Well, try to imagine the world when 1 billion 'affluent' Chinese can afford to drive 1 billion cars on 1 million miles of Chinese highways. For example, let's try to estimate the price of oil under the circumstances. And factor in 1 billion Indians too.
My point? We can't afford a prosperous China and/or India at this time. It simple CAN'T happen.
The best they can do is to drag US down to their level of prosperity and... it's probably happening as we speak.
Spoken like a true zero summer.
We are not resource limited creatures, we are idea limited. Obviously we will have to develop better energy sources. Americans don't have the freedom to do the serious reactor research required to meet the energy needs of the future. The Chinese will not have this problem. The only reason we are dependent on oil is that we allowed the mob to dominate and control the scientific community in the name of enviromentalism. Sheesh, even the French are ahead of us when it comes to reactor tech. There must be a way to go from nuke to liquid fuel. Either nuke->electricity-> hydrogen via electrolysis. Or hydrogen -> ethanol. Had we spent 10% of what we've spent on so called fusion research we would have this done by now.
Instead my republican senator is hawking friggin windmills.....Ugh...I'm going scream.
Which one would you rather support in order to help preserve our own way of life?