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That's poetic - but is it true?
by cookingrobot 16y ago
That's poetic - but is it true?
- metamemetics 16y agoDefinately. We've had commercial electric cars since 1897 and commercial nuclear power plants since 1956.
- patrickk 16y agoWe've been here before, too, except before it was food shortages and 100s of millions dying that were being predicted in alarmist tones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb And the solution, which apparently now sustains one third of the world's population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process My prediction, is that like before, science will solve the problem and this will all disappear into the memory. Man's capacity to wipe itself out is far outpaced by it's ingenuity to sustain itself. Then: Cold War, oil shocks Now: Terrorism, oil shocks History always repeats itself.