We have been seeing in the news recently about the Pakistan floods and how evil nature is harming the poor, innocent Pakistani people, here’s a few reasons why we shouldn’t concern ourselves with other societies problems:
Twelve million are affected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, while a further two million are affected in Sindh. In Indian-administered Kashmir, at least 113 people died in mudslides. Meanwhile, it has emerged that a charity connected to a group with alleged al-Qaeda links has been providing flood relief.
Flooding has submerged whole villages in the past week, killing at least 1,600 people, according to the UN. And the worst floods to hit the region in 80 years could get worse, as it is only midway through monsoon season.
According to the federal flood commission, 1.4m acres (557,000 hectares) of crop land has been flooded across the country and more than 10,000 cows have perished. A UN official, Manuel Bessler, told the BBC that with crops swept away by floodwaters, some Pakistanis could be forced to rely on food aid to get through the winter.
Nature has many ways of thinning out the herd, especially in places like Pakistan where reckless overpopulation has created hordes of simplistic people with a mean average IQ of 81, that then, unable to create a higher civilization from what they have inherited, consume and savage the wildlife and landscape:
The current floods could also be blamed to some degree on deforestation and more people living in flood-prone areas as the population keeps growing.
Pakistan has lost vast areas of forest over the past few decades, while overgrazing often strips degraded land of whatever plant cover is left. The government has set a target to boost forest cover from 5.2 percent to 6 percent by 2014.
What may be the case here is that a more severe natural event has occurred where a more severe human event has occurred, that means having lots of offspring without weeding out the less desirable has negative effects on the surrounding ecosystems; which would be required to maintain a steady population that evolves in quality rather than growing in quantity.
The usual solutions are not of this quality, unfortunately, and are destined to fail by neglecting that simple fact, the writer then goes on to explain the usual, socially acceptable explanations of climate change:
Scientists say nations will need to start adapting to climate change impacts such as more intensive droughts and floods but poorer nations with limited cash face the toughest challenge.
Pakistan, like any flood-prone country, needed early warning systems, better storage of drinking water, even to move people from vulnerable areas, said Andrew Ash, who leads a climate adaption programme for Australia’s state-funded research body the CSIRO.
“There are definite limits to adaptation. We often talk about adaptation as if we can adapt our way out of trouble,” he told Reuters. “But these sorts of events highlight that we can’t adapt our way out of all the impacts of climate change.”
Pakistani food expert Abid Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, said the country would need to work on seed varieties to adapt to climate change.
If they were that concerned about surviving they would build away from the flood plains and remove the least productive individuals thereby solving overpopulation and impoverishment; they also need to allow the majority of their land to be forested naturally and allow their most intelligent higher rights to then build more streamlined infrastructure so that when heavy rains come, it doesn’t get dragged under a flood of aid and stupidity from self hating westerners throwing money at the problem.
Instead they could have their intelligent generate wealth for themselves, or if they’re too stupid, they can perish naturally allowing a more competent society to conquest it, but that’s not going to happen whilst modern society still slouches its clumsy altruistic-domesticating tentacles all over the planet, when clearly they do not want it.
But Pakistan, being a corrupt society itself, does however prefer convenient solutions rather than paying attention to the signs that reality shows us;
- Natural events only transform into disasters when humans remove the safety barriers of its ecosystems – if we actually think beyond isolated events and see the bigger picture, we realise that without the cover of wildlife there is little to nothing to act as natural drainage or to at least anchor the soil from excessive mudslides, and therefore realise that if we remove the forests from the valleys in the mountains to the north, then all the mud will come pouring down with a flood and kill all the sleepy southerners by burying them in muddy water.
- Natural disasters are both caused by natural and unnatural factors - the natural chain of events that precede it (seasons, regular patterns), and unnaturally as an effect from humans altering variables such as the forest cover and polluting planetary variables (oceans, atmosphere; temperature, composition) that alter the intensity and frequency of those natural events; the disaster element being deaths of poor, impoverished and the ill designed.
- And finally – if a nation cannot stand by itself, then that nation is not fit to survive. If a nation becomes reliant on externalized environments for it to survive, then it is not natural and should suffer the consequences of its negligence. Whether you’re a European who creates padded foam societies for your retarded to live in a fake reality that adapts to them, or perhaps you’re feeding people who wouldn’t be alive today because of the destructive decision making on behalf of corrupted values – you’re out of sync with natural reality and cannot exist as a part of it.
Don’t be a guilty white prole, don’t give aid to a failed state, be instead concerned for your own survival because any disaster that occurs back home will receive no aid back from them, and you will have injected all of your wealth into making the problem monstrously larger and only prolong the misery.
Dear Sir,
Your gross misunderstanding of contemporary history is readily apparent throughout “Pakistan floods, a self inflated natural disaster.” Not only is aid from the West important on moral grounds but also from a realpolitik prospective. Following the tsunami in South East Asia the United States government was seen in a fairly poor light. Mainly due to the empire building exercises within Iraq and Afghanistan and our genuine lack of understanding in the Muslim word . However, with each successive aid package the Indonesian government received public opinion polls began to shift.
Here are a few statistics from that period
“In a recent poll of attitudes in Indonesia, 65 percent of respondents said they viewed the U.S. in a more favorable light as a result of the U.S. tsunami relief effort. The group which commissioned the poll said the results reflected “the first substantial shift of public opinion in the Muslim world” since 9/11.”
“The number of those who opposed the anti-terror efforts dropped by half, from 72 percent two years ago to 36 percent today.”
“Even among respondents who voiced sympathy for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, 71 percent said U.S. tsunami relief had made them feel more favorable towards the U.S., the organization said.”
This is quite remarkable considering even before the Bush administration Indonesia did not have the best relationship with the United States. Due to covert actions taken by the CIA in the late 1950′s and mid 60′s. Where our intelligence agency bombed friendly targets to escalate conflict between a communist (PKI) and the military government in power.
I hope the Obama administration follows a similar tact to that of the Bush government for a myriad of reasons. One, Pakistan is a nuclear state where Al Qaeda has a strangle hold in the tribal north, two drone attacks have eroded public opinion and aid package significant as the one seen in Indonesia will rehabilitate our image to a degree, and three if we want any chance of ever leaving Afghanistan in a somewhat livable condition the “hearts and minds” of Pakistanis need to view the United States and the west in a different light. An arbitrary figure like a 950 million dollar aid package will go a long way in doing that.
There is no misunderstanding here, I’m concerned for the biosphere, not being compassionate toward disorganized countries that cannot control their birthrates nor the quality of their children through wise reproductive traditions – human lives are secondary to the health of a civilization, let’s expand this;
There’s two different viewpoints conflicting here; one is that which is represented in this article and the other is what you have commented on. This is either in favour of the biosphere by controlling humanity below the carrying capacity of each territory so that the natural ‘disasters’ are not disasters, and is irrespective of nuclear efforts, the other is concerned with U.S. foreign relations and the war on terror.
If the population of any country, not just Pakistan, was reduced to a sustainable level in balance with the biosphere then floods/ natural disasters would not have killed more than perhaps a few hundred, or thousand rather than a few million – that’s why it’s a self inflated natural disaster, it’s part natural but enormously bigger due to there being so many people for it to kill in the first place – population control and building your home wisely is important for it allows the best to rise above the crowd because there is fewer of them to get in the way.
The argument you mentioned acts to gain the U.S. popularity points and attempts a disguised, indirect conquest through the use of moralism. Altruism and compassion are used to domesticate the foreign populations, like pets on a chain of dependency unable to do anything for themselves – all to continue building the Empire bigger and more stupid. It doesn’t help the territories that are conquest either, those levels of population cannot continue to be sustained, the food cannot exist after peak oil.
The west also continues to import the third world into its territory regardless and ignores problems at home, completely contradicting the ‘war on terror’, it is collapsing from within because it doesn’t provide strong leadership to the territory it already has. It’s biggest enemy is itself and if U.S. and Europe dealt with these critical threats, internal corruption, then they could more easily build the Empire and increase the quality of the territory they conquest rather than ‘develop’ them to death.
Robert, in all honesty do you think the people of Pakistan have the ability to build better homes? Maybe you don’t have a good understanding of the current domestic situation in the country but the majority of the people in the affected area are poor, illiterate, and marginalized by their national governmental. And haven’t had to deal with a flood of this magnitude since before 1926.
Furthermore I think it is hilarious that you are trying to impose western values of contraception which is surely what you mean by population control on a region of that country that is not ready for it (plus this region isn’t even overpopulated 14 to 20 million people live in it). Kinda surprising coming from a website such as this maybe you should practice what you preach.
Yes, the policy we are pursuing is to gain popularity within the Islamic world. I admitted this within my original posting. However, this altruistic nature and compassion as you put it has nothing to do with strengthening our empire when it comes to Pakistan. It has everything to do with making Afghanistan a feasible project. Since the two are intrinsically linked and always will be.
My opinion of you is that you are an upper middle class white guy that has little understanding of foreign policy and the Islamic World as a whole. Who has failed to travel outside of his home country and thinks in theories that have much of a chance as working as communism did during the last century.
Tootles poodle you and your website are a massive joke.
Well, if you had your head out of your ass, you would realise that a minority exists of higher quality in every species/ race/ country. By pushing the dirt to the margin, it allows the more competent to take control and drives evolution – that’s the only way anything is going to get better.
Maybe you don’t have a decent understanding of how biology and civilization structures interact to create greater things, or maybe you don’t understand reality and are only concerned with the short term social reality because that’s what pays your check. Every country would benefit from removing the majority of their population toward a few million of highly competent individuals that build hierarchies and civilization from their slums, able to generate wealth and teach themselves, anything else is ecocide.
The foreign policy is drugs, oil and cheap labour, plus lots of western money injected into them which is, possibly humorously, the reason for them having nuclear weapons in the first place! And contraception was your idea here, not mine, I prefer feudalism and eugenics, infanticide if necessary, it’s quick, puts all the misery into a short powerful blast rather than stringing it out for eternity with the pampering of aid. They’ve used these natural alternatives to contraception the world over in every civilization that raised itself higher, because it works perfectly when they can’t feed everyone and allows them to pick the desirables over the corrupt.
Regardless of numbers, overpopulation exists when you can’t feed your own population, 20 million is 20 million people to feed, if any of them is starving, they’re either religiously anorexic or they’ve fucked each other too much. They’re going to have to bump off undesirables, that is reality, and feeding them with your happy aid is only going to delay the inevitable.
Pakistanis are a cultureless people. Even though there are four different ethnicities here, four very distinct cultures, what unites Pakistanis is the belief that they should ‘rise above’ such distinctions and come together to uphold worthier values such as ‘equality’, ‘democracy’, ‘universal rights’, ‘welfare’. If it wasn’t for the fact that most of this western aid is going to go into the pockets of politicians anyway, it would have actually prolonged the stay of this mass of subhumans.
I don’t believe that the mean average IQ in Pakistan is 85. *IF it’s true, I suspect that the problem relates to nutrition and not genetics as appears to be the case in Africa.
Not to say that I like Islam, or that I support inflated populations– but then, this is just Nature’s way.
Everything that happens on Earth is Nature’s way. Nature always gets her way.
Thank you Robert Martin for writting a piece which totally echoes my current way of thinking. The vast school of self-important liberals fail to view this current situation in terms of humankind and what would be best for it in the long run. We have a simple fact running throughout the World, thoughtful intelligent people are having few or no children while the masses of ignorant, cultureless weeds continue to breed without concious. Over the long run this is going to present as a major problem.
Whats needed, and probably needed every millenia, is for Leaders of the Civilised World to ‘rebalance’ the world to prevent the same degeneration that is going on now. The solution to the overpopulation problem will not be resolved by trying to educate third world woman, we know thats a pipedream. The only way to put humankind and the Earth for that matter back on course is to adopt more Draconian methods. Yes to me it seems self defeating trying to save these ignorant breeding monsters, who are way over populated as it is.What may appear horrible at this stage could be beneficial for mankind in the future. I really do hope all these Conspiracy Theories are right and that the Elite are trying to depopulate 3rd World countries. Reckless breeding has gone on too long and need a check, much like a house clean. When the intelligent people have all been out bred out of existence I cant imagine what the world would be like. Worse I believe in reincarnation and there’s a good chance I’ll be a 8 year old girl being gang raped by the cultures about to take over the World.
Sir Robert
Pleaze answer this question.
Are the floods a natural disaster?
You are right, but have you looked into the history briefly, because there were no or very little in the histroy about floods and natural disaster in India, Pakistan and near by. This thing only happend when US and its allies including Pakistan, put explosive in the region. Due to this there is a huge climate change in the region. This is not due to poeple of Pakistan but due to US and its allies. Dont blame people or residents of the area, look into your own that what you are contributing to us, just for few million barrels of oil you are destroying the nature and ecosystem and blaming the poeple. Shame shame shame
He has peeped into history briefly? He has not peeped into it at all, otherwise he would have known that Pakhtoons would find his ass and blow it up into pieces. He has no knowledge. The author is crap!
Pakistan’s top most problem, unfortunately unheeded – may even have been abetted – by GOPs so far, is the population explosion that is real.
The figures speak for themselves. In 1947 – 35 millions (approx), in 1981 – 80 millions and now 165 millions (approx). Soon there will not be enough water for the country’s agricultural and human needs, leave alone industrial if the country were to develop.
However, as for intellect (IQ) – judge for yourself from three examples below:
1. In Sargodah, Pakistan; I have seen two real brothers, one uneducated ploughing the field in the manner of Prophet Abraham’s time while just across the barbed wire separating his field from the PAF airfield, his brother who joined PAF as a technician with his School Leaving Certificate (Matric) was maintaining the then latest F-16 fighter.
2. In Toulon, France in 1971; I have seen Pakistan Navy’s civilian dockyard labor (most only matriculates) with a background of maintaining PN ships but hardly knowing French language sent there for submarine maintenance training, working independently on French Navy submarines under extended maintenance hardly three weeks of their arrival in France. When asked, my French escort officer replied, “Technology is a language itself and these people have shown remarkable acquisition capability and confidence. We feel that with normal supervision they are quite safe.”
3. Politician Nehru, scientist Bhabha and industrialist Tata started India’s nuclear program before the country’s independence in 1944 at Trombay. USA and Canada gave nuclear power technology to India soon after independence in the nineteen-fifties while withholding the same from Pakistan till Canada gave a plant KANUPP in the early nineteen-seventies. Pakistan started its serious quest for nuclear technology under Bhutto in 1972 that was transformed into a race for nuclear weapons as India exploded its first nuclear device in 1974. Yet when in July 1998 India exploded three nuclear devices to beat any International ban on nuclear explosions, only ten days later on 28 July 1998 Pakistan exploded double the numbers of different intensities. The international community has adjudged the quality of Pakistani nuclear weapons superior than that of India.