The coming 'peak oil' and its geopolitical consequences

[ah_clem]

I asked you and your ratpack to answer a simple question and you failed miserably

The question at hand, as near as I can determine:

I would like to know what do FB reader think of the ongoing debate.

I think Professor Godwin is correct as usual.

[dorbel]

I think the root cause of energy crisis is the same as the cause of environmental crisis, immigration crisis, human devolution crisis and many other plights of human race: over-population of earth. I blame the industrial society and the drug & medicine industries for this phenomenon.

I have a good solution to solve this problem once and for all; but won't share it for obvious reasons.

What is the solution and what are the obvious reasons why you can't share it with us? How hard can this question be?

[RickrInSF]

Do you consider your other fellow human beings as mere members of our species, which is called the 'human race', or as independent entities with uncompromisable dignity?

Let's dissect this question to find out why i said it would be foolish to answer.
You are really asking two questions, as if only one of the questions could be true, so let's look at the first question first.
"Do you consider your other fellow human beings as mere members of our species, which is called the 'human race'"?

What do you mean by "mere members of our species"? Are you asking if there could be something more than being a member of humanity? Or are you asking if some humans are more? (supermen perhaps?) Are you asking are all humans equal? Are you asking are all humans the same?

obviously, if you are a "fellow human being" you are a member of our species, so what exactly do you mean by "mere member"?

the second question, Do you consider your fellow human beings "as independent entities with uncompromisable dignity"?

the question of dignity immediately separates some humans from others, i do not believe you (PL) have dignity, uncompromisable or not, i believe dorbel does have dignity, is it uncompromisable? time will tell.

So again, you ask a question that cannot be answered in it's original form, and certainly both questions cannot be answered as one.

[socksey]

i believe dorbel does have dignity, is it uncompromisable? time will tell.

I believe "arrogance" best desribes dorbel's attitude and that is why I consider him so annoying except when he's discussing backgammon problems, at which time, I consider him to be useful. 

socksey



"I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it." - from English race car driver Sir Stirling Moss born on this day in 1929
   

[RickrInSF]

I believe "arrogance" best desribes dorbel's attitude

i used to believe this also, but have come to believe that he is only displaying what the British think of as humour.
also i think he has a short temper when it comes to certain people that he has come to know on FIBS, which i think we are ALL guilty of, especially me

PS dignity and arrogance are not incompatible

[dorbel]

I believe "arrogance" best desribes dorbel's attitude and that is why I consider him so annoying except when he's discussing backgammon problems, at which time, I consider him to be useful.  Yes

socksey

Is there some way in which this personal comment adds to the debate, or is this merely an intervention from one of fibsboard's famously impartial "moderators"?

[Zorba]

Hilarious and typical.

PersianLord starts a debate only to run away from it whining, when his true eugenetic beliefs are exposed.

Let's hope he doesn't procreate before maturing a bit!   

[garp_02]

I think there are a lot of people on Fibs who need to mature a bit.

PL is a total joke, as can be seen from this thread.

Some of the rest need to stop the playground tactics and look at things from the outside.

[socksey]

Please refrain from personal abuse.     Abuse serves no purpose except to inflame others and to enlighten us to our own inadequacies and immaturity.      That goes for me, too!   

socksey



"There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love." - from English race car driver Sir Stirling Moss born on this day in 1929