THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE: Did You Ever Notice Traffic Jams? High Rents? Expensive Food? All Those Things are Caused By Too Many People Competing for Limited Resources.

The Solution to the Problem of Overpopulation is to Make Birth Control and Abortion FREE and LEGAL Worldwide... 

La solución al problema de la sobrepoblación es hacer que el control de la natalidad y el aborto sean GRATIS y LEGALES en todo el mundo...

Just Like any Other Animal, Nature Reduces an Overpopulated Species using Starvation, Disease, Fire, Hurricanes and War. Biologist Thomas Malthus Wrote About This Over a Hundred Years Ago... and It's Still True... 

Did You Notice The Coronavirus? That's Nature Reducing Overpopulation... and How Many MORE Plagues Are Coming?

More people means more demand for oil, gas, coal and other fuels mined or drilled from below the Earth’s surface that, when burned, spew enough carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere to trap warm air inside like a greenhouse.

 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-growth-climate-change/

'One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and Nature should not be broken.' Leo Tolstoy.

When all this with the climate and ecological crisis is over, this will be how the survivors who have come out of the Earth's Great Tribulation will work to restore their broken links and connections to Mother Earth. And once that ancient lost link between humanity and Mother Nature is restored, it will not be broken again. For some of you here, you will witness this great restoration between ourselves, the Earth and all life on this planet. For those of you who are especially fortunate and blessed, you will be part of this restoration. You will help educate and guide humanity into forging a new peace treaty and covenant with the planet.

Most, however, will remain in darkness and self-serving human egotism and will be swept away with the tides of change without ever realizing or understanding the crimes they have committed against the Mother of all Life.

For those who are interested, here is the link to the Treaty with Mother earth - https://www.facebook.com/globalactionagainst107/photos/3079260388812218

On a Different Subject: 

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Hey Everybody: Let's Cut Driving In Half... Do You REALLY Need to Burn Fossil Fuels to Live a Good Life? Cars, Trucks and Vans are CAUSING Climate Change... JUST PARK 'EM ...and... NO FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES! NONE!

Trump's Base (Uneducated White Men) Have Fewer Children Than Minority Groups and At The Same Time, Death Rates of Uneducated White Men Have Increased In the Last Four Years. Suicide=UP, Alcoholism=UP, Drug Overdoses=UP - CLICK HERE FOR THE SOLUTION!

The Only Thing Anyone Has Any Control Over is EDUCATION. You Can't Change Your Skin Color or Gender... SO... LEARN A TRADE... I Borrowed Money for Tuition from the Department of Education, Went to Humboldt State University, Did My Homework, Attended Every Class and Graduated with a BS Computer Science - and Then Instantly Was Hired at a Great Job... at The County of Humboldt, California. Union Job With High Pay, Benefits, Health Care, Retirement... In An Office with Air conditioning in the Summer and Heat in the Winter... 

"The Ideal Man is One With a Job." - Wisdom From a Lady I Married... 


Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/white-minority-population.html

Less than half of US children under 15 are white, census shows.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/less-than-half-of-us-children-under-15-are-white-census-shows/

The US white majority will soon disappear forever.
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/the-us-white-majority-will-soon-disappear-forever/

Trump Supporters are Killing Themselves in Record Numbers. Suicide, Alcoholism and Opioid Overdoses are increasing Among Uneducated White Males. (Trump's "Base")

Hope for the future is declining among Trump voters. There is a growing realization that Trump has not done anything to improve the quality of life for the people of the working class.  Chance of getting a good job is low. Trump is only helping the super rich get more money...

Link between “Depression Deaths” in White America & Trump Victory. HOW PLACES WITH HIGH PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION DEATHS PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN ELECTION VICTORY OF TRUMP IN 2016 HTTPS://TOWARDSDATASCIENCE.COM/LINK-BETWEEN-DEPRESSION-DEATHS-IN-WHITE-AMERICA-TRUMP-VICTORY-4209A9D9957E

and then on Facebook... Brainwashed TrumpNiks Disagree: Barb Bradley Sr. Gregory Laan I don't think so. We're very happy with our President. He gives us hope and the truth. You stupid Dems/libs are the ones so irate and losing it in record numbers. Before you start spewing your venom, get your facts straight. And the uneducated makes are in the Dem. Party, always have been on purpose. That's what they recruited them, because they are needy and gullible. Trump's base seem to be educated,, thinking people and of course, you don't understand us or our President. LOSER

"The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People's 'Deaths Of Despair'. 

In 2015, when researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton discovered that death rates had been rising dramatically since 1999 among middle-aged white Americans, they weren't sure why people were dying younger, reversing decades of longer life expectancy.

Note the USMC Flag at Trump's Homeless Tent City

Matt Foley: Van Down By The River - SNL -

After their cleaning lady finds pot in the house, parents (Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney) hire motivational speaker Matt Foley (Chris Farley) to talk to their teens (David Spade, Christina Applegate) about drugs and their future. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8

Now the husband-and-wife economists say they have a better understanding of what's causing these "deaths of despair" by suicide, drugs and alcohol. In a follow-up to their groundbreaking 2015 work, they say that a lack of steady, well-paying jobs for whites without college degrees has caused pain, distress and social dysfunction to build up over time. The mortality rate for that group, ages 45 to 54, increased by a half percent each year from 1999 to 2013."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521083335/the-forces-driving-middle-aged-white-peoples-deaths-of-despair 

www.schatzlab.org

What is going on, then, with death rates for middle-aged whites? Case and Deaton aren't sure, but they argued that alcohol abuse, suicides and the opioid epidemic have something to do with it. The rate of fatal "poisonings" for instance — a category that includes drug overdoses — more than tripled among middle-aged whites since 2000.

Economic struggles have likely contributed as well. Case and Deaton also found that the increase in the death rate has been driven by people with less education. For those without a college degree, the economy in recent decades has been increasingly miserable. This may explain why some have turned to self-destructive behaviors, such as drug and alcohol abuse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/death-predicts-whether-people-vote-for-donald-trump/?utm_term=.49a37f1da81f

Hillary Clinton Found Totally Innocent! "LOCK HER UP!" FAILED... However, Many Republicriminals Went To Prison... Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Paul Erickson = Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty, George Nader=Guilty

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Where 'despair deaths' were higher, voters chose Trump

Counties where life expectancy fell also swung to Trump, the researchers found.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/where-despair-deaths-were-higher-voters-chose-trump-n906631

Trump's Failed Economy is ACTUALLY KILLING AMERICANS... Life Expectancy Rates in the US Drop for the 3rd Consecutive Year. WAKE UP & NOTICE REALITY!

Americans Lived Longer When Obama Was President.

The report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and cites the escalation of suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease (alcoholism) as contributing factors.

https://www.theroot.com/mo-money-mo-problems-life-expectancy-rates-in-the-us-1840068785

My Comment on Newspaper Articles about Freedom of Speech, PG&E Power Outages and Declining Population of Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. My Alma Mater.

https://thelumberjack.org/2019/12/13/hsu-adapts-to-low-enrollment/#respond
The Population of students is HIGHER Than when I went 2001 – 2005… and Back then it was Difficult to Find an Apartment to rent in Arcata. Difficult to find a Parking Space… and Difficult to Get the Classes I wanted because Other Students Had already Grabbed all available seats… SO, In My Humble Opinion… Fewer Students would be better… The Only People That Want More Students are the Corporate-Corporate” People That work in Administration… Smaller Class Sizes Would Be Great! I LOVED GOING TO HSU AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE… Computer Science Graduate and Happy With What I Learned. I especially enjoyed Taking Journalism and Writing for the Lumberjack Newspaper. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=HSU

https://thelumberjack.org/2019/12/12/parody-is-protected-speech/#respond

Thanks For Pointing Me to This Joke! I did a Google Image Search and Then LAUGHED OUT LOUD… There was an Article Ridiculing The University’s BIZARRO Complaint in the Lost Coast Outpost… OF COURSE, Publishing on the School’s Computers Subjects You to OVERSIGHT by the “Corporate-Corporate” Administration Trolls… WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND EXPERIENCE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION… https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/dec/7/ridiculousness-humboldt-states-uproar-over-wet-wea/

https://thelumberjack.org/2019/11/02/miscommunications-and-misdirection/#respond

It Makes No Sense to Shut Off The Power NEAR THE COAST. The Climate is Cool and Rainy and NO DANGER OF POWER LINES STARTING FIRES. I Can See Taking Action in the Higher Elevations Like Ruth Lake or Kneeland. The Climate is Warm and Dry There. PG&E ought to USE SANITY in their Mapping of Power Outages... You Can Verify The Climate Difference by Taking a Drive up Greenwood Heights Road from Freshwater... and It's a Beautiful Drive to Visit the Cows Standing in the Middle of the Street... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=Kneeland

The Day the Power Went Out [Speculative Fiction in the What If? Genre.] - Note: This was written by hand in pen on paper.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter Zero ~~~~~~~~~~~

 It was 4:39 AM according to the clock in the van.  I went back to sleep. When I awoke in the morning the power was still out. It stayed out.

About 3/4 of the World's population died over the next few years.

All the money in all the bank's computers vanished. No oil was pumped. No computers, telephones, TV... No gas for trucks to bring food to the city... The people that lived off the grid survived and thrived. All the stuff survived... Thank God for the Bic Lighter. Fire is Good.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~~~~~~~~~

It started to get cold. I started writing this diary using a pen on paper. (a mostly blank report from Merrill Lynch - USPS Junk Mail).

I can hear little birds. The police drove into King Salmon and Flashed Red, White and Blue Lights then drove away... A PG&E Truck drove by and then drove by again going in the other direction. Doing Recon. At this point in time I do not know if this is The End [link to doors song]

The water works at home. No Phone, No Computers, No Cooking, Heat? Unknown. Battery backup on thermostat? No Electricity.

It was rainy and windy last night but not excessively so. I could see the blinking channel lights in the bay but King Salmon was Dark.

I wonder... What IF the electricity went out worldwide forever...
Would I be one of the survivors of a Techno-Industrial Collapse? What can I do to thrive in the Post Apocalypse? What can we do?

"After the Global Economic Collapse You and I will breed a new race."
"Oh Boy! That sounds like fun!"

Or we could build Sailboats with fishing poles. Three masted schooners with large nets. Great for catching fish in a world without electricity. Feeding the People.

Or we could grow our own...

~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Two ~~~~~~~~~~

Time Passes... (What else would Time Do?)

"Well, look at that" says I staring at a glowing lightbulb...

It looks like a UFO hovering near the ceiling... and then it flew away...

Note the Turtle's Shadow on the ceiling...
as If the Turtle is Riding the UFO! 

So, This individual level 5 catastrophic event did not come to pass this time... Will Our Hero Learn from this experience and Thrive in the Post Apocalypse techno industrial wasteland?

As it turns out... NO... a couple of days later, the internet went out for a day...

Suddenlink to the rescue! Three trucks and a PG&E truck too.

Official PG&E Outages Webpage Searchable Map.
http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
at the time I typed this story, We were at the center of a known outage caused by equipment overload. Possibly an indoor marijuana farm using grow lights... Makes you wonder... 

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The Quantity of White People in the USA is DECLINING. More White People are Dying than are Being Born... Soon Whites will be a Minority Group.

http://www.niussp.org/article/majority-minority-declining-u-s-white-population/

In this essay we document the demography of the decline of the white population in the United States... [and the Scary Brown People Are Coming To Get You! --- Danger Danger, Aliens Approaching!]

However... In Reality... tRUMP "Shoots Himself in the Foot" with his FAKE National Emergency that the VAST Majority of Americans Do Not Want... NO WALL...

Hatred for Latinos does not sell with Most People... He can Scream "Danger Danger" but WE THE PEOPLE are not fooled... Actual Arrests of People coming over the Border with Mexico are at a 20 YEAR LOW... More Latino People are Moving from the USA to Mexico than are Coming in...

There IS NO NATIONAL EMERGENCY... It's all just Racism...

WALLS ALWAYS FAIL...

The Great Wall of China FAILED to keep the Chinese Out. Look at a Map. The wall is in the middle of the country... Chinese People Live On Both Sides!

The Berlin Wall, FAILED To keep the East Germans In... As President Reagan said: "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall."

Hadrian's Wall FAILED to keep the Scottish People out of England. The Romans built that wall and then they ran back home to Italy.

The Only WALL that was Successful was Pink Floyd's...

tRUMP'S Wall is about 260 years too late... Mexicans Colonized California starting in 1760... Father Junipero Serra built Missions starting in San Diego (Saint Douglas) all the Way to San Francisco (Saint Francis of Assisi)... all the Towns have Mexican Names... Los Angeles (The Angels), Sacramento (The Sacrament), San Jose (Saint Joseph), Los Gatos (The Cats).... White People didn't move to California until 1849 when Gold was Discovered and then the USA stole All the Land from Mexico... Originally Mexicans Owned Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada...

We have been living with Mexicans for Hundreds of Years... Peacefully... This SPANISH PANIC of tRUMP's is ABSURD...

Ever hear the Song SPANISH PANIC from the Musical "Once Upon a Mattress"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBic-Acy6LE

Trump's Border Wall is DOOMED TO FAIL. It's 260 Years Too Late. Mexicans "Invaded" California in 1760... They Founded the Town of Saint Douglas (San Diego)... Then they Founded the City of the Angels (Los Angeles)... The Colorful State (Colorado), The Flowery State (Florida) and the Snowy State (Nevada)...

Trump's Border Wall is also DOOMED because people FLY over it in Airplanes, Sail Around it in Boats and Drive Thru at Checkpoints using Fake ID... What's to prevent a person from Mailing a California Driver Licence to Tijuana? Then a Person that LOOKS SIMILAR presents it at the Crossing at San Ysidro... A Walls won't prevent Identity Fraud... Remember this: The Great Wall of China FAILED to Keep the Chinese Out... There are Chinese on BOTH SIDES of that wall.

How do you build a wall on a RIVER? The Great River (Rio Grande) divides the State of TEJAS (Texas) from Mexico...

The OTHER MAIN FLAW with Trump's Border Wall is that Latino People are Not That Scary. I was born in the City of Saint Joseph (San Jose) and about half the people are Hispanic... For example: My Hero in Junior High School was an Elegant Man Named Isidro M... He was the Basketball Coach... On my Facebook Group of Alumni from The Cats High School (Los Gatos) everyone agreed that he was a LOVED and RESPECTED Teacher...

Why would you want to build a wall between the USA and Mexico when Mexicans are nice people? Perhaps Trump was Mugged by Puerto Ricans when he was a Child in Queens? Maybe THAT's why he has so much hatred... I remember the Musical "West Side Story" was about rival Street Gangs... One made up of Polish Kids and the Other was Puerto Rican... A famous song was "Maria" and then they Named a Hurricane "Maria" that wiped out the Island Of Puerto Rico... Trump's FEMA Failed Badly to repair Puerto Rico... 

One of the Secrets to the Success of Silicon Valley was that corporate leaders hired smart people from all over the world move to San Jose to work in Computers... My Next Door neighbor was from Nicaragua... Who knew that there were Computer Scientists in Nicaragua? IBM did... We also knew a Nazi who came to NASA after WW2...  When I went to work at System Industries in Santa Clara most of the employees were Asian or Hispanic... I had a LOT of Respect for my direct supervisor who was a Harley Davidson Riding Martial Artist... I certainly did what he told me to do... I was afraid of him because he could beat me up... but he never had to because I simply Honored His Wisdom... 

YOU MAY READ MORE BLOG POSTS ON SIMILAR SUBJECTS BY USING THE LABELS BELOW... Click and Enjoy the Bliss!

Great Book: "The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann A plan for surviving Global Warming and the Population Bomb.

No matter what Trump and the Climate Change Deniers believe, we are headed for some rough times ahead. By the year 2050 it's predicted that there will be 10 billion people alive... how will we feed them all? OR will we control the population by mass starvation? It's also possible to reduce population by endless war... and/or genetically designed diseases... bio-weapons... Hurricanes and wildfires... However, we ought to create a future for ourselves and our children that does not involve creating I dystopian nightmare world. Ya-Think?

This book studies two main plans for preventing disaster... The Wizards believe that we can invent solutions to our problems and The Prophets believe that by changing our lifestyle/behavior we can save our lives. No doubt we need to do both...

Some simple things we can do to prevent eco-disaster. Use Less Electricity [removing the need for coal fired power plants]... Have fewer children [removing the need for over farming the limited land]... and Drive our cars less [ burning less oil and gas that creates air pollution]...

https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-Tomorrows/dp/0307961699

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. An incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.

Norman Borlaug: Agricultural Scientist that invented wheat that produced vastly more food per acre. The Green Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

William Vogt was an ecologist interested in population control and author of "Road to Survival"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vogt

According to Charles C. Mann, "Vogt...laid out the basic ideas for the modern environmental movement. In particular, what is called 'apocalyptic environmentalism'—the belief that unless humankind drastically reduces consumption and limits population, it will ravage global ecosystems.

The Day the Power Went Out [Speculative fiction in the What If? Genre.]

Note: This was written by hand in pen on paper.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter Zero ~~~~~~~~~~~

 It was 4:39 AM according to the clock in the van.  I went back to sleep. When I awoke in the morning the power was still out. It stayed out.

About 3/4ths of the World's population died over the next few years.

All the money in all the bank's computers vanished. No oil was pumped. No computers, telephones, TV... No gas for trucks to bring food to the city... The people that lived off the grid survived and thrived. All the stuff survived... Thank God for the Bic Lighter. Fire is Good.

~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~~~~~~~~~

It started to get cold. I started writing this diary using a pen on paper. (a mostly blank report from Merrill Lynch - USPS Junk Mail).

I can hear little birds. The police drove into King Salmon and Flashed Red, White and Blue Lights then drove away... A PG&E Truck drove by and then drove by again going in the other direction. Doing Recon. At this point in time I do not know if this is The End [link to doors song]

The water works at home. No Phone, No Computers, No Cooking, Heat? Unknown. Battery backup on thermostat? No Electricity.

It was rainy and windy last night but not excessively so. I could see the blinking channel lights in the bay but King Salmon was Dark.

I wonder... What IF the electricity went out worldwide forever...
Would I be one of the survivors of a Techno-Industrial Collapse? What can I do to thrive in the Post Apocalypse? What can we do?

"After the Global Economic Collapse You and I will breed a new race."
"Oh Boy! That sounds like fun!"

Or we could build Sailboats with fishing poles. Three masted schooners with large nets. Great for catching fish in a world without electricity. Feeding the People.

Or we could grow our own...

~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Two ~~~~~~~~~~

Time Passes... (What else would Time Do?)

"Well, look at that" says I staring at a glowing lightbulb...

It looks like a UFO hovering near the ceiling... and then it flew away...

Note the Turtle's Shadow on the ceiling...
as If the Turtle is Riding the UFO! 

So, This individual level 5 catastrophic event did not come to pass this time... Will Our Hero Learn from this experience and Thrive in the Post Apocalypse techno industrial wasteland?

As it turns out... NO... a couple of days later, the internet went out for a day...

Suddenlink to the rescue! Three trucks and a PG&E truck too.

Official PG&E Outages Webpage Searchable Map.
http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
at the time I typed this story, We were at the center of a known outage caused by equipment overload. Possibly an indoor marijuana farm using grow lights... Makes you wonder...