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Of course, but the realisation is so often a different thing as getting to our ruddy shale oil is proving. However, as I posted, it's not all about resources. It would be much easier if that was the only facet. .

Military bases, certainly, but such as Hawai and Puerto Rico wanted to be part of the USA. The lands of the main USA and the addition of Alaska were for the integity of their northern continent. But it cannot be said they want a land empire, they emphatically do not as all their actions show...

Not a land empire, that they hate with a passion as a result of their own experiences when we ruled them, so they set out long ago to destroy other's land empires with great success. Their aim is an empire of the mind, wanting all others to think and act as they do. .

In essence you are saying North America is a really nice place, just a pity about the people! .

And the most astute way is to limit the population to make the world's resources self sustaining and protect the natural world. .

Yes, I'm familiar with all that and don't disagree. But ultimately resources are finite and it's not all about resources anyway. Remember my remark about species decline in variety and quantity. Also my remark about the quality of life and the ways that has not just improved in some ways but...

That's what I meant, Quorn is disgusting and no substitute for meat. And if you follow the current research on starchy carbohydrates and our whole human history, you'd know how damaging wheat and similar carbohydrates can be to human health. .

It's being so cheerful that keeps me going! Can't manage it this morning. Can you pop back this afternoon? .

Nice climate. .

Indeed, I've often likened the human race to a disease. Like a disease it spreads out of control, consuming and destroying its host and ultimately itself. .

I don't think we can justify "probably" where nuclear fusion is concerned. Personally I think it's unlikely we'll achieve an adequate in to out energy ratio and will adopt other methods to manage without. We are already doing quite well in that direction. As for synthetic food, quality of...

It's true that the size of our population is a massive problem. Just because we can devise ways of supporting it short term is not an excuse for it since it is inevitably depleting the planets resources. With modern technology and the end of the age of doing everything manually with huge...

Sadly the Daum designed 26 volt Impulse motor came well before Panasonic produced their 36 volt version. The Daum was Germany's first crank drive motor, released long before Bosch et al. I think costs and German national pride also played a part, since Kalkhoff had earlier stopped getting the...

I've always been an environmentalist at heart and my actions from 1970 on are proof of my being way ahead of the game and its politics. But I wholly agree about climate change. It is very real, but it's far from proven that we are the cause or even involved to any great degree. But two things...

That's the third reason people stick with cars instead of cycling in the UK. My second reason was the safety one, people's fear of traffic. .

I still can't accept that necessity is a big factor in taking up driving, the great majority of all jobs for example do not require any ability to drive, If there was a large degree of unwillingness to drive, it should be much easier to get more people cycling. But it's widely accepted that...

Now we are getting nearer to agreement, far beyond the ten year forecast being discussing earlier. There's also all the legal implications to be dealt with and that's already causing headaches. I think we'll see limited introductions of self driving cars in some cities from about 2040, but...

How odd, that's completely the opposite of my experience. .

I doubt learning to drive being under pressure was common, most started it because they really wanted to, and that is still true. It's a freedom issue. Being able to have a drink or three isn't an issue, huge numbers do it already either using taxis or a non drinker in the group to drive...

I know all this, I posted it first in here long ago, as I did several other points you've previously made. So I fully understand what you are saying but don't agree with your forecasts. Just see my latest post just above and apply the real world and everything you know about people to it. In...