[extropy-chat] Debate on Peak Oil

[Brent Neal]

 (4/25/05 14:55) Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>I have, for example, in the past, shown Patri Friedman documents issued
>by the World Wildlife Federation showing that the UN is planning on
>giving NGOs like WWF, the Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, etc actual
>sovereignty over wildlife areas, starting with seamounts in
>international waters outside any nations' EEZ and moving on from there.
>This starting point is interesting because it directly threatens
>Patri's Seastead Project and the potential of high seas independent
>living for libertarians.
>

I find this to be uncompelling and smacking of wingnuttitude, since the Nature Conservancy is a private organization, not a UN NGO like the WHO.

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