Dr Gideon Polya is a biochemist, academic, writer, artist, and climate change activist. Associated with the Australian Climate Emergency Network and the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group, he is the Convenor of 300.org that, informed by the latest science, holds that we must return the world's atmospheric CO2 concentration to 300 ppm for a safe and sustainable planet for all peoples and all species (see “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ).
(1) Dr Gideon Polya on Mainstream media lying (2012): “Australia is one of the World’s oldest democracies but is now a corporate-, US- and Zionist-perverted country in which neocon, pro-war, pro-US, pro-Zionist, corporatist Australian Mainstream media (including the taxpayer-funded ABC, the Australian equivalent of the taxpayer-funded UK BBC) remorselessly censor news, reader comments and foreign perversion of Australian democracy (Google “Censorship by The Age”, “ABC Censorship” and “Mainstream Media Lying”). Such Mainstream media (MSM) lying is general throughout the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies… As illustrated by the resolute refusal of Australian Mainstream media to report the actual history of the US- and Zionist-backed anti-Rudd Coup, Australia is in thrall to foreign-owned mining companies, the endlessly subversive neocon Americans and the racist Zionist Lobby. What is happening in Australia is symptomatic of neo-fascist corporate, neocon American and racist Zionist perversion and subversion of the Western democracies that have become neo-fascist, corporatist Murdochracies (Big Money buys public perception and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies and elections).
What can decent, anti-war, anti-racism, pro-equity, pro-democracy people do? Decent folk – the 99% - must (a) inform everyone they can about the perversion of our democracy; (b) urge and apply sanctions and boycotts against corporations, countries, politicians and indeed all people complicit in such perversion; (c) demand, as did John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy (albeit unsuccessfully), that traitorous racist Zionists are registered as agents of a foreign power; and (d) urge the sidelining of racist Zionists and their supporters from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the KKK. In US- and Zionist-beholden Australia, for example, that means a boycott of all Mainstream media and that decent folk should vote 1 Green and put Labor last until it returns to decent values and ceases being an anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic tool of the Neocon Americans and Zionist Imperialists who currently hold sway Downunder” (Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media lying. MSM hide corporate, US and Zionist subversion:, MWC News, 13 February 2012: http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/16850-mainstream-media-lying.html ).
(2) Melbourne scientist Dr. Gideon Polya’s 3 Laws of Economics mirror the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics of science and are (1) Price minus COP (Cost of Production) equals profit; (2) Deception about COP strives to a maximum; and (3) No work, price or profit on a dead planet.
These fundamental laws help expose the failure of neoliberal capitalism in relation to wealth inequality, massive tax evasion by multinational corporations, and horrendous avoidable deaths from poverty and pollution culminating in general ecocide, speciescide, climate genocide, omnicide and terracide.
Fundamental to the physical sciences and the explosion of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century are the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics that can be simply stated as follows.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that the energy of a closed system is constant i.e. we can have different amounts of energy in different forms in different parts of the system (a human body, the planet, the universe), but the total energy remains a constant.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the entropy (disorder) of the world strives to a maximum i.e. the world inexorably tends to randomness, chaos, disorder and minimum information content. We are familiar with so many examples of this e.g. (a) the drops of ink in a glass of water disperse until the ink particles are uniformly distributed; (b) despite inbuilt cellular biochemical repair and replication systems, we inevitably age and die; and (c) the accelerating expansion of the universe.
The Third Law of Thermodynamics states that the entropy (disorder) of a pure crystal of a pure chemical at the absolute zero temperature of zero (0) degrees Kelvin (minus 273.15 degrees Centigrade) is zero i.e. in a universe full of motion and increasing disorder there is a boundary state of zero disorder (Gideon Polya, “Polya’s Laws of Economics expose neoliberal capitalism”, MWC News, 17 October 2015: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/54945-polyas-laws-of-economics-expose.html ).
Dr Gideon Polya on Mainstream media ignoring horrendous realities (2017): “In his proposed FY2018 Budget, a remorselessly neoliberal, climate change-denying and anti-science Trump aims to slash science, technology, international aid, and medical research funding in favour of extra funding for the military, war, Apartheid Israel and nuclear terrorism. 30 Americans are predicted to die from terrorism in America in the next 8 years but well over 14 million Americans will die preventably under a US- and world-threatening 2-term Trump regime.
US aid will be slashed to about $20 billion pa for an impoverished world in which 17 million people already die from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease each year . A racist, pro-war, warmongering, nuclear terrorist, anti-science, and neoliberal extremist Trump significantly adds to the acute, existential threats to the world from nuclear weapons, poverty and climate change.
However corporate US and Western Mainstream media resolutely ignore the hard prediction of over 14 million American preventable deaths in a 2-term Trump presidency, just as they resolutely ignore the active or passive mass murder in the US War on Muslims (US War on Terror) of 32 million Muslims from violence, 5 million, or from imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity [34].
What can decent people do as an ignorant, neo-fascist, corporatist, anti-science, neoliberal Trump-led America pushes our nuclear weapons-, poverty- and climate change-threatened world towards the precipice? Decent people everywhere must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) adopt zero tolerance for deadly militarism, neoliberalism and climate criminality [66-68], and (c) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against a terracidal Trump America and its genocidal lackeys that threaten the whole world with catastrophe” (Gideon Polya, “Over 14 million Americans will die preventably under a 2-term Trump Administration”, Countercurrents, 22 March 2017: http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/03/22/over-14-million-americans-will-die-preventably-under-a-2-term-trump-administration/ ; [34]. Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ; [66]. Gideon Polya, “Humanity must pledge inescapable dispossession and custodial retribution for climate criminals”, Countercurrents, 20 December2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/20/humanity-must-pledge-inescapable-dispossession-and-custodial-retribution-for-climate-criminals/ ; [67]. Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ; [68]. “Stop climate crime”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-climate-crime ).
Gideon Polya on the existential importance of dissident opinion (2020): “Crucially, just as biological evolution by Darwinian natural selection requires mutation and genetic diversity, so social evolution and adaptation requires selection from a variety of ideas (memes) [155]. Ergo, at this critical time dissident views should be encouraged and not suppressed. Yet mass personal data acquisition and social credit systems in a Digital Dictatorship will not only violate human rights and civil rights but will suppress the very diversity of ideas that is crucial for tackling the present existential crisis facing Humanity. French philosopher René Descartes famously stated “I think, therefore I am” but in a Digital Dictatorship (Digital Prison) mendacious government will determine what we are allowed to think. What must decent people do? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) urge zero tolerance for lying (including lying by omission), (c) insist on transparency and application of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights to everyone [56], and (d) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, corporations and countries complicit in the worsening digital imprisonment of Humanity” Gideon Polya, “Review: “One World Digital Dictatorship” by Soren Korsgaard – Digital Nightmare”, Countercurrents, 23 January 2020: https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/review-one-world-digital-dictatorship-by-soren-korsgaard-digital-nightmare ) .
Gideon Polya on entrenched lying as described by Polya’s Second Law of Economics (2020): “I have translated the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics, to whit, (1) conservation of energy, (2) entropy (chaos, disorder, lack of information) increases to a maximum, and (3) zero motion at Absolute Zero, to Polya’s 3 Laws of Economics, to whit (1) Profit = Price minus Cost of Production, (2) Deceit about Cost of Production increases to a maximum, and (3) no life, work, price or profit on a dead Planet. Just as the Second Law of Thermodynamics condemns the universe to thermal death in billions of years’ time, so Polya’s Second Law of Economics has brought Humanity and the Biosphere to the edge of terracidal disaster. Unless extraordinary (and hence unlikely) steps are taken in the coming decade the world is set for a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise disaster, a matter perceived by school children but not by the endlessly greedy One Percenters running the world. If everyone in the world wants an American standard of living we need 7 planets, and 3 planets if we all want a European standard of living. However there is no Planet B. Unless requisite action is taken there will be a worsening Climate Genocide en route to a sustainable human population of only 0.5-1.0 billion in 2100” (Gideon Polya, “Review: “One World Digital Dictatorship” by Soren Korsgaard – Digital Nightmare”, Countercurrents, 23 January 2020: https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/review-one-world-digital-dictatorship-by-soren-korsgaard-digital-nightmare ; see also Gideon Polya, “Polya’s 3 Laws of Economics expose deadly, dishonest and terminal neoliberal capitalism”, Countercurrents, 17 October, 2015: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya171015.htm ).