Wake Up, America. We're Driving Toward Disaster. »

Posted By hyperbola 1 year, 6 months ago in News

No combination of solar, wind and nuclear power, ethanol, biodiesel, tar sands and used French-fry oil will allow us to power Wal-Mart, Disney World and the interstate highway system -- or even a fraction of these things -- in the future. We have to make other arrangements. So what are intelligent responses to our predicament?

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    rimbaud1 year, 6 months ago

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    We need to be conservative, not liberal, in our laying waste of the world's natural resources. It's not just energy: our wastefulness has put our food (fisheries) and water resources in jeopardy. We really don't need to cut our USE: all we need to do is reduce our WASTE. Can anyone think of some suggestions for doing so?

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      Obaku1 year, 6 months ago

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      Whereas Republicans will be happy when 99.9% of the people are living on the street, and peeing on the sidewalk, and the other 0.1% split their time between NYC penthouses, Palm Beach mansions and Aspen chalets, all with matched sets of golden toilets and bidets.

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