Re: Stupid Ford Motor Company

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:22:23 GMT, Gunner <gunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:08:49 -0800, "Jeffrey Lebowski"
<The_Dude@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Gunner" <gunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:05:57 -0500, "Mich" <cpukat@xxxxxxx> wrote:


As educated as you are, I'm starting to wonder about you George, in
fact,
you and Ed Huntress both. Especially regarding China.
They are in the early stages of a new farmers revolt don't you know?
You
haven't any first hand experience but you can add can't you? 84,000
riots
that were supressed by the Red Guard in 2004. That is a lot of shit
man.
China will achieve critical mass and the self destruct almost
simultaneously. It's unavoidable for them.


I don't see how self-destruction is inevitable. China has shown a
remarkable
capability to adapt to so much that I doubt very much in your doom and
gloom
scenario. I am far more worried about the current population growth that
really seems to be on the verge of bringing the world economy crashing
down.
We are seeing increasing crop failures. Genetically modified crops are
the
only hope of having an agriculture that can adapt to so much change, but
even that will only work on the short term.


If we gave EVERY family on the planet a 1500 square foot house on an
acre of land..it would only partially fill Texas.

Its a Very big planet and is hardly "over utilized". The biggest issue
for the starving nations is not getting food..but having it delivered
without some local warlord stealing it and selling it.

The biggest issue on the planet is not food, but drinking water. We have
LOTS of water..but most places have no way to get potable water to the
residents. Not a lot of infrastructure in place in most of the Turd
World.

The US pays its farmers NOT to grow food. We could feed most of the
planet, and do so for some hundreds of years just using modern farming
techniques.


Real problem is that while we've gotten to be pretty darned good at
combining oxygen and hydrocarbons to release energy, we still haven't quite
figured out how to economically reverse the process at a rate thats above
current demand levels.

http://www.energybulletin.net/1330.html

Lots of stuff on the drawing board, as the economics and the technology
come on board to make it possible.

We tend to come up with the answers as the problems arise. We, as a
species are pretty good at it.

Gunner


Political Correctness

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and
rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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*T*H*E* major problem seems to be that we [humankind] have for
the first time (possibly since the "Garden of Eden") the ability
to grow more food than we can eat, make more cars than we can
drive, sew more clothes than we can wear, etc.

The old economy is geared to shortages and the allocation of
scarce goods. The "free market" provides very rational
solutions, but unfortunatly those questions no longer apply. The
problem now seems to be how to match up areas of excess
production capacity with areas of excess of consumer demand.

As demonstrated in the skyrocketing consumer debt of the
"developed" countries, the ability to [re]pay is no longer a
critical factor.
see: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1928002006


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