[grey_whiskers]

First thing I noticed too.

Well, the second.

The first was the "peak oil" bullshit.

There is more oil or oil equivalents than the whole 6 billion can use in our lifetimes, even if everyone consumed like a US citizen, in the coal, natural gas, and shale oil deposits in North America.

And then we have the next-generation nuclear reactors which convert Thorium into fuel.

And he forgets the core of Christians in the US, and the self-reliant culture...we do not have a cultural history of 70 years of gulags and corrupt apparatichiks...at least outside of big cities in Blue States...

Cheers! Cheers!

[AnAmericanMother]

Exactly. Once you get out of big city liberal sinkholes, the vast majority of Americans are still the self-reliant, can-do folks they've always been.

Even though I live in the suburbs, I hang around with country folks because I train dogs and horses. Like they say, "a country boy can survive." They are resourceful, resilient, and stubborn. And I doubt the author has ever met one, since odds are he's living in a big city. He needs to get out more.

Plus, of course, the usual difficulties in translation.

[SaraJohnson]

I think he is talking about the collapse of the energy supply line due to an economic collapse; not a depletion of the world's energy sources. For example, people need money for energy and energy companies need the credit for supply. If the people don't have the money for energy, credit will not be extended for supplies. I think it is quite possible in an economic collapse.

And you are right about him not knowing much about the American culture and the people of that culture outside the humanist secular experience and re-education efforts of limo liberals. All he seems to be aware of is liberalism's invented minority race tribe separatist foreign or invented socialist cultures.

On the other hand, a lot of Christians do not live as Christians. Even those who attend church are often the products of a lifestyle and identity of consumerism and materialism.