I support Ron Paul for President (and I am not even American)

Just wish I was in the US so I could vote for this guy. This is just common sense. If you meddle in other peoples countries they are just going to get really mad. We need to go forward in a spirit of co-operation, not meddling and mistrust or else we are ALL DOOMED.

UK leaders have started making noises like Occupy but it is clear that they are only saying what people expect them to say. This guy is genuine. What he is saying risks making too many enemies for it to just be BS.

Obama has shown himself to be totally ineffective. Not just the US but the whole worlds needs the US to take a new less meddlesome, less profit orientated, direction.




The above is a long video but please watch - even if you are not someone who has the Republican nomination in your gift, if you share it those who can still choose may get to see it and realise it is time to be radical.

I really fear for the world if any of the other bozos get in. We have enough serious problems to worry about in the coming few years.

1. All the easy to get oil/gas/coal is nearly gone. What will the economy be like if we have to rely on water table polluting 'fracking' and super risky deep water drilling?
2. 'Rare Earth' minerals are getting very rare indeed. Some like Strontium, Silver, Antimony, Gold and Zinc are only a decade or less away from being completely mined out. The clue is in the term. They were already rare when the term was coined hundreds of years ago!
3. Much of the fresh water that the increasing population of the world depends on comes from ancient aquifers which only fill slowly over thousands of years. We are using fresh water much faster than the natural cycle of rain replenishes it! In that way it is running out just like oil.
4. Farm land is getting poorer as it is over used and lost to desert. Fertilisers depend on both oil energy to make them and the availability of minerals like Nitrates and Phosphorous. Clever science has done wonders in increasing crop yields but we cannot assume that can carry on indefinitely as the sunshine that grows the crops is pretty much constant. Uncontrolled population growth looks like finding its control in starvation - not good!
5. Oh! And Global Warming caused by burning all that fossil fuel that took millions of years to deposit. That climate change will cause issues such as more farm land becoming useless, more unpredictable weather etc. This just makes all of the above even worse.

You can find much more like this in Chris Martensons Crash Course book and set of Youtube hosted lectures.

War and preparing for war is SO expensive as a planet we just cannot afford it any more. The major military spending like $30 billion by Saudi Arabia just has to stop, right now.

The situation facing the whole planet is really really grave. All those bright minds and industrial capacity that is at present devoted to outrageously expensive ways to kill people (such as single fighter aircraft that cost over a billion dollars each) needs to be turned to finding real and lasting solutions to the very grave and urgent problems that we face.

I turn 50 this year. Retirement is still a decade or two away so I would like to have some sort of viable world to live in.

I think this trouble is coming so soon that it will affect the lives of anyone under the age of 80 - so that is most of us that need to be really really concerned.

What would instil the right sense of urgency? How about if we acted like a massive asteroid was going to hit us in 15 years and we have to work out either how to deflect it or develop large scale space flight to get off the planet? That is the sort of level of commitment I am talking about. Think of Apollo moonshot times 1000.

The world is gathering for the Olympics in London this summer. We have huge stadia ready and waiting. What needs to happen is for world leaders to fess up to their populations just how serious things are and that we use the time between sporting events there to have meetings with as many people involved as possible to sort out just how we are going to cope with the coming changes.

We need to plan for a soft landing. As I have already said war and preparing for war is the fastest way to destroy and use up what resources we have left. Just doing nothing at this stage will guarantee that a fight to the death for what remains is the only option humanity has left.

There is a chance for a much better outcome but we must act now. Governments the world over seem to be choked off from doing the right thing for the survival of their people by the vested interests of profit orientated corporations. This is what the Occupy movement means by the 1% controlling what the 99% needs to.

The choice is stark, we fight for life now, by not allowing people just to carry on in their complacent daydream, or fight to the death a decade or so down the line. Which would you rather do?

If you were the passenger in a car and you noticed the driver was nodding off would you try to wake him or just sit tight and shut your eyes, hoping not to hit anything! We need to wake the general population not through ideological reasons but self preservation. We need the majority to realise just how serious things are as their co-operation will be needed if we are to get through this.

The fossil energy fuelled Industrial Age is over. We have enough resources left (maybe) for a smooth transition to a more sustainable way of life, but not if we get dragged into more pointless wars like Afghanistan, Iraq and the now looming Iran.