{"id":27925,"date":"2017-11-13T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27925"},"modified":"2017-11-13T07:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:59:01","slug":"are-you-ready-for-a-new-round-of-mass-exterminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27925","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for a new round of mass exterminations?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for a new round of mass exterminations?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The great \u201cpulse\u201d of mass exterminations that occurred during the 20th century (graph created by Rummel<\/a>). According to this chart, 262 million people were exterminated during the last century, mainly by governments in a series of actions that Rummel defines as \u201cdemocides\u201d. The question is, could something similar occur in the future? It turns out that mass exterminations are like earthquakes, their occurrence cannot be predicted exactly; but we can estimate the probability of an event of a certain size to occur. And the more time passes, the more likely a new pulse of mass exterminations becomes.<\/i><\/div>\n

In this sobering exclusive analysis for INSURGE<\/a>, Professor Ugo Bardi dissects historical statistics on war to unpick the patterns of violence of the past\u00a0and uncover what this says about the present \u2014 and our coming future.\u00a0He warns that statistical data suggests we are on the brink of heading into another round of major wars resulting, potentially, in mass deaths on a scale that could rival what we have seen in the early 20th century.\u00a0Far from mere doom-mongering, Bardi\u2019s warning is based on a careful assessment of statistical patterns in the data.Such a future, however, may not be set in stone \u2014 given that for the first time we are able to assess our past to discern these patterns, in a way we could not do before. Perhaps, then, the path to freedom from the patterns of the past remains open. The question is: what are we going to do with this information?<\/i><\/p>\n

Humans are dangerous creatures; this much is clear. During the 20th century, about one billion humans were killed<\/a>, directly or indirectly, by other humans.<\/p>\n

Not all these murders were intentional, but a good fraction was, including some 262 million people killed in what Rumme<\/a>l calls \u201cdemocides\u201d, the government-organized extermination of a large number of people for political, racial, or generally sectarian reasons.<\/div>\n

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Are you ready for a new round of mass exterminations? The great \u201cpulse\u201d of mass exterminations that occurred during the 20th century (graph created by Rummel). According to this chart, 262 million people were exterminated during the last century, mainly by governments in a series of actions that Rummel defines as \u201cdemocides\u201d. The question is, […]<\/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":[5,7],"tags":[10777,17002,2692],"class_list":["post-27925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-extermination","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925","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=27925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27926,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions\/27926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}