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Jennifer Depew, R.D.'s avatar

*I got a freebie for you Sheldon - I was thinking - I just read a Substack on this same topic - um, no, I had just started writing one about a news article I had read this morning. A whistle-blower type MD revealing details about a study when she was younger that never got published and left her suspicous of money motives in the health industry. It seems the insurance company involved squelched the study with her superiors instead of making improvements that would save patient's lives. She is not recommending it, she is revealing it. “Perverse Economies: Who Is Worth Saving? — It's often cheaper to let people die”, by Judy Melinek, MD January 5, 2023, (https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/102515)

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I recently watched a video where Russell Brand interviewed Graham Hancock. Mr. Hancock is a journalist who has studied archeology and perhaps ancient history a lot. He talked about the last ice age, which I think was called the Younger Dryas and occurred around 14,000 years ago. At the end of this age, about 12,000 years ago, the temperature rose very quickly - according to the NOAA - about 10 deg C in 1 DECADE. The result was a drastic rise in sea levels and a near extinction event including humans. I personally think that this is the Great Flood from the biblical Noah story. Watch the video, it fits.

I don't know specifically what the population of the earth was 12,000 years ago but I think we can assume it was lower than today. I also don't think that 'fossil fuels' were used much at the time.

Any rational person can see that the climate can change catastrophically (or wonderfully) and we humans have absolutely nothing to do with it. Nada, zilch, nothing.

What may be going on right now is a combination of gross financial mismanagement, greed, control freaks/narcissists, hubris etc. Not to mention the cult of Malthus and Machiavelli.

Gross financial mismanagement because the entire global financial system is a huge mess that keeps getting kicked down the road. It may even be that the people in charge of central banks see the mess and are trying to take steps to make the collapse less painful. Those steps however involve draining money from wherever they can find it, i.e., your pocket and mine.

Greed and control because the very rich and powerful probably think they can only remain where they are by keeping us on a very short leash.

Narcissists & hubris because they won't admit error.

Malthus & Machiavelli because that's where the theories of (1) too few resources and too many people and (2) the end justifies the means came from at least they were the originators in the recent past.

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