by Fergus » Fri 21 Jul 2006, 16:54:37
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 's')eriously, you'd make good ones!
I'm a peakoilbeliever, know my economics and politics and see PO as an opportunity. An opportunity to make this a cleaner world, more honest world, a more equal world, a more peaceful world.
Sure it will be a long road, rocky at times. But I know biofuels are already economically viable and they will become only more so. And as India and China develop while the prices of oil are skyhigh, I know the rest of the world can and will follow behind closely (just look at what china is investing in Africa these days!) No more dirty oilwars, no more American worlddomination and when we go into outter space.....
To do what? Plunder and pillage other worlds and maybe even make the indigenous races there exstinct aswell.
Unless we learn to control our vorascious appeitite for control,
power and resources, we dont belong on any other worlds. If we cant take care of this one, why would other races want us there? Would you let person that destroyed his house through folly take up residence in your house? Leave him alone there as you go to work and take your wife out to eat etc...If you wont, why should the other worlds be put out cause Humans want something they had and destroyed.
Would be nice to wake up and find it all a dream or someone somehow come up with an alternative to oil. But watch what we do with that? Wanna bet more of the same. We need to wake up and grow up and learn respect for the world we live in. We have none to date.
If there is a God, hes gotta be disappointed in how we turned out.
We value money over everything. Including the actual world we live on. If you can make a buck today but lose the world next week, I would wager out of the 4.5 billion pple alive today, more then 4 billion would make that buck and screw the consequences.
We are a violent race bent on conquest and control. Inconsiderate, rude, obnoxious and petty. Dont forget greedy too. If I were a higher intelligent life form, I would wonder if this little blue planet needs eradicating. Certainly we are not ready for contact and an information boost. We would take the knowledge and sell it to the highest bidder and then squeeze every last penny out of it. We would not use it for the common good. So why waste time with the little blue planet that only wants to kill and destroy.