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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The "resource gap" isn't politically made, it's man-made, that is, demand outstripping supply. Politics is certainly delaying the closing of the gap, but the fact is, we are demanding power much, much faster than we have the capacity to supply it, and unless we change our habits (and somehow prevent countries like China and India from duplicating our bad habits), that situation will continue to prevail, and to collectively drag us all down.
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Not political, but man-made? Politicians aren't people? (Well,
that explains a lot about our world!)
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
No... but there are about a million-fold more people on the planet, producing much more than a million-fold unchecked pollution than in 1000 A.D. Their situation was a pale example of what's in store for us.
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A million-fold increase? 6 billion divided by 1 million = ? 6,000,000,000 / 1,000,000 = 6000. There was 6000 people in 1000 A.D.?
We have a problem, let's solve it. The current problem wouldn't be so bad it those (non-human) politicians had allowed the free market to start solving the problem 7 years ago, instead of thowing every spanner they could find into the works. (and then saintly saying "Oh my, we've got a problem that can't be solved.") This bottleneck
will be worked thru, despite the best effort of (non-human) politicians and urbanites who have totally lost sight of production chain of civilization. There's too much money to be made from people (like me) who refuse to give up their suburban lifestyle.