On Aug 25, 2:14 pm, Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 4:43 pm, Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > When are you Yanks going to wake up to the fact we are in deeeeeep
> > trouble?
>
> Probably never. And, as you pointed out, it would not matter if we
That's what I thought, and that is why we are all doomed.
I found this excerpt from "Collapse" by Jared Diamond amusing - "I
have often asked myself "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the
last palm tree think while he was doing it?" Like modern loggers, did
he shout "Jobs, not trees!"? Or "We don't have proof that there aren't
palm trees somewhere else on Easter Island, we need more research,
your proposed ban ...."
> did. Run the business as usual senario assuming all Americans have
> been shot and their air conditioners turned off to boot. What do you
> get, another decade or so?
The Americans use 25% of the world's energy, so with the oil running
out in 40 years, say, we should get another 10 years. But think of
the good example you would set. If the Japanese all committed hari
kari, then we could probably get another year, and getting back on to
the topic, we would not have to give up eating meat!
Cheers, Alastair.
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