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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
The ENERGY vs ECONOMIC feedback mechanism is now with us for good?
Energy prices UP...economy stalls...economy stalls...energy prices go DOWN?
Cheap energy is not there to fuel the perpetual growth scenario? So the DEBT overhang can't be "grown" away? Add in population growth and the increasing costs to deal with global warming and extreme weather....?
So it looks like there's trouble in River City.
About the only thing that might save us is that all those people who believe go ahead and float up into the air...thus reducing the load on the planet.....  |
Hasn't energy always been tied to economic prosperity? Why did Europeans have relative prosperity compared to say, Native Americans? They had beasts of burden which gave them an energy advantage.
Your comments assume the following:
Cheap energy will not exist in the future
We are abundantly bombarded with free energy all the time. In fact, many are concerned that the earth does not waste this free energy fast enough (global warming). It seems inevitable that we learn to harness other forms of energy as our current favorite becomes too expensive.
Economic growth will not be possible due to expensive energy
Do we all agree that economic prosperity is dependent on abundance of energy?
Population growth and resource strains are inevitable
The US would have a negative population growth if not for immigration. The trend in affluent countries is a decreasing population growth rate.
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Rapture may not be necessary to control population.
Global warming will have drastic and costly consequences
The film Cool It makes the case that many of us have an unrealistic perspective on the subject.