Posted on 04/27/2005 10:25:16 AM PDT by FlyLow
Paul Ehrlich may not be a household name, but this troubadour of doom greatly has influenced the Left.
His book, The Population Bomb, predicted disastrous famines. "In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now," he predicted.
Not only did Ehrlich prove to be a Chicken Little about overpopulation, he also claimed in a 1975 newsletter (published by the Federation of American Scientists) that "giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be equivalent to giving an idiot child a machine gun."
Surprisingly, Ehrlich's thinking still influences many Americans, but not everyone buys the nonsense or double-talk.
Energy experts Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills take a different view. Their new book, The Bottomless Well: the Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, challenges Ehrlich's thinking.
Huber, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, specializes in technology. He also holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT and a law degree from Harvard. Mills holds a BS degree in physics from Queens University and was a consultant to the White House Science Office.
They argue that our society thinks there is an energy "problem." The authors see energy as a "solution," and thus inject fresh air and counter-conventional thinking into a debate dominated by buzzwords and slogans such as "energy efficiency" and "don't be fuelish."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
BTTT
Human ingenuity and technology and information are the most valuable resources, and these things can only become more abundant over time. Energy will indeed become more abuandant over time. OK, well, techniclaly, the total supply of mass/energy is fixed. But human access to energy will become greater and greater because of newer and better technology.
Can't be true. Oil has peaked. All the people in the oil industry know that already. We'll all be dead in a couple years. /sarcasm
"Energy will indeed become more abuandant over time."
Maybe more like: "Our skill at using various forms of energy will become abundant, as necessity demands."
Well sure.
But that's because Ehrlich was the FIRST to be so absolutely wrong about SO MANY different topics that the left believes and has so much faith in.
"If we could some way
tap Chihuahua energy,
oil is obsolete"
Huber's books are fantastic. I also recommend Hard Green.
Read "EcoScam" for more hilarious contradictions by the same authors on globalwarming/freezing, depletion/overabundance, etc. Rifkin is another total actor who makes up chicken little stories for fame, fortune and fun.
Cute dog. My wife and I have 2 long-coats and 1 smooth-coat purebreds and one chihuahua mix. Great dogs, not at all yappy.
This article can't be correct. I thought that there was:
Oil, Oil Everywhere
The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST | PETER HUBER AND MARK MILLS
Posted on 01/30/2005 10:24:37 AM CST by Woodworker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331914/posts
Also, another solution:
Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 5 ^ | May 2003 | Brad Lemley
Posted on 04/21/2003 7:57:41 AM CDT by honway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897232/posts
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