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Environment & Energy

Benton D Struckcheon

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8. Malthusians can always generate lots of good looking evidence,

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 08:27 PM

Feb 2014

because they're looking at the past. No one in the eighteenth century could have guessed that by the twentieth century wood wouldn't be our principal source of energy. I could go on but you get the point.
You cannot, ever, extrapolate from the past to the future. Does not work. Never has, never will.

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Collapse: What’s Happening to our Chances? [View all] GliderGuider Feb 2014 OP

but sheeple don't care or worry about these things 4dsc Feb 2014 #1

First you need a civilization...but that's pretty far gone already Demeter Feb 2014 #2

Pretty dismal, although I don't disagree. CrispyQ Feb 2014 #3

Silly. Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2014 #4

Ironic you use the coyote as a counter-point NickB79 Feb 2014 #5

"Both somehow manage to go on, though. " defacto7 Feb 2014 #6

Malthusians can always generate lots of good looking evidence, Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2014 #8

Yes, nothing to be learned from the salinization of Mesopotamia, or deforestation in the ME hatrack Feb 2014 #9

Thank you! hunter Feb 2014 #10

Thank You hatrack … n/t CRH Feb 2014 #11

Well, you know the old saying NickB79 Feb 2014 #12

Progress is the only thing that works. Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2014 #13

Might not need to be Malthus, … CRH Feb 2014 #14

Given your last sentence, what do you suggest as a substitute for oil? Wood? Maybe coal? hatrack Feb 2014 #15

Where in any of what I wrote would you come to the conclusion that ... Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2014 #16

Kick.... daleanime Feb 2014 #7