NASA predicts TEOTWAWKI

That's what the new nanobots are for.....we're doomed!

 

1. No, it's not so much that we are becoming immune to antibiotics, it's just that microbial pathogens are becoming immune to antibiotics making the antibiotics less effective. Regardless of how carefully antibiotics are restricted and administered, microbes will eventually become resistant to them over the long haul. It is the simple consequence of evolution by natural selection.

Humanity only has itself to blame for the increasing ineffectiveness of antibiotics discovered through scientific research and innovation. Human greed has led to the abuse and misuse of antibiotics for commercial gain on a macro level, by using antibiotics as a growth accelerant in agribusiness livestock production, thereby inserting antibiotics into the food chain for consumption by humans. Consequently the population of microbes is enlarged that would eventually develop antibiotic resistance. We pay for the cheap meat that we consume (and inflated agribusiness profits) by increasing the probability that we may die from infection by anti-biotic resistant microbes.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria here to stay - National Rural - Agribusiness - General News - The Australian Dairyfarmer

On a micro level, ignorance and stupidity by individuals have undermined the effectiveness of anti-biotics by demanding and accepting antibiotics for coughs and sniffles that antibiotics are ineffective in treating in the first instance: such as treating viral infections with medications that are intended for use in treating bacterial infections. Over prescription and inappropriate administration of antibiotics has led to antibiotic resistance developing. Another major contributor to antibiotic resistance is humans who buy into the propaganda of chemical companies that anti-germicidal products are essential for personal and domestic household use, when the use of soap and water would be more appropriate, cheaper, and just as effective.

2. Large cities have tended to be reservoirs of human pathogens ever since humans have been aggregating into urban populations. Plagues have largely been minimised in recent centuries, inter alia, by advances in public health systems, waste treatment and disposal, safe water treatment and reticulation, and public education. In the event of a major breakdown of society, these institutions and mechanisms that bolster public health may well be damaged to the extent that disease is likely to be as prevalent as it was in the Middle Ages. Humanity will most likely still survive, simply by increasing the birth rate to compensate for increased child mortality. It is the strategy in play in the case of impoverished third world countries, and it is likely to be the strategy when first world countries become as impoverished as their third world neighbours.

3. Large urban areas will still support communities, albeit with smaller populations, just that they will most likely be more feral than is the case presently.

4. Indeed it does. We as human beings have to discard the attitude that we are cosmic entitlement princesses; that we are destined to be, and to remain at the top of the heap in the procession of life on this planet. It is a conceit that does us great harm. We, by our greed, ignorance and stupidity may undercut to our extinction, the very advantages that our species have developed since the time we climbed out of the trees and started walking upright. In some ways we are too smart for our own good. WE as a species need to develop a little more humility and an understanding that we are not special.....that our species is quite capable of joining the bones of all the other species that have become extinct on this planet through failure to adapt.

 

Don't be messing with my cosmic entitlement princess status. You could end up hurt!!!!

 

Update: NASA is now clarifying its role in this study. NASA officials released this statement on the study on March 20, which seeks to distance the agency from the paper: "A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies' by University of Maryland researchers Safa Motesharrei and Eugenia Kalnay, and University of Minnesota's Jorge Rivas, was not solicited, directed or reviewed by NASA. It is an independent study by the university researchers utilizing research tools developed for a separate NASA activity. As is the case with all independent research, the views and conclusions in the paper are those of the authors alone. NASA does not endorse the paper or its conclusions."

 

In other words "Please, for the love of GOD, don't associate us with that waste of time, effort or energy...and whatever you do, PLEASE don't touch what little funding we still have left!"

 

I hear they may be using bottle rockets in the not too distant future.....[sarca]

 

Are the folks at NASA so bored even they list interest in space? Wow. If we want this drivel why not go back to funding ACORN and eliminate NASA? Can they even launch bottle rockets anymore or is that too capitalist? I am not sure how funding an extravagantly expensive program jives with distribution of goods to the poor. Sounds like NASA wants us to defund NASA and give it to WIC or something.

I don't believe NASA was not involved in the study. One of its scientist is a very vocal climate change scare monger. I suspect he is at the root of this "independent" study ir at least complicit.

 

Exactly, DL, exactly

 

Wouldn't surprise me at all. The kook fringe is what science is considering factual now.