No. Past performance does not guarantee future performance. I am simply pointing out that the resource crunch has not happened yet, and therefore can not serve as an excuse for impoverishing people. This impoverishment is, in fact, a deliberate political decision rather than an unavoidable fact of life.

It is possible that this is the last decade for which such a comment can be made. But this is now, and the future isn't quite here yet. And arguing that the neoliberal thirdworldisation policies were unavoidable when they were not plays directly into the hands of the very people who have been sitting with their thumbs up their asses for the last thirty years when we should have been doing something about the scarcities that are forecast to hit within the next decade or two.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.