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To: Sunny Jim who wrote (91947)	12/23/2008 11:14:47 PM
From: mishedlo	5 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116555

LA Times picked up my auto story big time latimesblogs.latimes.com Mish

To: Sunny Jim who wrote (91947)	12/24/2008 9:04:42 AM
From: studdog	Respond to of 116555

SunnyJim I agree with your analysis, especially the part about population and resources. We are already maximally exploiting our finite resources such that depletion is occurring all over the world. Whether you look at mineral wealth, topsoil, fisheries, standing timber, wildlife resources, arable land, freshwater, fresh air, etc., we are using it up. And this is with only a fraction of the world's population living a "western" lifestyle. If we want to preserve any semblance of our current standard of living either the rest of the world will have to continue paying for it or we will have to see a reduction in population, so that population:resource ratios can become sustainable. It does appear that our world leaders are just going to prop up an unsustainable system and not address the real issues. Is there anywhere a serious discussion about population? That is the real issue that will determine our standards of living and no one seems to want to tackle it. Malthus was right.