That does sound pretty intresting. Reminds me of this Futurama clip. The Real World: The Sun. "Ahh! I'm burning to death!" "Pft. Do you know how much an apartment that big would cost on the sun."
no one has talked about zero-point energy... every cubic inch in space has enough energy to boil the oceans away on our planet...how to go about harnessing that, is a big question...
Sigh...if China alone succeeds in raising their standard of living to first world standards, human impact on the environment will increase 12-fold. And China is almost certainly going to succeed. Our society is probably on the downward slope, but theirs is coming up fast.
I disagree with the assertion that industrial societies are '12 times' more harmful to the enviornment then agrarian societies of equal populations.
As well you should, because I got the stat wrong. It would only double it: http://peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2754 Well, it IS a renewable, bio-friendly energy source...
China was never a truly agrarian society. They were not choosing to use back-to-basic live off the land economy. It was just a country full of under-educated, poor peasants doing as best they can under some far from agrarian political rulers.
And I'm furious about export subsidies artificially deflating the price of crops sold in the developing world.
I wouldn't go that far. We have anti-hydrogen. It could produce a whole lot of energy. It's just not very practical. But Jerry's a sci fi guy.