Impending System Failure

Readying the war machine for what’s to come

Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne, Kuwaiti desert, March 20, 2003. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju/National Journal)

H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025 features the usual increase in “defense” spending to a record $883.7 billion. It takes money to be by far the biggest arms supplier to the world at 41.7 percent and provide the munitions necessary to murder Palestinian women and children. We also, most sadly, have to think about the future, as droughts, floods and temperature extremes destroy economies and create resource wars. This is not to say that I approve.

$883.7 billion works out to about $2600, for each one of us Americans spreading corporatocracy far and wide, shell by shell, proxy war by proxy war.

I just read a post by Dennis Kucinich, remember him, the man who ran for president and had the “radical” idea of creating a Department of Peace? He lost, of course. In his article, he mentioned there’s an amendment to the latest Pentagon budget to reinstate the draft. I double-checked.

Sure enough, section 531 addresses automatic registration in the Selective Service System, stating:

“Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.”

Huh. I guess we still need living, breathing bodies to operate remote AI enhanced weapons hovering about. I responded to Dennis, knowing one of our fine public servants would be eager to get back to me.

“Dennis, I have been writing here about climate change for three years. We are quickly heading for world resource wars. It seems likely to me that's why Biden has allowed Netanyahu to commit genocide in Gaza, and arm it. Consolidating allies for what is to come. Consider the upheaval on the way. Mexico City is on the verge of running out of water. India is experiencing temperatures over 120° F. Land is burning up. Crop failures are inevitable. This is the new world rolling out before our eyes.”

https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/will-the-revolution-be-televised

“Also, there's going to be insane competition for "resources" in the Arctic as it melts, and they become accessible. I uncovered a lot of military reports for this article. I can't prove it, but it all fits together.”

https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/massive-alaska-willow-drilling-project

Things are deteriorating fast now. I hope you can find 20 minutes to read my warnings.

Thank you.

So far, I haven’t heard back from citizen Kucinich.

As most of my informed, courageous readers are aware, 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, as confirmed by both NASA and Copernicus. This disturbing reality has continued into 2024, making the last twelve consecutive months running from June 2023 through May this year the hottest twelve consecutive months on record, solidly at or exceeding the 1.5° C warming goal to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Already into June, there’s a good chance 2024 could finish as the hottest yet.

The 2015 Paris Agreement that sought to limit global warming to 1.5° C (2.7° F) is dead. The vast majority of top climate scientists agree that we are heading for 2.5° C and beyond, envisioning a “semi-dystopian future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.”

This is why the draft might make a comeback.

My comment to Dennis did not go unanswered. I got this from a fellow reader who shall go unnamed, lightly edited for typos.

“Don’t worry, you are wrong, we are heading into a much cooler climate now, but with extreme weather. However, you are right about food shortages, but not due to global warming...prepare!”

I appreciated the response and that this person may have read the articles I recommended to Dennis. In turn, he recommended I read an article about a Professor Valentina Zharkova, published by a Hannes Sarv, so I did. I anticipated reading about the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Current (AMOC) slowing. Sensors in the ocean have made clear this system’s enormous convecting power, from the north hemisphere to the south and back again, cool water sinking and warm water rising, regulating a good deal of temperature on Earth, particularly Europe. However, the influx of melting water from the Arctic and Greenland ice sheets are slowing the system. Should AMOC stop, or even reverse, (there’s evidence from the past this has happened) it would drop temperatures in Europe, possibly 10° to 30° C degrees over a matter of decades, a situation we would be unable to adapt to quickly enough.

However, that was not the thesis of the article. Rather, it was a tired climate change denial trope that CO2 is good because plants need it, and millions of years ago there was much more CO2 in the atmosphere, making the planet greener. Therefore, we are obviously in a CO2 deficit. While both of those things are true, this argument is of course complete bullshit.

This “reasoning” ignores that there were no humans living in these environments, just dinosaurs. We didn’t saddle up and ride them, as some believe. It ignores that 66 million years ago, sea levels were around 700 feet higher (200 meters) than they are today. Scientific study has shown this.

The writer of the article, Hannes Sarv, publishes not just on Substack under the moniker Freedom Research, but on scurrilous disinformation sites such as The Daily Sceptic which promotes Covid vaccine lies, in addition to climate change denial. He can also be found on Climate Depot, founded by Republican political aide Mark Morano for the purpose of promoting climate change denial. Climate Depot is a project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) which also rejects scientific consensus on climate change.

Sarv also interviewed Tom Nelson, producer of Climate: The Movie, disinformation, which I shredded just a few weeks ago. Its “experts” were all retired physicists, not climate scientists. Neither is Professor Zharkova. The disinformation trolls can’t find a climate scientist to support their lies. Sorry, physicists are smart people, but they are not climate scientists. It was time-consuming, but easy to call out the experts in Climate: The Movie.

I don’t know if the person who responded to my comments read my articles or took them seriously. I don’t know if I planted any seeds that might change his thinking. I just know I must try because the path we’re on is frightening and no longer decades down the road. It’s happening now.

Although, the person who responded to my message to Dennis incorrectly believes the planet is going to cool in the next few years, we both recognize the imperilment of food production, common ground. He was civil. He warned me. We must find common ground in these times of manufactured division to save our Earth, and each other.

You, dear readers, must carry the torch forward. My hope is you share what you learn here, and from other knowledgeable people, with others. Hopefully, as I reach three years in this endeavor, I have provided powerful information and approaches for you to persuade the climate deniers in your life. Thank you for reading.