Reducing expenses, suffering and wars

For contributing to world peace I would like to nominate the Chinese 

President Xi Jinping

for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The colossal investments in renewable energy in China will spare the atmosphere for large amounts of carbon dioxide. It corresponds to opening the windows in a house which for whatever reason is getting overheated.

Such efforts will benefit not only China, but all nations. It will reduce the risks resulting from deteriorating habitats, rising sea levels and failing agriculture. 

Whether we like it or not, we all live in the same house. If we do not open the windows we will see famine, wars and large northward displacements of people. No domes exist which can stop both glowing heat, extreme weather events, rising sea levels and huge streams of climate refugees. Streams which will dwarf the already now pressing immigration problem. And nothing can prevent the unimaginable spendings, which will be needed to adapt to the deteriorating conditions. 

Thus, windmills and solar panels will limit the threatening conflicts and wars over the dwindling resources. Conflicts which will destabilise the relations between the great powers and increase the tensions between them to dangerous levels.

For these reasons, President Xi would be an obvious candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Stupor Mundi

Stupor Mundi

The Astonishment of the World

This was the epithet of the midieval Emperor Frederick II, who ruled the Italo-German “Roman” Empire from 1220 to 1250. 

He was not understood by his contemporaries because he was many centuries ahead of his time. In fact he looks like somebody from the Age of Enlightenment, rational, scientific and tolerant. A very early precursor of modernity.

Now, we have another Stupor Mundi, also ahead of his age. Often looking like somebody from after the end of modernity. He is ahead in two senses. In one year he has moved the United States decades ahead into the internal chaos and autocracy which is typical for the final decades of a modernity and into the accompanying international hegemony. I have earlier, in the post “The Second American Revolution” tried to explain this by assuming that culturally, America was already there and just needed a catalyst, Donald Trump. But this achievement of one man is nevertheless astonishing whether you embrace it or hate it.

In the other sense this man points far into the future. As many have seen, he acts and looks increasingly like an emperor. Some may think that he is just a passing narcissistic anomaly. But in fact he is a prophecy about things to come. On the general level, almighty hereditary rulers will be the norm in the world empires from about 2100. They may be termed e.g. Suppreme President, but they are de facto emperors.

In the specific sense Donald Trump looks a bit like a certain type of future emperors. A type we could encounter around 2160, i.e. a type which the Romans experienced in the corresponding time ~ A.D. 40. 

The appearance of Donald Trump in our age is indeed astonishing. He shows what awaits us in the whole world or most of it.

 

Greenland

 The Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is chosen by the Nobel Committee in Norway, the country which started the close relations  between the Nordic countries and Greenland.