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**kertionderf** · 01-18-2011, 04:16 PM

Are the US threatened by barbarians at the gates? You guys have B52s. That should show the Goths who's the boss...

B-52's help, but you can't fight mother nature. If climate change (using a generic term, not a reference to AGW) starves today's Goths, the Chinese, they'll be more apt to try to invade or otherwise gain control of our crops. If CC means we have less food and/or resources, and/or we require more energy just to stay warm, that shifts the balance of power away from us as we shift resources from our B-52s towards food/wood/oil/whatever production and acquisition.

A really simple example would be to compare America to Atlantis, which is now thought to have been the Minoan civilization once located near Crete. They disappeared almost overnight because of a huge volcanic eruption. Whenever Yellowstone finally blows, we're done as a super-power, and perhaps even headed for 3rd-world status.

But as earlier noted, in the modern world, our decline and demise are less likely to be due to drought and crop failure than from debt and currency failure.

01-18-2011, 04:16 PM	#10
kertionderf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	Are the US threatened by barbarians at the gates? You guys have B52s. That should show the Goths who's the boss... B-52's help, but you can't fight mother nature. If climate change (using a generic term, not a reference to AGW) starves today's Goths, the Chinese, they'll be more apt to try to invade or otherwise gain control of our crops. If CC means we have less food and/or resources, and/or we require more energy just to stay warm, that shifts the balance of power away from us as we shift resources from our B-52s towards food/wood/oil/whatever production and acquisition. A really simple example would be to compare America to Atlantis, which is now thought to have been the Minoan civilization once located near Crete. They disappeared almost overnight because of a huge volcanic eruption. Whenever Yellowstone finally blows, we're done as a super-power, and perhaps even headed for 3rd-world status. But as earlier noted, in the modern world, our decline and demise are less likely to be due to drought and crop failure than from debt and currency failure.
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