An Insidious Environmental Catastrophe –
The Desert Will Win
by ‹Billy› Eduard Albert Meier (Switzerland)
http://beam2eng.blogspot.com/2018/12/an-insidious-environmental-catastrophe.html
As has been the case for many decades, environmental catastrophes are also being pre-programmed today, as well as all other terrible things which are connected with it, such as climate change, destruction of the ozone layer, water pollution, hunger catastrophes, energy shortages, rampantly spreading diseases, maladies, epidemics, hatred of foreigners, racial hatred, discrimination against women, maltreatment of children, torture of animals, unpeace, war and felony and so on and so forth. But what is really to blame for all these terrible things? – Indeed solely the life-hostile and steadily growing overpopulation, which needs more and more of everything imaginable; consequently more and more things have to be produced, which again entails that the terrible things thereby become bigger and never-ending and are never resolved, because if one terrible thing is tackled, then it is only fought to a certain degree, and indeed usually only very halfheartedly, because politicians and industrial leaders etc. can there-through preserve their positions and on the other hand can earn immense amounts of money, with which they line their own pockets of course. Furthermore, it can be seen that attempts to tackle terrible things are usually nothing more than senseless efforts to combat the symptoms and a token exercise, because on one hand the terrible things are not seized by the root and eliminated, rather a symptom is only fought halfheartedly and reluctantly, and on the other hand, it only happens in order to keep up appearances for the public. There-through, much more severe terrible things in both the near and distant future are already pre-programmed today, indeed in every regard. The same also holds true for hunger catastrophes, which for many decades and centuries have again and again been rolling over the Earth, which however, in the future will become more devastating due to the incessant increase in overpopulation, which, above all else, is altogether THE origin of all terrestrial terrible things and catastrophes on Earth and which fundamentally must be reduced through a worldwide, determined and uncompromising stop in births and an intentional and international global birth control, until the human population of roughly 529 million people is re-established again – a population that is compatible with the planet’s size and with nature.
Due to the insanity of the terrestrials, who reproduce uncontrolledly like rabbits, catastrophes of every kind are now pre-programmed for the near and distant future, and therefore also the Earth’s desertification. Increasingly more farmland, pastures and forests throughout every country on Earth are converted into infertile deserts. Already today, 70 percent of the dry regions in the world have deteriorated into deserts and steppes. This amounts to more than 3.6 billion hectares (8.6 billion acres).
More than 1.2 billion human beings today are already threatened with hunger – 1 out of every 5 Earth humans. Around 300 million of them are already affected not only by hunger or as refugees, but also by the desertification of their land areas, precisely by the advance of the desert into semi-arid regions, heretofore still used by human beings.
The striking fact thereby is: precisely the emergence of deserts and steppes is one of the largest and most serious environmental catastrophes on Earth today. Especially about that, however, frequently completely wrong ideas prevail, indeed not only with laypeople but also with certain scientists. In fact, it is not simply a case of deserts forming due to gigantic sand dunes pushing forward and forcibly burying fertile land beneath them. And it is also not correct that, for example, the front of the Sahara extends across Africa to the south, so roughly from Senegal to Ethiopia.
Of course, deserts have always spread, indeed over periodic intervals and practically always during times of extreme drought. However, when adequate rain falls, a counter-movement automatically occurs. This automatically occurring counter-movement is quite a natural phenomenon that has occurred for as long as the deserts have existed. In contrast however, the desertification is a completely different phenomenon. Through it totally new deserts and steppe landscapes emerge, while however semiarid regions – and therefore those that are dry for most of the year but otherwise still productive – completely dry out and fill with sand and so forth. These processes, however, are not restricted to the Gobi Desert, the Sahara or other vast desert regions, because desertification, therefore the formation of new deserts, for example, also occurs in Bulgaria, and Romania as well as the south of Spain and Turkey, whereby these are but four of nearly a hundred countries where increasingly more arable land is turning into deserts and steppes. The greatest danger in this regard is in Asia, indeed as a result of the very high population density, which steadily and unstoppably continues to increase. The desertification process, however, is farthest advanced in Africa. The ensuing damage there-through is immense and is estimated at about 45 billion dollars per year, around 22 billion dollars of which occurs in Asia, and indeed every year; in Africa it can amount to approximately 10 billion dollars, 6 billion dollars in North America, 3 billion dollars each in Australia and South America, whereby also Europe is facing damage estimated at 1 billion dollars.
Naturally, the formation of deserts and steppes is furthered by droughts, but also through other climatic influences. The principal cause for the formation of steppes and deserts of many areas rests primarily and fundamentally with human beings themselves, for they not only feloniously and recklessly drive their populations to dizzying heights, but they also destroy the land by having to increase food production to feed the incessantly growing human population and therewith completely leaching and depleting the ground of all its nutrients, without the soil being able to recover or be regenerated artificially with the necessary vigorous that were also extracted, where-through the ground becomes completely exhausted. Therefore it is not enough to only bring in new nutrients into the ground, because the soil also requires natural vigorous which the human being cannot give back. As a result, much more is extracted from the soil in the long run than can ever again be given back to it. This means, however, that the soil dies, and deserts and steppes come forth from it.
Often, or even in most cases, nothing other than purely infamous, irresponsible and nature destroying pathological craving for profit lies behind the human culpability of the desertification of large areas, which, for example, is especially evident in Argentina, where vast areas are leased for short time periods to large-scale farming enterprises, which then – by hook and crook and with all means that are not allowed by and damaging to nature – bring out an absolutely maximum yield and after only a few years leave behind a totally leached-out desert or steppe.
When considering Africa, evidence shows that the enormous overpopulation there does its destructive mischief just as much as everywhere else. However, the general poverty is probably greatest in Africa, because this continent and its population is exploited the most by industrialised welfare states of the white races, which in turn leads to large parts of the African population trying to extract as much as possible from their barren soils in order to survive.
Subsequently, the soil is destructively overused, which drives it to the total exhaustion of its nutrients, and to its death. All of this is a destructive vicious cycle: The more and the faster the population grows, the poorer it becomes because neither opportunities for earning a living nor any types of essential goods and other materials and so forth are available. This in turn leads to human beings pouncing on the fertile soil in order to plant seeds and harvest food from it. However, the more that is extracted from the farmland and pastures to feed the incessantly growing families, the faster the soil dies and turns into a desert or steppe. Indeed, the soil becomes increasingly less productive and slowly but surely becomes barren until it is completely ravaged.
And because overpopulation continues to grow and hitherto cannot be stopped due to the human being’s felonious irrationality, thus far also no prospects exist to get the insanity of overpopulation and the catastrophes resulting from it or the poverty and starvation of billions of human beings under control and to stop. Consequently, also no hope exists for stopping the insidious destruction of the agricultural land and the arable, albeit already scarce soils. Meanwhile, the human beings continue to potter about in their greed for profit and in their uncontrolled, rabbit-like procreative insanity, without thinking about where the fundamental reason for these catastrophes and malicious happenings really is to be found. Environmental conferences are held, such as the one in Rio in 1992, or desert conventions such as the one in Paris in 1994, or climate summits, such as the one from March 28 to April 7, 1995 in Berlin, which devour $ US 40–50 million, and indeed totally senselessly and for nothing, because nothing whatsoever is achieved that would change the situation. Those in responsible positions only reside well in expensive hotels, make good cheer and, in order to have an alibi and to satisfy the pretence, they give nonsensical and banal speeches without ever really saying anything substantial, wherethrough a solution can never be achieved. At such senseless conferences and summits etc., politicians and business executives and so on simply have pleasurable days and a jolly good time at the expense of the tax payers, while the population in some home countries starves and the taxpayers in other countries toil long and hard and labour to pay for the participants’ enjoyments and culinary delights. Such conferences and summits are merely based on megalomaniacal, tasteless, senseless and misleading hypocrisies and nonsensical speeches, without the participants themselves understanding anything of their own hollow prattle, let alone the feeble-minded speeches by the other attendees. Therefore, nothing is ever accomplished that would bring to an end the terrible things on Earth and reveal the actual reasons for all the terrible things and catastrophes and so forth, namely that the origin of the entire terrestrial terrible disasters, of all calamities and all mischief is solely related to the fact of humankind’s excessive overpopulation, from which all and everything results that slowly but surely ultimately destroys and eliminates all life on Earth.
New Translation: Vibka Wallder, Australia/Bruce Lulla, USA/Mariann Uehlinger, Switzerland
1 excerpt fm Zeitzeichen 102, Sept 2, 2018
–The effective carrying- and nourishing-capacity of planet Earth, calculated for the humankind by nature, amounts to 529 million human beings who can be nourished and fed in abundance in a natural wise, in which case the number of human beings in the highest mass, however, shall be set not to exceed 1.5 to 2.5 billion, as ancient calculations of the universal prophet Nokodemion attest to for a planet like Earth. The humankind of Earth, however, has given no consideration to these calculations, consequently in its irresponsibility it does not care that the ecological carrying capacity of the planetary biosphere has long since been exceeded in relation to the masses of human beings, which today in 2018 is already more than 8.9 billion.
Already in the year 2022, in terms of the size and fertility of planet Earth, any naturally rational number of 529 million to at the very most 2.5 billion human beings will be massively exceeded with more than 9 billion, which then means not only an overcrowding and congestion of the planet and an immense damage for the entire terrestrial ecology, but its complete overload. From an ecological point of view, this can absolutely no longer be seen as a trivial matter, because looked at and considered from this point of view, the entire balance of nature and thus of all other living beings is disturbed and thrown completely off-kilter with regard to the totality of the interrelations between the overpopulation of the humankind of Earth and its environment.
http://au.figu.org/destruction_environment.html
On CO2 Emissions;
The elimination of the tropical rain-forests alone, with timber harvesting machines and so forth, contributes around 25% to the worldwide CO2 emission. If the developing country, Indonesia, is viewed and considered, which today is the third greatest CO2 producer, then, at the current time, the peat fires there cause emissions of 700 – 800 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. If the CO2 output in regard to the coming deforestation of the tropics is viewed and considered overall, then by the year 2100, 100 to 130 billion tonnes of CO2 can be expected to be produced. Calculations show that when sugarcane or oil palms are planted as a substitute for the logged rain-forests, that then a time of 50 to 120 years would be necessary before the CO2 output which is saved, with fossil fuels and clearing, could be made up for. If corn or soy beans were planted instead then it would even require a time of 400 to 1,600 years.
On Rainforests;
When the future of the Amazon Rain Forest is envisaged, then, by the year 2030 it will be irreversibly destroyed by up to 60% due to the conscienceless and criminal logging of it. If the native forests in Asia are viewed and considered, then it is clear that already today three quarters of them are cleared and destroyed beyond recovery. But also in Africa the deforestation catastrophe widens and indeed to an extremely bad degree, because presently only 8% of the native forests are still untouched. The fact is that worldwide, every year, native forests are destroyed and eliminated to an area of as much as three times that of Switzerland, which amounts to 41,285 km2 calculated without the mountain areas. Therefore, worldwide, there are around 125,000 km2 which are destroyed and eliminated annually (see appendix, ‘Area of Switzerland’, at the end of the article). Of course that has devastating consequences for nature and its fauna and flora as well as for the climate and the oxygen content in the atmosphere, which is essential for all lifeforms on the Earth. The fact namely is that the tropical rain forests, that is to say, the native forests, produce 40% of all the oxygen. That notwithstanding, the rainforests are inconsiderately and feloniously exploited, destroyed and totally eliminated for the sake of vile mammon and profit. Thus every year gigantic areas of native forests fall victim to mining, slash and burn clearing as well as to the timber industry, gas and oil production as well as to the construction of hydro-electric power stations, and so forth. Many native forest areas, that is to say, untouched rain-forest areas, which were cleared and continue to be cleared, are planted full of diverse plants with which bio-fuels can be manufactured, whereby more than a half of the newly obtained land is misused in this form.
It is not only the rain-forests which are destroyed by fire and eliminated, rather also large areas of bush and shrub land, steppes as well as forests, and indeed through lightning strikes. Also human beings are to blame who carelessly, deliberately and irresponsibly ignite bushfires and forest fires. However, more and more frequently, bush and shrub areas as well as forests are also quite consciously burned as a result of arson out of criminal-commercial-speculative grounds in order to create building land, which is becoming ever rarer, for factories, houses, settlements, sports facilities and streets and so forth, whereby the whole thing is based in the irresponsible measures – caused through the very badly getting out of control of the good human nature – and needs of the overpopulation which continues to spread worldwide.