Blistering but measured ridicule might be more effective than careful factual debunking.
Seriously, there is some very high level economic modeling would be suitable for a Masters in Mathematics. Though when there is nothing there but the math, I guess that scoffers might ... uhh, scoff. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
They are doing economics as an ideology, by hiding under the cloak of science.
Oooooooh the irony!
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
- V.I. Lenin.
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Which just goes to show that ideology is a circle; stray too far into the wastelands of the left and you'll end up in the wastelands of the right, and vice versa. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Which just goes to show that ideology is a circle
Have they added a third dimension to it, beyond right<->left and anarchistic<->authoritarian?
(Or whatever they used to call it) Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
one step further: they're cloaking a modus operandi with an 'ideology' (bow head before grand poobahs), further dressed up as 'science'.
and the motive is all, namely take as much, give as little as you can
the more you profit the cleverer you are, you may be a human rat, but you're such a clever little rat just the same...
it's a creed, change the first letter and you have it's real name. ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
