Spectre Of Black Death Returns

It's been called the 'post-antibiotic era', and its been threatening to happen for some time .... well it appears that its arrived now, or rather it seems that we are trembling on the cusp of that nightmare scenario.

Colistin Resistant Bacteria Now Here ...

 

In China, it appears that despite knowing the risks, the Communists encouraged the farmers to dose the millions of pigs (a staple food stuff), with anti-bacterial drugs such as Colistin, to boost pork production.

 

The Apocalypse Clock Is Ticking Louder

2050 is the watershed for much of what's going to happen next .... We have mentioned this date in a number of posts as being the moment when the way we live will change for ever.

The Clock Is At Ten To 2050

The latest forecast to make the headlines is that after 2050, the South-west and the Central Plains of the USA would likely shift to drought conditions that exceed even the great drought epochs of the so-called "Medieval Climate Anomaly" in the 12th and 13th Centuries.

 

China's Dark Satanic Mills

We have lost the battle and will lose the war .... that's the only conclusion I can draw from the new data on carbon emissions that shows that China's emissions per head of population have surpassed the EU for the first time and that India is also forecast to beat Europe's CO2 output in 2019.

We Are Heading To Apocalypse 2050

Man made production of CO2 is reaching record levels, and the pathetic attempts to stop human greed and invoke long term altruistic self interest have utterly failed. If global warming is going to be pushed to critical levels by human activities then there is I believe no stopping it now ....

China's Dark Satanic Mills Produce The Most CO2

China and India will do nothing until they are suffering the consequences for their rich as well their poor - so we may as well start planning for the worst now ... China for example, not withstanding its international agreements, is in fact busily destroying their own environment at a record rates, with soil loss, pollution and now heat-waves .... in China agreements by the central government are often ignored in the distant provinces.

While the per capita average for the world as a whole is 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide, China is now producing 7.2 tonnes per person, to the EU's 6.8 tonnes. The US is still far ahead on 16.5 tonnes per person (with Australia a very close second). For 2014, the carbon record is likely to be broken again as emissions are predicted to hit 40bn tonnes, 65% above the 1990 levels.

India and China both started later, but are both on target for environmental degradation well before the US ....and as scientists have calculated that to have a good chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C, total world emissions of carbon will have stay under 3,200 billion tonnes per annum. This means the world has about 1,200 billion tonnes left before breaching that figure, but the latest data shows that there is a now a declining chance of staying below the 2 degree target.

The Countdown To The Apocalypse

At present rates, in about 30 years we will have used up the remaining 'quota', and even if we stabilise at that figure, it would only give us a 66% chance of remaining below the 2 degrees figure .... which takes us to the 2050 AD prediction of the Apocalypse that this blog now favours for our civilisations watershed moment, one way or another.

"A Perfect Storm"

This blog has frequently pointed to the confluence of events that may well precipitate profound changes in the human races existence on the planet, and even life itself ..... we have predicted 2050 AD as the moment of the disasters but more and more evidence suggests that there will be a major problem around 2030 AD which we have discussed. This week, the March predictions of UK chief scientist John Beddington, which described what he called a "A Perfect Storm" of food, energy and water shortages, unless the world changes its ways, arising as early as 2030 AD, have made the main news again, with some discussion on what to do. This is all population driven, and yet even now we talk around this subject, because too many on the 'PC Left' consider it "Racist" to suggest that the Middle East, Asia and Africa need to curb their population growth now. This is doubly so, because so many of these left wingers have a vested employment interests in the work of charities, NGO's and Inter governmental agencies which promote more, not less children in the Third World, but with no attempt to curb the birth rates.

In the Middle East, no attempt has ever been made to cut birth rates of 10 or more children, especially amongst the poor and ill educated. There are several populations with very high population growth rates, such as those of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, or the United Arab Emirates. Its been pointed out that Iran is a notable exception to the regional trends.

In the sub continent, only Mrs Indira Gandhi ever tried any forceful birth control measures (and she was assassinated). Despite some evidence that birth rates are falling in India, it appears that she is still likely to overtake China in population levels by 2050 AD.

Pakistan is on a track of mass population growth (which should worry the UK), and is expected to go through the roof. In 1950 Pakistan had a population of about 40 million people. Since then it has more than tripled and stood at 136 million in 1995. But because the country not only has a very young population, but also still an extremely high fertility rate (much higher, for instance, than in Bangladesh or Thailand), its predicted that Pakistan's population will be about 357 million by 2050 AD.

The Chinese have practised a one child policy for decades (with some success), but recently they have relaxed it to two children to stabilise the population and to get rid of the male orientated population that the one child policy produced.

Sub Saharan Africa has no birth rate policies, and Nigeria is predicted to have grown from a population in 1950 of about 33 million to about 112 million now. The UN predicts that between 1995 and the year 2050 the country's population will probably triple again and reach almost 339 million ..... a ten fold increase in less than a century.

By 2050 AD a much bigger share of the world population will live in Africa South of the Sahara. In only some 50 years Western Africa, for instance, will have the same population as all of Europe. Eastern Africa will have many more people than all the countries of South America, the Caribbean and Oceania combined.

So we face an unprecedented population explosion, and no resources to feed them .... the US survivalists may be on to something.

Worlds Rivers Drying Up

As any reader of my Blog knows, I am fairly convinced that the world is heading for destruction this century .... I have pinpointed 2050 as the moment when the shit hits the fan .... so the news that many of the worlds major rivers water levels have declined significantly over the past 50 years is no great surprise.

The only area with a significant increase in water flows was the Arctic and Himalayas, due to a greater amount of snow and ice melting, and that's a disaster as well, because once the glacial ice has gone, its gone, and India and China will lose 30% of their fresh water supplies.

From the Yellow river in northern China, to the Ganges in India, to the Colorado river in the United States - US scientists say that the major sources of fresh water for much of the world's population are in decline.

We laughed at those 'Survivalists' but they may be the last ones standing.

Earth Over Populated

I have been blogging on 2050 AD, and the forthcoming Apocalypse, but for some reason scientists keep trying to bring the date forward!

Overcrowded Earth

The latest report is that the Earth's population 'exceeds its limits'. Dr Nina Fedoroff said that humans had exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability".

Enough To Make You Turn In Your Grave

This blog has followed the approach of 'The Apocalypse' in a series of articles 

Apocalypse

•  Malthus and the Four Horseman
• Predictions of Disaster
• When Chickens come Home to Roost, and the ever popular
• End of the World is Nigh

But always with the blasé assumption, that I personally wouldn't be around when it all happened, and that I would be safely tucked up in my grave when it arrived.