“I have a friend who comes home, and, if the sun is shining, he doesn’t even say hello to his wife. He first goes downstairs and looks at the meter to see what [electricity] he has produced himself. … The idea now is that energy is something you can [produce] on your own.
China, Pursuing Strategic Interests, Builds Presence in Antarctica
“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”
.. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.
.. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years.
A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development
To mitigate climate change, spare nature and address global poverty requires nothing less, they argue, than “intensifying many human activities — particularly farming, energy extraction, forestry and settlement — so that they use less land and interfere less with the natural world.”
As Mr. Shellenberger put it, the world would have a better shot at saving nature “by decoupling from nature rather than coupling with it.”
.. Big Agriculture, using synthetic fertilizers and modern production techniques, could feed many more people using much less land and water.
Lt General Mike Flynn on Limits of Military and Energy Motivation
Lt General Mike Flynn: The chain that kept us tied to the middle east is breaking because we will get to energy independence (although we still need to be present). (29 min remaining)
They our out to destroy our way of life (25 min remaining)
Bin laden’s idea wasn’t to defeat the US militarily, but rather economically.
We can’t defeat radical Islam with just the military.
We’re facing a lot of population growth in places where there is not a lot of good governance. In 15-20 years Nigeria will have a higher population than the US.