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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10256)	3/8/2007 6:24:37 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

False reporting of peak oil What else is a "true believer" to do? If we aren't running out of everything, the Greens don't have a case for shortages. Knocks their premises into a cocked hat. Don't you remember Julian Simon's famous Bet With Paul Ehrlich? Ehrlich had been predicting massive shortages in various natural resources for decades. Simon bet him that prices for all the commodities that Ehrlich said were running out would drop, thereby proving that there was more of them. Ehrlich lost the bet and sent Simon a check for $576.07.