tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post200048208043937036..comments2023-11-02T15:48:50.381+00:00Comments on UK Bubble UK Economy: Decline and FallAlice Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753570123987780947noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-2030446750626176812011-10-02T19:17:02.250+01:002011-10-02T19:17:02.250+01:00Malthus II v Ricardo again.
Oh and Malthus will b...Malthus II v Ricardo again.<br /><br />Oh and Malthus will be just as wrong this time around.<br /><br />AC1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-4990486822209446772011-10-01T23:22:28.755+01:002011-10-01T23:22:28.755+01:00"Human development has finally "matched ..."Human development has finally "matched the planet's ability to sustain growth"."<br /><br />I disagree, it's not 'human development' is is human population that is the problem.<br /><br />We have a large increasing population and a large but diminishing resource in particular the carbon fuels that civilization has been founded on over the last two hundred and fifty years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-67344548790285095802011-09-27T20:57:59.408+01:002011-09-27T20:57:59.408+01:00One of the truly perverse things about moving prod...One of the truly perverse things about moving production to China is that over 70% of their primary energy supply comes from coal (and that isn't decreasing, either). The rate of growth of CO2 emissions will see them double in less than a decade, when their per capita energy consumption will exceed that of the EU on present trends.<br /><br />True greens should prefer that we burn gas here rather than have the Chinese burn more coal there to produce the same things.<br /><br />If you want a good Chinese GHG scandal, look at their production of PFCs - gases many thousands of times more potent than CO2 - that are associated with most of their aluminium production. Compare Anglesey Aluminium, which used nuclear power, with Chinese coal fired power smelting their aluminium and let's guess which is greener.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-88665437953702693632011-09-27T09:28:32.371+01:002011-09-27T09:28:32.371+01:00PS, Only we in the west consider the living standa...PS, Only we in the west consider the living standards of the peasants as a factor in the Chinese economy. Their own authorities and industrialists don't seem to care much about it.Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-34989304653102166742011-09-27T09:25:02.792+01:002011-09-27T09:25:02.792+01:00American/European carbon emissions are still there...American/European carbon emissions are still there - they've just been moved out East.<br /><br />My friend's wife is American. He says the wastefulness is doing his head in as much as his bank account.Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.com