At 20:53 03/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I have argued from my beginnings on this list that the psycho/economic roots of industrialism and what that means as work, in the Western sense, was incomplete, bordered on failure and demanded a serious look by serious minds. It seems you now have begun to question the logic that you have espoused in the past. I congratulate you on that and encourage the continued exploration of such with your considerable intellect. As such I hold great optimism that we will have some very good posts from Bath in the future.
I'm not questioning the logic that I have espoused previously. All I am saying is that the free trade question has become relatively trivial compared with the serious decline of fossil fuels which will shortly be upon us -- with no obvious replacement energy technology in sight at present. Free trade or not, South America, Africa, Central Europe and the Middle East will not be able to join the developed world's economic network because there isn't the energy to sustain them as well as us. America, China and western Europe's industrial system might well fail but not before all the other blocs have failed first.
KH Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England
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