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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.08 12:01:00 -
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There is the past several decades been a consistent pattern of rising temperatures. 2010 had record heat waves, floods, storms, snow blizzards. This has dramatically affected food production causing currently record food prices. And oil prices are high at the moment as well. The political intransigience and inertia of human affairs mean that paradigm shifts are like running into a brick wall: Change is often only done against established ways of doings things when a crisis happens.
So it's not about directly about humans reacting to the climate change they cause its about humans reacting to crisis paradigm shifts due to humans initial inflexibility about having to deal with a requirement to changing their value systems of material consumption and behaviour.
Earth is a very big place with a huge amount of people on it and those who in countries who trade with other all over the globe will be affected economically by climate change if even if it does not affect them but a trading partner.
The hard service of flesh will carry man through war, famine, economic strife. If the house, built out of material consumption, is knocked down because of these types of calamities man will press flesh to tools to rebuild.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.09 11:56:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 09/02/2011 12:01:46
Look at the old USSR for examples of industrial environmental fallout that were caused by the lack of oversight of an environmental protection agency. There were many causes of toxic waste causing damage.
Western economies have lost most of their old metal bashing heavy industries to economies such as China who have low costs. So in turn we have exported carbon emissions to these types of countries.
Though the USA has many high tech industries it is worth noting that they have an overall trade surplus with agriculture. This is strategic so the USA is self reliant for food products.
U.S. Agricultural Trade Totals For November 2010
Exports: $12,917,824,252.00
Imports: $7,101,063,241.00
Trade Balance: $5,816,761,011.00
In the future with food shortages, energy shortages, water shortages the countries that are self sufficient in these areas will ride the economic shocks from this far better.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.09 14:01:00 -
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If push comes to shove the USA will exploit the oil reserves in Alaska. I think the USA is keeping this in reserve when peak oil is realised and affects economic market sentiment. The environmental foot print of drilling would be negligible.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.09 15:16:00 -
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Oil cannot be replaced easily though it is itself an organic derivative - biofuel. Likewise various agricultural crops can replace oil. But the environmental effect required of huge scale agricultural bio-fuel crop production is massive. There is the food v fuel issue, soil erosion, water needs. But it could help the third world out of poverty (not that western strategic thinkers give a hoot about this).
Chart of carbon emissions for bio-fuels and extracted ready to go fuels
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.10 15:10:00 -
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowel
'Democracies' are poor at handling paradigm shifts. The global financial crisis was one of them. It is even more scary when some countries don't recalibrate after such shocks.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.10 16:26:00 -
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The UK is particularly prone to food, gas and oil price supply and demand fluctuations. The charlatans in London have made our country the most open for free trade. This is good for inwards investment but we are screwed as far as energy and food strategic independence goes. Well at least we have lots of coal left 
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.11 14:26:00 -
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In one respect fusion reactors could be very dangerous. If you can power an entire city for 3 days from a cup of easily available hydrogen isotope then people and industry will use very cheap electricity with total abandon.
But before this happens cars, homes, appliances will be connected to connected to their service provider on a internet like connection so a complete auditing can be done of power consumption. And if need be the excessive use of heat generating appliances can be regulated.
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Vogue
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Posted - 2011.02.11 20:07:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 11/02/2011 20:11:37
Edited by: Vogue on 11/02/2011 20:09:56
With economics you can't have your cake and eat it. France has a lot of pride and investment in public infrastructure. It now produces most of its electricity through nuclear power.
It is in French culture to take pride in the state. The elite are proud to be civil servants. But it has a huge amount of bureaucracy and its economic edge is dwindling.
The US has a very strong corporate sector that is efficient, profitable and has huge stockpiles of cash. But it also needs a lot less employed people to operate. A lot of US infrastructure is in decline. Though the high IP service sector just needs an office building. The USA will look like the montage from Minority Report in 2050.
US foreign policy is basically whackamole. It's noble efforts have included the Yugoslav civil war which was contained. And Somalia which did'nt happen.
I watched the Koyaanisqatsi film. A good art house movie but It has not made me a tree hugger.
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