Posted on 11/20/2008 6:35:31 PM PST by BlackjackPershing
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy agencies projected on Thursday.
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How exactly are we going to run out of water?
THAT would be tough for Boiling Pots!
Hey, let’s divert a huge fortune to more domestic programs, keep the lid on oil drilling, no new coal plants, no nuclear power, no missile defenses, in fact cut all our defenses.
Brilliant.
much like what’s going on in the southwest. California is using all the available supply. States like Nevada and Colorado are complaining. Too much demand for the supply to keep up.
That is exactly what they have in mind.
Hey....The libs are happy though....No more big fascist AmeriKKKa....just a bunch of little ones all over...
I am reading this crap right now. The report talks about global climate change and other BS.
I think the major focus is about wealth transfer and the potential for resource wars.
Was this report written before or after Black Jesus was elected? I think they may need to make some revisions.
It came out today.
I find it hard to believe that of the hundreds of front-page-of-website pieces written about this article, only a few - generally smaller pieces not displayed prominently - mention little tidbits such as that the report describes China’s international position as owing to people treating it like “the country of the future” (a very changeable circumstance, a mirage) and that the report believes China’s growth even by 2025 will have dramatically slowed or even receded.
Here's how: Four Klamath River Dams May Be Removed to Benefit Salmon
I don’t know what to make of articles like this. It gets a rise out of me and I worry because the economy is such a mess right now. But then, this sounds like the path to doomsday in 17 years and I can’t imagine everything going to pot. But, what do I know, I don’t know what to make of it.
It will be down January 20, 2009.
Same in the southeast. Florida complaining about the water supply and so is Alabama. Both are angry at Georgia who overbuilt Atlanta to rely on few lakes to support a ridiculous amount of growth. Everybody wanted to move to Atlanta after the Olympics. The interstates couldn’t handle it, the natural resources couldn’t handle.
Seems humans think they can do whatever they want, in as much quantity as they want and the Earth will just make it happen. “But I WANT to live here!” A bunch of Veruca’s it seems.
And I’m not some environmentalist that thinks that we should all live like monkeys, but I think some sense needs to come when county commissioners are allowing neighborhoods and sections of counties to be built up beyond the natural resources available. All it seems they can see is the massive property tax increase from lots of big houses over lots of empty land.
Just my take on what seems to be happening in the southeast. I don’t know if it’s like that everywhere.
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