<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">How do you know all this about the super-rich?</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Unlike the others here, too, I don't think the world is in dire straits regarding energy -- at least, things are no more worse that at any other time in history. I'm shocked there's so little optimism here.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Regards,</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> BillK <pharos@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, September 16, 2011 1:31 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change<BR></FONT><BR>2011/9/16 Tomasz Rola wrote:<BR><snip><BR>> ...but I don't buy this. If things go screwed, they are going to face<BR>> hundred millions of very hungry people (the rest might be dead but<BR>> a hundred mil is a problem anyway). And
their servants will be the<BR>> first who can easily pack them a bullet in a head from the back. If you<BR>> look at the history of Rome, "barbarians" very rarely managed to kill an<BR>> emperor. I assume they may be arsholes but not idiots. Therefore I expect<BR>> them to do everything to turn our small boat away from a shite, if this is<BR>> possible to do, of course.<BR>><BR>><BR><BR>I don't buy that story either. :)<BR><BR>The super rich are money psychopaths (to a greater or lesser extent).<BR><BR>They are not survivalists, stocking up on guns and tins of food,<BR>preparing for the end of the world.<BR>Though they probably have hired a company (like Blackwater) to stock<BR>their Caribbean island and defend it.<BR>The rich don't expect total destruction around the world. They do<BR>expect wars over resources and much starvation and die-off in<BR>populations.<BR><BR>The USA already has about 20% of the population surviving
on food<BR>stamps. Even if that increases to 50% or 60%, the poor probably won't<BR>attack the rich in their seaside mansions. The poor have entertainment<BR>and food - they won't risk losing that in order to attack a few<BR>thousand billionaires.<BR><BR>Eventually, more attention will go to developing new energy sources,<BR>but the rich are only really concerned about the remainder of their<BR>lifetime and they expect to continue business much as usual for that<BR>period.<BR><BR>BillK</DIV></DIV></div></body></html>