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Brazil's Bolsonaro demonstrates to the world how to use Scroogenomics to cut down on the excess population. Following the USA's example, it used a Presidential election campaign to fan the flames of a raging pandemic. Its contribution to the conflagration is easily seen : 

The failed former President, with his usual flair for predicting disasters his own actions contribute to   bringing about, announced in November that once his ability to spread the deadly microbe everywhere he went was curtailed, only then would the news media's unrelenting coverage of it ebb. Which, quite naturally, once his campaign of Super Spreader events stopped parading across the continent, it did. Sans a Chief Executive spreading disinformation, a fancy words for lies, the results are there for anyone to see. As soon as he got over his own bout, he took to the campaign trail, along with his Covid-infected Secret Service staff, and brought the largest spike in the infection rate that the nation had until then experienced. An exponential spike, in fact. A spike the evangelical leaders of the nations cheered, as they were, and are, fully behind the decimation of the US population, as can be seen by their continuing cheering of their avatar of the Christ's second coming. But as long as a holocaust isn't directed at any one specific religious group, but is instead championed by one specific religious group, it doesn't deserve airplay by our famously free press.

As vaccinations now threaten to end the pandemic, and the death toll dramatically collapses, the Religious Wars that we prefer to call "culture" wars are now inciting the "faithful" to violently, (that is the only option so-called people of faith have, reason being rejected, since they have nothing reasonable to say to counter scientific arguments against their handed-down views) oppose both vaccinations and vaccine ID's, as they will stop what they consider their god-given Freedom to spread misery and suffering among the rest of the population; misery and suffering being the religionists' bread and butter. Claiming to be the experts on death's aftermath, they gather like vultures around the corpses of Covid casualties bemoaning their passage, comforting those whose anguish they have deliberately engineered, while simultaneously strenuously fighting against any precautions the government and scientific community puts forward to reduce the numbers by not attending services that will sicken and kill them, and facilitate their spreading a virus to those outside their death cult's suicide pact with the devil. 

Genocidal Bolsonaro is so enchanted with this idea that he has not only copied it, but taken it up a notch, deliberately targeting indigenous communities in the Amazon to not only infect, but utterly destroy, by encouraging the criminals who are burning their habitat to cinders. A kind of General Custer meets General Sherman. Knee-capping an already Wounded Knee. Soy beans for China's insatiable demand and sugar cane to process into fuel are far more important to the Brazilian economy than any tribe of natives living as their ancestors have for millennia. Like the US, they have decided the Natives must be eliminated without reservation. Just like the orangutans of Borneo, who at least get a little attention from the world as they face their extermination. But Native populations of humans? Not so much. 

The ultimate goal is to supplant the entire rainforest with industrially grown sugarcane fields to fuel the vehicles of the future, only a small percentage of which, despite the Green economy's most fervent dreams, will be electric. The inconvenient truth being, that fuel-from-food crops was, and is still, considered to be a green solution, crops being, you know, green and all. Despite the fact that crops, whether of rice, or cattle, are known to be large emitters of methane. But growing crops to actually eat, not being destructive enough for mankind's twisted aims, is simply too old school. Why not increase the ravaging of the environment and the wanton destruction of species by an exponential amount by razing the land to plant food crops to feed to our beloved automobiles and really kick it up a notch? WHAM!

This deliberate geoengineering of the environment, which is what, since at least the eighties, Industrial Capitalism run amok  has been frenetically engaged in all over the globe, it is now being suggested, should be augmented by more deliberate geoengineering of the environment to, this time, dim the sunlight. Yet it is not Bill Gates, the proponent of this cock-eyed schemes, who is castigated all over the liberal media, but an, until now, unknown yahoo from Florida, Congress critter Matt Gaetz, who has become the favorite whipping boy of the self-righteous.

Suddenly, it becomes apparent why the supernaturalists are so adamant about their insistence that their god is good and that your science is bad. Sure people suffer more when the church runs the show, but at least the faithful are so mentally cowed they can be manipulated into accepting a life that condemns them and their offspring to living in mud huts and straw dwellings on a starvation diet while their clergy and royalty live off the proceeds of their labor. But at least, given the blight it brings down onto their collective heads, their numbers are kept correspondingly low, no matter how much they may reproduce. Like the balance in nature between predator and prey, the dynamism being the same, the number of humans in such an arrangement are, by its nature, kept in check. There is a balance to their existence. One that Malthus perceived and from which he made his dire predictions. Predictions that are ballyhooed nowadays, but that have been completely borne out. 

Magical thinking: Bio-diesel = Renewable Green energy

The green revolution that brought us industrialized agriculture, at the cost of agricultural jobs for  millions, is impossible without the eventually disastrous application of fossil-fuel derived pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and the combustion of Tractor and Combine fuel. There is no balance with nature in this enterprise, it being free of the energy constraints which were an integral part of Malthus' calculations. Its externalities, like those of all capitalist enterprises, are never considered, and they are never mentioned, the reason being that those who benefit, not only nutritionally, but in terms of their possible standard of living (as a parallel, the vast majority of people much prefer to purchase what a non-gambling mind would consider an onerous number of State Lottery tickets than bear a far less burdensome rate of taxation) believe themselves to be advantageously situated, which, temporarily, they often are. But the balance between consumption and energy inputs has been irreversibly skewed. In economics, when the dollar of profit per unit of debt is eroded by the payment of high interest and inflation, if the situation is not redressed, the economic collapse that must result is, as it so proved in 2008, only a matter of time. The bottom line of which is that for every dollar of profit earned, it requires increasing dollars of investment be made. The same is true of fossil-fueled ag, not surprisingly, as the dynamic of exogenous energy inputs is equivalent, such that the acreage cultivated to attain the same level of output (profits) grows at first, but once it reaches a peak, it declines, and then it it takes the application of more and more fertilizer (investment) be added to exhausted soils, more herbicides and pesticides to control rapidly mutating pests, or the reengineering of those inputs, such as GMO's, a re-engineering that is, again, exogenous to the system, but a large and growing part of the energy uptake of the industry, and as such reflects a larger input to maintain the, by now, decreased output. 

The Roaring Twenties. 

Why it matters: This summer will mark one year since the West Coast, where in 2020, 4.2 million acres burned in California alone, experienced its spate of  historically destructive wildfires. It is now, in early April, already seeing the onset of what is very likely to be an even more severe fire season; one where an already parched landscape with diminished water reserves is, in parts of Utah, already in flames. 

With soil moisture content during the month of March at its lowest level across the West in at least 120 years, Marin county has decided to be pro-active and asked its citizens to decrease their use of this vital resource. Same ole, same ole. As someone from the East coast, the unnerving numbers of consecutive days without a drop of water is quite disconcerting, so, as a lover of gardening and turning a scorched brown landscape in to one that is green and flourishing all year, I am an avid water conservationist. Using grey water that would go down the drain to supply a yard now bursting with plant life (but no lawn ... they're boring anyway). Why I mention that is to attest to the fact that I have seen how those who habitually, or, as in Marin, in the case of looming shortages, curtail their usage, are punished. What has happened in the past, and there's no reason to assume it won't again, is that anyone who INcreases their water usage is blessed with additional allocations once water restrictions are imposed. This is how it works:

Suppose a citizen in Marin who complies with the request and reduces their usage by 10% lives right next door to a user who, it now being dryer and hotter, increases his own usage to water a lawn, for example. Hence, when mandatory 10% cuts in allocations are imposed, the people who curtailed their usage by 10% have their supply cut by a further 10%, while those who increased the amount they use by 10% when the county asked for a voluntary reduction, will now receive their normal allocation. This could be easily resolved by allocating a given volume of water to each user and then charging a premium for any additional quantities the customer extracts from the system. PG&E uses pretty much that exact formula when computing the bill for usage during peak hours. But, judging by what Marin is doing and what has been done in the past, this will not be the case for water, not the least of reasons is that, even during the last drought, toward the end of it when the stress of water shortages were obvious to anyone who took a gander at the natural environment, Californians here in the oh-so-enlightened Bay Area, were still claiming that it was a government conspiracy, there was plenty of water, because, oh the humanity, there always had been in the past. Wow. But not to be outdone, the weather reports given on the air by the television networks when they were at last able to predict rain, did so as though it were a catastrophic event, as though not inconveniencing someone's plan for a picnic took precedence over having the resources to sustain life. Oh the calamity, Jane!

This is the exactly parallel situation that prevails in both the corona pandemic and the ongoing derangement of our climate, and it's why it is quite obvious that neither situation will be resolved by any voluntary reduction of a few well-intentioned individuals. Because, like the drought and the resultant lack of water it imposes, reality is not what a modern population, ensconced as we are in our own little mental Disneyland, is capable of coming to grips with, especially not if it entails the least inconvenience to our so-called "lifestyle", not the least of reasons being, as is evidenced by the campaign to recall Governor Nuisance for airing his French Laundry in public, when the perception is that those calling for a sacrifice from the rest of us, indulge in exactly the behavior they are calling on us to refrain from.

So the preview that we've been made privy to, of temperatures in various countries around the world, in not only the bone-Sawdi Arabian peninsula, but in Thailand and India, in Europe and Minneapolis, in Mexico and Japan, South Korea and Brazil, Australia and Kiwi, all experiencing record-breaking heat in not only March, but continuing into April, in a time when the globe is still in a La Niña ENSO cycle, so is running cooler than it otherwise would, the apocalyptic summer that we see blazing on the horizon is not a mere chimera: it is Your bill ready to view. And it is way overdue; so the penalty that may be extracted from us for neglecting it past all reasonable expectations, could easily be more than we will be able to afford. 

"Brazil's overall death toll trails only the U.S. outbreak, with nearly 333,000 killed, according to Health Ministry data, compared with more than 555,000 dead in the United States."

"It's a nuclear reactor that has set off a chain reaction and is out of control. It's a biological Fukushima," said Miguel Nicolelis, a Brazilian doctor and professor at Duke University, who is closely tracking the virus.

That is the situation the entire world is now in regarding the ongoing and uncurtailed release of CO2 into the atmosphere, with, at ~418 ppm, CO2 levels now higher than at anytime in the last 3.5 million years. Yet the fanning of the flames driving the temperature of the earth to one not seen in 3.5 million years has only increased. Just this year alone, thanks to a completely unhinged, richboy plaything, Bitcoin, a new CO2 burden, equivalent to that of a highly industrialized country, Italy, to be exact, has been added to the already billions of tons of the GNG output of the world. Of what point, one may well ask, is it to needlessly burn jet fuel for thousands to attend the COPout27?, uselessly burning jet fuel to ... well, to do what is anyone's guess ... when the equivalent of an entire extra country's output is simply added, practically overnight, to the CO2 burden? And for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than for the entertainment of a small coterie of rich brats trying to fuel yet another scheme to funnel the world's earnings into their own pockets, while burdening the rest of humanity with the bill. And they still have the bald-faced audacity to call it "Capitalism".

What's the point indeed ... NONE. In fact, less than none, since the CO2 cost of their little expedition in futility will only add to the burden while, more ominously, pretending that the world is Concerned, that it is doing something, when in fact quite the opposite is occurring; so much so that, we may as well face up to the fact, the more the OECD nations do keep pretending to do something, the more the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere accelerates. It is as though all their hand-wringing, even as their own personal energy use inexorably rises year after year, is somehow squeezing CO2 right out of their hands and into our air.

Idiot'S Avant-garde: DuhDuhism.

"We're all in this together."
 (Exactly why, can you elaborate, is that supposedly a good thing?)