Rapid Population Decline or Civilization Collapse

Introduction: (Am I crazy or Are You Crazy) (text)

1.0 Views of the Human Predicament (text)

1.1 With No increases in People or Consumption we are in deep trouble (text)

1.1.1 Population Overshoot by a factor of 100 (SN67) (movie)

1.1.2 How Many People Will You Kill? (SN47)

1.2 With Expected Increases we are in worse trouble

1.2.1 Footprint Versus Freedom (SN2)

1.2.2 Is Population Down the Opposite of Population Up? (SN21)

1.2.3 Sustainability: Doubles, Halves and Footprint (SN8)

1.2.4 Temporal Social Fundamentals (SN10 and SN15)

1.2.5 Social Vectors and Individual Behavior (SN7)

1.2.6 Increasing terrorism (SN9)

1.2.7 Do You Like To Give Flowers? (SN17)

1.2.8 The Overlap Trend Controls the Conflict Trend (SN22)

1.2.9 Increasing longevity increases population (text)—mod 01/14/11

1.3 Hidden Dynamics of our unfolding future (our temporal blindness) (text)

1.3.1 Examples of cognitive dysfunction (temporal blindness)

1.3.1.1 Native Americans did not see their destination (SN12)

1.3.1.2 Viewing the present from the future (SN5)

1.3.2 The human experiment in three trends (island world)

1.3.3 Distracted by Immediate Problems (putting your arm out) (NW/video)

1.3.4 What you see is not what you get --- Nonlinear unfolding --

Physical systems

(NW/video stopping distance vs. stopping force)

Biological systems)

(NW in video) Growth within limits (capped personal consumption)

Human predicament

(NW/video) Growth within limits (unlimited personal consumption

1.3.5 Dropping production (past the peaks the extra twist)

1.4 Net Predicament requiring solving

1.4.1 A mechanism of civilization collapse (SN31)

1.4.2 Which Information Describes the Human Predicament? (SN50)

1.4.3 Does Your Math Calculate the Future Clearly? (SN55)

1.4.4 Humankind’s future contains Civilization Collapse

1.4.4.1 Social conflict trips civilization collapse (fb loops) (SN66)

1.4.4.2 Beginning of collapse -- Time blindness topples trade towers (ShtArt-1)

1.4.4.3 The End -- Your Child As a Somali War Orphan – (SN69 movie script)

1.5 Summary Humankind’s predicament /options (text)

2.0 Footprint reductions prevent Civilization Collapse – Little else will(text a) (text b)

2.1 Actions that won’t reduce footprint

2.1.1 Stopping growth

2.1.2 the rich living smaller

2.1.3 Increasing productivity (SN56)

2.1.4 Ameliorating conflict

2.1.4.1 Peacekeeps no plan for peace (SN1)

2.1.4.2 Managing conflict -- from dilemma to solution (SN33)

2.1.5 Redistribution of wealth

2.2 Feedback driven problem solving (SN19)

2.3 Cognitive evolution

2.3.1 Cognitive Evolution and the Human Predicament (SN13)

2.3.2 Nurture can change our course (ShArt -2)

3.0 RPD Reduces Human Footprint -- better than anything else (text)

3.1 Demographics – The 500 Pound Gorilla (SN4)

3.2 Thinking About the Unthinkable (SN20)

3.3 For Peace – RPD Now (SN28)

3.4 What Is Not Too Little Too Late? (SN52)

3.5 Why Do We Need RPD (SN62)

3.6 The Alpert Alternative (OCPF) (The Solution) (SN26)

3.7 One Child Per Family (OCPF) or Genocide (SN40)

3.8 Low birthrate RPD

3.8.1 How Fast Can OCPF Work? (SN63)

3.8.2 Birthrates Below OCPF (SN64)

3.8.3 1,000,000 births-per-year lottery (NW)

3.9 Humankind's Viability Is Preceded by Rapid Population Decline (SN41 part a)

4.0 Implementing Rapid Population Decline (3 behavioral routes) (text)

4.1 Universal upgrades in the individual’s cognitive process

4.1.1 Nurture can change our course (short article)

4.1.2 Who Controls Our Future (SN18)

4.1.3 You Have To Pay for Peace (SN6)

4.1.4 trends determine the wellbeing of the human experiment (text)

4.1.5 Drivers of behavior produce opposite trends (NW)

genetics and culture drive us toward the darkness

forethought drives us toward the light

4.2 Institutional policy against its constituency (autocracy or dysfunctional democracy)

4.2.1 Six billion against Tony Blair (SN3)

4.2.2 No Plan for Graceful Survival (SN11) (SN14)

4.3 Institutional policy driven by a majority constituency

4.3.1 National Problem Referendum (SN16)

4.3.2 Philosophy of RPD behavior change

                  4.3.2.1 Ethical Coercion and OCPF Implementation (SN45)

4.3.2.2 Will Having a Second Child Become Taboo? (SN44)

4.3.2.3 Finding and implementing course-changing Behavior Change (SN48)

4.3.3 Democratic Coercion of RPD Behavior

4.3.3.1 Belief Consensus Makes RPD Possible (SN42)

4.3.3.2 Implementing RPD with a Vote (SN59)

4.3.3.3 Morality and RPD Laws (SN58)

4.3.3.4 Forming a Constituency (SN53)

4.3.3.5 RPD is Not an Impossible Dream (SN57)

5.0 The future: Facing and Resolving the human predicament (text)

5.1 Summary of essays (text)

5.1.1 “How things work” image of the human predicament (text)

5.1.1.1 Social Conflict causes the crash of our civilization (text)

Conflict death spiral collapses civilization

Losers of wellbeing cause conflict

Stratification causes losers of wellbeing

Scarcity causes stratification of footprint

Relationships among Physical variables cause scarcity

Consumption rates above renewable

Consumption of exhaustible resources

Narrowing the eco niche

5.1.1.2Unexpected unfolding (text)

Invisible before the crash

Unmanageable during the crash

Not escapable dark age after the crash

5.1.2 Solutions that won’t produce a good future (text)

Ending social injustice

women’s rights,

slavery,

wars of social status

access to birth control,

universal democracy,

shielding from nature will not resolve the human predicament

storms

Floods

plagues

failed harvest

Stopping growth will not resolve the human predicament.

True increasing footprint makes crash sooner

But the crash would happen with no growth in human footprint

5.1.3 Intergenerational tends measure “what we want?”(text)

sinking into darkness

ever improving wellbeing

5.1.4 Drivers of behavior produce opposite intergenerational trends (text)

genetics and culture produce a decaying trend

forethought produces an improving trend

5.1.5 Human experiment with positive intergenerational trends (text)

5.2 A Civilization that delivers what we want (text) (remainders)

5.2.1 ever increasing intergenerational trend

5.2.2 design

                                                     5.2.2.1 Physical parameters.

The size

The location

Operations

                                                     5.2.2.2 Social parameters

5.2.3 conflating the present civilization in to

                                                      a physical sustainable one

                                                      a socially sustainable one

5.3 Moving normal minds creates this civilization

5.3.1 The Path forward (SN61)

5.3.2 Implementing RPD (SN41) part b

Glossary

Appendix: Videos and Seminars (DVD)

The Human Predicament and What to Do About It click to see outline

Overpopulation Means Civilization Collapse click to see outline

Your child as a Somali war orphan (Available not publicly posted)

Human Predicament -- better commonsense required click to see outline

The nonlinearity of the elephant problem click to see outline

Vancover SKIL Talk Underestimating the human predicment video not completed

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