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61 comments on European gas supplies and a more than gentle cough from Russia

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totoneila on April 25, 2006 - 3:49am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Hello TODers,

I have posted this before:

The upcoming G8 Energy Security Conference in July, hosted by Putin, could be 'must see' TV as it seems increasingly likely that a hell of alot of shouting could break out over ever-depleting detritus.  I suggest they could more productively use their time talking about ASPO's Energy Depletion Protocols, Global Warming, and Global Powerdown.

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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MUDLOGGER on April 25, 2006 - 5:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Dont Worry. Be Happy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=52XXZCZRKKJYBQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opini on/2006/04/25/do2502.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/25/ixportal.html

Also:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

Beam me up Scotty.

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Donal on April 25, 2006 - 6:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It seems that it is possible to have a profitable stock market without a prosperous middle class.
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alistairC on April 25, 2006 - 8:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
yeah, that sort of confirms my intuition about the success of capitalism.

In its modern, refined form, capital serves only capital, it has no need of actual people.

The myth of capitalism as a liberating force for individual happiness and self-determination arose from that brief historical period when hired help, both as individuals and collectively, had considerable bargaining power.

Now, not even individual shareholders have any bargaining power to speak of. Governments have, on the whole, disempowered themselves in the economic sphere in recent decades, thereby renouncing any democratic accountability for businesses.

The last hope for humanity : ethical pension funds?

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gnm on April 25, 2006 - 8:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What good are pensions of any sort in the face of a permanently declining economy? As a result of ever-tightening energy resources.

-G

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Dragonfly41 on April 25, 2006 - 10:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I will take my pension in the form of beef jerky, bottles of water, seeds, and chocolate bars please!!
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