[Laughs_Last]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kyn', '.')..The past has proven that if a country gets richer, it is able to do more to protect its environment...

[SD_Scott]

http://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_SouthAfrica.html

Gloomy. Yeeeeesh!

[Sys1]

The end is awesome...
''[Ha! Just as I finish this, guess what… the power is out, the battery life in my laptop is about 5 mins, so at 11am, I cannot be productive for the rest of the day… the networks are down, so this cannot be mailed for the moment.]''

Holly ****, i won't like peak oil when my wife won't be able to access the medicines she needs every day to survive... I think also about her jewelry shop in which money is entering slower than last year... We are in the middle of a global economic crash.
If she dies, I'm afraid to become mad.

[lateStarter]

It was an interesting read. What I found amazing was no mention of the subject of crime. I guess they have just grown used to it. Upscale malls in Johannesburg encased in razor wire. Security in the parking lot. 43 car jackings per week. The week that I was there, 2 armored cars got hit. The first one, they rammed an SUV into and threatened the occupants with immolation after pouring petrol over if they didn't get out. The second time it happened they decided to get out. I was also involved in an armed robbery at the restaurant next to the hotel I was staying at. Not planning on going back...

[Starvid]

More from South Africa:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Eskom: 'How much for a dozen?'
31 January 2008

Twelve nuclear power reactors could be ordered at once by struggling South African generator Eskom. Today Areva and Westinghouse both submitted one proposal each for two or three reactors, and another for 12 or 17.

[Schneider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Starvid', '
')
Pretty fucking radical I think.

[frankthetank]

Sounds like Milwaukee...

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schneider', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Starvid', '
')
Pretty fucking radical I think.

[alokin]

It's so sad, all that after overcoming the Apartheid!
The new ruling class must be highly incompetent.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SD_Scott', 'h')ttp://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_SouthAfrica.html

Gloomy. Yeeeeesh!

[thor]

These nuclear power plants won't materialize: too expensive and way too late.

[peak]

I've never given donations to Africa or other charities that I know of. Maybe a few cents accidentally.

The food programs for Africa just send over rice. Africans don't suffer from starvation, they suffer from marasmus & kwashiorkor. Billions of dollars are being wasted sending "food" (just and only rice) to Africa. Mostly the ignorant European politicians & even Americans who don't bother to read.

The simple fact is that regions of Africa doesn't have the resources to support such a large population and the correct solution would be to stop sending aid and allow 90% of people to die. I don't care if someone dies in Africa due to starvation, I care that money is being wasted on garbage that mostly lives to convert rice to crap.

[smallpoxgirl]

Sure it helps.

It helps Bonno sell records.

It helps politicians appear generous.

It helps liberals feel kind and benevolent.

It gave the US an excuse to invade Somalia.

It's not doing anything positive for the Africans though.

[deMolay]

Most of it gets sold on the BlackMarket and is used to buy weapon's. All foreign aid needs to end. Look at the Millions scammed by the UN during the Tsunami scam. They are still holding it and their fat assed unelected scammers are sucking up that gravy. The biggest scam is the useless UN.

[kpeavey]

As we will see in the next few years, artificially supporting a population ends with disaster when the dependent population loses access to that support. The loss of access need not be permanent, just long enough. It will be a tragedy when the food runs out, with proportions never seen before in human history.

An obvious extension of the Africa-Rice conundrum is the World-Oil issue. Malthus was right all along. Africa will just be at the head of the line. Observing events over there should give us an idea of what we will face when The Reaper comes knocking.

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It is pleasing to know that the UN building is built on the eastern edge of Manhattan. When the population-fueled climate change raises sea levels, it will be one of the first to go.

[peak]

I'm surprised so many people that voted in the poll agree with me

I thought a bunch of social liberals would lash out at me.

There are airplanes going to Africa all the time just to deliver rice, sometimes this rice is immediately seized by criminals or authority in government usually to sell it for a profit.

Africa lacks fresh water & good soil. Most of Africa is desert like.

[Ayame]

Well as more food = more people ad infinitum they should put some conditions on food aid, such as everyone taking food aid should have their tubes tied so as to stop the vicious population growth cycle. I know it's sounds mean, but hey if you can't even support yourself you shouldn't be bringing anymore dependents into this world.

The only thing Bono has done is to help the African population quadruple this century. Whenever I see him on TV I want to throw my copy of the Principle of Population at him so he can finally understand that what he is doing is futile.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peak', ' ')I care that money is being wasted on garbage that mostly lives to convert rice to crap.

[IslandCrow]

I thought Rice was just on a trip to the Middle East to try for the x-th time to restart the peace talks. Did Bush send Rice to Africa as well?

[FourOfSwords]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peak', ' ')I care that money is being wasted on garbage that mostly lives to convert rice to crap.