From Stephan Schwartz~ Trends That Will Affect Your Future…: Migration

[giovonni]

Greeting's

Stephan Schwartz is a brilliant author and futurist, I wholly recommend his web-page which contains daily insights into world and human matters> affecting us all in the~ now
http://www.schwartzreport.net/

Below ~ is a sample of his writing and future visions of possible things too come?

The SchwartzReport tracks emerging trends that will affect the world, particularly the United States. For EXPLORE it focuses on matters of health in the broadest sense of that term, including medical issues, changes in the biosphere, technology, and policy considerations, all of which will shape our culture and our lives.

Trends That Will Affect Your Future…: Migration

Migration. The word evokes for me, and perhaps for you, images from the Bible. Charlton Heston's Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt, across the Red Sea, and into the desert that lies beyond. Masses of people collectively on the move with common purpose, bringing with them all their goods and chattels. Never expecting to return. More than war, more than climate catastrophe, more than pandemics—migrations are a force for change. And this is as true for first world countries like the United States, Europe, or Japan, as it is for developing nations like China or Third World countries such as the nations of Africa.

Migrations come in two varieties: glacial and volcanic. The 1994 Tutsi flood that poured out of Rwanda and the several million non-Islamic Sudanese forced from their villages by the progovernment Janjaweed militias are volcanic migrations—violent ejections of populations based on immediate crisis. The volcanic time frame is short term, because just as the Rwandans—both Hutu and Tutsi—came back as soon as it was possible, those ejected by a volcanic migration do not surrender their allegiance to their homeland and always hope to return. Theirs is the commonsense response of simple people caught in the ravenous jaws of some greater political purpose. In contrast, glacial movements represent a general surrender of allegiance to the old land and an embracement of the new home, and typically take place over several generations. The Irish diaspora to the New World, resulting from the Corn Laws and the Potato Famine in the 19th century—a migration that profoundly changed America—is an example of this process. The movement of Hispanics into North America is another. Mostly because of their timing cycle, and because each decision to move seems so personal and unrushed, true migrations often occur beneath public awareness until they are largely a fait accompli that has reshaped the world that is the migration's goal. The response is really more about the change wrought than the migration that produced it.

Within large lands, migrations can also be internal. The Chinese, for instance, are actively encouraging the migration of Han Chinese into Tibet as a way of cementing the connection between Tibet and mainland China. America similarly encouraged homesteading as a way of claiming the central plains from Native Americans, about which I will have more to say later.

Right now, three major migrations are actively at work changing the face of the United States. Their effects hold implications for every aspect of American life, from healthcare to education to what kind of arts are publicly supported. Understanding them is critically important, because if we do not correctly understand them, we will invest possibly trillions of dollars and millions of work hours constructing bridges to nowhere.

The Coming White Minority
The Census Bureau reported in August 2008 that by 2042, America will be majority nonwhite. Those who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander will collectively outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Some demographers believe the actual tip point will occur even earlier, and they may well be right. This latest projection by the Census Bureau accelerates by six years the official projections made previously, in 2004, that saw this shift happening in 2050.

As Sam Roberts reported in The New York Times, “The main reason for the accelerating change is significantly higher birthrates among immigrants. Another factor is the influx of foreigners, rising from about 1.3 million annually today to more than 2 million a year by mid-century, according to projections based on current immigration policies.”1

Think about this for a moment; it stunned me when I first absorbed it as more than a statistic. In my lifetime, we have gone from separate drinking fountains segregated by race, to an American President who is by heritage half white, half African, half Christian, half Islamic. And now I, child of two earlier white migrations, am poised to become a minority because of new large migrations. It is a measure of the resilience of our political system, and the tolerance built into the culture as the result of that system's long endurance as an idea—the United States has the oldest continuous form of government on the planet—rather than a racial, ethnic, or religious grouping that this has happened. “No other country has experienced such rapid racial and ethnic change,” observes Mark Mather, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a research organization in Washington.1

“A momentum is built into this as a result of past immigration,” says Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. “In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, there were more Hispanic immigrants than births. This decade, there are more births than immigrants. Almost regardless of what you assume about future immigration, the country will be more Hispanic and Asian.”1

The Reemergence of the Plains
They came in waves. It is one of the enduring iconic stories of our past, one of the legends we tell our children to teach them who they are. The Homesteaders, “opening” the Great Plains and the West, set in motion by the Homestead Act of 1862. They are there still in our mind's eye. Their wagons named for Conestoga, a small town in Pennsylvania where they were first made, became the most numinous conveyance in American history until the advent of the Model T. For people like the Mormons, the wood and canvas wagons are still a living presence. Fueled mostly by the migration of Scandinavians, Germans, Scots, and Irish from their homelands where land was parceled out to peasants on a scale of yards, the land of the Great Plains and beyond represented a scale that could scarcely be imagined by those millions who poured into America. The small towns that soon dotted the central corridor of the American land mass became the very thing we meant when we said, “American heartland.” Beginning in the 1930s, though, the great experiment in family farming began to fail, replaced by massive agri-industrial farming requiring few people and many machines, and the towns were abandoned one by one. In the census of 1890, “desolate lands” were defined as land with a population of less than one person per 10 square miles. By the 1990s, parts of the Great Plains had reverted to that status.

The Inter-University Consortium For Political and Social Research studied this, concluding: “In the next decades, aging farmers in the United States will make decisions that affect almost 1 billion acres of land. The future of this land will become more uncertain as farm transfer becomes more difficult, potentially changing the structure of agriculture through farm consolidation, changes in farm ownership and management, or taking land out of production.”2 The common wisdom is that the “Age of the Plains” is over.

But it isn't quite that simple, nor that gloomy. To be sure, the farming village heartland of story, movie, and song is gone and will not return. But the Great Plains will remain the nation's breadbasket and the primary source of wheat, as well as much of the barley, corn, flaxseed, sunflowers, sorghum, cotton, and cattle. As Jim Stephens, president of Farmers National Commodities, and a grain-marketing consultant says, “Despite population declines in many areas, the total acres of corn, soybean and wheat in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana are up 7.2 million acres since 1950 to 48.3 million acres.”3

However, as the European model of small family farms ends, new models of living on the plains are arising and a new migration is beginning. One of its most interesting aspects is the return of Native Americans to historic lands. Speaking of this, John Mitchell writes in National Geographic Magazine, “If there was any surprise in the findings of the 2000 U.S. census, it wasn't so much the loss of population from half the counties in the Great Plains; those numbers had been ebbing for decades. The surprise was the disproportionate gain in counties that contain the region's Indian reservations, a growth that could not be pegged entirely to higher birthrates, better healthcare, casino jobs, and the availability of federally subsidized housing. Thousands of Native Americans long off the ‘rez’—Blackfeet, Crow, Flathead, Northern Cheyenne, Sioux—were putting the white man's cities behind them and heading for home. ‘A lot of these people returning from the cities are retirees,' says Fred DuBray, a Sioux who manages the InterTribal Bison Cooperative near the Black Hills. ‘This is where they want to be. This is where their heart is.'”4

Another shift lies in retirees seeking quiet, less expensive retirements. And young families seeking much the same, at the other end of life. Small metropolitan areas near interesting geographical features, or with the “good” bones of architecture, or proximity to a college and a medical center are attracting these people, and are actually growing. Fargo, North Dakota, for example, grew by 20% between 1990 and 2000. Joining Fargo are towns such as Grand Forks, North Dakota, Dubuque, Iowa, and Casper, Wyoming, all of which have enjoyed significant growth. And inexpensive land costs near these groupings are attracting technical industry. But the factor that I believe will matter most is the one announced by President Obama, then President elect, on Monday, December 15, 2008, when he presented Nobel Laureate physicist Stephen Chu and the others he described as his “energy and environment team” to oversee the Green Transition and the shift in energy it represents. Why do I say this? Because through a stroke of extraordinary good fortune down these lonely flat states that constitute the nation's central spine, with few metropolitan installations to break its momentum, flows one of the best wind corridors in the world. Already, libertarian ranchers, normally defined by their independence, are banding together to form wind cooperatives. We are about to experience something like the Oklahoma-Texas oil rush. And an entire new infrastructure is going to rise before our eyes. We are going to go back to the age when the Hoover Dam and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) lakes were created. As transportation from trains to automobiles shifts to electricity, and residential and office structures do the same, places with wind, like places with constant sun, are going to become extraordinarily valuable.

Perturbation on the Coasts
Some years ago I did a research study in which I asked a population of Japanese and a population of Americans to imagine a place.5 I then asked them to categorize it as being (1) a mountain, (2) a city, (3) a sacred space, (4) a technological installation, (5) a land-water interface, or (6) farmland. To an overwhelming degree, the Japanese picked “a mountain” and Americans selected “land-water interface.” If one thinks about it, I believe it is not hard to see why this occurred. Japanese revere mountains in general, and Mount Fuji especially. It is a constant symbol in their art and literature. Americans are strongly oriented towards land-water interfaces. Our anthems speak of them, and our cultural memory is replete with tales that involve the shores of our oceans, lakes, and rivers and their deltas. Perhaps that is why, although worldwide about 40% of people live within 100 km/62 miles of a coastline or in land lying less than 10 meters/33 feet in height (the definition of coastal areas), in the United States that number is 53%.6 Nearly 160 million people live in coastal counties, an increase of 39 million since 1980. An additional 12 million are expected in the next decade. If the consensus models of climate change continue to correctly predict outcome, this cannot continue.

States like Florida are obviously going to be severely impacted by the rise of seawater, and there is a very real chance that the Keys will simply go under the waves. But that's just the obvious. Consider a state like New Jersey, where 60% of the population lives in a coastal county. Even in 2005, to those who bothered to look, the picture was remarkably grim, and recent developments suggest that those predictions, looking back from 2009, are not only holding true but are, perhaps, too conservative. Princeton University researchers led by Matthew Cooper carried out the 2005 study of the impact rising sea levels would have on the state and reported, “Sea level rise is a significant and growing threat to New Jersey.”7

Their study projected that “as much as 9% of the state's low-lying land could be hit by periodic coastal flooding in a trend that would devastate property, disrupt wildlife, erode beaches, and salinate drinking water in populated areas. Worldwide, sea levels are expected to rise between 0.09 and 0.88 meter (0.29 and 2.88 feet) between 1990 and 2100. In New Jersey, the rise is projected at an overall 0.71 meter (2.3 feet) over the period.”7

Much the same could be said about every state down the Eastern seaboard, where a vast megalopolis essentially runs from Boston to Norfolk. I invite my readers to visit a site maintained by the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences Environmental Studies Laboratory (http://geongrid.geo.arizona.edu/arci...rvi/viewer.htm), where they have dynamic maps showing what the projected impact of sea level rise will be. It is a very scary picture. Clearly, people in the coastal regions are going to experience radical change in their living patterns, and one probable outcome will be a migration back from the present coastline to some safer line inland.

All of these migrations are occurring now, and will produce powerful forces for change in our future that will accelerate as the century spools out. They matter now, however, because thanks to the new Obama administration, we are undertaking the first massive national infrastructure building effort since the interstate highway program began in the 1950s. If the “past is prologue” and we must live for the next several generations on the decisions we make today, then it is important to our lives, and particularly the lives of our children and grandchildren, that we make decisions about where to place hospitals, schools, libraries, and other public facilities based not only on present needs and population patterns, but, also on the needs and patterns three decades from now. The time when climate change deniers could be taken seriously is long past, and the choices we make in the next few months will largely describe the America we live in tomorrow.

link to article journal and references;
http://www.explorejournal.com/articl...398-4/fulltext

[Carmen]

Yes Gio, many people are on the move! Some of them are consciously making descisions and others instinctively are answering an inner prompting to move to a place that 'feels' right to them.

Cheers

Carmen

[peaceandlove]

Stephan Schwartz Coast to Coast AM July 21, 2007
Excerpt from (more info) section on youtube page:

Schwartz discussed his work on non-locality, consciousness and remote viewing. Evidence shows that some part of our consciousness exists outside of time/space, he said, and all consciousness is interconnected and interdependent. This connectivity allows for morphogenic fields to be created, he added.

It was Edgar Cayce's "distant viewing" of the Dead Sea Scrolls (before their discovery) that first got Schwartz interested in remote viewing. As developed in the 1970s, remote viewing, which he described as a kind of "mental yoga," provides information that can be independently validated. Moments of religious ecstasy, genius, and remote viewing are all similar experiences, but they are modulated by their context and intention, he explained.

VIDEO Part 1 (9:49): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5T0W...4E0F1E&index=5



Stephan Schwartz was a first hour guest speaking about HAPPINESS on the night of May 7th, 2009 show about Mind Programming with Eldon Taylor. I am still searching for the hour preceding this show and will update when I find it. I've sent out my request for it already.

Happiness Research

First hour guest, author and futurist Stephan Schwartz talked about research that shows happiness is contagious, and that our minds are linked. He suggested a four-fold set of tools to take control of one's life:

Figure out what your purpose is.
Develop a practice of focusing.
Develop a practice of self-healing.
Find a way to look into your future with goals, but not cherished outcomes.
He is offering a free meditation guide here: http://www.crisisconduct.com/mygift




Coast to Coast AM - May 07 2009 - Mind Programming with Eldon Taylor part 1/12

Doctor of Psychology and Metaphysics, and lifelong student of the human mind, Eldon Taylor discussed his work in mind control and brainwashing, subliminal suggestion, lie detection, and reverse speech. The intent of his new book Mind Programming is to make people aware that marketers are spending billions to influence their minds, and that armed with this knowledge they can take back the power of their mind.

We don't stop to think that we're unable to think-- our perceptual framework has been foisted upon us, he declared, citing how violence depicted on TV and in video games acts to desensitize people to life-affirming values.

Subliminal messages have been employed by advertisers for products such as cigarettes and liquor, planting hidden material that heightens one's sense of arousal, as well as building anxiety, Taylor detailed. Political campaigns have also used these kinds of messages. For instance, during the 2000 campaign, a Bush ad against Gore, flashed the word RAT, shortened from DEMOCRAT. Such advertising does have influence, and may have even tipped the election in favor of Bush, he commented.

He also spoke about his work with lie detection and the polygraph machine, which he characterized as a kind of bio-feedback mechanism, and reverse speech, which he said has similarities to a Freudian slip.

VIDEO Part 1 (10:00): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNNM...e=channel_page

[Carmen]

[IMG]Figure out what your purpose is.
Develop a practice of focusing.
Develop a practice of self-healing.
Find a way to look into your future with goals, but not cherished outcomes.
He is offering a free meditation guide here: http://www.crisisconduct.com/mygift[/IMG]

This to me is great advice Peaceandlove. Most people don't realize the power of their own mind and how it is manipulated to direct us constantly. Best to throw out the telly, it controls our minds and more especially our childrens minds.

Cheers

Carmen

[peaceandlove]

Originally Posted by Carmen

[IMG]Figure out what your purpose is.
Develop a practice of focusing.
Develop a practice of self-healing.
Find a way to look into your future with goals, but not cherished outcomes.
He is offering a free meditation guide here: http://www.crisisconduct.com/mygift[/IMG]

This to me is great advice Peaceandlove. Most people don't realize the power of their own mind and how it is manipulated to direct us constantly. Best to throw out the telly, it controls our minds and more especially our childrens minds.

Cheers

Carmen

Blessings Carmen,

I agree. The question needs to be asked: "Why do they call it Television Programming?"

We can be grateful to the PTB for instituting the digital TV. I for one, opted out (actually where I live they did not wait, they went digital February 17th), and it looks like 20 million other people did too, or else they're so anesthesized they forgot to get the box (OR STAYED IN THE BOX).

PaL

Telling Blog on Campaign for Liberty?

Transition to Digital TV

Posted by johnaustin123 on 06/13/09 08:34 AM

Question: Why are 56,000 People in Northeast Ohio and 20 Million People Nationwide not transitioning to Digital TV?

Answer: Many People are instead upgrading Internet Services and buying new Radios. The Internet is cheaper than Cable TV and Entertainment is free at the Library. (Radio is free)

Television Stations and Newscast People have to be concerned.

Television may be transitioning to the Internet.

SOURCE: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=19914


Was the PTB afraid they were going to lose control? I posted this back on 2/5/2009 Congress postpones digital TV transition to June http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10769

??? Anyone else reading between the lines of this announcement ???

Congress postpones digital TV transition to June (AP)
Posted on Wed Feb 4, 2009 6:07PM EST

WASHINGTON - After weeks of debate, Congress is giving consumers four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting.

The House voted 264-158 on Wednesday to postpone the shutdown of analog TV signals to June 12, to address growing concerns that too many Americans won't be ready by the Feb. 17 deadline that Congress set three years ago. The Senate passed the measure unanimously last week and the bill now heads to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The change is being mandated because digital signals are more efficient than analog ones. Ending analog broadcasts will free up valuable space in the nation's airwaves for commercial wireless services and emergency-response networks.

The delay is a victory for the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress, who maintain that the previous administration mismanaged efforts to ensure that all consumers — particularly poor, rural and minority Americans — will be prepared for the switchover.

The Nielsen Co. estimates that more than 6.5 million U.S. households that rely on analog TV sets to pick up over-the-air broadcast signals still are not ready. People who subscribe to cable or satellite TV or have a newer TV with a digital tuner will not be affected.

Article Continues Here: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/200902...TSH96wDsDiS5A5

[Seashore]

…They matter now, however, because thanks to the new Obama administration, we are undertaking the first massive national infrastructure building effort since the interstate highway program began in the 1950s...

I’m not familiar with this. Does anyone know what this is referring to?

…The time when climate change deniers could be taken seriously is long past...

I wonder what climate change he is referring to…

[giovonni]

Report Warns Climate Change Will Lead to Mass Migration
By Lisa Bryant
Paris
10 June 2009




Severe drought is one of the expected consequence in Africa of climate change
A new report says climate change will lead to mass migration in the coming decades as tens of millions of people flee their homes due to drought, floods, storms and rising sea levels.

Authored by the United Nations University, the non-governmental organization CARE International and Columbia University in New York, the report paints a bleak picture. It cites estimates by the International Organization for Migration that climate change might force some 200 million people from their homes by 2050.

While concerns about climate change induced migration are not new, one of the study's authors, Charles Ehrhart, says this already seems to be happening.

"What is quite new about this report is it helps people understand much more about what we're going to see and also the fact that we already may be seeing the beginnings of this pattern," said Charles Ehrhart.

The study examines the situation of some 2,000 households on five continents. Ehrhart, who is CARE International's climate change coordinator, says there are two broad types of migration due to climate change. Floods and other disasters generally spark short-term migration, while long-term weather patterns like sparser rainfall and more frequent droughts generally lead to long-term migration.

"And what these kinds of forces do is they undermine people's ability to have a productive livelihood - if your livelihood is sensitive to rainfall for instance," he said. "So we're talking about rainfed farming, we're talking about pastoralists and people like this."

In many cases, those fleeing their homes are the poorest of the poor who cannot afford to go far. So much of this migration takes place within countries, with people often fleeing the countryside for urban areas. That, Ehrhart says, puts a further strain on already overburdened cities in developing countries.

The report has been given to international negotiators currently meeting in Bonn, Germany who are negotiating a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Ehrhart says migration is being taken into account in these talks as well as some the study's recommendations.

original article link here;
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-10-voa61.cfm

[Seashore]

Originally Posted by seashore

I wonder what climate change he is referring to…

I think the term "climate change" needs to be defined clearly. We used to hear about "global warming" all the time. Now it's "climate change."

Also, people need to establish whether or not they're asserting that humans cause climate change with their carbon emissions.

[Humble Janitor]

Originally Posted by seashore

I think the term "climate change" needs to be defined clearly. We used to hear about "global warming" all the time. Now it's "climate change."

Also, people need to establish whether or not they're asserting that humans cause climate change with their carbon emissions.

We certainly accelerate it with our activities but I don't think that we caused it completely.

I think the debate is over on the cause. We should be concerned about mitigating the effects and we need that that hidden technology that is always discussed on here and other sites. I just know that we can maniupulate the environment in a positive way and reverse these effects.

[peaceandlove]

I'm baaaaaaaackkkkkk , as promised here is the HAPPINESS Show, a possible trend that will affect your future!?!

Happiness Research

First hour guest, author and futurist Stephan Schwartz talked about research that shows happiness is contagious, and that our minds are linked. He suggested a four-fold set of tools to take control of one's life:

Figure out what your purpose is.
Develop a practice of focusing.
Develop a practice of self-healing.
Find a way to look into your future with goals, but not cherished outcomes.

He is offering a free meditation guide here: http://www.crisisconduct.com/mygift


Coast to Coast AM - Happiness Part 1/3

VIDEO (3 Parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpayO...eature=related