Jay Lehr,

The only truth is that too many people do not know on which planet they are and they don’t ask why they are where they are.

Oh boy, I have read some rubbish in my time but this clearly takes the cake.

Blind optimism at each stroke of the keyboard.

Tell me Jay, did you take physics at school, perhaps you should explore the laws of thermodynamics before you spruik such riddiculous drivel.

Europe is about to implode financially, the US will follow suit, China is blowing bubbles and with its European market dropping off a cliff Australia will soon find its wealth from the so-call mining boom wither and shrink dramatically. We are so far from the bottom it is ridiculous.

I admire your optimism, as ill founded as it is. Good luck, you are going to need it.

Geoff of Perth - the writer is simply acknowledging reality. The blind are those who insist that we are all going to hell in a handbasket when clearly all the stats are pointing in the opposite direction.. I'd be interested if you can find a long term population trend pointing in the direction you think things are heading..

What really impresses me is that this guy knew M King Hubbard. I have no objection to Hubbard himself. His research had some validity at the time, and its not his fault his work was misued by peak oil people who refuse to acknowledge reality.. so I'm impressed..

Thanks Curmudgeon,

In response, given the state of our planet in terms of degradation and loss of top-soil, deforestation, biodiversity loss, pelagic fish decimation, unhealthy monoculture industrial food production practices and a wealth of increasing resource issues on a finite planet I would guess that we will see population top out around 8 or 9 billion in the next 50 years and then decline rapidly toward around 2 to 3 billion, but of course I am only prognosticating on this given no-one can know the future definitively.

How's that for an estimation?

Jay......I just love your optimism, but unfortunately Geoff is spot on. See, the problem with being optimistic or pretending everything is fine, it gives everyone a false Sence of reality. I myself, am a shock jock or whistleblower-realist, which many on here find my words cutting a little too close to what should not be told, by the one,s that for some reason, think it will cause a panic.

Like one of our long term loud-mouth ding-dongs, who thinks if your not joining the majorities way of thinkings, you apparently have some sort of mental illness. See some of these self-righteous nits/members that think their brand of twisted realities/delusions is the only path one should join without question, however themselves are in fact suffering from a condition called an acute Superiority complex.

Other authors have argued that it is a mistake to believe that both the superiority and inferiority complex can be found together as different expressions of the same pathology and that both complexes can exist within the same individual since an individual with a superiority complex truly believes they are superior to others. An inferiority complex may manifest with the behaviors that are intended to show others that one is superior; such as expensive material possessions, or an obsession with vanity and appearances.

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Jay....the thing is, if one was to believe that everythings going to be fine, then nothing will be addressed and as the old saying goes " sweeping it under the carpet, wont make it go away.

CACTUS