[ExI] peak fossil by 2020

[John Clark]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013  Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> Malthus failed because he didn't anticipate shift from biofuels to
> fossil, and Liebig (artificial fertilizer).
>

Predictions would be easy if you knew what to anticipate. Are you certain
you're smarter than Malthus and know what to anticipate, more specifically
would you bet your life that you know the one and only solution to our
energy problem?

> Genetic engineering is a high-technology item.
>

Yes.

 > It also can't do a damn thing about thermodynamics.
>

What the hell? Life has made good use of thermodynamics over the last 3.5
billion years and I don't know why we'd want to do something about it now.

  John K Clark
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