The situation in Niger continues to worsen dramatically, as flooding wipes out all remaining food stocks, leaving over 200,000 homeless.

Niger has been particularly hard hit in recent years, with oil spills dwarfing the Gulf of Mexico disaster many times over.

The global food situation is worsening dramatically — and very, very rapidly.

I found this over on Desdemona Despair today, but couldn’t comment properly (too long).

This is an oddball article, that you should read first before my commentary: If the world is going to hell, why are humans doing so well?

This perspective depends on your view of “better”.  More people starve now then at any time in human history. More people are enslaved now (real slaves, not just wage slavery, also now at global levels) then at any time in human history (in excess of 20,000,000 real slaves are reported by human rights organizations, this is far more then at any other time in human history).

Life expectancy has risen - in some areas, but not for all. Human populations levels have massively increased — but not without a terrifying price in terms of human oppression, disease outbreaks, servitude and environmental collapse.

The notion alleged in the original article that “human well-being continues to improve” is patently false, based upon a very warped understanding of human existence and the quality of life (and what it now actually takes in terms of effort and labor to simply “exist”).

Various studies have been done by anthropologists and others that demonstrate that we work harder and receive less in terms of quality of life then at any other time in history.

Increased population levels do not mean that we are “better off” at all. Nor does the increased life-span for some groups imply this either.

“The authors, led by geographer Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne of McGill University, offer four hypotheses for this “environmentalist’s paradox”: humans are actually worse off than we think; the ability to grow food trumps all other ecosystem services as far as humans are concerned; technology has allowed us to transcend the environment; and the ill effects of environmental degradation lag its benefits, i.e. the worst is yet to come.”

Indeed it is, the worst is yet to come. Human civilization has collapsed many, many times before, we are no different. We have however, made this scenario and likelihood significantly worse then any other former human civilization, due to our global degradation and depletion of the world’s environment and natural resources. Coupled with a gigantic overshoot in human population, there can only be one possible outcome.

It’s a very odd article, a feel-good “don’t worry right now” with some weird contradictions, like this:

“A prime example is cities—both a maw of human consumption and a way to minimize the human footprint on the planet.”

Cites are in no way a “way to minimize the human footprint”, they are the exact OPPOSITE. Producing zero resources themselves, they are black holes in which energy and materials and raw resources are voraciously consumed at ever-increasing rates.

Minimizing human-footprint would actually require the demolishing of cities and a return to localized living — which is the only sustainable method of living that exists — anywhere in the world.  The city requires global / national and mega-regional inputs — a truly unsustainable existence, along with very high population levels and density.

As I said, a weird article with outrageous assumptions that defy common sense:

“First off, as far as anyone who has studied the issue can tell, despite vast differences, on the whole, humanity has never been better.”

This is yet another patently false statement. Humanity is significantly worse off now then at any other time in human history (despite our expansion and growth). Every human on the planet is now imperiled due to human-activity and the dire consequences this causes.  Future humans are even worse off as we edge constantly closer to the precipice.

The author is unread apparently, the Anthropocene is a era of human-caused disasters and suffering, one which can only be championed as “the best it’s ever been” if you simply ignore our cause and effects at the expense of everything else, even ourselves.

(Reuters) - The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday. U.S. drones to watch entire Mexico border from September 1

“The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.”  Signs In Arizona Warn

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

“Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”

Also see my recent post,  Mexico At War Within.

The present model followed for advancement and development of the world’s global civilization can be summed up as the “business as usual” growth paradigm. The main components of this paradigm are growth, commerce, consumption and economics.  Most of us understand this as capitalism, the competition for resources, labor, profits and economic activity.

These are the pistons powering the engine of human global activity in modern societies, the supercharged V-8 engine of the modern human enterprise.

However, they are also the gnashing wheels of global decline and resource destruction which are leading the world to collapse.

The end of the world as we know it is a happening event, occurring daily.  The incessant demand of civilization for business as usual is voraciously consuming the world’s remaining resources to the point of total global collapse.  Competition for land, water, food and resources has reached crisis levels, with accompanying wars, economic sanctions, deforestation and desertification and anthropogenic global climate change.

Zero-growth advocates seek a wholesale change of the status quo in the hopes to avoid collapse.  However, zero-growth will not be enough.  Current consumption rates of energy, food, fuel, land, timber, minerals and other natural resources are far, far in excess of sustainable levels even with zero-growth of present population numbers.

The only real solution is negative growth.  Contraction of world population levels and economy, human activity and consumption, limited commerce and non-destructive economics.  This is diametrically opposed to the present status quo of world activity, development and investments, and the intention of world governments, and receives scant interest, despite being the only viable long-term solution for human survival.

Current extraction and depletion rates of petroleum are primary indicators of the world’s future decline.  A petroleum based global economy cannot survive past its depletion rate.  Human civilization is highly dependent upon oil energy, for all of its activity, including sustaining or growing human populations.

Alternative energy resources are being increasingly utilized, but recent studies indicate that within the United States, that we can only expect to achieve a maximum of 6% of our present energy consumption through the use of alternative energy sources such as wind power.

Other solutions are proposed, tar sands (highly destructive to the environment), coal (same), hydro, nuclear, bio-fuels, wind, solar, and tidal.  All suffer from scalability and a rather serious lack of existing infrastructure and investment throughout the world.  None are zero-polluting or “zero-emissions” since all require technology development with the associated environmental costs and their maintenance.

Most are associated with rare-earth elements already in short-supply.  As non-renewable resources, these elements are critical to any “switch over” to new technologies to meet global energy demands.  However, it is already recognized that we cannot meet global demand.  Any future demand of these critical elements is a pipe-dream.

Often overlooked, the development of alternative energy “solutions” actually requires the initial petroleum energy resource to mine the minerals, manufacture the technology and deploy the installations.  In time, even this won’t be possible and as our alternative energy solutions will wear out, break down and become unmaintainable for lack of spare parts (and the energy required to make them), they will eventually fail — forever.

The so-called “post-carbon world” is a world where humans face the dark without their mechanical slaves.  There are many people working on these scenarios and solutions, speculating and “planning” for global adaption and / or decline.  But in the midst of this single energy issue, the business as usual paradigm rules the present day.

There are in fact many other issues of even greater importance.  To list a few: food production, fresh water, arable land,  human populations, natural resources.  Each of these issues are already in global crisis now, and each will be dramatically worsened by a decline in the availability and quality / abundance of energy.

The only exception to this is some of the world’s natural resources will benefit since humans will have less opportunity to exploit them so thoroughly in an energy-depleted world.  Other natural resources will be dramatically worsened, such as forests, as fuel wood is rapidly consumed to support existing populations (until such time as population collapse happens).

Yet despite this growing awareness of increasing global crisis and decline, the current practice of business as usual ensures collapse on a apocalyptic scale.

Present human populations are far in excess of sustainable levels without massive energy inputs being increasingly leveraged throughout the entire world.  Yet energy decline is widely known and recognized. It is by no means a stretch of the imagination to state that we cannot even begin to maintain our present populations without massive sources of energy, nor can we hope to continue to achieve growth or economic expansion on any scale without a continued supply of this now-essential energy.

Even zero-growth is not sustainable and will be quickly discovered to be impossible, since we cannot maintain present global population levels and resource depletion rates indefinitely. Humanity will be literally forced into a negative growth scenario.

I strongly suspect that this will be a truly horrific time for humanity.  Population decline is never “easy”, and oftentimes occurs because of catastrophic events — war, natural disaster, famine, environmental upheaval or disease (and fascism).  What I think is unrecognized is that all of these catastrophic events will probably occur in successive and repeating order.  This will happen because of competition and economic decline and collapse, and because of environmental factors which we are already witnessing throughout the world.

Neither zero-growth or negative growth will be voluntarily chosen.  But they will both happen as resources run out, and as economic decline continues to worsen throughout the world.  Because the business as usual paradigm will be viciously maintained as long as humanly possible, war will break out, again and again in competition for resources (we’ve already fought two in the past ten years, there will be many more all over the world).

New disasters are happening on a near-daily basis already, many which can be directly traced to human causes.  Humanity is also seeing an upsurge of new diseases and superbugs which are immune to the world’s best antibiotics.  Famine is a daily occurrence now — in a still energy-soaked world.  This can only dramatically worsen as time goes on.

For a quick daily “fix” on these and other events, read Desdemona Despair every day.  I simply don’t have the time anymore to post all the links and stories shown there.  The ongoing decline in the environment is accelerating, faster and faster and faster.  If you are not already deeply scared then you are grossly under informed.

Beyond any shadow of doubt, we are facing TEOTWAWKI. In fact, this “event” is already here for tens of millions of people throughout the world.  No singular event can truly define this horizon, as many separate but distinctly linked events can be traced as the cause.

The world’s governments are still chained to BAU however, seemingly incapable and even unconcerned about the precipice from which they’ve fallen.  The “forward looking views” expressed by world leaders is in stark contrast to world realities.  The same could be said for nearly all business and commerce — the supercharged V-8 engine and driving wheels of global decline and resource destruction (and climate collapse).

We’ve gotten business as usual, which has served up TEOTWAWKI as the main course.  We thought for the longest time that we were receiving something else, but have belatedly discovered that this energy intensive civilization isn’t sustainable anymore and that our activity has now threatened all life on the planet, even our own.

We’re are NOT being given any choices anymore.  Once we crossed the threshold of sustainability (a long time ago) we committed ourselves to a one-way path with horrific consequences.  In case you do not yet understand, here is what we face:

a) We grow, or we stop growing.

Growth means we return to at least a modicum of prosperity and commerce, forestalling temporarily our collapse only as long as we can maintain the energy inputs and continue to harvest the remaining resources; growth still means continued competition for essential resources since cooperation isn’t what we actually do; growth actually means collapse — eventually, as finite resources can never be infinite, nor can populations always expand indefinitely, nor can energy supplies as utilized today last forever, nor can environmental collapse be “managed”, et. al, — growth actually still means collapse, only a little later (but worse in all probability since there won’t be anything left, see “Why A Slow Crash Will Destroy Everything“).

To stop our growth; we “fall back” as it were to lower population levels with fewer human impacts (eventually), but not without horrific consequences, a.k.a. “die-off”, through starvation, disease, environmental collapse, refugees, war, increased competition for localized essential resources.  The “gentle draw down” in human population levels will not happen since BAU is the defacto modus operandi and is extremely unlikely to change since this is essentially how the entire world operates and functions.
The end result will be exactly the same in either scenario.

I’m betting on BAU, or BAFU because I’m absolutely disgusted by the sheer stupidity of world governments and the global plantation owners that run this planet.  They have committed humanity to absolute disaster.  And to be frank — it appears that this does not bother them one bit.  My loathing for these fools is boundless I’m afraid, I see no justifiable reason at all that they do not adapt a new strategy for human survival (and for themselves, obviously).

We’ve only got one planet to live on. It makes perfect sense to make it truly livable, which it already was.  Instead, we replaced it with greed, gluttony, corruption and evil profits, enslaving our fellow man to a lifetime of drudgery and toil.  The reason was basically simple — some people figured out how to get other people to do their bidding (and work) for them, and they learned that they themselves could have very comfortable lives in the process.

These are the clowns running this planet into the ground, denying the rest of us even the basic right to live without their lordship.  I think that this is pure evil to be honest, the manifestation of oppression and slavery.

But the truth is, it’s even worse then that — it’s genocide.  It’s ecocide.  It’s biocide.  It’s what happens when you deplete a planet of essential resources for life itself (all life, not just us) to the point of total collapse — and do nothing about it except do more of it.

It is the height of insanity and sheer stupidity.

And it’s happening to you.

They’re tightening the screws:

Department of Justice Lists Survivalists, Constitutionalists in Extremism Guide 

Public Intelligence

A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists “constitutionalists” and “survivalists” alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.  The 120-page, “Law Enforcement Sensitive” guide to “Investigating Terrorism and Criminal Extremism – Terms and Concepts” describes itself as “a glossary designed primarily as a tool for criminal justice professionals to enhance their understanding of words relating to extremist terminology, phrases, activities, symbols, organizations, and selected names that they may encounter while conducting criminal investigations or prosecutions of members of extremist organizations.”

Constitutionalist, defined by Random House’s 2010 Dictionary as an “adherent or advocate of constitutionalism or of an existing constitution”, is described in the report as a “generic term for members of the ‘patriot’ movement”.  Survivalists are described in the document as fearing a “coming collapse of civilization” and are trying to prepare themselves for this collapse.  Such individuals are said to have “typically stockpiled food, water, and weapons, especially the latter, and instructed themselves on topics ranging from first aid to childbirth to edible plants”.

The guide defines the term “New World Order” as being “used by conspiracy theorists to refer to a global conspiracy designed to implement worldwide socialism”.  The Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, and Council on Foreign Relations are described as organizations “targeted by right-wing extremists for conspiring to dominate the world”.  The guide also defines “One World Government” as the “concept that there will ultimately be a single governing body that will control the world”, adding that “some right-wing extremists fear this occurring, believing that white people will be in the minority, with Jewish people ultimately controlling the world”.

While the document’s introduction does state that “the fact that an entry appears in this publication does not imply a connection to illegal activity”, it goes on to say that the guide consists of “terms that may be germane to members of an extremist movement” or are “singularly employed by specific extremist groups”.  The obvious result of the inclusion of terms such as “Bilderberg Group” and “Trilateral Commission” in a report titled “Investigating Terrorism and Criminal Extremism” is that law enforcement officials unaware of these groups will tend to associate legitimate discussion as “extremist” speech.  This diminishes the credibility of any person attempting to rationally discuss such groups and fosters a perception that any discussion of such groups could be associated with a supposedly “extremist” ideology.

Examples of “Extremist” Terminology

To see the full list please visit the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorism and Criminal Extremism Terms 2005-2009.

Black Helicopters: Unmarked dark helicopters allegedly observed by many members of the “patriot” movement, who claim that the helicopters are part of some vast conspiracy, perhaps involving the United Nations or the “New World Order.” Various explanations have been offered for some of the sightings, but the term has since entered the popular vocabulary and is often used as a generic, sometimes satirical reference to conspiracy-related beliefs.

Bilderbergers (Bilderberg Group): Along with the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, one of the three groups targeted by right-wing extremists for conspiring to dominate the world.

Collection (of Information): The identification, location, and recording/storage of unanalyzed information, typically from an original source and using both human and technological means, for input into the intelligence cycle to determine its usefulness in meeting a defined tactical or strategic intelligence goal.

Concentration Camps: Detention camps supposedly being built or already built by the United States government, according to conspiracy theorists.

Constitutionalists: A generic term for members of the “patriot” movement. It is now often used to refer to members of the sovereign citizen or common law court movement. Sometimes the word “constitutionist” is also used.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR ): Along with the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission, one of the three key groups that conspiracy theorists claim operate behind the scenes to control the world and to establish the “New World Order.”

Executive Orders: The formal means by which the President of the United States determines the conduct of business in the Executive Branch. Typically, such executive orders take two forms: (1) orders governing administrative or policy matters in Executive Branch agencies or (2) orders for which the authority is derived from congressional authorizations. The “patriot” movement, however, contends that executive orders are “presidential laws” that bypass Congress and subvert the Constitution.

Flag of Peace: The American flag preferred by the “patriot” movement; a red, white, and blue flag without any gold trim, braid, balls, tassels, eagles, fringe, or spear on the flag or pole. Patriots believe that any other American flag is a military flag that denotes military jurisdiction. Only under the “flag of peace” do U.S. citizens receive their constitutional rights and due process.

Globalization: This term generally refers to the denationalization of economies, markets, products, and populations brought about by ever faster travel, improved communications, and advances in technology.

Illuminati: An intellectual society and social club formed by a university professor, Adam Weishaupt (1748–1811), in southern Germany in the 1770s in the spirit of the Enlightenment. It was suppressed by Bavarian authorities in the 1780s. Weishaupt spent the rest of his life writing about the Illuminati. People who believe Illuminati conspiracy theories believe the society never died away but lived on, run by people intent on controlling the world through devious means.

Information Warfare: Synonymous with cyberwarfare, information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information and information systems to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy an adversary’s information, information-based processes, information systems, and computer-based networks while protecting one’s own. Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military or business adversaries.

Jack-Booted Thug (JBT ): A law enforcement officer (especially federal) draped in combat fatigues or other military or paramilitary uniform, wearing a ski mask or similar headgear guaranteeing anonymity, wielding powerful military weapons, and utilizing other military vehicles and gear.

New World Order: A term used by conspiracy theorists to refer to a global conspiracy designed to implement worldwide socialism.

One-World Government: The concept that there will ultimately be a single governing body that will control the world. Some right-wing extremists fear this occurring, believing that white people will be in the minority, with Jewish people ultimately controlling the world.

Open Source Information or Intelligence: Individual data, records, reports, and assessments that may shed light on an investigatory target or event and do not require any legal process or any type of clandestine collection techniques for a law enforcement agency to obtain. Such information is obtained through means that meet copyright and commercial requirements of vendors, as well as being free of legal restrictions to access by anyone who seeks that information.

Patriot Movement: The “patriot” movement is a general term used by its members to describe the collective movements and individuals on the extreme right wing. In one form or another, this practice dates back many decades; in the 1930s, many on the far right referred to themselves as “superpatriots.” In the 1960s and 1970s, it was common to refer to the “Christian Patriot” movement, but this term is less common now than then. Among the types of individuals that can be found within the “patriot” movement are white supremacists, sovereign citizens, tax protesters, militia members, and sometimes antiabortion or anti-environmental groups.

Patriots for Profit: A term used to describe those individuals in the “patriot” movement who perpetrate scams and frauds against other people, usually fellow members of the movement. It also refers to people who attempt to make money by selling various products and “kits” to members of the movement. By far the most numerous of the “patriots for profit” are the people who cater to would-be tax protesters.

Pirate Radio: The operation of radio transmitters without a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Although some of the most notable pirate stations, such as Free Radio Berkeley, have been primarily left-wing in orientation, a large number of pirate stations adhere to right-wing or antigovernment philosophies.

Sovereign Citizen: A term used to describe adherents to a philosophy derived from the group Posse Comitatus that posits that there are two types of citizens: “Fourteenth Amendment Citizens,” who are subject to the laws and taxes of the federal and state governments, and sovereign citizens, who are subject only to “the common law.” Sovereign citizens claim that they have absolute mastery over all their property (including freedom from taxes, regulations, ordinances, or zoning restrictions), that they essentially do not have to pay taxes (aside from tariffs and a few other insignificant taxes), that they are not citizens of the United States but are “nonresident aliens” with respect to that “illegal corporation,” that the only court which has jurisdiction to try them for any matter is a common law court, and that they can never be arrested or tried for a crime or matter in which there is no complaining victim, as well as various other notions. Typical signs that someone is a sovereign citizen include the use of punctuation between their middle and last names (i.e., John Wayne; Doe); a refusal to have a social security card or any paper, license, or document related to automobile ownership or driving; a refusal to use zip codes; and the displaying on various items—from envelopes to paper money, to time cards, or to forms—of the phrase “UCC 1-207,” or variants thereof. Sovereign citizens are often also known as state citizens, freemen, preamble citizens, common law citizens, or other appellations.

Survivalists: The survivalist movement feared a coming collapse of civilization, generally as the result of nuclear war, and tried to prepare themselves to survive it. Survivalists typically stockpiled food, water, and weapons, especially the latter, and instructed themselves on topics ranging from first aid to childbirth to edible plants.

Tax-Protest Movement: A movement consisting of people who do not simply want to avoid paying taxes but generally claim they should not have to pay them. The right-wing movement started in the 1950s and 1960s and has concentrated on interpreting the Constitution, U.S. law, and the tax code, in particular, in such a way as to be able to claim that most people do not have to pay income taxes. The motivating force behind the right-wing tax-protest movement was to find loopholes, actual or manufactured, that would allow people to claim that they had no tax obligation.

Trilateral Commission: A group, along with the Bilderbergers and the Council on Foreign Relations, that is viewed by the “patriot” movement as being one of the major organizations seeking to implement the “New World Order.” Formed in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Trilateral Commission consists of slightly over 300 members from Europe, Japan, and North America (the three main democratic-industrial regions of the world, thus the term “trilateral”). Members include prominent figures in the media, politics, business, and academia. Conspiracy theorists claim it is a group of elitists determined to promote a one-world government.

Also see: The Death Of Cash? All Over The World Governments Are Banning Large Cash Transactions

Congress may sneak through Internet ‘kill switch’ in defense bill

Let’s see… freedom of thought, freedom of opinion, freedom of discussion, freedom of financial transactions, freedom of information — all under attack by the “freest country on Earth”.

Yeah, right.

The Pakistan environmental collapse disaster is still growing, as flood waters continue to increase.  Already, over 20 million people have been displaced (22% of the country).  175,000 people left Thata literally overnight.

Imagine the United States with numbers like that.  A river of refugees.  Hard to believe, but the images coming out of Pakistan are too real.  The human tragedy is heart-breaking.

I’ve seen rampant speculation that divine justice is being meted out against Pakistan, but I doubt that. Environmental collapse will happen faster in low-lying areas that are unable to deal with a massive influx of water from the sky.  Pakistan’s notoriously poor flood control system didn’t help either.

But it does look, sound and even ‘feel’ Biblical.  Pakistan is facing a whole series of disasters now, as food, water run out, and disease and outbreaks of violence occur.

The Guardian has a pictorial slide show you can watch.

Everybody should be pretty aware already of how serious the Mexican drug wars have become.  Over 28,000 people have already died, with uncounted number of injuries.

72 more bodies were found a couple of days ago, and now two car bombs have exploded with no injuries.  The investigator looking into the 72 massacre has now been killed, making Mexico and anything related to the drug war, one of the most dangerous places on earth.

There have been numerous kidnappings and ransoms, border incursions, threats to American landowners and ranchers, extortion and smuggling (drugs and human trafficking).

Mexico is in melt-down. The United States is expecting millions of Mexican climate refugees over the next decades, with as much as 10% of the population being forced to migrate.

Personally, I think this number is way, way too low, and does not account for the millions of illegal immigrants that are already swarming across the border.  I do not blame anybody for seeking a better life for themselves — I would personally do the same.  But this border war / invasion is going to bring with it a great many problems for the United States.

Environmental collapse is already affecting Mexico, causing economic hardship and unemployment.  Southern and agricultural States within the US are absorbing the influx of refugees, however, Arizona’s new immigration laws are causing a lot of States to take notice.

Hotly contested by civil libertarians and rights groups, the ethnic profiling of immigrants is far from being a settled issue.  This, plus the Mexican war now literally taking place on the US border will most likely cause a civil war in the Southern states.

I’ve no doubt that a totalitarian military response will happen (on both sides), eventually.  The body count is already high enough for justification, but corruption, ineptitude and bribery have kept a lot of this dangling on the table for years already. The Obama Administration is unwilling to do much — so far.  National Guard troops have been dispatched, whatever that means (532 Guards won’t be able to do much on thousands of miles of border).

The United States has long tolerated the porous southern border, probably for economic reasons.  I do not expect this to change much, but war could change a lot of things in a hurry.

Cold Empties Bolivian Rivers of Fish

“Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history.”

Millions of fish dead, thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.

“There’s just a huge number of dead fish,” says Michel Jégu, a researcher from the Institute for Developmental Research in Marseilles, France, who is currently working at the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. “In the rivers near Santa Cruz there’s about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river.”

With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change, scientists are hurrying to coordinate research into the impact, and how quickly the ecosystem is likely to recover.

You will be reading a lot more about climate collapse and the ecosystem.  The notion of “recovery” however, is wishful thinking. Like the American economy, the climate is tanking all over the world.  A new equilibrium will be found, but it won’t be like anything you recognized before.

America is now using roving vehicles on our city streets with “full-body scan technology”:

Over 500 of these roving vehicles are already in operation.   Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street Roving Vans

The narrator is gushing over with praise, however, not everyone thinks this is a good idea:

“It’s no surprise that governments and vendors are very enthusiastic about [the vans],” says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC. “But from a privacy perspective, it’s one of the most intrusive technologies conceivable.”

I told you it would get worse.  Watch the video a couple of times to identify this threat.  Couple of pointers: slow moving vehicle, side scan, must be fairly close, specifically looks for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen.  It also appears that mirrors may actually block the scanning, but I can’t be sure without more research.  The image shown of trees also appeared to resist scanning — but I have no real idea at this time.

Nice to know that we’re being irradiated in our homes, vehicles and when walking down the street without our consent.  More “security” and less freedom all the time.