http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/06/16/three-little-facts-and-the-end-of-the-world/ Hot Coffee In the Face of Wall Street Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:41:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/06/16/three-little-facts-and-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-436 julieasjmp Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:50:28 +0000 http://www.agorafinancial.com/afrude/?p=311#comment-436 Your article implies that human population growth is the primary cause of resource scarcity. Please consider that the exact opposite may be true. Abortion was legalized January 22, 1973; the 1st Mideast oil embargo occurred in October of the same year. As oil experts, including Charlie Maxwell, have pointed out, the US as well as Europe and Japan should have been working toward energy independence since that time. Instead, the last 35 years have been plagued by a lack of foresight, innovation and will to counteract physical and political barriers to oil. Perhaps with widespread acceptance of abortion western civilization lost spiritual gifts of widom, understanding, fortitude to anticipate and address the problems we now face. Perhaps those gifted individuals who would have found alternative solutions were denied their lives. Your article implies that human population growth is the primary cause of resource scarcity. Please consider that the exact opposite may be true. Abortion was legalized January 22, 1973; the 1st Mideast oil embargo occurred in October of the same year. As oil experts, including Charlie Maxwell, have pointed out, the US as well as Europe and Japan should have been working toward energy independence since that time. Instead, the last 35 years have been plagued by a lack of foresight, innovation and will to counteract physical and political barriers to oil. Perhaps with widespread acceptance of abortion western civilization lost spiritual gifts of widom, understanding, fortitude to anticipate and address the problems we now face. Perhaps those gifted individuals who would have found alternative solutions were denied their lives.

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