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Listed below are comments made by dozedodo between Friday, 23rd May 2008 and Tuesday, 15th July 2008.

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France builds nuclear future 08:35am on 15 Jul 2008 However much the business-as-usual, blind-folded people refuse to contemplate the unavoidable, a lower-energy future is what is in front of us.
Peak everything assures us of that.
Any temporary alleviation, such as nuclear energy, are just that. To despoil on such a grand scale on a stop-gap, instead of looking fully into the face of necessary adaptive, powering-down strategies is deception and risk and continuing damage.
Such a pity that proliferating nuclear-power facilities will increase the clean-up burden and environmental threat on any future generation when the main energy sources will be muscle, solar, wind and wave, as they have always been.
Australia and the rise of the rest 11:59am on 23 May 2008 An Australian, I'm all for the Rise of the Rest, to at least a maintainable state. I'm sick of superpowers, sick of Big Business usurping the role of Gvmt, sick of superpower policies dooming 'the Rest' to famine, strife and misery, sick of the big-kid-in-the-playground mentality, sick of the notion that one group of people has the wherewithal, and therefore the right to decide how other countries function.
I deplore the idea of Australia, or any other country, being a Superpower.

That good old American who waxed lyrically on how 'Good fences make good neighbours' knew a thing or two. Talk to our neighbours over the fence, visit from time to time, help him out when needed, then look after our own patch well because it, not our neighbour's patch, has to sustain us.

All touted future superpowers are mythical. The next decade will be monumental in realignments, then when the energy has gone and the global economy has collapsed, where we are will be all we have. We need to tend our own patches, that's all.

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