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  • Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview
    soilent breed, soilent greed, soilent green. don't sweat it, rbbartho. populations reach critical mass in countries and people die, either through war, famine, disease or gov't dictates.

    this grim aspect of growth is broken whenever some really smart persons discover methods to produce superfoods (like bread), refrigeration (tons of the world's food spoils before it can be eaten), storage (tons of food are consumed by pests and rodents), or crop yield improvements (through genetic manipulation, fertilization, pest controls and water or soil improvements).

    those discoveries make it possible for the population bubble to expand just when it seems the world has reached its tolerance level and during the next cycle more people survive. of course, that also means that more people die when we reach the upper support level of the next incremental improvement. never-the-less, the incentive for improvements comes from necessity, the mother of all invention. we would still be living in villages, if the process were interrupted. if kings had forced their peasants to stop breeding, progress would have been halted. we have to look at the bigger picture.

    someday, we will send people to the stars. when we get tired of being congested, here on earth, we'll develop a way to escape and seed the universe. that is our mandate. grow or die. you can't mourn the ones who die in the process from hunger, disease or war. their existence serves a higher purpose and ultimately, they will be so small in number when you compare them to the countless people who will be able to enjoy other planets because of their sacrifice.

    feel free to contribute by buying refrigeration stocks, fertilizer stocks, seed stocks or tech stocks. if you are really very smart, maybe you could work on the next generation of solutions yourself. we have to acknowlege that the "just say no" programs are insufficient. our history suggests that adversity is necessary to prod mankind forward. sometimes, that's a nagging spouse. sometimes, it's the perception that armegeddon is just around the corner.
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