The Chinese one-child policy has probably been rather prophetic in it’s uber cautious approach to future restraints on resources. Currently, China doesn’t produce enough grain to feed the livestock required to satisfy rising middle class demand for meat so it has appropriated land acres in Africa and elsewhere (mainly Uganda and the Congo) for the explicit purpose of exporting grain back to China. It is a situation mirroring the plight of many countries with distressed resources; those with a larger...

Production capacity in most of the regions with large reserves are usually down due to technological constraints but the basic point about 'peak oil' is that there's a finite amount of the stuff. The market reacts to regional disturbances to flow as opposed to speculations of how much there is left globally so the fluctuating price of crude is a poor indicator if we are looking for signs of peak oil.

In the short term, demand will slow down when prices become exorbitant but this...

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The month of January is named in honor of the Roman god Janus because he is considered the god of new beginnings. He is also considered...

African Americans have had a tumultuous association with other races for the last 300 years. They were most exclusively used as beasts of burden by Euroamericans, who had them shipped in from western Africa to toil in the fields picking cotton used to make clothing. This is no surprise for those who have even a basic knowledge of American history. However, they may be surprised to learn...

This content was copied over from my Wiki, developed to play around with making these things. It does seem difficult when you first start on a Wiki but you soon pick it up. This particular Wiki was written inside one of the several dedicated Wiki hosting sites, like wikispaces.com. You could "set up a free Wiki with up to five members" or pay for larger membership, last time I looked. Ideal for small businesses and education; Wikis can also be free from academic constraints, which makes...