By: Stewart Brennan
The combination of Earth’s ongoing Magnetic Pole Shift,
Solar Variation, magnetic interaction between the Earth and the Sun, and the
exponential increase in industrial pollution, toxins and radiation are all
coming to a head with the destruction of our present biological cycle on Earth
the end result.
The fall of civilization has begun and regardless of what is
done there will be no stopping it from happening in our lifetime. The warning
signs can be seen through the shifts in climate to the steady increase of
extreme weather, which will, over time, become exponential, leaving long term
weather extremes, widespread chaos and a decline in biological populations and
species.
Making matters worse is the exponential increase in
Industrial pollution brought on by the exponential growth model we adopted as
our way of life 100 + years ago. The extreme greed of this economic model of
supply and demand is fuelled by finite fossil fuels which have now been
extracted way past their peak. The evidence of this is where we are finding new
supplies of oil…ie: Fracking and Tar sands. Or the new way in which electricity
will be created ie: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Nighmare
Nuclear power plants produce Nuclear Waste which are like
time-bombs just waiting to go off on a planet that is experiencing extreme
weather and climate extremes. Eventually these nuclear time bombs will unleash
upon the planet as the weather extremes and natural disasters intensify. Do I
need to remind anyone of the ongoing meltdowns of Fukushima Japan?… and as Mike
Ruppert of “The LifeBoat Hour” correctly states, “Mankind has yet to build a
structure which will last 50,000 years, let alone a million”. So how will we
contain millions of tons of nuclear waste from breaking from their containment
let alone be safe from extreme weather? The answer is we can’t, so why do we
continue to pile up this manmade life destroying industrial waste? To produce
more energy to feed an exponential economic growth model that fills the pockets
of a few? The World’s leaders want to build thousands more of these nuclear
time bombs in an age of peak oil so they can continue the illusion that money
is what life is all about…It’s completely insane and suicidal on a Planetary
scale!!
Giving Life a Chance
If we are to give life on this planet a fighting chance to
survive, then all Nuclear power plants must be shut down now and all nuclear
waste must be dealt with as a top priority immediately. All fracking must stop
and we must begin to repair the damage we have done to the planet by our
industrial contamination…there is a better way to live, just look back 100 +
years ago…
Deep down, everyone that has the capacity to use common
sense knows the truth of these words…most people know it in their hearts, minds
and souls to be true but unfortunately they will not consider making changes in
the way they live simply because they are afraid to let go of the illusions
that the economic system places in their minds…Just a word of caution to those
that don’t get it; when the economic system crashes, it will unleash a series
of the worst events in human history…the details I’ll leave to your own
imagination…But the path we take doesn’t have to be that way, if we change our
values…it comes down to 4 words…”Values change for survival”
Have a listen to what Michael Ruppert has to say and then
listen to the back up videos attached at the bottom of this post for a clear
picture of what we are facing.
Audio Podcast: The LifeBoat Hour Dec 29th, 2013
Program Source: http://lifeboathour.podbean.com/
By: Michael Ruppert
TEXT of Michael Ruppert’s The LifeBoat Hour Dec. 29th
2013
There are three things which unequivocally and absolutely
guarantee the Near Term Extinction of the human species and quite possibly all
life on the planet. They are out on the table, acknowledged, repeatedly
confirmed and corroborated and they are having direct, painful and tangible
impacts on our lives this minute. And they all have direct bearing on each
other.
The first of these is Global Warming and Climate Chaos
caused by human industrial activity (infinite growth). Of a certainty a four to
six degree Centigrade temperature increase is in the very-near future, and --
by what is now not an extreme calculation – the last of our species should be
gone by 2030 because the ecosystem which we need to provide us food, water, air
and habitable climates will have been destroyed, the web of life ripped to
shreds.
It may very well happen much sooner than that.
According to Guy McPherson, the only thing which might have
the slightest mitigating impact on Global Warming – over which humankind has
any control – would be the immediate cessation of all industrial activity on a
planetary level, immediately removing the ever-increasing release of carbon
into the atmosphere, by a meme which runs us and owns us, rather than the other
way around. It is a meme which must play itself out.
The second of these “causes of death” is radiation. By now
we understand fully that the totally unresolved and uncontrolled disaster at
Fukushima has for 33 months bombarded the entire Northern Hemisphere and
Pacific Ocean with radiation. A lesser realized truth is that there are some 60
nuclear power plants around the United States that are boiling along long past
their planned operating lives. They are rickety. They have fires. They have
leaks. They have cooling system failures. They flood. There are also many
nuclear storage facilities like Hanford and West Lake outside of St. Louis
which in the case of Hanford are releasing or Westlake (in danger of releasing)
additional enormous quantities of radiation into the air, the water tables, or
the soil.
It takes 40 years, a lot of money (energy) and an enormous
amount of fossil fuel to fully decommission a nuclear reactor. Absent
industrial civilization it will never be possible to safely shut down all 450
operating nuclear reactors and recover or maintain control of perhaps thousands
of nuclear waste facilities around the world. And our obligation is to provide
safe and secure storage for all of that radioactive waste for one million
years.
Mankind has yet to build a structure which will last 50,000
years, let alone a million.
Damned if we do. Damned if we don’t.
But there is a third element that triply seals our fate. It
is called Exponential Growth… Just recently on Facebook a friend posted a great
video from the late Professor Al Bartlett of Princeton who, throughout his
career, was the Champion of sounding the alarm on what Exponential Growth
means. He was a fabulous human being with a wicked sense of humor. It isn’t
higher math. It’s actually simple arithmetic. If one starts with a square on a
checkerboard and puts one grain of rice on that square, two on the next, four
on the next, eight on the next, doubling for each square, by the time one
reaches the last of 64 squares there will be an amount of rice greater than the
annual output of most Asian nations combined.
Now let’s look at infinite growth as though it were taking
place in a glass, or a Petri dish, or on a finite planet which -- when full and
containing no more resources – spells the complete die off of whatever was
growing inside due to resource exhaustion. It’s true for Caribou. It’s true for
bacteria. It’s true for human beings. As the late Terrence McKenna warned as he
predicted “the end of history” in the late 1990s, if the doubling takes place
every minute, then just one minute before the inevitable population collapse,
the Petri dish would only be half full. When McKenna sounded these warnings,
roughly a decade before I started, human population was only 3.5 billion. Human
population has since doubled in less than 20 years. With enough resources it
would double again in less than 15. But we can clearly see that the Petri dish
is full.
As we go live on the air tonight:
Fukushima’s ongoing deadly release of radiation has not been
contained for 33 months. New records for radioactive emissions are announced
weekly. The Japanese – as they have done continually for more than 30 months --
are incinerating tons of highly radioactive waste directly into the atmosphere.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has granted TEPCO permission to release
ALL of its radioactive water into the Pacific.
The carnage that is human industrial civilization continues
absolutely unabated and unrestrained. Tens of thousands of coal fired
generating plants continue to operate around the world. Tens of thousands of
natural gas fired plants using fracked gas continue to destroy water tables,
cause earthquakes and add to the ever-increasing amounts of carbon released
into the atmosphere. The plants themselves may not, but the extraction of the
gas they burn is one of the most carbon intensive and destructive, toxic
processes known. In Canada the tar sands are being voraciously mined with
continuing release of carbon, environmental destruction, and rapacious
ruination of fresh water supplies. In North Dakota, so-called “shale oil”
production proceeds with ferocious intensity. Factories and corporations
required to show “growth” and profit continue to churn out cars and TVs and
cell phones and junk, all wrapped in plastic which will last about as long as
radioactive waste. And because the cheap, easy energy is gone, every year
industrial nations resort to more damaging, more desperate, more
carbon-intensive means to get their hands on less and less energy, often
expending more energy to obtain what they all fuel than they get from burning
it.
Absolutely nothing has been – or is being – done about the
things that are really killing us, and not just us, but every living thing on
the planet. Just a lot of talk. Well I’ve been talking for 35 years and I’m
almost done with it.
Every day, as more than 250,000 new humans arrive on the
planet, more than 200 species go extinct… forever. Exponential growth of human
population has never been addressed, in large part because the economic mandate
for infinite growth has never been addressed. Thus the pressures to not do anything
at all about the first two problems are ever greater. I call it “Catch 22
Cubed.” More people need more heat, more power, more food grown with fossil
fuels… More, more, more.
This is the end of More.
As the Eschaton event emerges, and as we approach it with
ever-increasing clarity about what “it” is I have noticed on Facebook -- where
I have invested enormous energy in community building and consciousness raising
-- a disappointing trend of late. Briefly summarized, it goes like this: The
more clearly we see our imminent physical demise, the more people tend to talk
about things that are irrelevant to it. They want to talk about Ed Snowden.
They want to talk about disaster capitalism. They want to talk about
Iran-Contra. They want to talk about whether a specific and alarming radiation
reading, in Death Valley, or Idaho, or Colorado, or Washington actually came
from Fukushima or not. They want to talk about who did or did not make a good
reading somewhere. They want to talk which competing theory/hypothesis on the
actual conditions at Fukushima is correct instead of abut the fact that we know
what we are being told is an absolute lie. They want to talk about Albert
Bartlett’s personality as opposed to the simple arithmetic he presented which
they still refuse to see.
My sense of Facebook now is that people are using more and
more intelligence and effort to find things to divert their attention away
from, rather than towards a reality that is becoming more and more abundantly
clear to millions, tens of millions, and soon to be billions of people on this
deeply wounded planet. Well baby, if that’s your game… and I play it… Then all
I’m doing is validating your game…
I have reached a point of diminishing marginal returns on
Facebook and this week I pretty much exiled myself from the page. I do not need
to read all these stories that get posted. I find about 90% of them irrelevant
now. And I’m real confident that I’m doing some of the best work of my entire
life right here on the Progressive Radio Network with you every Sunday.
My Facebook page is an amazingly useful, safe, well-crafted
and productive space, free from disinformation. In my absence it will be cared
for and protected by loyal friends and tribal members who have been there for
the whole ride. I will check in from time to time and make announcements about
upcoming shows or when something really serious happens.
We know what’s here. We are beginning to understand what it
means. And it’s high time we turned our full gaze and attention to it. This is
the culminating event of all of what we have called history.
It’s here. It’s now. It’s what we came here to witness and
be a part of. There’s no game left to play but to face it. Not facing it will
produce what Terrence McKenna called “A fire in a madhouse.”
In upcoming shows I’ll be discussing more of the only thing
that makes sense of it all – and is doing more so every week -- and of my own
life’s long and arduous journey. I call it “The Safety Valve at the End of
History”.
Hint: Terrence McKenna.
It’s time to sit back, put my feet up and focus on center
stage because this is the finale and I don’t want to miss it. It’s what I came
here for. So did you.
Michael C. Ruppert
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You Can tune into Michael Ruppert’s “The LifeBoat Hour”
every Sunday Evening at 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time at the following link: http://prn.fm/hosts/michael-ruppert/
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Sustainability 101 - Professor Al Bartlett (Exponential
Growth Explained)
Video Source link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ghHia-M54
Fukushima and its Long Term Threats
Video Source Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEI4XinYmHc
Original Audio Link: http://prn.fm/progressive-commentary-hour-121613/
NOVA – Magnetic Pole Flip 530,000 Years Overdue and
Happening Now
Video Source Link: http://youtu.be/pGKKzsRjJ_Y
Russia Launches “Swarm” Satellites to Monitor Earth’s
Magnetic Field
Cliemate – What Doesn’t Make the News
Extreme Weather Events and Disasters of 2013
Terrence McKenna – Final Earthbound Interview
Video Source Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCaK35DQ4uk
Collapse – Michael Ruppert
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