Re: Interesting article thread
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:30 pm
No matter how good it seems economy never works out in the end ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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Which country would you rather be in in 75 years? The one that has used all it's resources, and has no choice but to buy from others at whatever price they set, or the one that has prudently preserved their now much more valuable resources, and can set the price that others buy them at?Nielk1 wrote: Our government refuses to use our own resources and goes so far to demonize the use of them claiming global warming or some other bunk while then turning around and buying it all at greater and greater prices from other countries.
Hmm, no. You know how your country works, Governments do not control resourcing company's, company's do what they do for profit.Our government refuses to use our own resources and goes so far to demonize the use of them claiming global warming or some other bunk while then turning around and buying it all at greater and greater prices from other countries.
EU is the reason the Euro is and historically has been more powerful than the $AHadley wrote:Economically speaking, Europe is not a single entity.Nielk1 wrote:Of course, the US is still in better shape in many respects than Europe. I wonder which falls first.
It is both physically and mathematically impossible for us to use up our resources at even 1/100th that rate.AcneVulgaris wrote:Which country would you rather be in in 75 years? The one that has used all it's resources, and has no choice but to buy from others at whatever price they set, or the one that has prudently preserved their now much more valuable resources, and can set the price that others buy them at?Nielk1 wrote: Our government refuses to use our own resources and goes so far to demonize the use of them claiming global warming or some other bunk while then turning around and buying it all at greater and greater prices from other countries.
Yes, I know we'll be dead, but it's just remotely possible that everything isn't all about us.
Depends what resources your talking about, and how wasteful that use. That company I worked for disliked the whole Idea of recycled paper, because it is much more profitable to get a bunch of guys to waste an entire ecosystem through "efficient" resourcing than it is to go round collecting up all the stuff you already sold to people and reprocessing it, particularly if you got cheap access to it by bribing the right people. Killing a few thousand million or so of Gods creations in the process does not cost a dime. It only took 20 or so years to destroy most of the Amazon and fill up landfill sites all over the world.It is both physically and mathematically impossible for us to use up our resources at even 1/100th that rate.
Got an equation and some numbers to plug into that? I didn't think so.Nielk1 wrote:It is both physically and mathematically impossible for us to use up our resources at even 1/100th that rate.AcneVulgaris wrote:Which country would you rather be in in 75 years? The one that has used all it's resources, and has no choice but to buy from others at whatever price they set, or the one that has prudently preserved their now much more valuable resources, and can set the price that others buy them at?Nielk1 wrote: Our government refuses to use our own resources and goes so far to demonize the use of them claiming global warming or some other bunk while then turning around and buying it all at greater and greater prices from other countries.
Yes, I know we'll be dead, but it's just remotely possible that everything isn't all about us.
I did actually, back in 2008, gotta find the bloody thing.AcneVulgaris wrote:Got an equation and some numbers to plug into that? I didn't think so.
If a paper company destroyed every tree, they would run themselves out of business as they would run out of forest. Even the super evil paper industry has a basic understanding of hitting the optimal point where replenishment and reduction are at the same rate. Its plain old good business.MrTwosheds wrote:Depends what resources your talking about, and how wasteful that use. That company I worked for disliked the whole Idea of recycled paper, because it is much more profitable to get a bunch of guys to waste an entire ecosystem through "efficient" resourcing than it is to go round collecting up all the stuff you already sold to people and reprocessing it, particularly if you got cheap access to it by bribing the right people. Killing a few thousand million or so of Gods creations in the process does not cost a dime. It only took 20 or so years to destroy most of the Amazon and fill up landfill sites all over the world.It is both physically and mathematically impossible for us to use up our resources at even 1/100th that rate.
You and I can both see the sense in that statement. But for a profit hungry industry that has never been involved in the business of replenishment, It is not their problem and not their responsibility, all they have to do is wave a large bundle of cash at the next lumber rich Leader looking for some financial backing.If a paper company destroyed every tree, they would run themselves out of business as they would run out of forest. Even the super evil paper industry has a basic understanding of hitting the optimal point where replenishment and reduction are at the same rate. Its plain old good business.
You're saying that the US could use only native resources for the next 7500 years and not run out. You slipped a decimal place or dropped a sign somewhere, because there is no way that's correct.Nielk1 wrote:I did actually, back in 2008, gotta find the bloody thing.AcneVulgaris wrote:Got an equation and some numbers to plug into that? I didn't think so.
No, I didn't say that. You are changing what I said. I never once said to only rely on native resources. You are changing what I said so you can attack it rather than actually thinking about what I did say, which was to use our resources rather than not. That does not preclude the use of external resources, but it does allow for lower prices via competition.AcneVulgaris wrote:You're saying that the US could use only native resources for the next 7500 years and not run out. You slipped a decimal place or dropped a sign somewhere, because there is no way that's correct.Nielk1 wrote:I did actually, back in 2008, gotta find the bloody thing.AcneVulgaris wrote:Got an equation and some numbers to plug into that? I didn't think so.
Three years too late for that.Red Devil wrote:Pandemic is the solution.