Overpopulation is a major cause of most ills but a secondary factor, particularly in the USA, is abysmal education.
When a majority of the students are leaving high school functionally illiterate and yet they feel qualified to pontificate on the worlds direction and which way it should be guided then there is a real issue.
This really is a case of the inmates running the asylum when people who have zero grasp of technology are trying to direct those who do.
Throwing money (money from my taxes probably!) at feel-good projects by the unknowing that have minimal chances of success is stupidity of the highest order.
The hydrogen fiasco springs immediately to mind, not only does it take energy to produce hydrogen with consequent efficiency losses but that gas has a very small molecule which leaks from the smallest pinhole but it has the highest explosive range of just about any gas which coupled with an extremely high flame speed, a low calorific value and a very high vapor pressure makes it a nightmare to store.
Rear-ending a hydrogen powered vehicle would make the Pinto problems a walk in the park.
I'm also afraid that I disagree with Mark in that a loss of luxury does not equal a loss of lifestyle and community, any step back in quality of living is a major retreat.
Remember that without modern technology the present size of the human population would be impossible.
When a majority of the students are leaving high school functionally illiterate and yet they feel qualified to pontificate on the worlds direction and which way it should be guided then there is a real issue.
This really is a case of the inmates running the asylum when people who have zero grasp of technology are trying to direct those who do.
Throwing money (money from my taxes probably!) at feel-good projects by the unknowing that have minimal chances of success is stupidity of the highest order.
The hydrogen fiasco springs immediately to mind, not only does it take energy to produce hydrogen with consequent efficiency losses but that gas has a very small molecule which leaks from the smallest pinhole but it has the highest explosive range of just about any gas which coupled with an extremely high flame speed, a low calorific value and a very high vapor pressure makes it a nightmare to store.
Rear-ending a hydrogen powered vehicle would make the Pinto problems a walk in the park.
I'm also afraid that I disagree with Mark in that a loss of luxury does not equal a loss of lifestyle and community, any step back in quality of living is a major retreat.
Remember that without modern technology the present size of the human population would be impossible.