D-Nox
Knight
Re: The economy
oh no, the world isnt a fairy tale my friend. actually people already discovered many other sources of energy that are not related to oil, but the oil companies lobby simply do not allow them to prosper. we had a very good example of this here in Brasil. We had an energy program called pro-alcool wich was basically producing energy and fuel from the alchool. it would be a lot cheaper than oil&gas much less harmfull to the nature and only a little less powerfull, but the oil companies were able put it down the locker just with their lobby. simple like that
EvilChild;768624 said:Capitalism is not about short term gains. Capitalism is about SUSTAINED GROWTH. Large short term gains is actually VERY VERY bad in capitalism. Technology is not being "locked away". Why would anyone lock something away that they would profit from? An oil company that invents a brand new energy source would be mentally retarded to hide that invention. Why? Because they could profit immensely by selling that invention... much more than they could profit by selling oil, especially if they can monopolize it. Not to mention oil companies know that they are in what is essentially a dying industry. One of the biggest problems going through oil company CEOs is "where will me and my company be in 15-50 years?"
"Instead of having one dirty power plant you have ten less dirty power plants, suddenly." Why did energy needs suddenly rise by 1000% for no apparent reason?
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Population does not keep on increasing. Population naturally stabilizes. Population growth is spurred by poverty, anyway." I'm going to go ahead and toss out human history if you don't mind. Also I am going to toss out natural law as well. Because apparently you just did.
"The Campaign Against Climate Change have produced the One Million Climate Jobs proposal in the UK. Creating 1 000 000 public sector jobs specifically related to the climate, public transport, creating renewable energy etc., that will not create wealth like you talk about but will improve the economy. 1 000 000 jobs will mean more demand for goods and services and predictions estimate the employment of 500 000 additional workers if this was carried out."
Say hello to trickle down economics. Although in this case the business is the government. The introduction of 1000000 will give 1000000 a salary and will thus increase wealth. This increase will thus increase spending and will create economic growth. That spending will put money in the pockets of other businesses and will thus give them the oppurtunity to invest in their own company by hiring workers (estimated at 500000). This will further spur growth. In fact... there is very very little socialism involved in any of this. It is based on capitalist principles.
oh no, the world isnt a fairy tale my friend. actually people already discovered many other sources of energy that are not related to oil, but the oil companies lobby simply do not allow them to prosper. we had a very good example of this here in Brasil. We had an energy program called pro-alcool wich was basically producing energy and fuel from the alchool. it would be a lot cheaper than oil&gas much less harmfull to the nature and only a little less powerfull, but the oil companies were able put it down the locker just with their lobby. simple like that