tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33634783.post3726079074721809781..comments2023-12-29T18:47:49.395+11:00Comments on benign0's blog: Population and disaster preparedness: still part of the poverty equationbenign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33634783.post-67766790106163464482011-03-17T14:48:25.136+11:002011-03-17T14:48:25.136+11:00I think it was "Soylent Green" (with an ...I think it was "Soy<b>l</b>ent Green" (with an "L"), And yes, I did see it too. It was a seminal movie at the time despite its cheesiness.<br /><br />We each carve out our little "controlled" environments and reduce mitigable risk as much as we can. But then nature <i>always</i> remains the known <i>unknown</i> despite our best efforts. Perhaps in our efforts to understand Da Pinoy Condition, we too may someday reduce Pinoys to a variable that our systems and technology can also control.<br /><br />I read <a href="http://thesocietyofhonor.blogspot.com/2011/03/tsunami-of-little-beasts.html" rel="nofollow">your blog</a> a while back. Nice. :-)benign0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33634783.post-17651184622917480972011-03-17T07:53:35.480+11:002011-03-17T07:53:35.480+11:00I remember a really cheesy movie called “Soyent Gr...I remember a really cheesy movie called “Soyent Green” starring Charlton Heston who, in his movies, always seemed to find himself in a Christ-on-the-cross pose. In this one he was being carried off screaming “Soyent Green is people”, having discovered that the favorite food of his modern, efficient nation was dead people, recycled. That country had passed the threshold; it was no longer able to grow enough grain and cows to feed the citizens so simply applied a rational expediency. Vitamins and nutrients are where you find them, I suppose.<br />The Philippines will eventually get to the point of population unsustainability. It won’t take a huge disaster to tip the plate, only a little incitement . . . at which time the guns will come out blazing and comparatively rich folk like me will be mowed down, for we will have the food others want. The combination of need and envy will be so upsetting that poor Filipinos will behave like the French did a few centuries ago. If you were an aristocrat, or smiled, smelled or farted like one, you were dead. Never mind that poor Filipinos frequently come from families with 7, 8, 9 or 10 siblings, each a hungry mouth without a job.<br />I will get mowed down knowing that at least BenignO understood . . . and presumably he stayed in Australia where there may be fire storms, man-eating sharks, typhoons, droughts, floods and too many salt water crocs . . . but also an intelligent people not busy procreating like rabbits under the whip of Catholic morality.<br />My own perspective on this is recorded in this here short blog: http://thesocietyofhonor.blogspot.com/2011/03/tsunami-of-little-beasts.htmlThe Society of Honorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02536906267332687130noreply@blogger.com