'07 Predictions
As a companion piece to Boudicca's post below on New Year's Resolutions, I'm asking for your predictions for this year. What will happen in 2007 politically? Economically? Culturally? I want to hear from you.
posted by Joshua @ 7:12 PM
8 Comments:
Edwards will look better and better as the months go by when people see Hillary is Hillary and Obama turns out to be a fluff candidate. The new democrat congress will be disappointing in that it doesn't have any better answers.
The economy will make short gains, but overall remain stagnant. However, if there is any disruption in oil prices things will fall apart directly proportional to the amount of disruption.
The internet and modern commerce will continue to give people so many options and allow them to get whatever they want whenever they want it to the point where they can't help but go more insane.
The Pussycat dolls will put out another album. People who have managed to hold onto their souls will adopt the 'when in Rome' way of life and finally give in. The lone few who remain will board themselves up in their houses and suck their thumbs to sleep every night while drooling and listening to old school Radiohead.
Also, Kraft cheese might become even cheesier. I wouldn't beat on it though.
So people in small isolated villages are all calm and rational? I'm not with you on this. You can't use overpopulation as a defense for immoral behavior.
Should I say tell the judge my road rage was brought on by my neighbor's house being three feet too close to my outside garden? Or perhaps I could tell the arresting officer at the bar brawl that I attacked the big guy first because I saw him as competion for all the good mating prospects? (Not that I'd even go to bar for that. I love you honey.)
I refuse to believe people are as controled by their animal instincts as much as you are always saying we are. People can be rational and get along. They're not just wolves or gorillas in suits and ties.
The ongoing Middle East cluster is caused by people not being able to control their animal instincts?!
Do you even realize what you're saying? Really....
I agree with you to a point, but you have to draw the line somewhere...
My prediction for the year is that Josh will bar us all from his blog because we take up too much room with all our arguments. Might say we overpopulate the place and need to go find our own space. But then when someone invades your home they tend to get more on edge and irritable.
I got my fingers crossed on that Kraft cheese thing though. I don't know how they'll do it, but science will prevail I'm sure.
Overpopulation??? That's a bogus fear if there ever was one.
This isn't the 60s where Paul Ehrlich was predicting doom, gloom, overpopulation and starvation and people believed him. In most of the developed world it's generally acknowledged the problem is declining fertility rates and a low birthrate.
Europe is dying off, with birthrates well below replacement levels. Spain's population is expected to be reduced by half every 35 years over the next century. This will destroy Europe's social welfare state because the ratio of worker to retired will put too much of a strain on the system. This is leaving Europe vulnerable to Islamic radicalism, as the Islamic birthrate is much higher than that of Europeans. This threat to Europe from Islam is far more immediate and real than "overpopulation."
The U.S. is pretty much the only industrialized country with birthrates at replacement levels (not to mention immigration)
Low birthrates aren’t only a problem in Europe. Japan's population is starting to decline for the same reason, which is going to start to strain their system to the max. China is right at the same spot, where they will have a lot of elderly people to take care of and not enough young people to pay the bills as their population starts to drop.
Yes, the population elsewhere is still growing though fertility rates are dropping everywhere, just not as fast as the developed world. The Middle East is one such place with excess population, which presents many problems for Europe especially, mostly because Europeans can't be bothered to reproduce and they're allowing immigration from the Middle East to do much of the work for them.
If you can sift through the irony, Palladius, I think our commenters above were saying that overpopulation is specifically a Middle Eastern problem. Too many young males, too little opportunity for them. Sounds about right to me...
Oh I gathered that (and there's something to the argument) but I hadn't gone on a"it's demographics" that's the problem in the West rant in awhile. I was overdue.
It's true, the race card often gets pulled out after demographics is mentioned, which is essentially a way of avoiding the issue. Demographics is THE issue for the West.
Unfortunately, for those who pull the race card, Islam isn't a race, it's a political ideology, potentially as dangerous as Nazism or Communism and has adherents from every race and culture.
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