{"id":10915,"date":"2015-08-11T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2015-08-11T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:44:38","slug":"leveling-the-playing-field-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10915","title":{"rendered":"Leveling the Playing Field of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leveling the Playing Field of Death<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In April 2015, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility released\u00a0a landmark study<\/a>\u00a0concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d since the 9\/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as two million. However, Nafeez Ahmed begs to differ,\u00a0writing<\/a>\u00a0that western wars have killed four million or more Muslims since 1990.<\/p>\n

It seems that the Empire is exterminating Muslims at a higher rate than those of other confessions. Why might that be? There seem to be two competing philosophies at work within the throbbing brain of the Empire: the environmentally hostile, infinite growth-oriented, natalistic view of economists, and the eco-friendly, Malthusian, population-control view of ecologists.
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\nNeoclassical economists are infinite growth advocates, and many of them are natalists, wholeheartedly promoting ever-faster reproduction of everything. They dominate all the university economics programs in the US, as well as the Wall Street financial institutions who operate the US government as a wholly owned subsidiary. So you might think they would dominate the Empire too, in which case you might be right. But natalism and population control are just different sides of the same coin\u2014not!\u2014so how do we reconcile this?<\/p>\n

The cornucopian economist Julian Simon wrote a book called\u00a0The Ultimate Resource<\/i>, in which he advocated unlimited human population growth for the advantage of increasing the number of human minds, which he called \u201cthe ultimate resource.\u201d He claimed that the earth could support population growth for another 4 billion years\u2014the current age of the planet. But the Empire doesn\u2019t seem to be following this plan.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Leveling the Playing Field of Death In April 2015, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility released\u00a0a landmark study\u00a0concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d since the 9\/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as two million. However, Nafeez Ahmed begs to differ,\u00a0writing\u00a0that western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5712,4995,259,8012,2092,8011,1160,843,860,864,8010],"class_list":["post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cluborlov","tag-dimitry-orlov","tag-empire","tag-julian-simon","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-population-control","tag-population-growth","tag-us-government","tag-wall-street","tag-war-on-terror","tag-western-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10916,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions\/10916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}