In the video above from 1978, Milton Friedman delivers a timeless lecture in San Franciso about the future of energy in the US, and discusses issues including peak coal, peak oil, the myth of finite resources, the Limits to Growth, and the price mechanism.
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The older I get the smarter Friedman seems…
Juandos, everything is relative.
Just look at the Luddite posts here…they try to obscure and discredit what is manifestly and unambiguously obvious.
They too are being flushed down the shltter of history…and they are too stupid to know it.
“They too are being flushed down the shltter of history…and they are too stupid to know it“…
Heh!
Funny how 1978′s supposed problems sounds very similer today’s supposedd problems…