George Soros: “we are on the edge of collapse”

Silas · Post by **Silas** » 01 Jul 2011, 09:06

Check out this guy, an economist that seems to get it.

How Peak Oil Will Affect the Economy -
Economist Richard Douthwaite discusses the impact of peak oil on the world economy. Our current economic model...

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-Peak-Oil- ... -516926337

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 01 Jul 2011, 10:01

Richard Douthwaite is an extremely good analyst and writer; his ideas, based on equitability, are logical and sensible.

Trouble is, those qualities are not allowed in the sphere of political thought.

JavaScriptDonkey · Post by **JavaScriptDonkey** » 01 Jul 2011, 11:47

He might be a genius economists but he is a very boring speaker. I only managed about 2 minutes.

Why does he think gas supplies are critical?

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 01 Jul 2011, 12:11

JavaScriptDonkey wrote:He might be a genius economists but he is a very boring speaker. I only managed about 2 minutes.

That's why you don't understand why Malthus wasn't wrong.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 01 Jul 2011, 12:12

He's not a great speaker, true. But he's also got the problem of having to assume that his audience don't know what's going on. Lowest common denominator and all that. He's also meticulous, which doesn't help a not-natural orator.

He is saying the obvious, for instance (and something I've been saying for years

) that remaining fossil energy should only be used to prepare us for having very little fossil energy.

I assume this is why he thinks gas supplies are critical.

DominicJ · Post by **DominicJ** » 04 Jul 2011, 20:23

eatyourveg wrote:"I guess Dominic is confident enough in his indispensability to society that he doesn't anticipate ever being in a situation where he might have to reflect more deeply on his prejudices."

I think anyone who spends as much time posting whilst at work as Dom needs to think hard about how an employer might view this, they do know what goes on and they have long memories. He said, speaking as a former employer of quite a few people.

I arrived and started work before 8am, its now 8.20pm I'm just about to go make some tea, or microwave a Chef Kuo Noodle Bowl anyway, and then I'll be back at the keyboard, picking up after other peoples mistakes.
If anything else goes wrong, I'll be pulling an all nighter tomorrow.

The job gets done, no matter what.
That is all my employer cares about.

DominicJ · Post by **DominicJ** » 05 Jul 2011, 11:12

If anything else goes wrong, I'll be pulling an all nighter tomorrow.

32 of 42 things wrong......

Who do I ask about adding new days between wednesday and thurday? I could do with 4 or 5?

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 05 Jul 2011, 22:00

DominicJ wrote:
If anything else goes wrong, I'll be pulling an all nighter tomorrow.
32 of 42 things wrong......

Who do I ask about adding new days between wednesday and thurday? I could do with 4 or 5?

If you are referring to work done (wrongly) by others, then I would say you have a training issue.... If it is not a training issue, then it seems like it is time it was made a disciplinary issue, in order to sort out the wheat from the chaff.

I had an employer once that spoke negatively of a financial controller that used to work late nights regularly, he said "if he was good at his job he would be able to get his work done between 0800 and 1800 without having to stay late. A bit harsh maybe, but there was truth in there too.....

There's nowt as queer as folk!

Kentucky Fried Panda · Post by **Kentucky Fried Panda** » 05 Jul 2011, 23:20

JavaScriptDonkey wrote:He might be a genius economists but he is a very boring speaker. I only managed about 2 minutes.

Why does he think gas supplies are critical?

emordnilap wrote: I assume this is why he thinks gas supplies are critical.

He's not working from a prepared text, so he did pretty well.

Gas supplies are crucial, without them no gas turbine power stations, no industry and vulnerable people will die in their houses.

When I say industry, think bakeries and food manufacturing.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 05 Jul 2011, 23:29

Kentucky Fried Panda wrote:
JavaScriptDonkey wrote:He might be a genius economists but he is a very boring speaker. I only managed about 2 minutes.

Why does he think gas supplies are critical?

emordnilap wrote: I assume this is why he thinks gas supplies are critical.
He's not working from a prepared text, so he did pretty well.

Gas supplies are crucial, without them no gas turbine power stations, no industry and vulnerable people will die in their houses.

When I say industry, think bakeries and food manufacturing.

Gas supplies are also important for the production of fertilisers and explosives.