Cheryl. You are not adding one and one to make 2. You are admitting there are finite resources, which will soon start to go into depletion, and claim that somehow all will be ok as capitalism will just adjust accordingly. You are not adding up the consequences of shortages.

People who start to get squeezed for what they need riot. Just look at what is happening in Greese today. And the food riots of last year. This is just a small sample of what is coming globally.

You remove the essentials of life (food, shelter, warmth, and economy) and the public is pushed into desparation. People kill when they get desparate in order to obtain their tiny bit of a shrinking pie. Think of it like musical chairs were not only is a chair removed after each song, but a new dancer is added as well.

These past 60 years of relative peace and prosperity was only because of cheap plentiful energy. At no other time in all of human history was that achieved. And once that cheap plentiful energy no longer exists (expensive and rationed), we will return to what humanity has been for 2 million years -- struggling to stay alive, and killing to do so.

Read http://www.wakeupamerika.com/papers-and-essays.html

Reduction in population (which you must then admit is too many) will take up to 80 years to achieve. And it won't happen voluntarily nor by government decree. There are too many religions and cultures in the world that work against that, who demand their people breed more. China just dropped it's one child policy and is allowing uncontroled population growth. Understand that China's population, right now, is still growing -- the size of Great Britian every 4 years. That means every 4 years they have enough births to replace all of Great Britian. India is even faster than that. So the human population is still growing, for a little longer. Nature will change that.

As a case in point that depletion is nearer than we think in at least some cases, gold production peaked in 2001 and has been declining ever since, accompanied by an enormous increase in price.

Yet Cheryl will continue with her anti-life rants, trying to make sure that things will be as bad as possible for future generations. Yes, she really puts the "mental" in instrumental.

For more information, see http://salmonarm.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/a-peak-at-our-future-by-rick-shea/