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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (391)	6/20/2005 5:46:42 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24211

Security is enuf of a concern that the biggest hippie-vegan peacenik on our steering committee was the first to bring up the need for some kind of local security force. What sort of nutcakes do you associate with? What? You think us city slickers don't know what guns are for and can't shoot straight? Henry's flu pandemic could do it, too, altho I remain skeptical about the prospects. OK. To H*** with "Road Warrior". We'll do "Earth Abides". I'm not sure we can increase production by another 10%. Production of what? Nutcakes? All that happens is the Dems win the next election. Conservation and more efficient use will buy us some time, but overall world growth has got to slow down,and, at some point stabilize, until we can make energy cheap again HOW do you propose to do that? the American Empire might end up surviving by attrition. WHOOPEE! We'll eat the environmentalists first! :-) California is working on another solar plan; Million solar houses. I haven't been following the details, but consider this. I'm gonna get a small system, 8 panels max, cuz I use very little juice. Figure double or triple that for the average homeowner who wants to break even; that's 16 mil panels, minimum. Where are they? There is a shortage right now. You guys heard you create more pollution making that solar panel than it saves you? Now what? Road Warrior? Let's do Pournelle and Niven's comet hit instead. At least we can get some good surfing in for a bit!