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As the smoke cleared, mix...@bigpond.com <mix...@bigpond.com> mounted the barricade and roared out: > >However, to publicly > >speculate about such a possibility might be considered so disruptive > >to the economic fabric of our society that I wonder if McKubre > >deliberately chose not to go there. > > You mention "disruption" is if that were a bad thing. Some economic > disruptions are highly beneficial, and this is one example. In fact > "improvement" might be a better word than "disruption" in this case. > There should be "no doubt" that virtually unlimited cheap energy would > provide a tremendous economic boost to every nation on Earth, not to > mention the added bonuses of limitless fresh water (through > desalination), a reduction in the greenhouse effect, and a huge > increase in the feasibility of waste recycling, to the point where > essentially all waste can be cheaply recycled, resulting in a huge > reduction in environmental pollution. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk In fact, limitless -- i.e. free -- energy will fundamentally change human society. It will literally be the Biggest Thing since Fred Flintstone discovered fire. Moreso. The "Free Market" -- and all other irrationalities and encrustations, like religion, etc. -- will simply not survive it. Hooray for that. - --grok. - -- *** FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE! *************************************** * Dates/Times/Places: * Access these activist calendars * * The struggle is WHERE YOU ARE * Find out where YOU are needed * ***** Critical endorsement only **** Most sites need donations ***** * http://protest.net/Online/calendrome.cgi Protest.Net * * http://protest.net/north_america.html North America Protest.Net * * http://protest.net/asia_and_oceania.html AsiaOceania Protest.Net * * http://protest.net/Europe/calendrome.cgi Europa Protest.Net * * http://protest.net/LatinAmerica/calendrome.cgi America Latina * * http://www.greenleft.org.au/calendar.htm Green Left Weekly cal. * * http://rabble.ca/whats_up.shtml rabble.ca - what's up? * *********** DEATH TO NEOLIBERALISM ******************************* GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkntBtwACgkQXo3EtEYbt3EiXgCfd3kAOsZsbR+ipV6Zc/9zs2Kf MnYAn0xYdDUkWaXo3hanw5ImgiVPUSUh =Nn/A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----