Faith & Economics (was Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System...)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug wrote:
>I think there's lots of oil left; the tighter constraint is that 
>burning all we have may well choke us. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think 
>the odds suck in betting against human ingenuity, even under 
>capitalism, at devising new energy sources. I think profit 
>imperatives have severely slowed research into them. But they'll 
>probably arrive.

While I'm not the one to dilate extensively on energy sources & 
global warming, it seems to me that the scientific status of the 
statement that "new energy sources will probably arrive because of 
human ingenuity" is about as low as "capitalism is doomed and 
socialism will triumph!"

Yoshie