And now for something completely different...

[Occhidiangela]

Hi,
Not force, persuade. --Pete

Mao and his lads also had an effective method.

I'd like to point out that eppie and I agree on something: the biofuels nonsense the Bushies tried to foist off as responsible environmental and energy policy is and was rubbish. Energy demand won't go down, so, I agree with Pete: population must. (Recent Scientific American article by a guy named Brown who says the max the earth can sustainably support is 8 billion humans. I think he's off by about 4 billion, personally.)

But with a billion Chinese already here, and not going anywhere any time soon, population control will require a massive correction, usually taken in the form of starvation, epidemics, and war. Bring it on, for the sake of humanity, say I.

The "I hate America" crowd and the "globalism is the future crowd" ought to take a good hard look at China, the leader of their brave new world about twenty five years from now.

Is this who people want as the preeminent global hegemon? (God, why did I throw that paper away? No One wanted to lisetn in the early 1990's, and nobody wants to listen now.)

This link ought to sober some people who are, by either dollars or detestation for America on a dozen different grounds, blinded by their perspective on the future.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31086212/

For the Greek Chorus here, and the lurkers, think about this"

why was "We Shall Overcome" written in English rather than in Chinese?

Our system self correts each 4 to 8 years, somewhat,

China doesn't correct as frequently, if at all. Note the ban hammer laid upon internet and Tweet in the article.

Pay attention people, this is your new champion.

You can freakin' have him.

@ zenda: on the topic of the original post here, I have been trying to talk my son into civil engineering with specialty in enviro science. He wants to be a doctor. I am not convinced he has the tools for the latter, but I hope he succeeds at that.

Occhi