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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Your comments assume the following:
Cheap energy will not exist in the future
You assume some kind of magical tech advances?
Economic growth will not be possible due to expensive energy
Unless you can make stuff without using energy...you will be making much less of it. No easy growth?
Population growth and resource strains are inevitable
More people who want more stuff = STRAINS?
Global warming will have drastic and costly consequences
Some consequences are already here? More on the way?
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I think that the reality is that the changes will be like watching paint dry...and the with the reduced memory capacity of certain populations...the changes might not even be noticed. Which is what those promoting
DOAN WORRY BOUT IT are counting on? Those who profit from things as they are want things to continue as they are?
Its interesting...all the disaster movies...while the real slower moving disasters are being mostly ignored? GMOs? Antibiotic use?
I notice that fracking is polluting the ground water...and the pollution dangers of the XLpipeline....used to get oil to Texas for refining and export and profits. The coming war with Iran? Arab spring resulting in part from higher food prices resulting in part from ethanol?