Reply To: Wealth of Nations, and Economics of Abundance

[Duke Leto]

Can you please link to the documentation discrediting the hockey stick graph? I know Freeman Dyson is touted by Orson Scott Card as a GW skeptic, but I have extreme doubts about Card’s objectivity on the matter, and frankly namedropping in the sciences is pretty well worthless. Most of the Al Gore bashing I see comes from sources like South Park, and while Parker and Stone are consistently funny, I don’t always find their political or scientific judgement particularly impressive.

Can’t bloody well win around here. If you say you advocate a “Stalinist Plan” in obvious scarequotes of top down corporate management and deployment of FF to contrast it with the bottom up management method generally advocated by Eric and the FF circle, (Call it Bukaninesque.) then you offend the FF circle by being a greedy corporate scumbag and manage to convince the outsiders that you’re a hardcore Stalinist.

Fine. Let’s pretend global warming doesn’t pose a grave danger that needs action. Doesn’t Peak Oil necessitate a WWII style Corporate-Government collaboration/mobilization to yank the US (And the world at large) off of Oil and Coal ASAP? Let’s say that I were able to finance the development of FF and were then entitled under the present standards of market capitalism to direct a significant share of the profit capital to whatever endeavors I saw fit. Are the list I enumerated in my first post all such bad ideas? Why has no one responded to that?