JMA-PSOS

On CBC Rado last Saturday’s Quirks and Quarks a lot of interesting topics were covered: long Covid effects on the central nervous system (as the body of the iceberg who’s visible portion we only glimpsed in the past few years), how bonobo individual aggression is mainly directed towards other males and is individual, and about the Mars-Earth 2.4M year cycle that affects Earth’s eccentricity and climate (we are in the middle of it now at its lowest effect). The last topic prompted me to look at other long cycles that affect Earth’s eccentricity: Venus-Jupiter 405ky cycle (also at its ebb now having peaked 216ky ago). There are also the Milankovitch cycles that impact climate. I wonder if all the current climate models account for all these cycles (which they probably did).

The quibble I had was with John Holt’s suggestion that an unschooled child can make contributions to quantum physics (on a Rewing 1983 episode from CBC Ideas) on which I commented as a reply to a post I made quite recently on this blog.

1. Climate will worsen and billions will be displaced and famished as ocean major currents and melting polar caps severely alter the shorelines. The global economy will move in reverse, order will descend into chaos and most states will collapse into a new global dark age of privateers and lawlessness. Nuclear war and fallout will be very likely. A coup de grâce will be delivered by an extinction-level meteor or two.
2. Counter-intuitively, as humanity tech/medical progress advances, the gene pool will keep getting diluted with more knuckle-draggers and subsistent survivors per capita who will procreate unimpeded by their general stupidity or predictably boring lives and much faster than the dwindling creative minority. Population will quickly grow towards resource unsustainability and will collapse precipitously. Pandemics ought to untilt the imbalance somewhat, but most likely it won't be enough. Humanity will pollute and slowly kill Gaia from both ends: the psychopathic autocrats and theocrats at one end (e.g. China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia) and the Dunning-Kruger populist "democracies" at the other (e.g. USA, UK, Canada, Oz, NZ first, and shortly after the increasingly more volatile Western democracies as they spiral toward self-destruction from over-exuberant and misguided fervour at both ends of the political spectrum).