ybgirp, Candide, If you believe that, you'll believe anything.

Now I've got a couple of bridges for sale, I know you'll be interested.

Cherries anyone.

While quoting stuff, how about,

"It ain't gonna rain no more no more"

"The rain is never going to fill the dams again, build desalination plants".

"Pommy kids will not know what snow looks like".

Come on kids, how many times can they pull your legs, before you holler enough?

Dear Joe

“Invest in new, non-polluting, enterprises, and folks’ that's where the new money will be” ….I hope Joe your not including nuclear power in your assessment? Being the number two No No of the world’s dumbest ideas?
The Japanese people are still glowing in the dark, and will for thousands of years to come.
Building a power plant 200 miles from a known fault line was just a master stroke of genius, don’t you think:) Tell me Joe, what’s wrong with building them 5kms underground? That way if anything goes catastrophically belly up, at least the threat of contamination can be contained……or is it money/cost before brains again?

And yes, the great acquisition for wealth….wont it be interesting (or not) to see life as we know it today, as answers to that story unfold;) While most intentions are of the positive nature, mans stupidity however will never stop amazing me:) Human over population ranks at number one on my lists of concerns, with climate change at number three. The growth at our current rate with consumption availability of all resources combined won’t be enough to last out until the end of this century…7 billion people is the problem…food, water etc. Mankind has to get very serious on the amounts of people it allows, as the human organism will for sure, turn into the monster we all fear. Mean while, the small-minded IQ nitwits, can all enjoy going to the Australian beaches of no sand and lots of dead trees plus infrastructure, ready to join the ranks of artificial reefs :) I think I’ll buy a waterfront property soon, a safe investment they say, oh dear:)
You don’t need psychology to figure out that humans lie and here one can find many with delusional non-understandings of their planets inner work-abilities, even with the highest degrees, of which some make for very useful toilet paper.

Hasbeen and Runner seem to reject both claims of the above higher understandings, and maybe they should up-grade their toilet paper from woollies to a Coles brand:)

Aren’t layman terms better understood. Smile.

Planet3:)

And as we move along from Hasbeen's hollow cliches we might like to read something with a little substance.

http://theconversation.edu.au/nature-v-technology-climate-belief-is-politics-not-science-12611

Planet No. 3,

With respect, you do write some rubbish. If I had the wherewithall, and fifty years left, I would have no reluctance to buy a place on the beach - on the one hand, the sea level there will rise by no more than an inch or two before I start feeding the worms, and I'm fairly confident that science and governments and ever-innovating capitalism will fix up the problems sooner or later, maybe even in my own lifetime. I don't see it as a problem, frankly.

As for nuclear power, you might be onto something - clearly, governments will not employ Chernobyl's sixty-year-old technology, or be stupid enough to build on fault-lines - I wouldn't advise it anyway. France and Sweden and even the US are well into fourth- and fifth-generation systems, clean, safe (so far), and probably cheap. Another problem solved.

Well, on to more important matters ......

As for population growth, I'm sorry to inform you that fertility rates are declining rapidly in many countries, to below replacement rate. And if women in Third World countries, especially the more backward Muslim countries, can be provided with far better access to education, right up through higher education, in far greater numbers,and come to assert their rights (who knows, they might even somehow win the support of Western feminists), then the birth rates in those countries - already barely at replacement level - will decline even further.

Yet another problem resolved :)

Cheers,

Joe