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Jim C.
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Weak Sister

- James Howard Kunstler -

Kunstler, as usual in his articles, is both right and wrong. He's right about the USA needing to mind its own business, spending taxpayer dollars, at the least, for other people's problems. But he's wrong about the world's looming energy shortage:

"We have no idea how we’re going to manage most of the crucial economic activities of daily life in ten years, when the illusions of shale gas and shale evaporate in a dark cloud of disenchantment, when we no longer have an airline industry, and most Americans won’t have the means to own automobiles, and there’s not enough diesel fuel to plow Iowa mega-farms, or enough oil and gas based fertilizers or herbicides to pour into the eroding topsoil, and not enough fossil water left in the Oglala aquifer or enough electricity to run the center-pivot sprinklers where the prairie meets the desert?"

This is buried at the end of his article which is his trademark: he baits with something rational that most can agree on, then throw in his own irrational agenda. That the world will run out of energy is just as irrational as was Thomas Malthus's view that the world would not have the resources to support an extended population. Now if governments, like the Obama one, not only stand in the way of energy development and exploration but actively strive to destroy existing production -- then Kunstler may be right.

However, Malthus was blinded by his ignorance of how technology would cope with the problem. I don't think Kunstler's blindness is one of 'honest' stupidity.

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