Sorry, I don't share your charity toward these folks and their intentions.

I'm a mere English professor, yet I can clearly grasp all the details of peak oil and economic theory without a good basis in math.

All the men cited above are far more educated and experienced than I am.

I'm tempted to call them cynical monsters, but I won't.

Oh, please don't, that might heart someone's feelings.

My temptation is to call these guys the inevitable (self)delusional result of contemporary neocolonialism. The same voodoo economics practiced over the third world now being projected upon us so that we stay in the Matrix... obviously we are supposed to be the next third world. Ironical isn't it?