Good Morning all of you heavy thinkers out there in nut-so land; your King of Simple News is on the air.

Yesterday we talked about nearing the end of the possibilities for continuing our charade of exponential growth representing the master plan underlying our economy. California is broke, Denver is running out of water, Colorado is running short on high grade coal, the Rio Grande river water never reaches the ocean, Vegas and Phoenix never had any of their own water, we are running $TRILLIONS in deficits, we import 70% of our oil, we have massive unemployment, we insist that we want our planet to remain unspoiled and green…and the plan is to grow; a lot.

Who could possibly read the above paragraph and not question that we may have reached the end of our rope? Who indeed? The answer is; most semi-normal people in the world and all politicians. So once again, how could any rational human be given the hard facts and not conclude that we are in serious trouble? That was a trick question; humans aren’t rational.

Our plan could best be described as, “Let’s do this until we can’t do it anymore and then do something else.”

Thomas Malthus pointed out the obvious core problem in 1798 when he wrote “An Essay on the Principal of Population.” In short Malthus considered that if population numbers were unconstrained in a world that was constrained in size, that humans would eventually eat themselves out of house and home.

The original theories of Thomas Malthus seem to be based on common sense and with the assistance of modern science, his points are obvious. But as Alfred North Whitehead concluded around 1925, “It takes an unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” Apparently unusual minds don’t seek out political careers.

To answer the real reason as to why we choose not to see the multiple errors of our ways, a paragraph from M. King Hubbert may help. Hubbert stated many, many years ago, “Since the tenets of our exponential-growth culture (such as a non zero interest rate) are incompatible with a state of non growth, it is understandable that extraordinary efforts will be made to avoid a cessation of growth. Inexorably, however, physical and biological constraints must eventually prevail and appropriate cultural adjustments will have to be made.” [emphasis added].

What Hubbert was saying is that we started off down the wrong road and our leaders refuse to turn back because the current path is making them rich. And thus, our national motto; “We ain’t here for a long time, we’re here for a good time.”

What sort of appropriate cultural adjustments was Hubbert talking about? Hopefully the good doctor wasn’t referring to a lower standard of living. Surely he wasn’t talking about reaching the point when there isn’t enough fuel, food, housing, clothing, and cell phones to go around. Most certainly he couldn’t have been inferring that we would reach a point where there were more people than jobs? If the former unthinkable tenets were Hubbert’s drift, he simply didn’t know a thing about our great mythical god, “They.” They, of course, can fix anything that ails the human race.

Of course Hubbert wasn’t all that keen on the great god “They.” He was a man of science who dealt in the terrifying world of stark reality. Hubbert understood the complex math that concludes that it is impossible to pour five quarts out of a gallon jar.