I realized something. Bitcoin is free from state control, right? The price is determined organically according to supply and demand, yes? And what happens after a sudden and rapid rise in price? After the boom comes the bust. Down to less than half of the previous high, and only now slowly climbing back up.
Many organic cycles in nature mirrors this, most obviously animal populations. And when you look at the human population over the past handful of hundreds of years, what do you see? Exponential rise, a rocket taking off. But the food supply is limited, and we will eventually hit a hard cap. We will top off at 9-11 billion people. And once we reach the top, what will happen? We will have some percentage drop.
I thought until recently that millions of people, perhaps hundreds of million, were going to die. But no. Billions of people are going to die. And there is a possibility that it will happen within our lifetimes.
I'm going to fucking bed. Hopefully I will have some less horrible nightmares than this.
We technically have enough food for the entire planet, it just doesn't get to certain places. And in my opinion it shouldn't (for free). If we see hundreds of millions of people dying in our lifetime it will most likely be in places like Africa, since they're still playing tribal games in their most primitive form instead of focusing on progress. Don't really see billions vanishing though.Many organic cycles in nature mirrors this, most obviously animal populations. And when you look at the human population over the past handful of hundreds of years, what do you see? Exponential rise, a rocket taking off. But the food supply is limited, and we will eventually hit a hard cap. We will top off at 9-11 billion people. And once we reach the top, what will happen? We will have some percentage drop.
I thought until recently that millions of people, perhaps hundreds of million, were going to die. But no. Billions of people are going to die. And there is a possibility that it will happen within our lifetimes.
I'm going to fucking bed. Hopefully I will have some less horrible nightmares than this.
Those 'advances' have included unsustainable practices that yield poorer and poorer quality foods using petroleum based fertilizers, vast amounts of diesel fuel, and toxic pesticides (that kill off bees etc) not to mention GMO blah blah blah. It's not a good situation. Not to say that more sustainable advances can't happen, but it's going to have to happen pretty fucking fast to reverse damage done while contending with rapidly changing climate. The information is out there, but it's not being spoon few to the populace by .gov and MSM (quite the opposite). You've got to search it out.
A couple articles toward the point:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/pandemic-can-hit-the-food-supply/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/global-cooling-reducing-food-supply/
A couple articles toward the point:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/pandemic-can-hit-the-food-supply/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/global-cooling-reducing-food-supply/
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth