From space you can see it - a finite earth - but listen instead to politicians, Copper-Nickel-Sulfide miners, and those refusing to hear the population bomb ticking, ticking, ticking ...

The report. Ars reporting. Original Earth photo published at Ars, without captioning. If population is not curbed at the birth rate, nature will slam things shut via the death rate, and it will be brutal and ugly. There is only so much. There can stably be only so many.

With limited access to the full report, the pdf version, 4-page executive summary, here. OECD homepage, the about-page.


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That's right. How it is. The web is full of Bakken oil shale fracking and the North Dakota oil boom in full swing, in all its aspects. A simple truth - they are drilling there, they are drilling now, big time. And have you checked out the local gas pump, each time you've topped up? Paying less? Hardly.

I'd rather believe Bachmann.

Get the truth in three links, here, here and here.

That last item, Forbes, will the right wingnuts call that RINO? Flat-tax-Forbes? Yet it tells the truth. Transport and refinery managed bottlenecks rule. Nobody is going to truck gasoline here from refineries in Cleveland or Buffalo. They play their local markets, and trucking any distance costs too much. Hence, the Koch brothers' refinery in the TC market enjoys a monopoly position, and imposes monopoly pump pricing. Even if it gets discount priced oil from the Bakken. But, hey, those are only facts. Others can enjoy whatever huff-and-puff-and-bluff-stuff they choose.