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No shit - I know, the Marcellus and Bakken. Many say it's a game-changer, others not so much. If you really have the time, I suggest this article: http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/09/mission-critical-can-shale-gas-save-the-world/ quote from article: "Indeed, to displace half...

Give it time sport. You understand that, right? Some changes are slow, much like yourself.

I've studied all those alternative fuels. Not a panacea by a long shot. Shale gas wells involve hydrofraking - very intensive, uses loads of water, expensive, and those wells generally peak within a year or two - 60-70% depletion. Anything biomass involves a lot of land and water that takes...

Sorry, I'm not a trekkie. Your insults don't bolster your weak arguments either. But hey, you have to use what you got. Your bank analogy is quite simplistic. When you have the world's reserve currency, you have a HUGE advantage, so long as you are responsible with it. Act irresponsibly...

When I said China of the world - I meant world's largest CREDITOR - re-read what I wrote. What would you rather be, the world's largest creditor nation, or in the hole for trillions? We were also the world's largest EXPORTER of oil. Oil is basically free energy for a society that produces...

When JP Morgan said that the USA was BOTH the Saudi Arabia of the World, and the China of the world. What does that mean? Up until the 1950s, we were the world's largest creditor and largest exporter of Oil. Talk all you want about American Ingenuity - and I agree it's unique. But don't...

Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell Israel U.S. Will Attack Israeli Jets if They Try to Attack Iran ""We are not exactly impotent little babies," Brzezinski said. "They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? ... We have to be serious...

Those families you mention HATED capitalism. Especially JP Morgan. In their view, capaitalism was too cannibalistic on profits. Too much competition killed margins.

I am familiar with Rostow. I give more weight to the opinions of scientists - physicists, biologists, geologists, etc.. than economists. As Galbraith said, "Economics exists to make astrology look respectable." So back to the parabolic growth of the world's population. (SEE CHART)...

Wasn't his son recently on Yahoo ticker? If that was him, he was advocating a "deficits don't matter" approach. Print away! What an idiot. I think he will ultimately share the same fate as his father.

Great.... you reference someone else's mythology to support your own mythology. Nice try at hijacking the thread.

Dude, that's pretty harsh. But I won't take it personally. When I started arrving at the conclusion I stated here, I was angry and in denial for awhile. It's tragic stuff, and if anything, I apologize for being so flippant about it. After awhile, I realized that there is little that can...

Show me a successful economy with a stagnating population over at least a 50 year period (2 or more generations). I'll give you one: the uninhabited Easter Island. LOL. You used the word rationing! You're making progress. It's a lot to think about. Let it sink in. Now think of all the...

I haven't even touched upon the environment and climate change - which is a fact. I won't argue the causes, but the facts are there, the temps are rising, and farmland around the world is being threatened. The pentagon has studies on how America should react to global food shortages. Here's...

India and China alone account for over 2 billion of the world's population - isn't it their right to live like us? And if they all live like Americans, where will they get their resources? Americans are 5% of the world's pop, yet consume 25% of the world's oil. What would happen to those...

Look at the world in total - not individual countries. The population is still growing. Did you not see that chart? It's frickin parabolic. And you think it will magically taper off without dieoff? The US, by the way, is proud that it has a growing population, unlike many European...

When a population stagnates, it will not have enough manpower to support a growing elderly population. Social Security and Medicare rely on a growing workforce. How's that economic and population stagnation work again?

Population growth goes hand in hand with resource depletion and subsequent pollution. In the third world, they consume a mere fraction of what an average American consumes. But the issue is not one of only pop growth, but consumption growth as well. China is consuming resources faster than...

So, imagine the world wizes up - condoms are the number one selling product, and the world's population stops growing. (after all, non procreation is the only peaceful method - the other options: war, pestilence, famine, are not exactly picnincs. Then what happens to the economy? Countries...

According to your logic, population can continue to grow forever. Even to the point that individual humans have one square meter to live on? Yeah.... you make a lot of sense. Do the math.