The world in 2026

John Uskglass said:
I love how the same families have been predicting the end of Capitalism for two hundred years now: first they where Radicals, then they where Marxists, then Maxist-Lenninists, then Titoists, then Social Democrats and now Red-Greens....always the same predictions, and always wrong everywhere save their own mind.
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We just have to wait and see, don't we?

By the way, the Communist Party of Croatia was (re)founded a couple of days ago in Vukovar. Ironically, Vukovar had nearly been wiped out in 1991 by the Serbs under the guise of preservance of communism. It's like moths flying into a burning torch - they inevitably get burnt, but persist nonetheless.
 
John Uskglass said:
TorontRayne said:
Wow. The world is fucked. :(
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Don't believe the little idiots. Humanity is fucked, but that has more to do with almost inevitable technological singularity then self destruction at this point. We've become too stable.
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Why are we fucked when we reach technological singularity exactly? We should all support and welcome our AI masters. I know I'm putting in to be a cyborg.
 
Well actually we won?t run out of oil. There will be oil, but nothing that you can afford to pump industrially.

I personally don?t energy will be the problem. We already have alternative fuel sources and they work. Ok, so it might be a bumpy change, but what wouldn?t (war, war never changes). Dealing with the waste we have already made is a different matter. How will the pollution already generated affect the usage of alternative fuel sources. We might have fucked ourself already, not just by running out of oil.

I just read the other day that the Golf-current(golf, gulf?) has become colder. Great. Not to mention those killer squirrels.
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We just have to wait and see, don't we?
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To paraphrase Chesterton 'Radicals are always right about the problems but never right about the solutions.'

Class disparities, materialism and the enviorment are all problems of course. You are just batshit to think that giving your power to an inflated government is the answer. I'm kind of Yellowish-Green.
 
frissy said:
I personally don´t energy will be the problem. We already have alternative fuel sources and they work. Ok, so it might be a bumpy change, but what wouldn´t (war, war never changes). Dealing with the waste we have already made is a different matter. How will the pollution already generated affect the usage of alternative fuel sources. We might have fucked ourself already, not just by running out of oil.
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If by "bumpy" you mean "resulting in death of over 90% of world's populace", then yeah, it will be "bumpy".

John Uskglass said:
You are just batshit to think that giving your power to an inflated government is the answer.
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Actually, I think the best course of action at this point would be to abolish all governments and dissolve existing countries into small autarchic communities organized on principles of Israeli kibbutzim.
 
Actually, I think the best course of action at this point would be to abolish all governments and dissolve existing countries into small autarchic communities organized on principles of Israeli kibbutzim.
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Anarcho-Judaism?

Anyway, that's bullshit, the kibbutzim have failed miserably.
 
Graz'zt said:
John Uskglass said:
Anyway, that's bullshit, the kibbutzim have failed miserably.
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Only because they became corrupted with capitalist ideas.
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Buahahahahahahaha.

More to do with the fact that the children of Professors of Psychology do not make good farmers, let alone farmers of desert.
 
That's why we'd have fat and supurous American rich teenagers as slaves. They'd work restlessly, all the more with a gun in their back.

For a bowl of rice a day.
 
I'm not scared of Macroshaft, neither is Google...

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oil has a p/e ratio of 30-1

right now the closest competitor is biodiesel at 5-1

to replace the useage of the US's oil useage with biodiesel in the year 2003 alone, would require planting the entire continent of africa with soybeans. 2 big problems with that idea are the following:

1) the entirety of africa is not areable land
2) there are people that live there and buildings on the land.
 
TheWesDude said:
...there are people that live there (Africa) and buildings on the land.
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No shit? I thought it was just an amalgam of strange plants, large mammals and various almanac colors,,,

I think our best bet is rainbow power and peppermint dreams.
 
TheWesDude said:
To replace the useage of the US's oil useage with biodiesel in the year 2003 alone, would require planting the entire continent of africa with soybeans. 2 big problems with that idea are the following:

1) the entirety of africa is not areable land
2) there are people that live there and buildings on the land.
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"Filord reporting live at the Solar Sell Corporation Headquaters, NY(year 2024).
-With the nuclear bombs, the SSC has just taken care of its most pressing problems, with space requirements on its rebellious African continent.
-Finally it can start to build it's largest solarcell reactor to balance the worlds electrical power markets." :twisted:
 
Switching from fossil oil to non-fossil oil doesn't really solve the large scale problem.

I can understand why the US is currently weaseling out by further increasing the amount of nuclear power plants, but that's not the smartest thing for everyone to do either (if only because it creates quite noxious waste, even if the amount is comparably small).

Alternative resources are being researched and even funded, but their application is lacking.
Until the economy is forced to switch (by politics -- hah! -- or the circumstances) the best thing we will probably get in the near future is yet another car that has 10% less emissions at 90% the fuel consumption but doesn't sell because people who can afford expensive cars rarely care about economical cars.
 
You guys tend to forget that nations, especially culturally and racially homogenous nations, have not blinked from completely wiping out indigenous populations when it was cost effective to do so. - The United States and Australia are examples, as was the general destruction of Indian cultures in Southb America. It was less successful in Africa in part because infectious disease is the killer of the tropics. Hitler tried to do it too, but there was that whole war thing that got in the way.
 
Ashmo said:
Until the economy is forced to switch (by politics -- hah! -- or the circumstances) the best thing we will probably get in the near future is yet another car that has 10% less emissions at 90% the fuel consumption but doesn't sell because people who can afford expensive cars rarely care about economical cars.
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Now I got confused away by ya post. Anyways :P Here in sweden I recently saw (mustn't just be sweden, but well, was here I saw it, doesn't look much elsewere :P) Were ya could by cars good for the nature, and the fact the fuel for it was hell of a cheaper then the usual fuel and the fact there was a lot of taxes and fees you were freed from if using such car. It actualy made me wanna go one when I go car :P (it can use orginal fuel as well) And it wasn't that expensive, the car that is :P
 
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