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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Sorry, I don't buy the pessimism. I watched the "survivalists" of the late seventies. We went onto 25 years of overall good times. (Overall. I rode the Texas banking debacle all the way down to the bottom in the 1980's as a bank programmer.)
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That reminds me of a joke that James Burke related, in his video "After the Warming," about a man who falls off of a 100-story building.
On the way down, a man sticks his head out of a window on the 15th floor, and shouts out to the falling man, "How's it going?"
To which the falling man replies: "So far, so good."
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
We've been in an energy squeeze for the last 7 years. It'll last another 7-10 years. Then we'll be out for another 25 year good times run. Shucks, we're all e-book readers here. Look how much resources that saves. Wind is already at the inversion point, solar will be there in another 5 years. Battery technology is slowly but steadily improving. We'll make it thru this valley....
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We might... if it all happens in the next fifteen floors...