Doesn't do much to control for our own traveling crowd, with regard to disease that can't be handled by vaccination, or tourists on temporary travel visas...and does not, last I heard, keeping people with incurable HIV out either.
I can only quote the scientific estimates that of all the species to have ever populated this planet, approx. 99 percent are now extinct. Of all of those it can be said almost with certainty that not a single one did so voluntarily...
Considering: wars, famine, diseases, pandemics, and climate change, it's possible that we humans are hanging on by our fingernails.
So true! I live in a rural area, I am 58, and perhaps eighty percent of the young people I grew up with had to leave to find employment.
This is my suspicion as well..... but here is some very good news: Graphene sieves and low cost desalination of ocean water.
Very like the small town i'm from. No work, no nightlife outside the pub. The farmers kids unless they were the ones to get the farm, had to leave for uni, to find work or to find extra training for work. All small towns are dying.
I wonder could the rapidly improving internet and the possibility to work more and more from home play a significant role in altering this general trend?
I'd thought that by now working from home would be more common than it is. Not a lot of people work from home, on line, unless it is homework or out of hours catch up work. Some education is partially done on line now. Is your internet connection, in your town, comparable with a city or not? In Aust, the internet can be slow, or not available in remote areas.
I live seventy kilometers from a town with a population of only 5 thousand, (ten thousand when the students are in classes at St. Francis Xavier University). Our wireless will stream movies on Netflix with only a few pauses, so I think that that is huge improvement over the dialup version that we had a few years ago.
dial up! Wasn't it cumbersome. So cool when it was first available,but very slow now. We are ungrateful aren't we.
It's taken a long time to get started, but more "work from home" jobs are being created all the time. This should keep expanding since in many, probably most, work at home situations, the worker is a contractor rather than an employee. That can save companies mucho bucks. In addition, it creates a huge labor pool from which employers can choose workers. A lot of Call Centers are now made up of online workers. When you call for tech support, or customer assistance, your call might be forwarded to an at home "Customer Service Representative," for instance. The down-side is that there are loads of scams out there. Job offers made by people whose only goal is to prey on unsuspecting job seekers. Some of these scammers might charge job seekers to apply for work, or to run the application process, etc. Then they disappear. So people seeking online work should educate themselves before answering those ads that sound too good to be true.
I would be willing to donate part of my time over the next twenty years, (G-d willing if I live)...... as a volunteer writer for the USA Democratic Party....... This is kind of like an opening gambit to get things started...... Organizations can pay traveling expenses for some of their best volunteers?! And sometimes.... it even turns into a paying gig..... Mitt Romney for national leader of the Democratic Party?
Our call centres seem to be offshore. If we ring up about our phone bill, it will be to the Philippines or India. On line scams! Glory! "You have funds waiting, your job application, a post office parcel is waiting" - they're unending. Yes , people should be cautious about these sorts of offers.
Plenty of American companies also still use call centers located in India and the Phillippines, but that seems to be changing. Actually, the change has been taking place for quite a while now. Probably caused by a combination of forces, including higher rates of pay in some overseas markets, and the anger many Americans feel about the outsourcing of jobs by American companies. it’s easy to find long lists of companies now using home workers to fill their need for customer service representatives. Even Apple and Amazon now use some home workers like this. But there are also some huge call centers who contract to do the work for many different companies. And these, too, are now hiring home workers. The huge, crowded call centers we’ve always known may soon be a thing of the past. And, with the push by Americans to “bring our jobs home,” companies have a real incentive to make this kind of move, especially from a PR standpoint. These are jobs that are easy to relocate, thanks to the internet. I, too, get irritated when I call customer service at an American company and hear an Indian/Phillippino accent, because I know that job could easily be done in the states. These days, the person you’re talking to could be working anywhere in the world, in an office, or at home, one can never be sure, without asking. Finally, I read somewhere, recently, that Americans will soon have the option, when calling Customer Service, to request to talk to an American Customer Service Rep. That would be a big change, and I’d bet the number of such requests would be huge.
These type of documentaries have been around since the 70's...the next ice age, global warming, super bugs, etc. Doom sayers have been at it all along...if it happens I hope it is after I retire to Alaska where the population of the whole state is less than Houston.
If AboveAlpha's variation on Multiverse Theory implies non-linear time, as I think it does, then there is a real possibility that many of those disasters did actually take place in the '90's as shown to near death experiencer Dannion Brinkley back in 1975. In our time line these disasters have been delayed and delayed... but some of them will almost certainly hit us soon. The Philosophical implications of Multiverse Theory?
This article is rather encouraging. Desert Farm Grows 17,000 Tons Of Food Without Soil, Pesticides, Fossil Fuels, or Even Groundwater
Well this is certainly another angle on this topic that is interesting. Russia's Government talks about Release of E.T. data. (Part 2) http://www.politicalforum.com/index...-t-data-part-2.411555/page-44#post-1067662534
I believe that Christianity will survive but....... it will be different than it is at this time. http://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/experiences/mellen-thomas-benedict.html#a09
This could be related..... https://totalwealthresearch.com/ric...-gamble-bet-u-s-collapse-warns-cia-economist/ Buffett’s $55 Billion Gamble is a Bet on U.S. Collapse, Warns CIA Economist