Gildage and all,

The lecture that you provided the link to is very important. It distills and expands the statement I have made here a number of times.

The planet can not stand another doubling of the population. The lecture goes into great detail about why the natural resources are not present to do so.

One of the items I like was the graph where he showed that the peak oil production had been extended beyond 1995 because of two unexpected decreases in demand...they were the price increases that happened because of Opec.

Had these not occurred, we would already have passed peak oil.

So the consumption level of oil is elastic based on price....if we put in a cap and trade program to lower Co2 emissions...it in fact increases the cost of oil and reduces the consumption....We know that.

He also showed a graph where the 7% growth of oil consumption from 1850 -1970's had the world deplete the entire reserve of oil by the early 2000's.

The OPEC price spikes changed the growth rate to 1.2%..if my memory serves me correctly.

Would anyone care to think that the powers that be engineered a situation or set of circumstances that caused the price of oil to spike up and lower the growth rate????

The mathematical certainty of his presentation based on static circumstances leads to certain outcomes.

The ability to get 5 billion people to change behavior because it is the best thing to do is impossible.

It would have to be strategically placed shocks to the system that change worldwide behavior...

War, famine, disease, financial shocks....

So now ask yourselves if this is as random as it appears.

The people who can think for themselves prepare....and the rest are just back ground noise.

The people at the top think we are all back ground noise.