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[WinOne4TheGipper]

That's about right.

[Erasmus]

Uh-oh, it looks like we're about to see Democracy in action.

[groanup]

"The economist Bernard Lietaer has shown how a system based upon negative rates of interest would ensure that we accord greater economic value to future resources than to present ones."

supercalifragalisticexpialidoshous

I'll let the author go first. I stand ready to borrow money from him and have him pay me for the privilege.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Islam is now the religion de jour... no doubt about it .

Liberals here and abroad have adopted the position of philosophically supporting Islam over Christianity.

The message is clear in many respects. Christianity must be destroyed at all costs, even if it means an alliance with Islamists. Leftists are the self declared allies of Islamists, and therefore our enemies.

[Mr. Mojo]

that was the year my son was born, which is the ONLY good thing I can say about 1968.

'68 was also a great year for cars and rock n' roll records.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

OK. Who is this idiot?

Who I am

George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.

During seven years of investigative journeys in Indonesia, Brazil and East Africa, he was shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a poisoned coma by hornets. He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, having contracted cerebral malaria.

In Britain, he joined the roads protest movement. He was hospitalised by security guards, who drove a metal spike through his foot, smashing the middle bone. He helped to found The Land is Ours, which has occupied land all over the country, including 13 acres of prime real estate in Wandsworth belonging to the Guinness corporation and destined for a giant superstore. The protesters beat Guinness in court, built an eco-village and held onto the land for six months.

He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental science). He is currently visiting professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University. In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has also won the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay The Norwegian, a Sony Award for radio production, the Sir Peter Kent Award and the OneWorld National Press Award.

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It's too bad the hornets and the maleria didn't finish him.

[John Jorsett]

What's with the cries to ban this? I think it's useful to see what the other side is up to. If we just sit around here and post things that we agree with, we run the danger of being blindsided when this sort of crap starts getting traction with the public. We need to know it's out there so that we can counter it.

[VRWC_minion]

This is true. In '68, I got Hot Wheels Superchargers and a Strange Change Machine for Christmas.

I got laid.

[paolop]

Please return his meds to him, he is suffering.

[freedumb2003]

supercalifragalisticexpialidoshous

Supercalifragilisticexpialidoshouscious

[ModelBreaker]

This is the stupidest thing I've read in a while.

In an sense it is. But the Malthusian delusion holds an intuitive grip on the minds of lots of pretty smart people.

It's difficult to explain how positive feedback into a complex system throws all of the assumptions about resource limitations of the system out the window. When the positive feedback comes from smart people who can make money by solving problems, Malthusian limits--however intuitive--have never panned out. What works for lemmings doesn't seem to work for humans.

History is full of failures of the predictive power of Malthus' thinking. Our task is explaining why to folks who are satisfied with their zero-sum intuition.

[Willie Green]

The laws of thermodynamics impose inherent limits upon biological production.

I wonder how he figures this.
The elements of life are continuously recycled, driven by an external energy source: the sun.

[Normal4me]

Lol...How about since then? ;-)

[At _War_With_Liberals]

This guy is a little to the left of Hillary...

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

He might have a point about 1968. Chevelle Malibu Super Sport. Plymouth Hemi Barracuda. That was about the end of the true muscle car era.

[VRWC_minion]

Lol...How about since then? ;-)

I discovered finite numbers, namely the term mono.

[sirchtruth]

Richer in what?

Prosperity, of course!

[EGPWS]

If we take into account such factors as pollution and the depletion of natural capital, we see that the quality of life peaked in the United Kingdom in 1974 and in the United States in 1968, and has been falling ever since. We are going backwards.

This is tue and the poster has a point!...depending upon what ones definition of "we" is.

[tet68]

Sooooooooo, that's where I put that Pfennig!