[SevenTen]

Could you increase oil production from a field by tunneling beneath the field and detonating a low yield nuclear weapon, like a Davy Crocket [wiki]? Or, hell, even something bigger, like Fat Man [wiki]. Could that work?

[strider3700]

ummm how exactly do you think this will work?

They nuked the oil shale in colorado back in the 60's or 70's. Ended up with radioactive oil and not enough of it to be worthwhile.

[dukey]

lol

[Plantagenet]

Some nut setting off a nuke above ground at an oilfield is a more likely scenario then one being set off below ground.

[Zentric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'S')ome nut setting off a nuke above ground at an oilfield is a more likely scenario then one being set off below ground.

[Newsseeker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zentric', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'S')ome nut setting off a nuke above ground at an oilfield is a more likely scenario then one being set off below ground.

[sciencegirl]

What if we replaced all city travel with trains and bicycles. Personal highway travel with motercycles, and working on having some kind of global population control. Less people equalling less demand.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sciencegirl', '.').. working on having some kind of global population control. Less people equalling less demand.

[sciencegirl]

I think population control should be forced on all countries. It should be the most powerful country that first initiates it.

Example: The United States starts it. Then gets as many countries as it can to sign on. The puts strict trade embargo's on countries that do not sign. Those countries that do not sign will eventually go hungry from lack of resources. This will then make affording a home much more affordable too. Supply and demand.

I think people should never go hungry and always have a roof over their head. Booming populations and person greed cause much suffering in the world.

[Plantagenet]

You are right that greed and excess population growth are a recipe for disaster.

Fortunately, we are already halfway to ending population growth.

The rich and powerful countries already mostly have stable or negative population growth. The European countries, Russia, and Japan already have birthrates below replacement levels. The USA does too, except for the rapidly growing Hispanic population.

Its the poor countries of the world like Mexico and those in Africa and Asia (and the poor population within the US) that have rapidly increasing populations. Do you really want the US and other developed countries to put trade embargoes on all the poor countries of the world?

[sciencegirl]

"Its the poor countries of the world like Mexico and those in Africa and Asia (and the poor population within the US) that have rapidly increasing populations. Do you really want the US and other developed countries to put trade embargoes on all the poor countries of the world?"

YES..if they dont' sign the population control agreement then let them starve. I do think that poor governments may need the aid of wealthier countries to establish a mass sterilization program.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sciencegirl', 'W')hat if we replaced all city travel with trains and bicycles. Personal highway travel with motercycles, and working on having some kind of global population control. Less people equalling less demand.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sciencegirl', '
')YES..if they dont' sign the population control agreement then let them starve. I do think that poor governments may need the aid of wealthier countries to establish a mass sterilization program.

[sciencegirl]

I am a communist your damn right. Just like the borg. Capitalism only works for the rich. If you have no money then you are a slave to the capitalist.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sciencegirl', 'I') am a communist your damn right. Just like the borg. Capitalism only works for the rich. If you have no money then you are a slave to the capitalist.

[lawnchair]

As has been noted, this notion has been baked.

Operation Plowshare

Ended up with fallout-boosted natural gas that no one wanted.

The Ruskies did it more than 50 times.

[sciencegirl]

"There were plenty of slaves for the communists. Enough innocent people were swept up and worked to death for the communists in the Siberian gulags during the last century to far outstrip the Nazi death toll."

Well Stalin was not exactely a nice guy. I do not support that kind of communism. I do believe that a constitution would be needed to garantee personal freedoms so that monsters like Stalin would never have the power to kill so many innocents.

Capitalism does provide for greater production however.

Example: When I go to work. I work my arse off. I try and get as much done as possible for fear of being fired and replaced by someone else.

If I had the same job in a communist society, then I would be garanteed work, and so I would be a little lazier and less hurried as I go about my duties.

But I am still a communist at heart because I want to be able to go to a job that I don't have to be in fear of loosing. It has the potential of offering a far less stressful way of life, provided you are able to live with less production. If we had population control then even having less production would not make much of a differance. Their would still be plenty of resources to go around.

But who cares about my political preferances. I still think that population control would be good for any political system, because it would offer more resources for the rest of us.

[SevenTen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', 'A')s has been noted, this notion has been baked.

Operation Plowshare

Ended up with fallout-boosted natural gas that no one wanted.

The Ruskies did it more than 50 times.