Everyone knows that when the Titanic sunk, the orchestra played at the upper deck - till the very last moment. What a proportionate amount of us don't know, is that the majority of the passengers chose to dance - even when they all knew that it was all going to hell.
We thought the same way 30 years ago, when a good number of countries in Europe decided to stop building more nuclear shelters. In France, only a third of the people can fit inside these shelters. And we just have to sit down, and accept it. We aren't scared of nuclear war anymore. We've stopped thinking about what makes us uncomfortable. The thin layer that stops paradise, from being fallout.
History has shown that there are 12 possible scenarios, for a fully-encompassing collapse of society.
The most important one, being overpopulation. 255 babies are born each minute. A single-child policy is our only hope, but no one wants to even discuss that. Number two, is climate change. Number three, deforestation. We cut too many trees - and the farming-capable fields are put down by erosion, and intolerant use of land. We don't have enough water, and we throw our feces in what we have.
We fish too much, and increasingly more. Historically-speaking we hunt too much too. Now we kill animals, just to put them in cages. And each day, somewhere on Earth, a species goes extinct. We don't have enough oxygen. New species introduced in our circles make for unbalance, and in China 50 thousand new cars get added to the lot each day. Poisoning is number 11, and at last we have: Deficit of Energy. And that's our weakest point.
If only 1 of these 12 threats reaches a critical point, we're finished. Not every single one, or 5, or 6 of them. 1 is enough. At that point, the ship is sinking. And we're just dancing.
We thought the same way 30 years ago, when a good number of countries in Europe decided to stop building more nuclear shelters. In France, only a third of the people can fit inside these shelters. And we just have to sit down, and accept it. We aren't scared of nuclear war anymore. We've stopped thinking about what makes us uncomfortable. The thin layer that stops paradise, from being fallout.
History has shown that there are 12 possible scenarios, for a fully-encompassing collapse of society.
The most important one, being overpopulation. 255 babies are born each minute. A single-child policy is our only hope, but no one wants to even discuss that. Number two, is climate change. Number three, deforestation. We cut too many trees - and the farming-capable fields are put down by erosion, and intolerant use of land. We don't have enough water, and we throw our feces in what we have.
We fish too much, and increasingly more. Historically-speaking we hunt too much too. Now we kill animals, just to put them in cages. And each day, somewhere on Earth, a species goes extinct. We don't have enough oxygen. New species introduced in our circles make for unbalance, and in China 50 thousand new cars get added to the lot each day. Poisoning is number 11, and at last we have: Deficit of Energy. And that's our weakest point.
If only 1 of these 12 threats reaches a critical point, we're finished. Not every single one, or 5, or 6 of them. 1 is enough. At that point, the ship is sinking. And we're just dancing.
