My Life on this planet.

Imagine a couple have a restaurant this is busy and thus they decide to employ a waiter. The waiter works hard and makes suggestions to improve the interior and service and the owners agree. The changes result in an increase in turnover and as he is an ambitious person with a strong character and suggests more changes  that the owners reluctantly accept as they are not sure about them but the business flourishes even more and becomes the best restaurant in the town. As he is good, the owners decide to give him more responsibility. After a short time he tells them a second waiter is needed and they agree and make him head of staff. Although this results in an increase in expenditure, they accept this as it allows the owners to have a free day. After a short while and as the restaurant is busy, the main waiter request to hire a second person with knowledge of wines so the restaurant can attract more people who like wine and so increase prices as they are too low for their stan...

Recently an interesting article was published in the Guardian in which the British writer and comedian David Mitchell discusses how the French thinker Michel Onfray claims the Western system is reaching its end and it seems that an interview with him started as follows: “ The cruel truth is that our civilisation is collapsing. It’s lasted 1,500 years. That is a lot already. ”. Thus, according to Mr Onfray, this period started after the fall of the Roman Empire when small European states rose. However, I think this period may have started during the Roman Empire when, after the Empire conquered many places, it opened our own desire to rule the world because these small countries later gave rise to their own empires stretching to every corner of the earth where they caused death and destruction (even amongst themselves during wars between family members ruling different countries or even within the country). Others claim these empires also resulted in progress in many of these ...

Here a very interesting article that writes about a man who predicts the implosion of our financial system and thus our whole society, just as I discussed before . Of course, 'real' economists are trying to find out where he is wrong so they can continue claiming they can continue taking as much as they are still taking now. Indeed, he too says the inequality between the majority who, although they earn more than their parents earned at their age, become poorer because the wealthy are becoming so rich they force prices upwards so that in real terms people become worse off. When people have too much money, they start earning money not by working but by for instance buying many houses to let to others who can't earn enough any more to buy something for themselves. Or these people sell at a higher price, therefore further increasing prices. Because, those who bought want a return to their investment and thus increase rent prices or sell at a higher price, therefore furthe...

The title of this article is taken from the front page of New Scientist (4 August 2012) that referred to the cover story about the influence of climate changes on the decline of societies. Studies suggest this influence is much larger than previously thought while some scientists still doubt its effects because they say some civilisations continued even after long periods of changes in the climate. Here I will discuss why I think that indeed climate changes were responsible for the destruction of many civilisations while some civilisations did survive. Why and how I think societies collapsed due to climate change. First of all, I find it obvious that changes in the climate can have dramatic effects and can lead to the collapse of civilisations. The best known and accepted example of the decline and collapse of a civilisation due to climate change was the Mayan Empire . After hundreds of years of growth, resulting in impressive buildings and even scripture (until now it was the on...