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Reading this paragraph You chose the long way through the page, where crucial statistics are built up to a crescendo. From the World Bank site you can extract useful data. The first graph shows a spread diagram with a selection of countries and their respective energy use per capita. The second graph shows GDP/energy and the third graph the World as a net energy exporter. To where the energy is exported is not explained, perhaps to another dimension.

The fourth chart shows the ratio between employment and total population in selected countries.

Our last chart shows the cereal production per hectare, with a disturbing anomaly.

Then a profound critique of the current growth paradigm, where I directly question the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an organization and the destructive role it plays.

The chart below shows how much GDP a country can churn out per unit of energy. It is also called the cocain/marijuana-index as it shows how much fantasy value one can ascribe to one unit of energy. At its core the index should show energy productivity, but in a service economy it can just as easily show the retard index as groups of individuals starts invoicing unreasonable amounts for the same services as before, under a different name.
An example, if you go to a gym and pay 100 or 1000 per year the ratio is a ten fold GDP-increase in the latter case, even though it is the precise same service as before. Same energy, more GDP and an equivalent increase in the retard index.

The same result can be achieved if Central banks and their private equivalents starts printing enormous amounts of credit, in which case the additional inflation will increase asset-, service and production prices (increased GDP) even though no additional utility has been created, more than the utility in the illusion of additional wealth.

The employed in different countries compared to total population levels have stayed just about stable or have been decreasing for more than 25 years. It means that the talk about increasing the number of people employed is a big lie. Even though the growth has been steady, the rate of employment has not gone up. Even in war torn Iraq the numbers have been the same. Would not a country that needs to be rebuilt have their workforce increase at least 10 or 20 % as compared to before a war?
The only difference between high employed countries and low employed countries is the number of women who do paid labour instead of unpaid labour. Therefore it is not a measure of increased production, it is just that some countries have put a monetary (and most importantly, a taxable) value to that labour. Clean the house or take care of the children at home (not part of employment numbers) or do the same job in a company (now GDP and the employment numbers have gone up in the public records) - but NO, repeat NO extra work is done. It is just an accounting trick.
Work A - no salary - BAD
Work A - with salary - GOOD, we have an increase in GDP and have become richer (On paper) But we also should have a jump in inflation has previously unpaid labour no gets a monetary value.

The chart below gives the impression someone made a serious error either in the collection of the data or the transfer to the database at the World Bank. It is highly suspicious that UAE would have such a jump in their cereal production from one year to the other, without other countries enjoying the same jump.
Should we conclude not to trust the World Bank data, or the reporting to the institution? Is there no quality check, you know the thing our fourth grade math teacher tought us - when you have done your calculations, check if it is reasonable.

The mainstream reality tunnel is called the growth paradigm.
What will the consequences be with 2 % growth each year. First a spread sheet
showing the changes based on data from official sources.
If these numbers come true, what will be the consequences on arable land?
Today the percentage of arable land to total land use is 13 %. With
eternal "sustainable" and non mediocre growth (Lagarde 2015-04-09, see video below)
no more land will be available by the year 2112.
Perhaps it will be earlier than that. In the last file we have a comparison between
population and arable land which gives a hint on how densely populated
different countries are.
If oil stops being cheap enough to pump to the surface, even less land will be
available to provide food for the global population, as land has to be used
to drive tractors or feed animals. Humanity can wish for fusion or
extra dimensions, but in the mean time we suggest stop talking about growth.
Talking about growth as a given, we propose is highly destructive and
immoral.
Immoral as it hides facts and obscures physical constraints. The knowledge is
there to see, the applied math is there to show the unsound reasoning and
no educated person could avoid the conclusions. The talk about poverty takes
growth as a given. But if there is a limit to total available land, to
the levels of energy and other constraints - then the total population levels
will determine the absolute poverty levels. The more people, the less
of the earth is available to each person and other species to live.

Perhaps more people means increased wealth, up to a limit. After that
it means hunger and despair. Which leads us to:

After Lagarde´s speech below, we give you the
most important metrics. How many people do each country have
compared to their total arable land and how much total yield of cereals
compared to total population? How much does each country
produce in relation to other countries - is it sustainable?
Our answer is: No
But then again it is easier to just repeat the mantra

The most important metric - GO!

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