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Dr. Schund, how is the New World Order expunging the Third World?
The Third World is a wretched sump of 4 billion diseased, malnourished, violently reproducing dusky-skinned monsters. They are endlessly bled by various cults of Yahweh and even more primitive religious parasitisms. The Third World is unsuitable as trained cheap labor. It was viewed as a source of low-cost raw materials until science and technology superseded everything naturally crappy with brilliantly engineered synthetics. Economic, public health, and political concerns argued for ablation of unnecessary and dangerous populations.
God and His bindlestaff would not like unproductive expenses. It was thus that young Dr. Schund was summoned to a sumptuous Top Secret/Lotus Eater conclave for a month of opulence, decadence, strategy, and tactics. The most extraordinary minds ever to grace terrestrial hot tubs set out to expunge a half trillion pounds of human meat while securing a profit. The plan is in place and roaring along nicely, thank you, led by a trollop named Chiquita.
Some things are biologically negotiable. If you wish to ingest some Vitamin C or sodium, citrus fruits or sea water are awesomely abundant without practical limit. If you need some potassium to avoid hypokalemia (acute and lethal) or intractable hypertension (chronic and mildy lethal), things are more complicated. Potassium is rather hard to come by. Potassium is a chemical element. When you run out of it, it is gone.
Biology being biology, many plants extract trace potassium in soils and sequester it within their fruits. Outstanding amongst potassium-concentrating foodstuffs is the banana. US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service standard bananas mass 150 grams each and contain 0.450 grams of potassium. US annual importation of bananas is about 3.9 million metric tonnes/year. Europe boasts an even 4 million metric tonnes/year. Every last banana is imported from the Third World.
(Ugandans each year grow and eat 11 million tonnes of East African highland bananas. The crop is a cornerstone of most meals and is used for brewing beer. Please - nobody tell them about potatoes!)
A quick trip through a calculator discloses that the Third World is each year robbed of 23.7 billion grams of potassium. This has been accelerating for decades, ever since Dr. Schund remarked that his plan had appeal. "I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say, eat a banana and slay away!" Local lifespan plateaued in the 1990s and has decreased thereafter according to plan. Pan-global corporations are immortal. There is time to watch the drama innocently unfold.
Don't for a second believe that you as consumer have escaped the ever-lethal pecuniary wrath of your government and its owners. Baby Boomers are approaching retirement age, their insatiable appetites for Soical Security and Medicare straining to be unleashed. Discounted cashflow/return on investment parameterizations demand killing the scum after their taxable productivity declines. It is good economic policy.
Your doctor chortles as you eat your daily banana. "Potassium is good for your heart!" Since potassium is also radioactive, it is good for your doctor's cancer investment portfolio, too. Take a Geiger counter to your local supermarket and run it by the bottles of potassium chloride salt substitute. Do you hear those crickets?
Earth's atmosphere is more than 1% by volume argon-40. That is a lot of argon-40, about 5x1015 metric tonnes! All of it came from radioactive decay of potassium-40, with a half-life of 1.26x109 years. Since the Earth is about 5 billion years old, there is still some 3x1014 metric tonnes of potassium-40 merrily decaying away. It is nasty stuff, emitting either a 1.3 MeV beta ray (89%) or a 1.5 MeV beta ray (10.7%). It occasionally burps a positron (antimatter is bad for you, as is 511 keV annihilation radiation thereafter) or does an electron capture decay and shoots out a nasty gamma ray.
As the First World each year ingests 23.7 billion grams of potassium irretrievably stolen from the Third World it is also eating 2.8 million grams of radioactive potassium-40. Enjoy your health food. Pookie pookie.
Isotope separation is facile, certainly for the lighter elements. Alkali metals like potassium have intense optical absorptions whose exact frequencies are exquisitely sensitive to nuclear mass. It is a simple thing to run a current of potassium vapor through a vacuum chamber transversely blasted by an exactly tuned laser. Only potassium-40 ionizes, thereafter being separated by magnetic or electrostatic fields and collected. The remaining clean potassium is forwarded as non-radioactive nutrition to those deserving souls in charge of the program. Dr. Schund does not like crickets in his banana daiquiris.
Where does recovered radioactive potassium-40 go? It is compounded into fertilizer (the third number in the three number N-P-K designation) and compassionately donated to the Third World to fertilize their banana plantations. Closure! - and charitable tax write-offs.
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