[wisconsin_cur]

From Real Clear World

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut for all the wonder in our technology, there's very little magic in the way the world extracts the primary resources necessary for our new gadgets, which involve pulling them out of the ground and teasing them out of the waste rock in which they're encased.

In fact, the only magic is our belief that global markets will deliver the right resources to the right manufacturers just in time to deliver us the next-gen technology we didn't know we'd need.

[dolanbaker]

Well they didn't lose it rather they gave it away by abandoning their own mines.

[Revi]

The way the game was played up until now was that whatever was mined was tossed onto the world market. Now countries are cornering whatever they can get for their own expansion. It signals the end of the world market.

I don't know if we're "losing" the resource wars, but we are losing control over the minerals we might need if we still had a manufacturing base.

[Xenophobe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', ' ')

I don't know if we're "losing" the resource wars, but we are losing control over the minerals we might need if we still had a manufacturing base.

[timmac]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/world-population-7-billion_n_805481.html

Well the world is about to hit 7 billion humans by year end [2011].

Lets welcome the millions of new comers by a toast of drill baby drill..

[americandream]

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Well the world is about to hit 7 billion humans by year end [2011].

Lets welcome the millions of new comers by a toast of drill baby drill..

[timmac]

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')Capitalists (the real ones) love lots of consumers and workers.

[americandream]

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')Capitalists (the real ones) love lots of consumers and workers.

[Crazy_Dad]

And lamb is getting so expensive now. Maybe Soylent Green will be cheaper?
In Australia, the mad men at the top are in the throes of delight as the consumers increase in numbers.

It will not end well.

[Ibon]

Look what hummingbirds do when you constrain access to a supplemental resource that you introduce into their environments.

http://blog.mounttotumas.com/?p=1781

We have a number of hummingbird feeders around the cabins as well as many native and ornamental nectar bearing trees and bushes. The over 15 species of hummingbirds recorded here share these feeders and flowers with occasional territorial rivalry. When we have a guest that wants to photograph the hummers we remove all the feeders except one so that all the hummingbirds come to one feeder and interact more. That is when some major territorial battles ensue. Like the other day when the male Green Crowned Brilliant got into a wrestling match with a Magnificent Hummingbird. The Magnificent is a little bigger but The Green Crowned Brilliant held his own. They actually got down on the deck and had an all out brawl. Check out the photos taken by our guest Ian….