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Wicked problems : Comments

By Peter McMahon, published 13/9/2017

There are other wicked problems facing us, such as fundamentalist terrorism, global pandemic and runaway digital technology.

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The most important and pressing problem facing us is the out of control plague of Homo Sapiens.
Conveniently ignored in this essay.
Posted by ateday, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 7:28:07 AM
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Climate Change. But much more than you think.

It's happened every two hundred years of so. And it is mother nature who turns on the events - and they can be devastating. Even medium sized events cause winds, floods, droughts,food shortages, epidemics, and political fallout ... a cycle that in the past took about ten years. It has been said that the French Revolution, was encouraged by weird end of the world feeling caused by noxious gases that killed men and beast on the field. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki

The Laki 1783 explosion was the first time that some connection was made between distant volcanic events and Climate Change. That's why history searches don't make a connection between what happened in Indonesia and the climate in Europe. Yet the 535 AD Krakatoa event was huge and caused the "Dark Ages" when the sun cast no shadow in Europe for years. The resultant crop failures encircled the world and History rewrote itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

I wrote an article about major Climate Change events and Volcanoes years ago. See http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/back-issues/new-dawn-137-march-april-2013

We should prepare food reserves for the when the next event happens. And big or small it will.
Posted by don't worry, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 7:38:49 AM
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Hawaii has volcanoes and Obama and Pearl Harbour, causing swamps and Trumps.
Posted by nicknamenick, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 7:44:02 AM
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nothing is more wicked than the filth the authors of the 'safe'school program perverted people want to indoctrinate young kids with. They are closely related to padeophile priests.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 8:03:05 AM
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As bad as these very real problems are and include self destruction as a species, by just emulating frogs being very slowly brought to the boil, and just too far gone to react in a timely self survival fashion!

Instead of dealing with this threat and just by using the brains we were born with, we have this ongoing contest of failed rat eat rat extreme capitalism and failed pig eat all it can then come back for seconds, socialism. By the powerful who can't let go of their FAILED, extreme ideological (inmates running the asylum) imperatives!

Both of these failed ideologies seem to favor self serving oligarchs over ordinary folk. And based on thoroughly disgraced economic constructs, that effectively concentrate our finite wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

And ably assisted by clearly corrupt public officials, without whom and their covert cooperation? None of this self defeating rubbish would be possible.

And unless reversed and given we actually survive? Will see a return to the dark ages, replete with slavery and child labor,[already happening,] as we descend, chasing the lowest common denominator and the savagery that then must also prevail?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 13 September 2017 8:24:25 AM
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I second Ateday.

The only wicked problem is this out-of-control plague of Homo Sapiens.

If we cannot or would not control our sexual/procreative urges, then mother nature will do the job for us to correct this mistake. The human race is not indispensable.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 8:30:39 AM
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