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@Ape65 How would you get the far less plentiful food to large urban settings? Dense populations require complex, energy intensive dispersal systems. A house in the suburbs with a decent yard for gardens/chicken coop is more sustainable than a high-rise concrete box with 600 poeple in it.

I like what you're doing, but you also tend to cloud the issue. Coming out of the last ice age, eustatic sea-level rose by over 120m. Humans did not cause this, this is a naturally occuring phenomenon. Are you also concerned about the much larger, more significant natural variations our planet ca...

@SchrodingersEconomy The OWS et al. movement(s) do have a core instability best described as "desperate people do desperate deeds" and they may get desperate enough to do something rash. The unfortunate fact is that the "plebes" don't realize the people in power crossed the line of sheer desperat...

@TheGodlessGuitarist I guarantee you I know more about it than you, which is why I am trying to educate people that our impact is not the entire cause of the current trend. There is nothing abnormal about the current warming trend in any way. The biggest impediment to altering our agriculture is ...

@bwelkk We definitely had more prudent rules in regards to securitization and most other "secondary" type products, but the CMHC (the gov't agency similar to that of Fannie and Freddie) has explicitly insured any mortgage that was purchased with less than 20% down (ie the vast majority in the pas...