PMM wrote: perhaps that will help match the population to the resource base without a genocide.
In a country awash with guns, that is a distinct possibility.
Well, we already had a genocide on this continent. The problem is that if there were to be another it would still be nonwhites who suffer the vast majority of it.
Hope I'm not offending anyone here when I say this, but by a measurable degree, us white anglo-saxons are a morally challenged lot. So many of us have been raised in a culture that rewards results while studiously avoiding methods. Just in general, we've been miserable bastards that have the dubious distinction of turning the world onto the joys of industrialization.
I'm not really talking about white guilt here as much as I'm just pointing out the obvious... a lot of the white world's success today is built on the blood, sweat and tears of africans, chinese, all sorts of people who live under NON-democratic regimes but toil to serve us.
I would like to see the final legacy of this european onslaught to be redeemed by the application of those very radical and resourceful science and engineering skills that it has been building on since the renaissance towards tech that will free the people of the world from energy dependence.
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