Greetings good citizen,
I was watching the idiot box by myself last night and what should come on but a show about global warming titled 2100. I am fully aware that the Discovery network is a subsidiary of NewsCorp, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by the amazingly optimistic timeline presented as a ‘worst case scenario.’
Turns out this little ‘made for cable’ pseudo horror show was produced in 2009 in association with ‘Mr. Flat-Earth’ himself (Thomas Friedman, a bonafide >One Percenter.)
The premises put forth were optimistic in the extreme. Fantasies such as commercial air travel (in futuristic jetliners and not dirigibles, which would have been more ‘realistic’) still existing in a post energy scarcity world, a topic which was, for the most part, ignored!
I shouldn’t say that, they did include a mention of gas stations being out of fuel but the knock on effects of this event weren’t factored it.
Oh, the real icing on this fantasy cupcake was that the nation’s most populous city (and the hometown of Mr. Flat Earth) was showcased as a shining example of sustainability!
The (cartoon) buildings all had wind turbines on them and the rooftops all had gardens to sustain the residents below…which is total BS, the numbers don’t work.
Another ‘curious’ feature of this ‘countdown to doomsday’ (after Humanity becomes sustainable it still manages to collapse!) is how the global population keeps dropping as the true bogeyman of global warming and over population is revealed to be water shortages.
Incidents of civil unrest are met with lethal force by the, er, ‘government’…and nobody protests. (Although in the show our protagonist protests a rate hike by the privately owned desalination plant and the people ‘win’…and she meets her future husband…
But again, like most ‘capitalist fairy tales’ this too goes against its own principles!
Anyway, the hero of this epic has a baby girl of her own, which she and protest boy (both allegedly ‘liberal do-gooders’, she’s a nurse and he’s an engineer.) move to NYC to raise…(it’s now around 2040)
This is during this cross-country trek that the energy situation is touched upon, yet they make the trip in a gasoline-powered vehicle!
Oh, and they show gas stations advertising $5 a gallon gasoline…when as soon as this summer we will be hit with pumps that can’t handle the new ten plus dollars a gallon prices.
And if you can’t pay…or worse, how much more ‘irresistible’ will this increase in prices make knocking over convenience stores?
Remember, all crime is ‘cash and carry’!
The same people who can’t afford double-digit gasoline will likely be the ones robbing the place after dark.
The ‘wildcard’ here is next generation ‘gangs’.
Will outlaws start traveling in numbers again?
But this, er, ‘eventuality’ wasn’t explored in last night’s (wildly optimistic) ‘worst case scenario.’
After the sustainable grid fails (inexplicably…well, okay, there is a plague but the assumption that it only kills the people maintaining the equipment is a bit far fetched…(although you can see one of the deep seated fears of the One Percent in this situation.)
The plague won’t get them (or the damn liberals) they’re ‘too good’. It will be their faithful servants who will be struck down by the terrible disease, leaving them helpless and alone in the dark and the cold.
Funny how this whole scenario circles back to the inability of the wealthy ‘to conceive of a society without slaves.’
More ironic is how these worthless creatures will perish without someone to do the heavy lifting for them…
This is how it will end for the champions of the ‘rugged individual’.
But not so for our liberal protagonist! At 75 years old (and recently widowed, her husband dies when the dam he designed fails…) She sets out through the wasteland on foot to find her long lost daughter living in upstate NY.
And like most capitalist ‘feel good’ disaster films, she finds her…and isn’t she widowed too!
I wonder how much of this story Tom’s wife contributed? I’m seeing a pattern here.
So, back to reality…
The ‘slow fizzle’ depicted in this 2009 ‘dramatization’ wasn’t even close to how it will likely go down.
They use the (failed) global warming summit of 2009 as the ‘turning point’ that sets mankind on its path to doom.
Makes you wonder how disappointed the One Percent are that the retail economy collapsed, basically shutting down worldwide consumption?
Somehow the pinheads don’t see this as an ‘opportunity’.
Remember what I keep saying, ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL! Here is the ‘chance’ to rebuild local economies around the globe, considerably lightening their ‘carbon footprint’.
It starts with LOCALLY PRODUCED ‘renewable energy products’. You know the capitalist pinheads want to sell you CHINESE wind turbines and solar collectors…but unemployment is too high!
So the turbines and panels need to be built locally (maybe incorporating A FEW ‘imported parts’) Unfortunately the idiots don’t understand what ‘a few’ means but this can be straightened out at the border, so to speak.
Maybe the capitalist pinheads will figure out that the Chinese need solar panels and wind turbines too…
But for this to work the rest of us need to abandon capitalism and its predatory ways…and we may want to put the boots to communist leaders whose ‘cats don’t hunt’ as well.
Because the worst case is a lot closer and much worse than the >One Percent ‘imagines’ it will be…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
I was watching the idiot box by myself last night and what should come on but a show about global warming titled 2100. I am fully aware that the Discovery network is a subsidiary of NewsCorp, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by the amazingly optimistic timeline presented as a ‘worst case scenario.’
Turns out this little ‘made for cable’ pseudo horror show was produced in 2009 in association with ‘Mr. Flat-Earth’ himself (Thomas Friedman, a bonafide >One Percenter.)
The premises put forth were optimistic in the extreme. Fantasies such as commercial air travel (in futuristic jetliners and not dirigibles, which would have been more ‘realistic’) still existing in a post energy scarcity world, a topic which was, for the most part, ignored!
I shouldn’t say that, they did include a mention of gas stations being out of fuel but the knock on effects of this event weren’t factored it.
Oh, the real icing on this fantasy cupcake was that the nation’s most populous city (and the hometown of Mr. Flat Earth) was showcased as a shining example of sustainability!
The (cartoon) buildings all had wind turbines on them and the rooftops all had gardens to sustain the residents below…which is total BS, the numbers don’t work.
Another ‘curious’ feature of this ‘countdown to doomsday’ (after Humanity becomes sustainable it still manages to collapse!) is how the global population keeps dropping as the true bogeyman of global warming and over population is revealed to be water shortages.
Incidents of civil unrest are met with lethal force by the, er, ‘government’…and nobody protests. (Although in the show our protagonist protests a rate hike by the privately owned desalination plant and the people ‘win’…and she meets her future husband…
But again, like most ‘capitalist fairy tales’ this too goes against its own principles!
Anyway, the hero of this epic has a baby girl of her own, which she and protest boy (both allegedly ‘liberal do-gooders’, she’s a nurse and he’s an engineer.) move to NYC to raise…(it’s now around 2040)
This is during this cross-country trek that the energy situation is touched upon, yet they make the trip in a gasoline-powered vehicle!
Oh, and they show gas stations advertising $5 a gallon gasoline…when as soon as this summer we will be hit with pumps that can’t handle the new ten plus dollars a gallon prices.
And if you can’t pay…or worse, how much more ‘irresistible’ will this increase in prices make knocking over convenience stores?
Remember, all crime is ‘cash and carry’!
The same people who can’t afford double-digit gasoline will likely be the ones robbing the place after dark.
The ‘wildcard’ here is next generation ‘gangs’.
Will outlaws start traveling in numbers again?
But this, er, ‘eventuality’ wasn’t explored in last night’s (wildly optimistic) ‘worst case scenario.’
After the sustainable grid fails (inexplicably…well, okay, there is a plague but the assumption that it only kills the people maintaining the equipment is a bit far fetched…(although you can see one of the deep seated fears of the One Percent in this situation.)
The plague won’t get them (or the damn liberals) they’re ‘too good’. It will be their faithful servants who will be struck down by the terrible disease, leaving them helpless and alone in the dark and the cold.
Funny how this whole scenario circles back to the inability of the wealthy ‘to conceive of a society without slaves.’
More ironic is how these worthless creatures will perish without someone to do the heavy lifting for them…
This is how it will end for the champions of the ‘rugged individual’.
But not so for our liberal protagonist! At 75 years old (and recently widowed, her husband dies when the dam he designed fails…) She sets out through the wasteland on foot to find her long lost daughter living in upstate NY.
And like most capitalist ‘feel good’ disaster films, she finds her…and isn’t she widowed too!
I wonder how much of this story Tom’s wife contributed? I’m seeing a pattern here.
So, back to reality…
The ‘slow fizzle’ depicted in this 2009 ‘dramatization’ wasn’t even close to how it will likely go down.
They use the (failed) global warming summit of 2009 as the ‘turning point’ that sets mankind on its path to doom.
Makes you wonder how disappointed the One Percent are that the retail economy collapsed, basically shutting down worldwide consumption?
Somehow the pinheads don’t see this as an ‘opportunity’.
Remember what I keep saying, ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL! Here is the ‘chance’ to rebuild local economies around the globe, considerably lightening their ‘carbon footprint’.
It starts with LOCALLY PRODUCED ‘renewable energy products’. You know the capitalist pinheads want to sell you CHINESE wind turbines and solar collectors…but unemployment is too high!
So the turbines and panels need to be built locally (maybe incorporating A FEW ‘imported parts’) Unfortunately the idiots don’t understand what ‘a few’ means but this can be straightened out at the border, so to speak.
Maybe the capitalist pinheads will figure out that the Chinese need solar panels and wind turbines too…
But for this to work the rest of us need to abandon capitalism and its predatory ways…and we may want to put the boots to communist leaders whose ‘cats don’t hunt’ as well.
Because the worst case is a lot closer and much worse than the >One Percent ‘imagines’ it will be…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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