% | 10.07% |
desert | 15 | 2.94% | 10.07% |
Unpopulated steppes warm/cold | 10 | 1.96% | 6.71% |
Boreal Forest | 15 | 2.94% | 10.07% |
Tropical Forest | 16 | 3.14% | 10.74% |
Other forest | 9 | 1.76% | 6.04% |
High mountains from 2000m | 16 | 3.14% | 10.74% |
Lakes/Rivers | 5 | 0.98% | 3.36% |
Sum not usable | 101 | 19.80% | 67.79% |
Areas usable by humans: | |||
Steppe grazed by nomads | 10 | 1.96% | 6.71% |
grassland | 25 | 4.90% | 16.78% |
Fallow (unused) arable land | 4 | 0.78% | 2.68% |
Pre-industrial arable land (mostly overexploitation) | 5 | 0.98% | 3.36% |
Arable land used for industrial and post-industrial (ecological) purposes | 4 | 0.78% | 2.68% |
Sum usable | 48 | 9.41% | 32.21% |
Checksum usable + unusable palm of the hand | 149 | 29.22% | 100.00% |
Unfortunately, today about 30% of the potential arable land (4 million square kilometres out of a total of 13 million square kilometres) lies completely unused.
Of the remaining arable land, approx. 60% is used very, very inefficiently and partly quilted (overexploitation) pre-industrially (5 million square kilometres out of 9 million square kilometres) and without any botanical and (bio-)chemical training for the farmer.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdoberfläche
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/seeds-of-the-future
Deserts and seawater desalination as a human saving
The renaturation of large desert dry areas worldwide can be achieved by seawater desalination:
Overview:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerwasserentsalzung
https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article130098647/Ein-Chip-soll-Meerwasser-in-Trinkwasser-verwandeln.html
In view of rising sea water levels, highly efficient plants are able to produce fresh water to irrigate large food fields and form clouds again – a natural cycle.
Most of the deserts are distributed along the two tropics. These lie 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator. On almost all continents there are extensive desert areas in this zone. In the area of the Tropic of Capricorn there are still the coastal deserts, like the Namib, Atacama, which is extremely dry.
At the Tropic of Capricorn, the Mojave Desert in California, the Sahara in northern Africa and the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula can be found.
Coastal deserts are extremely dry despite their proximity to the water and are ideal for renaturation https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCstenw%C3%BCste:
Since seawater desalination can function relatively effectively and inexpensively using solar and wind energy, it is being used more and more. Australia has a progressive development:
http://lebendom.com/article/meerwasserentsalzung-in-australien
In Australia one observes an increasing desertification, – expansion of deserts.
This desertification can be significant, is a huge problem for usable soil regions. It is estimated that about one third of all arable land is threatened by desertification. The main regions affected are the Sahel zone in North Africa and parts of South Africa, Central Asia, Australia and the Americas. But also in southern Europe, one observes a devastation. It is estimated that about one billion people are thus more or less threatened in their existence. Interesting with regard to a humanocide if this development is reinforced by external political intervention.
The Asian interior deserts become extremely cold in winter and are therefore less suitable for cultivation. This problem has not yet been solved.
Food production in megacities with vertical farming
Megacities are being built all over the world, see:
https://hesch.ch/power-point-praesentationen/ , dort :” Hormonal Governance, Epigenetics and Megacities“
https://hesch.ch/die-informationstechnologische-evolution-des-menschen/, there: “ Smart Cities and Netoids“
For capitalist megacities, among which I also count those in China despite the autocratic systems, there are ideas on how one can do agriculture and cattle breeding on the skyscrapers there.
There is an interesting overview in SPEKTRUM from 21.1.2019.
Such plant culture towers are also created according to the imagination of Elon’s brother, Kimbal Musk:
Recommended is the book by Kheir al Kodmany:
He has calculated that urban agriculture can be cultivated in a useful way in the towers of the megacities and could also reduce energy consumption by 30%.
Hydroponics is the magic word. One can completely do without soil for planting, and plants can grow in culture media as well, and also has access to absolutely clean plant world without fertilization and chemistry, in German also hydroponics, but today developed as a high-tech industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
Aerofarms has developed the largest artificial plant farm in the world
https://aerofarms.com/
Vertical Farm 2.0 http://ecourbanhub.com/de/vertical-farm-dlr/etical Farm 2.0 is a German activity, which provides international attention.
Megacity as an instrument for humanocide?
I could not fully describe the beautiful illusions about food production in the future megacities, in which in a few decades 90 % of the people from the present lowlands will probably live. I have shown that the currently predominant, flat food production on „Earth“ could be effectively replaced theoretically and shown by some examples. This consumes huge amounts of land, deforestation of forests that produce O2, chemicals and CO2 pollution. A great performance.
But… yes, what „but“
If one „concentrates“ huge crowds of people in megacities, as is already the case in Asia, then the „planners“ of an intentional humanocide have an easy job.
Conversion of earth and people:
A change of use of the planet by restoring „natural arable land“ without industrial chemistry, smashing the food companies, optimizing plants through genetic engineering, expansion of protected areas (E. O. Wilson ZEIT), resettlement of the majority of people in megacities with energy production without burning fossil materials are alternatives, as well as the described irrigation of desert areas.
Ultimately, however, in my opinion, they can lead to an intentional humanocide being progressively carried out in a „concentrated humanity“.
Summary of the
My thoughts on humanocide end here.
I had not set myself the task of solving the problem of the uncontrolled growth of people in the Anthropozoan period. I wanted to describe the problems that exist with this growth for planet Earth. I share considerations that „somehow“ one has to come to a reduction of the mass of people. This can happen in the disaster scenario „Humanocide“, whose planning seems „cruel“ ( see website „Grey“), but is carried out.
But I still assume that the „currently thinking human brain“ might find another way. But here I rely above all on artificial intelligence, which can „think up“ solutions that do not „come to mind“ our brain. It is only unclear to me whether and how mankind will „obey“ these solutions. Our consciousness is limited:
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I absolutely share considerations on how to protect the planet from the consequences of the growing human mass and the destruction of the earth. The other question is who and where will be responsible for these measures and their application.
But in the end I also took up uncertain thoughts about how humans and the planet could possibly survive in the age of the anthropocene or how these thoughts could be used for humanocide.
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Humanocide.
introductory remarks
If you are of the opinion that the present humanity of more than 7.5 billion people and their earth, which according to forecasts will rise to 11 billion at the end of the century, existentially from the resources, the habitability per /qm earth, the environmental exposure as well as from the valid definitions of the human being – and if you have no concern about it – can still be „liveable“, then you do not need to read further here.
Neither for this biological mass of people, – I once called them „evolutionary biological consumables“ in a lecture without attributing a „meaning“ to evolution, – nor for the planet itself, there seems to be no salvation under the present living conditions of the work of the Anthropocene, so the representatives of the Anthropocene think, to this I come back further down.
- Preliminary remark:
In his two books „Carbon Ideologies“, W.T Vollmann has written ruthlessly in two volumes about our age, about how mankind ruthlessly laid out, mined, consumed, burned and „irradiated“ the fossils of millions of years in and under the earth.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/carbonideologies/
The whole follows the dogma of the unstoppable growth of human needs in the aftermath of the post-industrial age. Under the dogma of „progress“, people no longer recognize borders across all continents and cultures. The 2nd volume is called „No Good Alternative“ – unfortunately a leitmotif of the devastating industrial policy – and culture also in Germany.
After 1200 pages, Vollmann concludes that „the only hope for mankind is to reduce demand“. Here I come to my criticism of the humanities, which is listed below, because according to Wikipedia „William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, author of short stories and essayist“. What can such a man say to us? How to „reduce demand“ in a biologically driven human race. Biologically it could in my opinion be inexorably too late, but I am still discussing that – only „humanists“ cannot think in this dimension.
The dogma described above is one side of the human coin, that of „the hitherto and presently thinking and feeling human brain“.
The other side not or rarely discussed so far in this context is precisely that of „human biology“ with the code to an equally ruthless multiplication, the second dogma.
In order to „save“ the earth from mankind, a worldwide helpless concern, just this second side of the existential medal of humans plays a role above all, if one considers the distribution and development of the world population (see below).
Does it seem meaningful, ethically allowed and at all feasible to think about whether too many people on earth simply live with the claim to live the first dogma? With about 3 billion people, could the first dogma be liveable for the planet without damage? If so, how is that possible? Such considerations lead to the „humanocide“ (a reduction of the human mass), – a way out of the anthropocene? I’ll think about that in the following.
Statements on humanozide
I cannot verify that the statements of significant economists, billionaires, thinkers and politicians in the following quote are really true and I leave it to the reader to verify that:
https://www.zeitenschrift.com/artikel/ueberbevoelkerung-eine-milliarde-ist-genug
2nd preliminary remark
Then, as I’m working on the manuscript, I read the NATURE report on species extinction on 30.10.2018:
I quote:
The populations of Earth’s wild mammals, birds, amphibians, fish and other vertebrates declined by more than half between 1970 and 2012, according to a report from environmental charity WWF and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).Activities such as deforestation, poaching and human-induced climate change are in large part to blame for the decline. If the trend continues, then by 2020 the world will have lost two-thirds of its vertebrate biodiversity, according to the Living Planet Report 2016. “There is no sign yet that this rate will decrease,” the report says.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-2016
The Poo-uli, last seen in Hawaii in 2004
Is it comprehensible that in the past 40 years 58% of the non-human vertebrates have disappeared from human planet Earth? The report of the Living Planet Report states that under the current living conditions of the Anthropocene by 2020, this animal world would probably shrink by 67%.
I’m going to call this the animalocide.
This is what mankind does to its evolutionary fellow beings on planet Earth, and? If we now transfer these numbers of the Animalozid to mankind, at present 7 billion, then in the Humanozid 4.1 billion humans would have to disappear. Then we would have a biological equilibrium on the planet again.
This corresponds roughly to the number games that experts calculate that think of a humanocide to keep the planet Earth habitable for the future of mankind, with about 3 billion.
Is there an evolutionary „Gaia“ behind it, which we may not have considered yet?
3. preliminary remark
The desperate climate change in the light of the world population and its
rising „standard of living
Here is an introduction to the current figures on the world population and their forecast
Even more important, however, are the largest CO2 emitters:
world population
- Asia 59.5 %
- Africa 16.8 %
- Europe 9.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.5 %
- North America 4.8
CO2 emitters:
Figures in % of total emissions in 2016 correspond to 35 billion tonnes of CO2.
The current efforts to mitigate climate change are aimed at the political rationality of a few developed industrialised countries, with the USA, as the second highest air polluter to date, undermining all the efforts of the Paris Accord and the latest ones, and having resigned – after all, it relies on „Intended Nationality Determined Contributions“ and the USA under President Trump does not care about the planet.
https://www.lpb-bw.de/pariser_klimaabkommen.html
- China 25
- USA 17
- India 5.3 %
- Russia 4.9 %
- Japan 3.9 %
- Germany 2.4 %.
On the basis of these numbers one can make an interesting thought game:
The USA accounts for only 4.8% of the world’s population but 17% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Since the total number of the USA population hardly changes any more, the increase there will hardly increase under the assumption of the little changed living conditions of their immoderacy.
Here only exemplary political reason can lead to a reduction, but such a policy is not discernible. To what extent such behaviour is to be classified as a „crime against humanity and its planet“ can at least be considered „on the margin“.
More important, however, as far as the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are concerned, is the following consideration:
Asia (see above) has almost 60 % of the world population. The Chinese people are transforming into a highly industrialized country and the population’s need for the achievements of technological progress from all areas exemplified by Western industrialized countries is rapidly increasing. Even if the electrification of the automobile there is currently being promoted, all other producers of CO2 in all urban areas of the megacities will increase and not be reduced and the current share is indeed already more than 30%.
For political reasons, China has stuck to the Paris Agreement, but is allowed to keep its CO2 emissions high until 2030. China’s CO2-producing economy will be able to be reduced, but not the enormously rising demand for Western living standards. The production of food alone will produce huge amounts of CO2. Furthermore, of the sheer crowds of people in China and Asia and their growing demands on the standard of living in Asia as a whole, CO2 emissions in Asia will overtake those of the rest of the world and not decrease, as the Paris Agreement may suggest. Because it has no influence on this development.
Here is a recent calculation of meat consumption, for example:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaam5324?cct=1925
and also for water consumption:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/222?cct=1925
Then the same goes for India already. One can well imagine that the CO2 emissions there will soon rise from 5.3 % to at least 10 %.
In the near future, further industrial development in Africa and the population’s need for a standard of living will significantly increase CO2 emissions there in the coming decades.
Western cynicism: „renunciation
No one in the Western industrial world, whose ideas have fed the Paris Agreement, can demand from these people a „reduction“ of claims, a „renunciation“ as demanded by Vollmann and Harari. This is for me the absurd of such efforts and the cynical conclusions of the books by W.T Vollmann, whose „preaching“ currently have a hype like gospels of bad conscience.
The population increase on one side and the inexorably rising demands of the standard of living of the „developing countries“ (to which one should not count the second largest industrial nation China and soon India any more at all) The new CO2 emissions from the Earth’s atmosphere, which in my view cannot be slowed down by any political or social measure of any kind, will cause a dramatic increase in the CO2 content of the Earth’s atmosphere worldwide.
I see this completely independently of the current reduction efforts and don’t understand why one puts hope in them for the planet.
And there are some completely new, up-to-date data on this at the moment:
https://www.iea.org/geco/emissions/
commented in:
(From FAZ)
From my point of view, it is downright naive, if not cynical, to bet on climate change. Who else has responsibility for the planet and its future?
So I continue to think about the humanocide, which many consider the only salvation, an uncanny idea
Fourth preliminary remark.
In the issue of NEWYORKER on 26. 11.2018 we will have read a depressing article about how the CO2 producing industry is devastating our planet and making it uninhabitable soon. It rejects any responsibility and continues its devastating business with political support.
The article is long and it takes effort to read it. It will also have no effect, except that mankind will helplessly „watch“ their downfall.
„How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet“
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.“
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet
We’re probably organizing the humanocide ourselves.
I put this into the „horror“ that I have always described on my website – the biological curse on mankind.
https://hesch.ch/toeten-kann-spass-machen/
Anthropocene
What is meant by anthropocene?
I like to rely on Wikipedia in important information rooms (despite all criticism):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropoz%C3%A4n
There I find the abundance of metrically inviolable material to which I consistently attach importance.
However, the contribution to the Anthropozene receives criticism from the so-called „humanities“ (see also here again):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisteswissenschaft
The intentions of the „humanities“ described there, are basically because of their indefinable activity, actually no science in the metric sense. That’s where we read:
„In 1986, Odo Marquard argued that it was the task of the humanities to offer an asylum for culture and tradition and thus make modernization bearable, while the upheaval and modernization of living conditions in technical-civilizational society continued.
An „asylum for culture and tradition“ in my earlier remarks is only the escape route of favoured elites from horror, as long as they do not contribute to it themselves. I have long considered „humanities“ obsolete, especially in the context under discussion here, as an „intelligent rhetoric hut“. The humanities, (besides religions and world improvement theories in general), have contributed nothing, but nothing at all to the problem of the possible finiteness of human life on earth mentioned here.
Not to be misunderstood: Every day I live the enjoyment of „culture“ as the beneficiary of a minority in my place on earth itself, which is so to speak „close to my heart“, but also as an escape route from the horrors of the Anthropocene in everyday life. This is an elitist privilege without wealth and power.
Criticism of the anthropocene by the humanities:
(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropoz%C3%A4n):
„In the literature of the humanities, the concept has met with criticism. The Anthropocene would emphasize the role of the human being as a species elevated from nature and would not be an alternative to the uninhibited
Instead, a (re-)integration of the human being into the natural environment would be necessary, which would not be compatible with a prominent position. …Instead of more technology and more knowledge it is necessary to initiate a cultural change. To this end, civil society would have to be transformed into a cultural society. The counter-concept to the idea of the Anthropocean is a new human ecology, which shows ways to the cultural renewal of humans and at the same time participates in creatively developing new structures, which help to develop basic abilities, which enable humans to lead a humane life in view of the climate catastrophe. [51] „
I have the following opinion on that:
The humanities demonstrably have no alternative or at least no mental solution to offer. How do the humanities envisage a „reincarnation“ of more than 7 billion current human beings into a „natural environment“? What are you gonna do
The „paths to the cultural renewal of the people“ are, in view of their „cruel“ increase to 11 billion people by 2050, of whom more than 75% will live in cities or megacities at this time. (file:///C:/Users/Dieter%20User Account/Documents/Master Thesis.pdf)
What is there then a „natural environment“, i.e. a life of people in a balanced participation in the nature of the environment on earth, about which I will describe my ideas below. This „environment“ will no longer exist, and it is pure intellectual cynicism of the humanities to get into such worlds of thought, which may have fatal socio-political influence when advising politics.
In earlier contributions I have repeatedly written about the phenomenon of „horror“ as the inescapable biological action of man (see above) and now add to it the concept of humanocide, which is offered as a final solution. Are there other scenarios of horror than humanocide?
If you have read this far, you might think that the earth and its humanity only have a future if the biological human mass is reduced to a geobiologically bearable value. It is not yet possible for me to describe this value if I should do so, because humanity’s resource research and habitat possibilities are making such progress that humanity would benefit biotechnologically? But at present, from our current point of view, these advances will not be sufficient for the total amount of humanity described above, because the extra-human biology of life and living beings on Earth must also be taken into account in this context.
That is why many thinkers arbitrarily assume a resting crowd of around 3 billion, but here too there are very different considerations. So theoretically there should be 4 billion fewer people on earth, an almost unbearable game of thought. A brief look at the history of this:
Around the turn of time, between 170 and 400 million people lived on Earth.
Quote Wikipedia:
„500 years ago, the world population was between 425 and 540 million, and the UN estimates it at 500 million. In the course of the 16th century, the American population (Indians) is supposed to have decreased from about 50 million to only 5 million through imported epidemics, while the population continued to increase in Europe and Asia. Global growth in the 18th century was permanently above 0.5 % in the year and in the middle of the 20th century even above 2 % for some decades, so that one can speak of a population explosion. After the year 1700 a rapid population growth began and for the first time in human history the doubling time was in the range of centuries and finally decades. Around the year 1800, the world population exceeded one billion people. Within the 20th century, the world population has almost quadrupled. 1927: 2 billion, 1960 (after 33 years): 3 billion, 1974 (after 14 years): 4 billion, 1987 (after 13 years): 5 billion, 1999 (after 12 years): 6 billion and 2011 (after 12 years): 7 billion people. With an annual population growth of around 80 million people, the number of Earthlings is rising by almost 220,000 every day and by over 150 people every minute. “
At this point it is necessary to avoid asking about the „sense“ of the unrestrained reproduction of humans on earth, just as it does not make sense to ask about the sense of the biomass of ants identical in weight to humans.
The mass of all people is worth 0.4 billion tons (number of people currently 7.5 billion). That would correspond approximately to the mass of all ants. – only that they destroy their planet, at least not recognizable to me. It is not possible for the human brain, which is thinking up to now and now, to recognize a sense in biological evolution in general and in human life in particular. I have discussed the dramatic comparison to ants and their eusocial order (according to E.O. Wilson) elsewhere:
Further data on this:
http://www.brefeld.homepage.t-online.de/leben-auf-der-erde.html
I want to think about how, by the end of the century, 11 billion people on this planet will be able to live an existence that is liveable for human life, or how some scenarios suggest that they cannot live either: „humanocide“.
I also include genetically modified humanoids, chimeras and hybrids in such a humanity, whose breeding is in progress. Fact for a biologically liveable human existence in the present unmodified organism (without questioning its meaning, see above) is and will remain necessary according to my theory of the „Code of Life, Aging and Disease“.
https://hesch.ch/aging-english/ T the following:
Suitable „planetary air“, space (habitat, dwelling), biologically usable water, soil or substrate for chemical building blocks for „food“ to build and maintain physical functions, and a non-toxic energy for the necessary catalysis obviously requires every biologically conceivable „life“. These conditions for life on earth are widely known. So far, anyway.
But I think that with the planetary modification in the Anrthopozän also new biological scenarios emerge, in which what we call life can also tolerate other basic conditions.
New people needed?
Gene modifications and hybrid IT technology in fusion with biology will produce new humanoid beings in the body and brain that adapt evolutionarily to planetary changes. We may not want that, because we don’t know what we want anyway, and we can’t know that either, but it is becoming apparent.
This is where my considerations for a „humanozide“ come in. What possibilities can our currently thinking brain, in this case mine, think of for the evolution of the „consumable“ human being and a possible humanocide? There are numerous fictions, conspiracy theories and organizations, but I do not want to „evaluate“ them in connection with my considerations – I cannot pass judgement, as Noah Harari the „observer“ of the world does not. I will try to think about how a humanocide could take place and not evaluate its possible necessity in the light of the above facts, their discussion of meaning and possibilities.
Distribution of world population by continent:
the distribution of the world population by continent, again:
- Asia 59.5 %
- Africa 16.8 %
- Europe 9.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.5 %
- North America 4.8
These figures must be related to the possible „intentional reduction“ of the world population. I will deal with this topic after the topic „Planetary catastrophes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change, asteroids“.
In the following I will describe the scenarios of the humanocide, its biodiversity, the „coincidence“, and the meaningfulness of the „intentionally“ planned possible humanocides.
I’ll start with:
1. planetary disasters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change (partly „intentional“), asteroids
Toba Catastrophe Theory:
I quote from Wikipedia as follows:
„Modern man (Homo sapiens) is the only surviving species of the genus Homo after
the extinction of the Neanderthals 30,000 years ago and the Homo floresiensis 60,000 years ago. According to the theory of the genetic bottleneck, modern man suffered the most threatening decline in his population 75,000 years ago, when only 1,000 to 10,000 people worldwide were able to save themselves after the eruption of the supervolcano Toba (today Lake Toba on Sumatra) (see also Toba Catastrophe Theory). After that, modern man spread from Africa to all other continents. By the end of the last cold period 10,000 years ago, about 5 to 10 million people lived worldwide.“
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba-Katastrophentheorie
The theory is not uncontroversial, but this does not play a role in this context.
More volcanoes:
The list of further volcanic eruptions on earth shows no mass death as it was postulated for the Toba catastrophe.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_großer_historischer_Vulkanausbrüche
There are new data on the most dangerous current volcanoes, some of which, like the Iwo Jima, can also cause devastation in distant China with a tsunami wave.
<font color=“#ffff00″>Sync by honeybunny <font color=“#ffff00″>https://www.galileo.tv/earth-nature/die-10-gefaehrlichsten-vulkane-weltweit/
Volcanoes, however, do not appear to be suitable at present as a threat to the extinction of billions of people, but other forces of nature can kill many people, such as the earthquake in Haiti with 230,000 deaths.
<font color=“#ffff00″>Sync by honeybunny <font color=“#ffff00″>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdbeben_in_Haiti_2010
But 66 million years ago there was also a huge volcanic event in India after the asteroid catastrophe with a biological mass extinction by an asteroid (see below):
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps.
Further natural disasters can cost many people their lives.
The earthquake with tsunami in Indonesia in September 2018 cost 1400 people their lives.
For a mass death these events are not yet suitable, since they represent no or still no, planetary danger and whether Toba can repeat itself is unclear.
But there are new data on possible eruptions of supervolcanoes:
Supervolcanoes:
Rougier und Mitarbeiter von der Universität Bristol habe interessante Berechnungen zu Ausbrüchen von Supervulkanen gemacht. Etwa alle 17.000 Jahre brechen sie aus ….“ which is substantially shorter than previous estimates, indicating that volcanoes pose a larger risk to human civilisation than previously thought.”
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They conclude that there may be signs that major volcanic eruptions are imminent, but the authors cannot make any predictions.
Great super eruptions were those of Taupo in New Zealand and the Aira in Japan 25,ooo years ago.
A summary of the metric volcanic eruptions can be found here:
http://www.meta-evolutions.de/pages/artikel-20000514-supervulkan.html
The last and most serious natural disaster of modern times occurred in 1825 when the Tambora volcano exploded on Sumbava. The following year went down in history as the „year without summer“, because a huge ash cloud darkened the sky around the globe, 100,000 people died directly, many died of starvation in Europe and the USA, because harvests failed. Likewise the Krakatau darkened the sky in 1883.
Remarkable is the movement of Mount Etna, which is home to a huge volcano. A possible danger, however, does not emanate from the volcano itself, but from the fact that it moves east downwards into the Mediterranean Sea. If there should be a gigantic slide, a big tsunami in the Mediterranean could cause devastation.
Humanocide by volcanoes?
In summary, there are still large extinction possibilities of large crowds on earth, but so far these are not sufficient for a humanozide, which could extinguish billions of people.
Calculation of masses extinction,- the 6th masses extinction?
From the fifth mass extinction to the sixth?
So far there have been 5 mass extinctions on planet Earth.
This is a long time ago and is only historically interesting for us humans today, especially because they concerned the extinction of „species“ and not of humans and mostly we know today only about the extinction of the dinosaurs. The last one was 66 million years ago and at that time 76% of all living beings were destroyed:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/big-five-extinctions
But why is this now interesting for planet Earth? Because there are serious studies which are of the opinion that the 6th mass extinction begins at the moment. Again, it’s more about the demise of „species“ than extra-human life:
I will explain below that this time it will not only be „species“, but the 6th mass extinction is also about the existence of mankind with the possibility of a self induced humanocide?
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
“Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species and to alleviate pressures on their populations—notably habitat loss, overexploitation for economic gain, and climate change . All of these are related to human population size and growth, which increases consumption (especially among the rich), and economic inequity . However, the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.“
Interesting in this context is a study in Science from 7.9.2018 on „The mathematics of mass extinction,- transient phenomena in ecology“.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/eaat6412
I have been involved with chaos theory for decades, and this in the article „Code of Life, Aging and Disease“.
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summarized.
The authors in Science do not describe easy to understand dynamic systems, which understand and possibly calculate biodiverse catastrophes. Normally, they write, planetary ecosystems behave on stable long-term tractors. An attractor is a point on which non-linear chaotic systems, typically also our ecosystems, can run and stay for a long time. The catastrophic state of Crateceous Paleogone caused by an impact of a giant asteroid 66 million years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event
was located after the Teccan Traps volcanic eruption described above. It is an example for a temporally stable long-term attractor, which is planetary rare in this form. Such events have led to massive extinction of biological life on Earth. A long time lay between these two and the Toba outbreak. So you can’t really calculate such temporal superattractors.
What the authors attach importance to, however, is that one can calculate a „ghost attractor“ as an ecological attractor event, which can predict shorter occurring biological mass destructions along the above described „eternal“ attractors with nonlinear mathematics. The whole thing is to be understood as a „technique“ of nonlinear systems and their attractors in ecosystems, but the authors do not give concrete examples, but write that their method „can predict an approaching environmental catastrophe, in the sense that our study will guide where to look for the signs of the catastrophe and what the relevant time periods will be: Changes in the environment (whether natural or man-made) which eventually lead to major changes may have occurred a very long time before“.
This observation is interesting with the climate change currently under discussion, the current consequences of which are „visible“, but which can trigger real catastrophes in much later periods.
Is extinction so new at all?
Evolutionary biology has some answers to this question:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%C3%A4re_Entwicklungsbiologie
climate change
SCIENCE has recently dedicated an entire issue to the future of the Earth with relevant contributions to the fate of our planet:
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I find Gaia 2 the most interesting myself:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6407/1066?cct=1925
It is not necessary for me here to comment on the billions of years of pointless climate conferences (the meaningfulness of which I had repeatedly questioned elsewhere), but the report of the „Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)“ has just appeared in NATURE, which is to be understood as a „last call to mankind“ to dam the rise in temperature on Earth.
„The world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 to meet this target, according to a summary of the latest IPCC report, released on 8 October.”
This statement thus aims at efforts around 2050 to achieve a climate neutrality of the present human soil, but the „ghost attractor“ is on track for later disasters of a „mass extinction“ and this is irreversible.
This year’s Nobel Prize will not change that either. For many years now, the prizewinners have published models on the consequences of climate change, which, as always, pass the responsible elites of globally networked politicians of the world economy and the financial systems of neoliberalism by coldly.
After all, the people and their earth know what is going on around them, even if there is probably nothing more that can be changed? THIS is the big question for present and future mankind. Will the currently living people be able to implement the currently set goals immediately – there is only a short period of time left.
Climate change can soon lead to ecocatastrophes with the extinction of life:
“They have “medium confidence” that there will be more extreme storms in areas such as high-elevation regions, eastern Asia and eastern North America. The risk of such severe weather would be even greater in a 2 °C world. Temperatures on extreme hot days in mid-latitudes could increase by 3 °C with 1.5 °C of global warming, versus 4 °C in a 2 °C world. Two degrees of warming could destroy ecosystems on around 13% of the world’s land area, increasing the risk of extinction for many insects, plants and animals”
CO2 origin and its problems
Interesting is where most CO2 gases come from:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_größten_Kohlenstoffdioxidemittenten
The main focus is on „energy“ use and attempts are made to locate the necessary reductions there.
In 2015, electricity and heat generation accounted for 42 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. This corresponds to around 13.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
But what really produces the greenhouse gas? Animal husbandry?
According to the official report „Livestock’s long Shadow“ of the FAO in 2006, 18% (7.5 billion tons) of the total of 41.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted annually (measured in CO2 equivalents) are attributable to livestock farming.
Animal husbandry is thus already one of the main contributors to the global greenhouse effect and causes more greenhouse gases than all transport worldwide (13.5%).
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Why is this source of CO2 emissions so neglected politically? Animal husbandry mainly serves the growing demand for meat in countries with high and rising living standards.
In addition to reducing energy emissions from fossil sources, CO2 production from animal husbandry must also be reduced worldwide. Interesting in this context is the progress in protein/meat production from plants. That’s what I’m going to talk about below.
Cruise ships:
Cruise ships are a huge worldwide leisure trend, but is the following statement correct?
„The 15 largest ocean-going ships in the world emit more harmful sulphur oxides every year than all 760 million cars in the world. “
http://www.notopia.net/blog/2306/kreuzfahrtschiffe-schwefeloxid
Such huge ships have been and will continue to be put into service.
https://www.cruisetricks.de/die-groessten-kreuzfahrtschiffe-der-welt/
Climate change therefore has many original components, which are mentioned in the current discussion among the population and politically conflict-laden and probably because of the extreme conflict of interests and the often unclear data situation one hardly gets further in its fight.
That is the real reason why the above reminders are so difficult to implement.
But to stick with humanocide:
After all that has been written, climate change has triggered the stuff of catastrophes that can trigger a limited humanocide in different regions of the world.
Climate change in the light of the world population and its „standard of living
Here once again the present numbers of the world population and their prognosis, which I had mentioned above:
Even more important, however, are the largest CO2 emitters:
world population
- Asia 59.5 %
- Africa 16.8 %
- Europe 9.7 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 8.5 %
- North America 4.8
CO2 emitters:
Figures in % of total emissions in 2016 correspond to 35 billion tons of CO2.
The current efforts to mitigate climate change are aimed at the political rationality of a few developed industrialised countries, with the USA as the second highest polluter having undermined and resigned from all efforts of the Paris Accord – after all, it relies on „Intended Nationality Determined Contributions“ and the USA under President Trump does not care about the planet.
https://www.lpb-bw.de/pariser_klimaabkommen.html
- China 25
- USA 17
- India 5.3 %
- Russia 4.9 %
- Japan 3.9 %
- Germany 2.4 %.
On the basis of these numbers one can make an interesting thought game:
The USA accounts for only 4.8% of the world’s population but 17% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Since the total number of the USA population hardly changes any more, the increase there will hardly increase under the assumption of the little changed living conditions of immoderacy.
Here only exemplary political reason can lead to a reduction, but such a policy is not discernible. To what extent such behaviour is to be classified as a „crime against humanity and its planet“ can at least be considered „on the margin“.
More important, however, as far as the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are concerned, is the following consideration:
Asia (see above) has almost 60 % of the world population. The Chinese people are transforming into a highly industrialized country and the population’s need for the achievements of technological progress from all areas exemplified by Western industrialized countries is rapidly increasing. Even if the electrification of the automobile there is currently being promoted, all other producers of CO2 in all urban areas of the megacities will increase and not be reduced and the current share is indeed already more than 30%.
For political reasons, China has stuck to the Paris Agreement, but is allowed to keep its CO2 emissions high until 2030. China’s CO2-producing economy will be able to be reduced, but not the enormously rising demand for Western living standards. The production of food alone will produce huge amounts of CO2. Furthermore, of the sheer crowds of people in China and Asia and their growing demands on the standard of living in Asia as a whole, CO2 emissions in Asia will overtake those of the rest of the world and not decrease, as the Paris Agreement may suggest. Because it has no influence on this development.
Here is a recent calculation of meat consumption, for example:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaam5324?cct=1925
and also for water consumption:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/222?cct=1925
Then the same goes for India already. One can well imagine that the CO2 emissions there will soon rise from 5.3 % to at least 10 %.
In the near future, further industrial development in Africa and the population’s need for a standard of living will significantly increase CO2 emissions there in the coming decades.
No one in the Western industrial world, from whose ideas the Paris Agreement is fed, can demand from these people a „reduction“ of claims, a „renunciation“ as demanded by Harari. For me, this is the absurdity of such efforts and the cynical conclusions of the books by W.T Vollmann and Harari, whose „preaching“ is currently hype like gospels of bad conscience.
Climate change and renunciation:
The population increase on one side and the inexorably rising demands of the standard of living of the „developing countries“ (to which one can no longer count the second largest industrial nation China and soon India at all) The new CO2 emissions from the Earth’s atmosphere, which in my view cannot be slowed down by any political or social measure of any kind, will cause a dramatic increase in the CO2 content of the Earth’s atmosphere worldwide. Why comfort ourselves with the gospels of the climate and ethics conferences when the facts reveal a completely different reality?
Again on NATURE, the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (see above), which is a final appeal to mankind to curb the rise in temperature on Earth.
It is not evident that in reality, far from IPCC, we will succeed in reversing climate change and its planetary consequences.
Destruction of biodiversity on Earth:
The destruction of species on Earth observed in the context of climate change has not yet received enough attention. In particular, insect mortality is threatening because these in turn serve to feed birds and other animal species that are also on the decline.
Over the past 27 years, more than 75% of the biomass of insects on Earth has disappeared, with dramatic consequences that may have an impact on food production (fertilization).
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1722477115
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/09/1722477115
„Amusing“ and casually mentioned is the fact that due to drought beer production has decreased worldwide due to drying of hop cultivation regionally from 3 to 17%.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0263-1
It looks like it’s too late: IPCC
The just issued call to the world by the „Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)“ as „A last call to mankind“ will die away after my considerations, without the atmosphere of planet earth in its present form, I say expressly “ in its present form“ for mankind can be preserved. Unfortunately I have to say this because of the above mentioned statements and later I think about other alternatives.
https://www.de-ipcc.de/media/content/Hauptaussagen_IPCC_SR15.pdf
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change
If I see the above correctly, it is unclear to me why there are still political efforts that have been going on for years in demands of the IPCC that have achieved nothing and can no longer achieve anything. The climate conferences have also had no effect so far, and the Paris conference goals have been shaken.
The reader should take a look at the whole „circus“ of the UN climate conferences for himself:
https://unfccc.int/news
Last autumn 2018 the 22nd Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, one year after the Paris Conference:
Nearly 50 states announced that they would completely convert their energy supply to renewables by 2050 and limit global warming to „below 2 degrees Celsius and preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius“. So there is a timetable, but how it is to be implemented is not yet clear. The national climate protection targets presented so far by the countries are still far from achieving the global target when added together.
And then Katowice:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/12/14/18139402/cop24-climate-change-katowice-poland
There a big step was made, but where we will lead is unclear, because everything I wrote above about population growth, and „consumption“ by ruthlessly exploitative world economy, has not been nearly appreciated. (See „Climate change and renunciation“ above)
Critical remark:
Throughout the history of mankind there have always been major climate changes that were not man-made. I’m not talking about the last ice ages here. There was an extreme drought in Europe around 1540.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrre_in_Mitteleuropa_1540
This was followed throughout the 17th century by the so-called Little Ice Age, the longest period of low temperatures with devastating consequences.
Philipp Blom: „The world from the hinges. A History of the Little Ice Age from 1570 to 1700 and the Origin of the Modern World, Combined with Some Considerations on the Climate of the Present“ (Carl Hanser Verlag Munich 2017.)
The danger of acceleration to 6th mass extinction
So what always happened spontaneously in planetary evolution is now being accelerated by man, in my opinion this is the danger.
I mention here again „The 6th mass extinction“ which is on the way and this time is caused by humans to me considerable repercussions on the life of humans themselves on earth. This time it will not only be „species“, but it is also about the existence of mankind in the 6th mass extinction. Compared to the natural loss of species (not populations) along evolution, the loss of vertebrates in the last century is 100 times faster, i.e. an extremely accelerated loss of biological diversity that would „normally“ have taken about 10,000 years. For the authors this means that the 6th mass extinction is already on its way.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
I deliberately quote here the original text of the discussion of the work of Ceballos and co-workers
“Arguably the most serious aspect of the environmental crisis is the loss of biodiversity—the other living things with which we share Earth. This affects human well-being by interfering with crucial ecosystem services such as crop pollination and water purification and by destroying humanity’s beautiful, fascinating, and culturally important living companions.
Our analysis shows that current extinction rates vastly exceed natural average background rates, even when (i) the background rate is considered to be double previous estimates and when (ii) data on modern vertebrate extinctions are treated in the most conservative plausible way. We emphasize that our calculations very likely underestimate the severity of the extinction crisis because our aim was to place a realistic “lower bound” on humanity’s impact on biodiversity. Therefore, although biologists cannot say precisely how many species there are, or exactly how many have gone extinct in any time interval, we can confidently conclude that modern extinction rates are exceptionally high, that they are increasing, and that they suggest a mass extinction under way—the sixth of its kind in Earth’s 4.5 billion years of history.
A final important point is that we focus exclusively on species, ignoring the extirpation of populations—the units relevant to ecological functioning and the delivery of ecosystem services .Population extinction cannot be reliably assessed from the fossil record, precluding any analysis along the lines of that presented here. Also, although it is clear that there are high rates of population extinction, existing data are much less reliable and far harder to obtain than those for species, which will remain true for the foreseeable future. Likewise, we have not considered animals other than vertebrates because of data deficiencies.
The evidence is incontrovertible that recent extinction rates are unprecedented in human history and highly unusual in Earth’s history. Our analysis emphasizes that our global society has started to destroy species of other organisms at an accelerating rate, initiating a mass extinction episode unparalleled for 65 million years. If the currently elevated extinction pace is allowed to continue, humans will soon (in as little as three human lifetimes) be deprived of many biodiversity benefits. On human time scales, this loss would be effectively permanent because in the aftermath of past mass extinctions, the living world took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to rediversify. Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species and to alleviate pressures on their populations—notably habitat loss, overexploitation for economic gain, and climate change. All of these are related to human population size and growth, which increases consumption (especially among the rich), and economic inequity . However, the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.”
Here it is clearly written that the 6th mass extinction is caused by the acceleration of the increase of the world population, by the increasing „consumption“ (which means all living conditions in the industrial countries and the developing countries on the way to it, see above). The authors of the article in the renowned SCIENCE are not afraid to see the evil in the „rich“ of mankind and in the injustice of the distribution of goods, as I had already pointed out above in connection with the desire for „renunciation“ of those who are not allowed to participate in the wealth of the rich and who multiply unrestrainedly as „way out“.
Now you could think „so what“? What does that concern us humans?
The loss of the biological diversity of the planet means a not yet calculable loss of resources, because what is going on here is the consequence of the human influence on climate, on the destruction of forests and landscapes, on draining, overfertilization, insect destruction in agriculture, and provocation of environmental catastrophes (earth shifts, storms, rising sea levels).
The loss of biodiversity is an alarming symptom of the impact of the Anthropozene.
According to my analyses it is too late for a change, something „different“ or „additional“ must come to solve the problems of mankind and the planet – is geoengineering an additional option?
Geoengineering:
One idea that I like is to continue the CO2 reduction projects (see above: „It looks like it’s too late“), which have looked in vain so far, in combination with the courageous research of geoengineering.
What does that mean?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07533-4
It is definitely worth reading Tollefson’s provocative article at this point. Researchers around Frank Keutsch, his doctoral student Dai, at Harvard have translated observations of volcanic eruptions into experimental research to dim sunlight. After preliminary experimental investigations it is planned to „scatter“ 100 mg calcium carbonate into the stratosphere and to spread it as a flat cloud. A stunt kite at a height of 20 km above the southwest of the USA is to document the influence on the absorption of sunlight. Because it is less a scientific project than an „experiment that crosses social norms and boundaries,“ a committee was formed. This will monitor with great vigilance all the consequences of the experiment for the planet. It is planned that a global coat of fine dust will protect the entire planet. There is a general concern about incalculable consequences.
A problem could also be that CO2, as described, would continue to rise and the oceans would be even more acidified.
Furthermore, it is conceivable that one of the well-known billionaires will push such a project on his own, as the current investigations are going too slowly for him. Bill Gates himself and not his foundation has already financially supported the current research.
Life without the earth’s surface, possibility for a new evolution?
Is there life under the earth?
Even if humans have destroyed themselves and the biodiversity on the surface of the planet, what remains of it is a living treasure from which a new evolution could emerge?
asteroids
The 30th of June is every year from now on the World Asteroid Day proclaimed by the UN General Assembly.
The biggest asteroid impact known to us was the one that is said to have killed the dinosaurs 100 million years ago. Such events are therefore extremely rare. But when they do occur, they have catastrophic planetary consequences. That is why intensive research is being carried out on asteroids and possible impacts on the earth.
This is connected with the fact that the most recent impact in history with considerable consequences occurred on 30.6.1908 over the Tunguska region in Siberia. The 30-40 meter asteroid devastated 2000 square kilometers of uninhabited area.
Asteroid Impacts are accidental possibilities for a humanozide not controlled by human behavior. Numerous asteroids have flown past the earth, as can be seen in the figure below. These are usually destroyed when entering the Earth’s atmosphere, but there are events such as that in 2013, when a 20 meter asteroid exploded above the Russian city Chelyabinsk and its shock waves destroyed 7000 houses with 1500 injured but without any deaths after all.
Obviously, there is a real fear of asteroids in the population, which is partly supported by SF films, but also by numerous international committees dealing with research. The study by Clemens Rumpf from March 2017, from the University of Southampton, is currently important. He has simulated 50000 artificial impact events on Earth with asteroid sizes between 15 – 400 meters and their consequences for a humanocide through extreme storms, overpressure events, heat rays, crater formation, seismic shocks, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami formation. We can learn the most from this at the moment, even though the system does not, of course, allow for forecasts of events per se.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017GL073191
But there is also a study on the large number of smaller impacts up to 2013: (From NASA/Planetary Science – http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-397)
There are very concrete plans to monitor and ward off possible asteroid impacts. These are summarized in numerous plans for planetary defense, which I will not go into in detail here. After all, there are enough scientific activities that indicate a serious danger of such impacts and their prevention. Wikipedia provides a good overview:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetare_Verteidigung
Asteroids as suppliers for „life“ on Earth?
The question of how „life“ originated on earth is still of interest. A serious idea is that asteroids brought molecules to Earth that were able to catalyse the synthesis of basic building blocks of life in the surfaces and hot waters of the Earth.
„Coe of Life, Aging and Disease: The “Dynamic Code”
https://hesch.ch/aging-english/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/chemists-find-recipe-may-have-jump-started-life-earth?utm_campaign=news_daily_2018-10-18&et_rid=180785409&et_cid=2437393
Recent experimental studies by J. Blank University of California, Berkeley, could support this idea.
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/04/05_comet.html
So asteroids can have created life on earth and at the same time have the inherent possibility to destroy life on earth.
In contrast to climate change, asteroid impacts are not man-made catastrophes.
2. other more „accidental“ events that may lead to humanocide
Nuclear accidents:
Kyschtym stands for a 30-year secret nuclear accident that occurred on 19 September 1957 at the Majak plant in western Russia, releasing twice as much radioactivity as Chernobyl. But the emission remained on the ground, so to speak. But at present there are warnings of the potentially devastating long-term consequences:
https://www.huffingtonpost.de/2017/02/09/atom-katastrophe-kyschtym-majak-bedrohung-russland_n_14657012.html
Chernobyl symbolizes „accidental“ catastrophes. The accident was not intentional, but arose as a result of a conducted simulation of a complete power failure under the leadership of engineer Stepanovich.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuklearkatastrophe_von_Tschernobyl
Serious breaches of the current security regulations have been committed – man-made, but not intentional. This statement is important to me because I will report on intentional disaster scenarios.
Fukushima is the latest nuclear accident.
Japan was shaken by the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. The shock waves and the subsequent tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. More than 100.000 people had to leave the region, the region and the water are still contaminated.
So far there is no spontaneous nuclear catastrophe whose magnitude would be enough to kill a crowd of billions of people.
Spontaneous Organic Hasard
By this I mean influences on the planetary ecosystem caused by pathogens and, if they are cross-country and cross-continental, then epidemics are called pandemics. In the following some historically significant. Such pandemics can eradicate entire populations in certain regions with historically tragic consequences, such as the plague in Europe or the Spanish flu, as well as in modern times HIV. Ebola in recent times has been regionally dramatic with much worldwide attention. At present, however, we cannot assume that spontaneous pandemics with natural and naturally mutated pathogens, as the flu virus spontaneously demonstrates almost every year, are capable of triggering a biological impact in the sense of a humanocide worldwide in the above-mentioned dimensions, i.e. a reduction of mankind by several billions (in order to list here not again discussed for the planet as orders of magnitude considered „reasonable“ by some experts). But the current discussion is about billions of people).
1347-1352 | plague | Europe | about 25 million |
1894-1944 | plague | China, India, Africa, Australia, America | 12 million |
1918-1920 | Virus influenza, so-called Spanish flu | Europe | 27 million |
since 1980 | AIDS | Worldwide | 35.4 million dead, 77.3 million infected so far |
Latest statistics : https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics |
Starvation spontaneously from environmental conditions and war
Hunger can drag millions of people along, but spontaneously dividing and persistent regional famines are not enough for humanocide of the magnitude discussed.
The world hunger index calculates the situation from 51 countries worldwide. 821 million people, almost one billion after all, are currently starving on earth.
https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/821-Millionen-Menschen-leiden-Hunger-article20666252.html
This number is mainly due to climatic (droughts, floods) and political (wars) conditions. Examples are sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, these conditions are reinforced by wars, 490 million starving people live in conflict zones.
If such famines spread as a result of climate change or other natural disasters as described above, a larger dimension of over a billion can quickly be reached, slowly approaching the dimension of a humanocide.
Even more, intentionally added famines by influencing agriculture in Asia and Africa can lead to an apocalyptic humanocide (see below).
Infant mortality due to hunger
http://www.globalincome.org/Deutsch/Fakten.html
Every year, 10 million children die at the age of five years or younger. Malnutrition is the cause of 55 percent of these deaths: an estimated 5.6 million children die of malnutrition every year.
1 child under 5 years of age | every sixth second dies of malnutrition. |
11 children | every minute … |
600 children | every hour … |
15.000 children | every day … |
5.6 million children | every year … |
It hurts to list such numbers in this context but they belong in a „cool“ discussion of humanozide, especially because child hunger will be exploited by „strategists“ of intentional humanozide (see below).
Mortality from air pollution:
The following report has just been published:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2018
It is estimated that there are 391,000 deaths from particulate matter in Europe and that 93% of children are expected to be affected. Europe ranks 2nd ahead of the USA Worldwide, 4.28 million people are expected to die in 2015, 3.4 million of them in Asia.
Africa comes third. There, the probability of dying because of poor breathing air, poor medical care and malnutrition is particularly high. In sub-Saharan Africa, around 20 percent of child mortality is caused by air pollution. In 2015 alone, more than 400,000 children died there as a result of particulate matter.
http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-22895-2018-07-02.html
Particulate matter is sufficient for expensive phases of illness before one million deaths and not for the dimension of a humanozide. It is unclear whether intentional fine dust emissions can be caused, but in Asian cities this is already a considerable problem, so that it could be used intentionally, since it is easy to produce and distribute.
- Intentionally induced disasters
The latest warning from the doomsday clock:
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https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
german described in:
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Weltuntergangsuhr-steht-auf-zwei-vor-zwoelf-article20827244.html
Quote:
„The „Bulletin of Atomic Scientists“ left the „doomsday clock“ at its annual press conference in Washington at two minutes to twelve. The time – with which the researchers symbolically express the danger of the destruction of mankind – thus remained unchanged from last year. So close to their own extinction was humanity last before that in 1953″.
Use of nuclear weapons and agricultural destruction:
(Note for German readers: Historically, the foundations for nuclear weapons originated in German research on nuclear fission, as did the devastating agricultural destroyer „Agent Orange“, whose origin can be traced back to Germany).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
atomic bombs
Enrico Fermi and his team from the University of Chicago developed the first experimental nuclear reactor. This reactor, called CP-1, started the first controlled chain reaction on 2 December 1942.
The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 as part of the Manhattan Project at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. She was nicknamed The Gadget.
At that time in the USA and in Germany in principle the construction of an atomic bomb was possible, for cost reasons the USA were faster with the Manhattan project. The order was then given to pack the result of the New Mexico experiment into a bomb as quickly as possible. On 6 and 9 August 1945, a total of about 500,000 people died in the bombing raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Since then, no nuclear weapon has been used, a random „erroneous“ nuclear attack from Russia to the West was prevented by the prudent Russian engineer Stanislav Petrov in September 1983.
After the first Japanese horror, mankind paused for 73 years for fear.
Let’s see what the most powerful bomb is capable of: On October 30, 1961, the world was devastated by the world’s largest man-made explosion ever: the Soviet „Tsar Bomb“ had an explosive force of about 57,000 million tons of TNT, 4,000 times more than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The USA and more recently North Korea now also have such bombs at their disposal. What effect a dropping could have on the area inhabited by humans has not become known to me, since corresponding simulations do not reach the public.
At the end of 2018, the nuclear arms race between the USA and Russia will resume as in the Cold War. A war using these weapons would trigger a limited humanocide in Russia, Europe and the USA, but would certainly permanently radioactively contaminate the planet.
Who currently has nuclear weapons?
In nine countries on earth there are about 16000 nuclear warheads, 90% in the USA and Russia. The rest is widespread in Europe (France, Great Britain), China, India, Pakistan, probably Israel, also North Korea, not yet in Iran. 4000 are permanently operational.
In Germany 20 atomic bombs of the USA are stored, but Germany as a NATO country has a nuclear share, the bombs are transported by German airplanes.
A nuclear dumping over Europe would lead to a „Eurozid“, but humanity as a whole and its deletarian consumption would continue to multiply, albeit under increased radiation exposure, which would safely travel around the globe. However, she has already learned to deal with the consequences on the genome to a limited extent after exposure in Japan, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The total explosive power, probably more than a million times that of the bombs over Japan, of all atomic bombs exceeds any imagination, a political „bad decision“ or intention can quickly lead to a global nuclear war, which would certainly lead to the extinction of much of the life on the planet. There are enough unstable states among the nuclear powers with nuclear weapons that can trigger an inferno.
hydrogen bomb
Edward Teller invented this bomb. Its first explosion in November 1952 led to an unprecedented release of energy and even destroyed the island on which it was detonated.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike
It’s never been used as a weapon before.
The USA, Russia, Great Britain, France and China have demonstrably ignited a hydrogen bomb. North Korea has tested this weapon and probably possesses „mini hydrogen bombs“ which it can transport and drop far with its current missiles.
Conclusion:
All in all, the possible use of nuclear weapons, no matter who will order them, has everything needed for a humanocide and for the elimination of life on planet Earth in different dimensions. Only who dares this step, when and where, cannot be predicted at present.
Agrarian extermination:
The destruction of human food crops, farmland and forests is an absolutely proven means of exterminating human lives by starvation. So far herbicides have not been used for this purpose, but mainly for limited war purposes.
Agent Orange and others
Defoliants in general were used long before harvests to facilitate them. Later they were first used by the English Kingdom in Malaysia for war purposes and then by the USA in Vietnam. Recently, glyphosate has been accused of causing health damage, Bayer/Monsanto are probably lying to mankind about its toxicity if you read the literature. However, the Group’s and politicians‘ responses are also taken seriously. Only what’s true?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entlaubungsmittel
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
All these agricultural poisons have either caused minor damage to health or, like Agent Orange, severe and genetically anchored damage that is still effective today, from which the plant world has also fully recovered.
So far, agricultural destruction has not had the dimension that would be needed for an intentional humanocide, it has „only“ produced terrible regional human suffering, but that is nothing new in world history.
But what’s new now is the dimension that has been „concocted“ at the Pentagon. it must be said.
DARPA Gene Program for Plant Destruction
Agricultural extermination has just reached a new dimension through genetic research from the USA. The DARPA program of the Pentagon has launched a perfidious „research program“ under the pretext of being able to better protect the plants of arable farmers, questionable whether one still wants to call this „research“ in the classical sense, but Asian countries, Israel and emerging countries are following suit, a scenario similar to the atomic bomb.
In general, it seems to me, „research morality“ in the neoliberal and subsequently in the autocratic social and economic order has distanced itself from the earlier concern to serve the curiosity for knowledge and society. It seems to have become more utilitarian, political, corrupt and perverse in many areas of „war research“.
The DARPA research „Insect Allies“ is a good example of this, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute Plön, the University of Freiburg and Montpellier have just discovered and published in renowned SCIENCE:
Because of the significance of this publication with regard to a new dimension of warfare with the aim of at least genocide, which can rapidly expand to humanocide due to the possible lack of control or lack of antidots/antibiotics, I quote originally what is meant, namely:
„Whereas plant toxins were previously applied „vertically“ to agricultural land, i.e. strategically limited, the dispersion of genetically modified viruses, which inactivate plant seeds or produce aberrant plants that overgrow or destroy natural plants, is now carried out „horizontally“ by insects infected with the viruses. Infected bacteria can infect vast areas with viruses and render large agricultural areas unusable, causing an „incurable“ famine on a scale for which no data is yet available.“
But that means nothing else than „biological weapons“, which violates the convention for the prevention of such weapons by the USA.
Under the guise of „nature conservation“, the Pentagon sponsors numerous renowned research cities such as the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Texas, Austin. Are these universities naive or opportunistic, because this research is, as I said, „perverse“.
Agricultural genetic technologies typically achieve their agronomic aims by introducing laboratory-generated modifications into target species‘ chromosomes. However, the speed and flexibility of this approach are limited, because modified chromosomes must be vertically inherited from one generation to the next. In an effort to remove this limitation, an ongoing research program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to disperse infectious genetically modified viruses that have been engineered to edit crop chromosomes directly in fields. This is genetic engineering through horizontal transfer, as opposed to vertical inheritance. The regulatory, biological, economic, and societal implications of dispersing such horizontal environmental genetic alteration agents (HEGAAs) into ecosystems are profound. Further, this program stipulates that the means of delivery of these viral HEGAAs into the environment should be insect-based dispersion (1). In the context of the stated aims of the DARPA program, it is our opinion that the knowledge to be gained from this program appears very limited in its capacity to enhance U.S. agriculture or respond to national emergencies (in either the short or long term). Furthermore, there has been an absence of adequate discussion regarding the major practical and regulatory impediments toward realizing the projected agricultural benefits. As a result, the program may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and their means of delivery, which—if true—would constitute a breach of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Insect Allies was announced in November 2016, and it currently involves research contracts in excess of $27 million. DARPA is funding four teams (not three, as claimed in the report), namely the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Texas, Austin. The defence agency maintains that “all work is conducted inside closed laboratories, greenhouses, or other secured facilities,” and that the insects will have built-in lifespans to limit their spread. DARPA is hoping to see tests done in greenhouses in as few as two years, with maize being a high-priority crop.
The Allies programme begins with the infection of maize seeds in so-called „greenhouses“. I think one must seriously think about the „safety“ of these biological breeding sites also outside the USA, as the researchers in SCIENCE have already indicated, because an „accident“ can easily turn into a widespread biological fire.
In addition to maize, candidates for biological warfare of this kind are the huge rice and wheat growing areas as „staple foods“ for many peoples.
In this context it is of interest to know where the largest cereal growing areas are located:
The list of the largest grain producers in 2016 shows the People’s Republic of China as the most important producer of grain with 582.7 million tons. The next most important countries were the USA (476.0 million tonnes), India (294.7 million tonnes), Russia (117.7 million tonnes) and Indonesia (97.7 million tonnes). According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the five countries together accounted for 55.1 percent of the 2.849 billion tonnes of grain harvested worldwide. In Europe, France, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Spain and Italy were other important producers.
From the point of view of the USA, China, India and Indonesia are the main candidates for intentional warfare with the extermination of large crowds by a strategy based on „insect allies“.
There is certainly a warlike scenario between the USA and China, which so far has mainly been associated with classical warfare (including tactical nuclear weapons):
https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20160901312366261-usa-china-krieg-wahrscheinlich/
Biological Humanocide in Asia?
Both sides have certainly calculated the risk of this scenario, which is why alternative biological warfare makes sense from the point of view of the Pentagon, and the Chinese masses are particularly suited to a limited humanocide. I think such considerations might be behind „Insect Allies.“ Can also be used to reduce population growth in Africa (see above world population):
Biological humanocide in Africa?
While I was writing this text, the „World Health Summit 2018“ took place in Berlin, where a virologist from Nigeria is said to have given a lecture on „the fact that viruses can infect the root bones of manioc and thus threaten the nutritional basis of millions of people“.
https://www.wissensschau.de/synthetische_biologie/gene_drive.php
The activities against this virus infestation are supported by WAVE, a foundation of Melinda and Bill Gates.
An interesting scenario in the competition between Pentagon and Microsoft.
Vaccination as obsolescence for humanozide:
It is repeatedly claimed that Unicef and WHO had already developed a tetanus vaccine in the 1990s, which also contained the hormone HCG as an admixture. This would act as an antigen and sterilize vaccinated women. For the first time, it had been specially appointed in Nicaragua, the Philippines and Mexico.
Recent reports from Catholic medical circles in Kenya describe a planned sterilization of young women in Kenya.
I cannot verify this, but it is striking that the vaccinations had a non-standard application and that only 2.3 million girls and young women had been vaccinated with this tetanus vaccine, not boys or men. The people concerned have not been cleared up.
https://www.impfschaden.info/news55/611-massensterilisierung-durch-tetanus-impfung.html
http://www.kath.net/news/48248
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-world-health-organization-chief-involved-in-population-control-vaccine-
HCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World
January 2017
Open Access Library Journal 04(10):1-30
It is surprising that there is no real investigative scientific publication on this activity by Unicef and WHO.
However, this would not be a measure for general humanozide either, because the numbers of population reductions required for humanozide would not be achieved, but the experiment was apparently carried out.
Epilogue:
Already Prince Philipp,(German), an honorable influencer with very dubious opinions and contacts, gave the following in 1988:
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.” Prinz Philip, DPA, August 1988
I do not share the statements of the „Zeitenschrift“ and cannot check their statements either.
https://www.zeitenschrift.com/artikel/ueberbevoelkerung-eine-milliarde-ist-genug
But if the statements hold that the following is true, then it is remarkable what some influential elites think:
Gorbachev:
„We need to be more open about sexuality and contraception, about abortion and social values that determine population size. In short, the ecological crisis is a population crisis. Reduces the world population by 90 percent and there are not enough people left to cause significant ecological damage.“
Or Ted Turner:
„From a global perspective, 250 to 300 million people would be ideal, a 95 percent reduction in today’s world population.“
Jaques Costeau:
„To stabilize the world’s population, we must eliminate 350,000 people a day. It’s terrible to say that. Not doing it is just as bad.“
Henry Kissinger:
„The world population must be reduced by 50 percent.“
Likewise, I cannot look behind the strategies of the secret Bilderberg Conferences and even less behind the notions of the „Good Club“ of the supercharacters that humanocide drives around. Conspiracy theories do not help here, but an investigative and absolutely independent journalism would have an important task here, also in the analysis of the „opaque“ and contradictory intentions of Bill Gates, other billionaires and politicians (including German ones).
You have to check what to think of the following:
https://www.legitim.ch/single-post/2017/11/04/Prince-William-im-Zeichen-der-NWO-Es-gibt-zu-viele-Menschen-auf-der-Erde
But that’s the end of it, it’s not my intention to deal with it – already out of ignorance and caution. It’s worth mentioning, though.
4. alternatives to humanocide
But perhaps an innovative future as an alternative to humanocide can also be thought of, especially from climate change? I think about this intensively as an alternative to the „horror“ of humanocide.
In any case, the well-intentioned, Western thinking and its moralizing, unrealistic thinking and advice of the Club of Rome are of no use at all – we had all this already like prayer wheels of thinkers who are fed up:
https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/schweiz/denkfabrik-das-gewissen-der-welt-sitzt-in-der-schweiz-ld.81892
Regardless of this, I am concerned with the question of whether a humanocide is necessary at all, as our currently thinking brain and its leading thinkers suggest to us, with a reduction of humans to 3 billion:
This scenario has become almost obsessive and is scaring worldwide, especially the intentions of the „intentional“ horror of the current world powers and their struggles for supremacy, which have sufficient examples in world history.
I point out that for four millennia empires dominated large parts of the world and many empires went through a doom with millions. These were all tyrannies, their demise was still not always „intentional“, but owed to numerous causes.
The history of the world empires is important to me because in Asia new world empires are emerging with a population explosion whose future is uncertain with regard to an intentional humanocide, if my alternative considerations do not take hold.
Gehler and Rollinger have particularly drawn attention to the „European Empire“, which for the first time was not created by violence:
„The European Union does not have the military resources of China, Russia and the USA. But it is a post-national, perhaps even post-democratic empire because it is an elite project, but clearly a post-modern economic and world currency empire.“
Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger (Ed.): „Empires and Riches in World History“
Harrassowitz Verlag.
More literature on the downfall of world empires:
https://de.linkedin.com/pulse/wenn-weltreiche-untergehen-wer-aus-der-geschichte-lernen-feldkamp
http://dwz-kairo.de/die-10-groessten-imperien-der-geschichte/
New for the future of the modern world empires and their population masses of soon 11 billion people are means and possibilities to destroy the others, themselves and mankind with their planet – but these are absolutely new in their dimension and therefore it is worth thinking about alternatives.
Is it not conceivable that planet Earth, as long as it can offer sufficient biological „living conditions“ to sustain life, can create conditions through human intelligence which can keep the discussed increase in human mass biologically alive without violence? In addition, effective measures of reproduction control must be taken. These have so far always failed, even the one-child policy in China. We should think about how to limit humanity to 7 billion with the consent of people worldwide.
Megacities as a form of housing for billions of people
Megacities grow in height with homes that can house hundreds of thousands of people. This means that no more land will be consumed; on the contrary, more than 75% of humanity is expected to live in megacities by 2050. This frees huge areas of land for a nutritive agrarian environment that consumes CO2 if it is not destroyed, as described above. Further environmental poisoning can be prevented by modern technologies such as transport, alternative energies, pollution-free industry and water management.
For „peaceful“ coexistence, the principle of the „Smart City“ can serve the model of how China is already beginning to „guide“ its population to a socially acceptable existence through ubiquitous control systems into the private sphere. Artificial intelligence will play an important role, especially with robot systems.
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Let us remember again and again the living biomass „ants“ about which I have reported
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The biomass of ants, which is identical to humans, apparently manages to keep us alive without us noticing that they somehow destroy the planet Earth?
Ants do not create „weapons“ to destroy themselves, but use „war“ only to create a balance with other ant cohorts, not to exterminate themselves, if we know this, – they lack the „intellect“ to do so. That is the „disturbing“ thing about humanity, its consciousness, and its brain, to reflect about itself and to produce the „horror“ on planet Earth.
https://hesch.ch/?s=grauen
Exploiting sea-level rise, optimising plants, megacities
I can imagine that the currently discussed rise in sea levels can be useful, e.g. large desert areas such as the Sahara, which centuries ago was already a blooming landscape or other unused areas on earth can be „renatured“ again to produce enough food for this humanity. However, only 5 companies seem to dominate ¾ of world trade in food: Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfuss and most recently the Chinese group Cofco.
https://www.boell.de/de/2017/01/10/fuenf-agrarkonzerne-beherrschen-den-weltmarkt
A study from Germany propagates a completely different model:
https://www.slowfood.de/w/files/themen/final_landwirtschaft-am-scheideweg_de.pdf
This means the return to local production. Whether this has a future in a world with megacities seems questionable to me.
I think that it is more likely that the large corporations will divide up food production globally among themselves and will certainly also use a new technology that has just been published to increase yields.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/eaat9077
In the new study from the USA, researchers have succeeded in increasing the yield of plants by 40 %. The photosynthesis enzyme RuBisCO is one of the most abundant proteins on earth and is used for photosynthesis. In addition to carbon dioxide (CO2), it also metabolises oxygen in all plants. However, this leads to toxic by-products such as 2- phosphorus glycolate. This is a toxic substance. The metabolic pathway of light respiration in the chloroplasts detoxifies the 2- P glycolate, but this reduces the efficiency of the photosynthesis rate by about 50 %. The researchers now blocked a transport protein so that the toxic metabolism remains in the chloroplasts. This changes the photosynthesis in such a way that CO2 is more strongly metabolized by the enzyme RuBisCO. A smaller amount of toxic by-products is produced. This allows the yield of the plants to be increased by 40 %.
Even the rise in temperature and UV irradiation is technically solvable in megacities. If, as is well known, 90% of humanity will live in megacities in 50 years‘ time, „free land“ can be used for industrial agriculture. This is already operated by large corporations worldwide with monocultures. How is the use of the earth’s surface to produce food at present?
million sqkm | Percentage of area Earth | Percentage of area Land | |
Surface Earth | 510 | 100.00% | |
Area Oceans | 361 | 70.78% | |
Area Land | 149 | 29.22% | 100.00% |
ice desert | 15 | 2.94% | 10.07% |
desert | 15 | 2.94% | 10.07% |
Unpopulated steppes warm/cold | 10 | 1.96% | 6.71% |
Boreal Forest | 15 | 2.94% | 10.07% |
Tropical Forest | 16 | 3.14% | 10.74% |
Other forest | 9 | 1.76% | 6.04% |
High mountains from 2000m | 16 | 3.14% | 10.74% |
Lakes/Rivers | 5 | 0.98% | 3.36% |
Sum not usable | 101 | 19.80% | 67.79% |
Areas usable by humans: | |||
Steppe grazed by nomads | 10 | 1.96% | 6.71% |
grassland | 25 | 4.90% | 16.78% |
Fallow (unused) arable land | 4 | 0.78% | 2.68% |
Pre-industrial arable land (mostly overexploitation) | 5 | 0.98% | 3.36% |
Arable land used for industrial and post-industrial (ecological) purposes | 4 | 0.78% | 2.68% |
Sum usable | 48 | 9.41% | 32.21% |
Checksum usable + unusable palm of the hand | 149 | 29.22% | 100.00% |
Unfortunately, today about 30% of the potential arable land (4 million square kilometres out of a total of 13 million square kilometres) lies completely unused.
Of the remaining arable land, approx. 60% is used very, very inefficiently and partly quilted (overexploitation) pre-industrially (5 million square kilometres out of 9 million square kilometres) and without any botanical and (bio-)chemical training for the farmer.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdoberfläche
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/seeds-of-the-future
Deserts and seawater desalination as a human saving
The renaturation of large desert dry areas worldwide can be achieved by seawater desalination:
Overview:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerwasserentsalzung
https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article130098647/Ein-Chip-soll-Meerwasser-in-Trinkwasser-verwandeln.html
In view of rising sea water levels, highly efficient plants are able to produce fresh water to irrigate large food fields and form clouds again – a natural cycle.
Most of the deserts are distributed along the two tropics. These lie 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator. On almost all continents there are extensive desert areas in this zone. In the area of the Tropic of Capricorn there are still the coastal deserts, like the Namib, Atacama, which is extremely dry.
At the Tropic of Capricorn, the Mojave Desert in California, the Sahara in northern Africa and the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula can be found.
Coastal deserts are extremely dry despite their proximity to the water and are ideal for renaturation https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCstenw%C3%BCste:
Since seawater desalination can function relatively effectively and inexpensively using solar and wind energy, it is being used more and more. Australia has a progressive development:
http://lebendom.com/article/meerwasserentsalzung-in-australien
In Australia one observes an increasing desertification, – expansion of deserts.
This desertification can be significant, is a huge problem for usable soil regions. It is estimated that about one third of all arable land is threatened by desertification. The main regions affected are the Sahel zone in North Africa and parts of South Africa, Central Asia, Australia and the Americas. But also in southern Europe, one observes a devastation. It is estimated that about one billion people are thus more or less threatened in their existence. Interesting with regard to a humanocide if this development is reinforced by external political intervention.
The Asian interior deserts become extremely cold in winter and are therefore less suitable for cultivation. This problem has not yet been solved.
Food production in megacities with vertical farming
Megacities are being built all over the world, see:
https://hesch.ch/power-point-praesentationen/ , dort :” Hormonal Governance, Epigenetics and Megacities“
https://hesch.ch/die-informationstechnologische-evolution-des-menschen/, there: “ Smart Cities and Netoids“
For capitalist megacities, among which I also count those in China despite the autocratic systems, there are ideas on how one can do agriculture and cattle breeding on the skyscrapers there.
There is an interesting overview in SPEKTRUM from 21.1.2019.
Such plant culture towers are also created according to the imagination of Elon’s brother, Kimbal Musk:
Recommended is the book by Kheir al Kodmany:
He has calculated that urban agriculture can be cultivated in a useful way in the towers of the megacities and could also reduce energy consumption by 30%.
Hydroponics is the magic word. One can completely do without soil for planting, and plants can grow in culture media as well, and also has access to absolutely clean plant world without fertilization and chemistry, in German also hydroponics, but today developed as a high-tech industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
Aerofarms has developed the largest artificial plant farm in the world
https://aerofarms.com/
Vertical Farm 2.0 http://ecourbanhub.com/de/vertical-farm-dlr/etical Farm 2.0 is a German activity, which provides international attention.
Megacity as an instrument for humanocide?
I could not fully describe the beautiful illusions about food production in the future megacities, in which in a few decades 90 % of the people from the present lowlands will probably live. I have shown that the currently predominant, flat food production on „Earth“ could be effectively replaced theoretically and shown by some examples. This consumes huge amounts of land, deforestation of forests that produce O2, chemicals and CO2 pollution. A great performance.
But… yes, what „but“
If one „concentrates“ huge crowds of people in megacities, as is already the case in Asia, then the „planners“ of an intentional humanocide have an easy job.
Conversion of earth and people:
A change of use of the planet by restoring „natural arable land“ without industrial chemistry, smashing the food companies, optimizing plants through genetic engineering, expansion of protected areas (E. O. Wilson ZEIT), resettlement of the majority of people in megacities with energy production without burning fossil materials are alternatives, as well as the described irrigation of desert areas.
Ultimately, however, in my opinion, they can lead to an intentional humanocide being progressively carried out in a „concentrated humanity“.
Summary of the
My thoughts on humanocide end here.
I had not set myself the task of solving the problem of the uncontrolled growth of people in the Anthropozoan period. I wanted to describe the problems that exist with this growth for planet Earth. I share considerations that „somehow“ one has to come to a reduction of the mass of people. This can happen in the disaster scenario „Humanocide“, whose planning seems „cruel“ ( see website „Grey“), but is carried out.
But I still assume that the „currently thinking human brain“ might find another way. But here I rely above all on artificial intelligence, which can „think up“ solutions that do not „come to mind“ our brain. It is only unclear to me whether and how mankind will „obey“ these solutions. Our consciousness is limited:
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I absolutely share considerations on how to protect the planet from the consequences of the growing human mass and the destruction of the earth. The other question is who and where will be responsible for these measures and their application.
But in the end I also took up uncertain thoughts about how humans and the planet could possibly survive in the age of the anthropocene or how these thoughts could be used for humanocide.