The economic and political problems related to population growth are all interconnected of course and shouldn't be considered in unison. As the oil runs out and prices rocket inputs for large-scale mechanised farming will rise which will push up farmers production costs and raise the price of grain; wheat, corn and basic staples will rapidly become unaffordable for the billion or so people on this planet who are already regularly on the brink of starvation.

The same oil is being spewed...

As I'm not at liberty to apply reasoned analysis across the whole spectrum of the globe's financial difficulties, perhaps a satisfactory vantage may be gleaned from a regional analysis. Readers in America will no doubt observe many of the similarities that exist between the Irish economic meltdown and the lax regulation which accompanied the implosion of the sub-prime market - not least of which being the expectation that house prices would continue indefinitely on an upward trajectory. The packaging...

The Penal Laws in Ireland were self-evidently outrageous measures (in a comparative European sense and specifically) foisted upon a thoroughly subjugated and defeated people and were adopted to buttress the power of a mainly imported and culturally alien oligarchy (the influential Old English preferring to retain their Catholicism and thus also excluded from power and patronage); which consisted of post-Tudor Cromwellian mercenaries, zealous Protestant reformers and land speculators of every ilk...

Categorising recurrent emotional and behavioural responses that deviate from social norms as being 'diseased' is simply a money making racket dreamt up in the boardrooms of pharmaceutical companies. It is Pharmaceutica. Inc. that sponsors the research into the whole neurotransmitter complex of reactions and who ultimately get to choose how the resultant data should be interpreted. It is a commonplace truism to assert that the brain is a staggeringly complex organ and as yet drugs which attempt to...

It is perhaps natural that a person accused of bigotry is unlikely to share the viewpoint that his ideas are bigotted as this is a designation that is usually only arrived at through a majority consent - most present forms of bigotry being once deemed perfectly acceptable and thus 'common wisdom'. The transition in a belief from that of 'common wisdom' to a general consensus of their being bigotry marks a victory for those reformers who don't wish to see, for example, homosexuals ostracised, lepers...