A glimpse of the sort of world we'll have after all this is over

[badnewswade]

This is so cool it makes me want to cum in my pants:

Can Saharan Solar Power Save Europe?

Solar Industry: The Stage Is Set For A Global RecoveryIMHO this is why we in the UK need to cling to Europe like a dying man... Anglo-Americans will never dominate the world again, our time in the sun is over and our economies and political systems are

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[underlankers]

Link doesn't work for me.

And to be blunt, the British day in the Sun has been dead for a very long time. Since around the time the USA itself rose, if not earlier. And frankly, the rise of North America was due more to the weakness of every other power center in 1945 than anything special about North America.

[badnewswade]

Fixed it!

[underlankers]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Sorry about the poetry

[badnewswade]

As for the UK's day in the sun, it was fine as long as we amalgamated with the US into a geopolitical entity I like to call USUK (as in "YouSuck", lols). USUK worked well, there was oil and gas, there was financial trading, there was culture and technology, there was military might and weapons of unimaginable destructive power, there was access to the resources of the Commonwealth and to the Continental US. There were holidays in the sun, Disneyland and Nylon, jet planes, television and computers, hamburgers and rock 'n roll

China and India is on track to be the Next Big Thing.

[nebris]

China is even more of a house of cards than the US. Her near future is a few economic bubbles, followed by civil unrest and two breakaway provinces.

India has a better shot...if she's not broken up by ethnic tensions and/or doesn't get caught on the backend of a Middle Eastern/South Asian regional nuclear war.

~M~

Re: China and India is on track to be the Next Big Thing.

[badnewswade]

We don't know enough about China to be able to say that for sure, and as for India, well, nobody in their right mind is going to start a nuclear war.

Re: China and India is on track to be the Next Big Thing.

[nebris]

If one does one's homework, yes, one can know enough to say with some certainty. Nothing can be said 'for sure' about anything.

And I said "Middle Eastern/South Asian". What the hell does being in ones 'right mind' have to do any of that? Geeze...

~M~

[theheretic]

The next big thing is NW Africa, and the rest of Africa after that. Europe is too citified and filled with NIMBY's. It suffers from the same problems as the USA does, only with worse and more complicated laws. Really, the next big slum will be London.

[badnewswade]

Yeah, 'cause Africa's such a fuckin' powerhouse thanks to its lack of regulation... NOT!

[theheretic]

Cheap land along the coastline where the steady Atlantic seabreeze blows, no regulation against the raising of windmills, plenty of room for factories and housing. Physical windmills can put their power towards vacuum pump distillation of sea water setups for water supply for those cities. I saw some of this territory in a documentary about the Dakar rally and I pondered how it will eventually be developed. That's the smart way to do it, and it would be less trouble than fighting it in the EU with all those NIMBY's (NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard).

[badnewswade]

Yeah, you'd just have to contend with the Somalian pirates, the local thugs / "guerilla resistance army", scary mercenaries, coup plotters, etc, etc, etc. Oh, and you'd likely have to run some poor bastard of a tribe off their land what they've lived on for millenia. Just saying, is all...