Pandemics Won’t Just Kill Humans

The Horsemen interact complexly, all throughout the food chain:

Wheat leaf rust is a fungal disease that affects wheat, barley and rye stems, leaves, and grains. This is now beginning to appear as a PANDEMIC since scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease that appeared in Britain about 60 years ago and had reappeared since 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain that was responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden… The cocoa farms in southwestern Nigeria, which is the nation’s primary growing region, has been hit with the outbreak of a fungal disease identified as dieback. This disease simply kills the plant.

Our K’s will develop an incredible excess capacity for resource production. But no matter how great the excess, r-strategists will slowly proliferate to fill that void in the carrying capacity. As they reach, and exceed that carrying capacity, the onset of K will be able to be held off some through K’s diminishing consumption to avoid the chaos of Apocalypse.

The problem is, that an extended period of r naturally tends to align with environmental stability and ease, in large part because it began with a high-K-density which was produced by environmental harshness. The harshness ends, the environmental ease mixes with high K and produces the glut. The glut burns itself out as r’s multiply up, then it stagnates, until the environment shifts and upsets the system enough to crash everything and trigger the K that has built up.

Food is diminished so some have to starve, and then K’s begin to horde, violence begins, cohesion, unity, and cooperation collapse, and the glut is over. A population which was already technically over the carrying capacity suddenly sees the excess production it had evaporate, the even distribution give way to hording, the systems of cooperation in production and systems of delivery disappear, and the civility which allowed risk-taking disappear as well. And then there is pandemic, killing not only humans, but their food as well. A system that was about to fail as it benefitted from every advantage becomes burdened with every disadvantage, making the collapse even worse.

The trigger is often going to be found to be this environmental shift. We can hum along for decades at the precipice. But once the environment shifts, organisms from animals to crops suddenly are weakened and opened to disease, and once disease gets a foot in the door and can hang around, it begins to adapt and grow strong. It is almost fueled by that age-old observation that it is easier to tear down and destroy than to build. It is easy for a microbe to explode and take out an entire crop once it develops the critical mutation. But it is almost impossible for a weakened organism to keep death at bay once it is weakened enough, and forced into close quarters with a pathogen gunning for it.

All the stars are aligning for Apocalypse.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because they might be dead soon

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LembradorDos6Trilliões
LembradorDos6Trilliões
6 years ago

I knew that link would interest you 😀

I’d really really like to hear you and Martin on a podcast or something, I read both of you everyday without exception. Watch his documentary “The Forecaster” if you haven’t already, you’ll like it.

Cheers!

Sam J.
Sam J.
6 years ago

Have you ever read “The Death of Grass”? A most excellent book and a classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass

In the book all grasses die. Rice, wheat, etc.

RabbitOfWallStreet
RabbitOfWallStreet
6 years ago

Don’t forget about Panama disease, which is taking out the world’s banana monocrops. We’ve thus far managed to stay just ahead of these crop diseases (along with widespread antibiotic resistance), but I think we’re just delaying the inevitable; or put another way, we’ll have to deal with both in earnest because some larger crisis (financial meltdown, WW3) will disrupt/destroy the various institutions that have kept us ahead in the first place.

Anyone here remember the commodities bubble that coincided with the housing bubble ten years ago? Phosphates, a limiting nutrient, skyrocketed in price, wiping out lots of small farmers in the process. Restaurants stopped serving “free” bread. Oil was over $100/bbl. The commodities markets were crazier to me than the housing bubble — it’s certainly what I remember most from the time. I find it curious, though, how we have “The Wolf of Wall Street” and all these post-housing bubble retrospectives, yet the commodities bubble was basically memory-holed. Why?

The conspiracy theorist in me says it’s because the bidding war and subsequent shortages of crucial commodities were too revealing of what’s to come when the Apocalypse hits. Can’t have rabbits focusing on that, can we?

As another aside: I find it fascinating how just 40 years ago it was the left that was associated with this sort of stuff. Remember “Small is Beautiful” and “Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change?” Now look at them. They kept the degeneracy but sold out to the Man. Sad!

LembradorDos6Trilliões
LembradorDos6Trilliões
Reply to  RabbitOfWallStreet
6 years ago

This is amazing. Thanks very much.

LembradorDos6Trilliões
LembradorDos6Trilliões
6 years ago

Off topic:

And the eurocucks wonder why AfD is getting bigger and bigger…
https://youtu.be/re7kcheSvYY

BTW, this #120db initiative is top notch memetic warfare, we all can learn from it, they integrate very well digital and AFK components and this is great to get naive but not retarded/subverted normies of the fence regarding the migration problem.

LembradorDos6Trilliões
LembradorDos6Trilliões
6 years ago

Off topic:

https://newswars.com/hungarian-pm-eu-proposing-new-migrant-quotas-without-an-upper-limit%20

Eurobros, better get your insurgency game and preping skills in order asap. I think shit is just acelerating A LOT. The deep statists here in EU are very afraid and although it is a good thing that we are going to see EU getting btfo faster, it means more violence until our swamp is drained.

LembradorDos6Trilliões
LembradorDos6Trilliões
6 years ago

Off topic:

Why you should take very seriously the mass censoring that is going down on social media:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GenAugustoP/status/966301843654619142

LembradorDos6Trilliões
LembradorDos6Trilliões
6 years ago

Off topic:

Twitter is getting sued:

https://www.amren.com/help-fight-internet-censorship/

rien
6 years ago

Could Trump knowingly and willingly invoke the K-storm in his second term?

Lately I have been thinking that Trump knows about r/K strategies. I also believe it highly likely that he has planned his presidency for a long time, and is now trying to execute a script that ‘drains the swamp’ in his first election, leaving only “good K’s” in positions of power. Then in his second term he can trigger the financial system to crash in on itself, as it must do sooner or later. This way he can set up the US for a period of long lasting prosperity.

tesla
tesla
6 years ago

So one organisms K shift (humans as resources run out) is anothers r explosion (all the microbes going r after many years of K selection from dealing with our preventative measures) .

Criticas
Criticas
6 years ago

Remember the aphorism “Never attribute to malice what can be better explained by stupidity”?

There’s a fungus killing frogs worldwide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycosis).

It appears one large factor in the fungus’ spreading was…

researchers studying why frogs were dying.

Avalanche
Avalanche
6 years ago

Hey LembradorDos6Trilliões?
PLEASE stop with all the off-topic posts. If you want to spread news and info, how about doing your own blog instead of filling this one up with stuff not related to what we come here to read and discuss? This is a lovely blog, with a VERY specific topic, and it seems like you’re posting 4, 5, and 6 comments per blog entry about stuff not related to the topic. There certainly is a lot of really important info to get out; but it will get out better if you post it where people are looking for and discussing the stuff you’re wanting to share! Thanks for your consideration.

disenchantedscholar
5 years ago

probably from the roses actually, fungi tend to hibernate in flowers then transfer to crops