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Faith & Economics (was Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System...)

Doug wrote: 
I think there's lots of oil left; the tighter constraint is that
burning all we have may well choke us. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think
the odds suck in betting against human ingenuity, even under
capitalism, at devising new energy sources. I think profit
imperatives have severely slowed research into them. But they'll
probably arrive.


While I'm not the one to dilate extensively on energy sources &
global warming, it seems to me that the scientific status of the
statement that "new energy sources will probably arrive because of
human ingenuity" is about as low as "capitalism is doomed and
socialism will triumph!"

Yoshie


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