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Manager-BW on October 17, 2007 - 3:04pm

I agree - But what to use in place of it? A communist party as in China, soft dictatorship/democracy as in Russia or a hard dictatorship? The corporate business model doesn't have the cahones to put the money up nor should it put the investment, management, and labor at such risk. A government is a poor choice, too, as you note. Can a public corporate model be made to work or will it quickly be a bureaucratic sinkhole? Other than that Joe and Jane public has to become aware, educated, motivated and complaining about it. That means these articles are important. So . . . Pass it Around!

Like this: http://newenergyandfuel.com/

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Samsara on October 17, 2007 - 9:00pm

Maybe take a look at Jay Hanson's conclusions about Humans and Politics.

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America was specifically designed by special interests (e.g., General Motors, Firestone and Standard Oil) to require fossil fuel and automobiles to survive. Peak oil will leave many millions of Americans with no access to food or water and facing certain death.

This group mainly discusses what the evolved human brain "does". Besides "what the brain does", we can also discuss (to a limited extent) "how the brain works". Of most interest will be fitness strategies which evolved to address the type of absolute resource conditions imposed by population "overshoot", "peak oil", and at least a hundred years of falling "net energy". Also of interest, are critiques of current political arrangements, "realpolitik" (practical politics), and neoclassical economic theory.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/killer_ape-peak_oil/messages/1?l=1

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/sixteen-two/xvi-2-93.pdf

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GreyZone on October 17, 2007 - 10:26pm

Mr. Hanson's "killer_ape-peak_oil" group is private to members and apparently closed to anyone wishing to join at this time, as I cannot get Yahoo to give me any options about joining the group.

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Dr. Albert Bartlett
Into the Grey Zone

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