Saturday, December 15, 2012

Which Scares You More?

Peak helium?

Or peak fertilizer?

I would hope it would be the latter; after all, we need food for our survival much more than parade balloons.  But both stories make the same point:   we're running out of planet in a hurry.

If there should be tax breaks for anything, it should be for industries that develop, produce and market alternatives to dwindling resources.  This is, in my opinion, the greatest economic and cultural challenge of the 21st century.  You can have an environment without an economy, but you can't have an economy without an environment.

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