The Battle for Earth (Outline): The Good-Evil Index; The Amazing Feature of the Good-Evil Index; The Many Concurrent Battles to Take Over Earth; Alien Invasion; Global Industrialization; Christianity and Islam; Judaism; The Illuminati; The Great White Brotherhood / Universal Brotherhood; Foundation

© 2005 Joseph George Caldwell. All rights reserved. Posted at Internet web sites http://www.foundation.bw and http://www.foundationwebsite.org . May be copied or reposted for non-commercial use, with attribution. (13 January 2005)

Contents

The Amazing Feature of the Good-Evil Index. 6

The Many Concurrent Battles to Take Over Earth. 8

Alien Invasion. 11

Global Industrialization. 16

Christianity and Islam.. 16

Judaism.. 16

The Illuminati 16

The Great White Brotherhood / Universal Brotherhood. 16

Foundation. 17

The Good-Evil Index

A couple of months ago, Transparency International (TI) released the 2004 version of its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). You can view a copy of this at the Internet website http://www.transparency.org/pressreleases_archive/2004/2004.10.20.cpi.en.html . The CPI provides a measure of the perceived level of corruption in each of 146 countries of the world. The best is Finland, and the worst are Bangladesh and Haiti.

Many people are aware of the TI CPI since, each year, many news services report on it, identifying some of the best and worst countries in the world. This year, the Index caught my eye twice – first in the general new release, but second, in an article written in a local paper by editorialist Roy Clarke. Zambia, where I currently live, was rated in the 11-th worst category, and Clarke wrote a very funny satire on this fact. I reported on this in my article, “Roy Clarke on Corruption” in Miscellany8.

As you know, I am very concerned with the state of the planet, and would like to see a rational planetary management system established, before the mass species extinction currently underway goes to full term and the biosphere is totally destroyed. After seeing the reports on the CPI, the issue of corruption of the world’s countries – the political leaders and the leaders of business and industry – ruminated in my mind for some time. It is very clear that most of the leaders in today’s world are corrupt. They are genuinely evil people who are quite willing to sacrifice the biosphere and the quality of living for mankind for all time, simply to generate wealth and power for themselves or their particular groups (family, tribe, nation, race, species) in their brief lifetimes.

On some reflection, it occurred to me that it would be useful to construct a more general index of behavior, that reflected not just behavior of countries relative to economic corruption, but also the behavior relative to destruction of the planet’s biosphere. I would call this index the “Good-Evil Index,” or GEI. The issue that then arose was what components should be reflected in this index. On further reflection, it appeared to me that (as observed by Forrest Gump) “evil is as evil does,” and that I should try to capture an indicator (or indicators) that reflect various countries’ actions relative to destroying the biosphere. There are so many areas in which mankind is ravaging the environment, however, that this did not appear to be a very practical approach. Man is polluting the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, the rivers, the lakes. He is destroying all old-growth forests. He is destroying habitat of wild species at a horrific rate. He is causing global warming. He is causing the sixth mass species extinction, with the loss of an estimated 30,000 species per year. Through the development of civilization, he is causing untold misery to his own species, via overcrowding, poverty, disease, slavery, war, and a destroyed environment. There is simply too much to look at, if you try to measure the extent of mankind’s destruction of the planet.

So, what I needed was one or more indicators that reflect the problem, not its multifarious effects. At that point, it occurred to me, as I have observed many times, that, in the final analysis, it is mankind’s massive numbers that is destroying the planet. From this point of view, the countries that are doing the most damage are those that have the greatest population density relative to “productive” land, and those that have the greatest growth rates. (I decided that there was little point to including energy-related indicators, such as energy consumption per capita or per-capita income or the World Bank Human Development Index, since it appears that all countries strive to use as much energy as they can. Some, however, make much better (i.e., responsible, from a planetary management viewpoint) use of the energy than others.)

While writing Can America Survive? I assembled many of these kinds of statistics. In particular, I had figures for 229 countries, on population, population growth rate, arable land, permanent cropland, cropland (= arable land + permanent cropland), permanent pasture, agricultural land (= cropland + permanent pasture), forest and woodland, and productive land (=agricultural land + forest and woodland). The data were mainly from World Bank publications. The population figures were for 1996, and the population growth rate was for the period 1990-95. (Later figures are available, but I have not been engaged in working with data for some time, and these are the latest that I have right now on my computer.) The land-use figures were for 1993. I calculated the population density (the ratio of population to productive land) using the 1996 population divided by the 1993 “productive land” value.

These figures are shown in the table below. The table includes the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (TICPI04), the population growth rate (AGR9095WB), and the population density relative to productive land (DensProd96). To form a simple index of good-evil, I simply ranked each country relative to each of these three indicators (the ranks have suffix “I” attached, summed the ranks, and ranked the summed ranks. This final value is the Good-Evil Index (GoodEvilIndex).

Country	TICPI04	TICPI04I	DensProd96	DensProd96I	AGR9095WB	AGR9095WBI	SumOfRanks	GoodEvilIndex
Finland	9.7	146	0.1981	123	0.47	118	387	1
Sweden	9.2	141	0.282	116	0.52	116	373	2
New Zealand	9.6	145	0.1473	128	0.98	99	372	3
Iceland	9.5	143	0.1125	133	1.15	91	367	4
Suriname	4.3	97	0.0286	143	0.24	125	365	5
Estonia	6	115	0.4215	108	-0.39	142	365	6
Australia	8.8	138	0.0303	142	1.33	85	365	7
Canada	8.5	135	0.0528	140	1.18	89	364	8
Uruguay	6.2	119	0.2033	122	0.54	113	354	9
Norway	8.9	139	0.4689	101	0.52	114	354	10
Ireland	7.5	129	0.6112	96	0.52	115	340	11
United States	7.5	130	0.372	111	0.99	98	339	12
Spain	7.1	124	0.8518	80	0.09	131	335	13
Latvia	4	89	0.4652	102	-0.53	143	334	14
Lithuania	4.6	101	0.6783	89	0.03	135	325	15
Bulgaria	4.1	93	0.8358	82	-0.53	144	319	16
Chile	7.4	127	0.4197	109	1.56	81	317	17
Slovenia	6	116	1.0596	66	0.07	132	314	18
Portugal	6.3	120	1.3603	54	-0.09	139	313	19
Denmark	9.5	144	1.6526	45	0.28	123	312	20
Russian Federation	2.8	51	0.1494	127	0.09	130	308	21
Hungary	4.8	105	1.2912	56	-0.66	145	306	22
Austria	8.4	133	1.2043	60	0.69	110	303	23
France	7.1	125	1.2934	55	0.48	117	297	24
Belarus	3.3	71	0.6297	94	0.22	126	291	25
United Kingdom	8.6	136	2.9971	30	0.3	122	288	26
Brazil	3.9	88	0.2235	120	1.59	80	288	27