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It's not the solution I want but considering the way you are, and act, it might be the only one available. But that means planning for it now, not wait for the disasters to build up, the civil wars, insurrections, repression and global warming. The population will shrink any which way but without a plan it will be our extinction.

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And don't mistake the sites monitoring earths condition for us having a plan. We don't.

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But that billion is presuming earth as it is now, today, what earth can take care of tomorrow is another question.

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Those monitoring stations are in the exact same position as that test pilot. Reporting his altitude all the way down, to the crash.

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Remember I told you that being in a war can destroy you for decades? And your nation. Changing your ideals, your beliefs.

" The number of children living in conflict zones has been increasing since 2000.

    In 2019, 1.6 billion children (69%) were living in a conflict-affected country.

    Approximately 426 million children (over one in six) were living in a conflict zone in 2019. This constitutes a 2% increase from 2018.

    In 2019, Africa was the world region with the highest number of children living in conflict zones (179 million), while the Middle East had the highest share of children living in conflict zones (40%).

    In 2019, more than 71 million 0–5-year-olds were living in areas that had seen conflict their entire lifetime.

While armed conflicts and crises affect people of all ages, children are particularly susceptible to the effects of war. In 2019, almost two thirds of the world’s children were living in a conflict-ridden country. Approximately 426 million children – over one in six – were living less than 50 km from where the actual fighting took place. Despite improved population data, we still need more systematic knowledge on how these children are both directly and indirectly affected by armed conflict, such as through killing and maiming, child soldier recruitment, sexual exploitation, denial of humanitarian access, and poor health conditions. "

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/children-affected-armed-conflict-1990-2019

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Geopolitics.

" The Center for Preventive Action's (CPA) Global Conflict Tracker is an interactive guide to ongoing conflicts around the world of concern to the United States.

The interactive covers nearly thirty conflicts with background information and resources on each conflict."

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/?category=us

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And I think I found my laugh for today.

" Australia’s former finance minister Mathias Cormann is continuing to talk up the importance of a “collective green recovery” on the campaign trail to be the next secretary general of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.   .....   .....

 “The reason we need him to do that in the air force jet is because Covid is running rampant in Europe,” the prime minister said during an interview with the Sydney radio station 2GB on Wednesday.

“I mean, there really wasn’t the practical option to use commercial flights in the time we had available, because of Covid. I mean, if Mathias was flying around on commercial planes, he would have got Covid. The risk of that was extremely high.” "

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/25/mathias-cormann-continues-to-talk-up-collective-green-recovery-in-vision-statement-for-top-oecd-job
 

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This was written under the Thatcher era  but you shouldn't get stuck on that. It's still remarkably perceptive. And explains in some ways how what people think they are, and that no matter what their ideals and beliefs are about, it doesn't necessarily reflect wealth, station in society, etc etc.

Which I also agree on, and which made me point out that a real democracy might not be about left versus right, more about wealth, position, relative ones ideals and beliefs. So you might, and can, find this idea abhorrent, no matter what side you think yourself to be on. Or good, although that possibility should be weaker viewed from the right side of the spectrum.

you can see a lot of that in Sweden, probably all Nordic Countries, where the American approach to existing is a underlying ideal for many. It's a interesting read.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4854-blue-election-election-blues


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So on one side you have those monitoring stations. That's pure science, for that it doesn't matter if it points to our destruction, science is science no matter its possible outcome. On the other tentacle we have those political 'instruments' implementing, presumably, democratic processes by voters interests and goals. EU is one of the really massive 'instruments' doing it and the discrepancy between scientific monitoring and 'reality', if we define it that way, shows a greater divide the closer we get to our extinction.

What I'm trying to point out is that the 'political' and 'financial' 'reality' those 'instruments' handle can be very disconnected from the scientific reality, as well as from its 'voters' .

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/25/eu-did-not-properly-consider-conflicts-of-interest-over-blackrock-contract

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The hierarchal structure of EU is no different from your own government, different corridors, that's all. So this is a general observation.

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All in all we're a far way from any plan. and if we don't get one working inside this decade we probably won't the next either. And it is about ideals and beliefs, most of your life is.


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And twenty years is all I will give you. After that I don't think it matters anymore.

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It's tricky, ideals and beliefs are like the part of that iceberg, hidden under the water. You might be a millionaire and still consider yourself to be to the left. Or a pauper thinking yourself a confirmed conservative. It's more or less a validation of whom you think you are, and most of it unconsciously so, I would say. And then we have political party's, becoming the murky distorted mirror through which we see our game played out. Represented by some simplistic common nominators, the simplest ones you can find that will unite us.

but who you really are is put to the test when you think of wether you want my type of democracy, or not.

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We can call it a litmus test of wether you will do something or not. It's simple and effective either way.

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And you don't have to tell anyone. You can take your secret with you to the grave.

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A very short and concise history of Afghanistan's trouble. Starting 1979. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49192495

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Geopolitics.

" Several Afghan and US officials have long accused several regional governments including Pakistan, Iran and Russia of giving financial aid to the Afghan Taliban, a practice they frequently deny. Private citizens from Pakistan and several Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are considered the largest individual contributors.

Although impossible to measure, these sources of funding clearly provide a significant proportion of the Taliban's revenue, and according to experts and officials could be as much as $500m a year. These links are long-standing. A classified CIA report estimated in 2008 that the Taliban had received $106m, from foreign sources, in particular from the Gulf states. "

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People from other nations using Afghanistan as their playground. Some of them united under 'religion', others 'freedom and liberty' or 'the peoples liberation'. And maybe I'm missing something here, but it sure stinks.

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Yeah, I know. the peoples liberation isn't primary Russian. It's a Chinese 'unifier' but I think we can call it a 'communist' unifier, as they are the direct successors of the USSR ideology.

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You see a democracy anywhere? Do you ever ask yourself why it doesn't exist?