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This should be good. I am on an email list from the Rocky Mountain
Institute that Lovins heads and get much of what they send out. <br>
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For those who don't yet get the importance of climate change... I
ask you to read the following very long post at Climate Progress. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/05/02/grantham-must-read-time-to-wake-up-days-of-abundant-resources-and-falling-prices-are-over-forever/">http://climateprogress.org/2011/05/02/grantham-must-read-time-to-wake-up-days-of-abundant-resources-and-falling-prices-are-over-forever/</a><br>
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The short summary is:
<blockquote type="cite"><strong>The world is using up its natural
resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent
shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to
this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.</strong></blockquote>
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That is a clear message coming from the manager of one of the
biggest hedge funds, Jeremy Grantham. Grantham backs this up with
the numbers, clearly delineating the path we are currently on, one
leading to our demise, the poor and those outside the halls of power
going first... of course. <br>
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Some of the comments are also worth reading. e.g Californian Mike
Roddy (#1) says:
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<p>I don’t really care about investment opportunities. There are
dark sides to commodity scarcity, in addition to increased
poverty in general. High prices will drive efforts to harvest
heavy oil and deep offshore deposits. We’re already seeing
disregard of water quality in reckless and politically enabled
fracking for both gas and oil. Rising timber prices will drive
piracy and degradation of forests wherever they may be, further
driving global warming and ruining rainfall and erosion patterns
for agriculture. </p>
<p>Politically, the fossil fuel companies will be the only sector
of any kind with unlimited cash, which unfortunately has already
led to an effective coup d’etat of the American government. It
could get worse, with the Democrats becoming fully purchased.
All to enrich people like David Koch, the Rockefeller family,
and coal industry investors and executives. The people are going
to have to stand up to them, since the media and what passes for
our political leadership have gone over to the dark side.</p>
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On 5/2/2011 11:15 AM, Brian Good wrote:
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He will talk about four strategies for transitioning energy usage
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away from <span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color:
rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">oil, coal,
and nuclear energy by 2050.</span></span></span><br>
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