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Samsara on October 17, 2007 - 9:00pm

Maybe take a look at Jay Hanson's conclusions about Humans and Politics.

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America was specifically designed by special interests (e.g., General Motors, Firestone and Standard Oil) to require fossil fuel and automobiles to survive. Peak oil will leave many millions of Americans with no access to food or water and facing certain death.

This group mainly discusses what the evolved human brain "does". Besides "what the brain does", we can also discuss (to a limited extent) "how the brain works". Of most interest will be fitness strategies which evolved to address the type of absolute resource conditions imposed by population "overshoot", "peak oil", and at least a hundred years of falling "net energy". Also of interest, are critiques of current political arrangements, "realpolitik" (practical politics), and neoclassical economic theory.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/killer_ape-peak_oil/messages/1?l=1

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/sixteen-two/xvi-2-93.pdf

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GreyZone on October 17, 2007 - 10:26pm

Mr. Hanson's "killer_ape-peak_oil" group is private to members and apparently closed to anyone wishing to join at this time, as I cannot get Yahoo to give me any options about joining the group.

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Dr. Albert Bartlett
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