Thou art pardoned! Go forth and observe.

I don't mean this rudely...but do you even science much? Do you know any real scientists? Do you understand what motivates them? I don't understand how you can dismiss something so without more understanding of it. Scientists tend to be smart...like could've gone into finance or invented something profitable. But no, they gather and interpret data ... To find and explain correlations. Like if you had programming chops but taught coding at a high school instead of banking on your tech skills. It's more like that. Wind ,weather and tides are not magnetically driven. That's down to earths interaction with lunar gravity and incoming solar radiation, but not magnetism. IMO you might do well to reorient your axis of trust/suspicion so you don't get misinformed. Imagine how great it would be if the experts actually knew their stuff and you could believe them because they're obsessed with, above all, accuracy of information! Yes, tobacco and oil paid for bunk science and lied/ lie about their products harm but they're the exceptions. Astrophysicists aren't trying to fool you bro. The world is a better place than that. You can just Google:. "free access to scholarly journals/ articles"...many sources will be revealed.

I would if it were just.

You still can. "Social democracy" or "Democratic socialism" is ok with that. Problem is. 85/3,500,000,000 person equivalency of wealth. Not enough cash on the board for 8000000000 people to play the game.

Good post. well said, thank you!

Of Montreal, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Well, hopefully our population can plateau and our consumption can be achieved with less consequence sooner rather than later.

I think this is right. I wish our economy was scored more on improvements in efficiency and less on limitless growth. Lower growth and consumption rates are at odds with our indexes of what we call economic health. How to untangle these things?

I've heard of those. What are they again?

Yes, pretty much what's happening now.

You mean how many of us could the oligarchy kill off before it became an inconvenience to them?

Had my canoe tipped over once by a goose who thought I was going to feed him so yeah, that's probably not a good thing to do with a gator.

Imagine... youre a Spanish sailor. You see the land from your ship. grab a musket and a couple of guys on a skiff and head over to make land but it's just miles and miles and miles of endless primordial mangrove swamps, full of 32' (39' ?)Gators, cottonmouth, and flocks of birds. Now your miles into the glades and it's getting dark...

Ok let's go with turtle.

Or a monster!

What the hell is that in the foreground?

Buckminster Fuller: Utopia or Oblivion, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Fly on with your bad self!