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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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Onus \ n (ca.1640): Obligation; Responsibility.
Onuissance \ onn-uh-sonns\ n (ca.2280): Historic period known as The Age of Responsibility.
A word (yes, made up by the author-- me) to suggest a future Renaissance based on ecologic sensibility and responsibility.
They only appear to be richest... because we have purchased everything on debt, and the day the bill comes due, it will be quite obvious how badly we have been fooling ourselves... |
And the rest of the world built up equivalent credit balances. (see double-entry bookkeeping.) Look at the improvement of life throughout Asia in the period 1980-2000 (even including the 1997 crisis). Look at the improvement in India, in South Africa, even South America. Those aren't lives?
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
See? Told you someone would call me a communist.
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Well, let's see. Control how people live by govenment rules? Check. Limit debate? Check. Still need govenrment control of all communication and centralized planning...
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We tried that 30 years ago. People largely did nothing, and bought SUVs.
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Maybe they
like SUV's....Besides, as I already pointed out, we've dropped the cost of solar by a factor of 250 times in forty years, doesn't that count as being innovators?
The times, they are a changin'. But it's not a light switch, and we're not quite there. I believe that when the economics get there, people will change over. Me personally, I'm a peak oil person. But as oil rises, people will change over because the economics encourage it, not because of some government dikta.