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Yup, China is slurping it up again and will kick down any economic 'recovery'.

I don't even know whether his suggestions would be quick enough either. I have often though that steralising the whole adult population through the water supply would be a good means of reducing the population with as much rapidity as is possible.

You should. At the moment, inertia means we have mainly superfluous 'jobs'. Don't let any of them cloud your vision. Doctor, teacher, food grower make up 95% of what jobs are actually required. Eventually, we'll (most of us) be back to working the land. I wonder how many teachers and doctors will b...

My hope, I suppose, relies on there being something like a small scale education sector still existing or manual farm labour of some sort that doesn't require a large degree of dexterity. You're in luck. Along with doctoring, these are the most important and worthwhile sectors. All the rest compris...

Most "hands on" skills will be in demand, including Herein lies my problem, I have virtually no practical skill with my hands and I am congenitally clumsy (due to dyspraxia) - the consequence is such employment is likely impossible for me. My hope, I suppose, relies on there being somethi...

That stuff about Germany's relative success with feed-in tariffs is interesting, and puts into perspective the Anglo-Saxon crap about the market always providing the solution. <Thoughts of emigration> Yeah, the same dogma that was the British government's 'solution' to famine in Ireland and India i...