Comments on: A Decade of Evidence Demonstrates The Dramatic Failure Of Globalisation https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/ because facts really should be sacred Sat, 09 Feb 2019 17:27:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: maatheru https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49251 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:47:57 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49251 Reblogged this on maatheru and commented:
Costa Rica shows the world the real meaning of “wealth”

]]> By: Brian Harry, Australia https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49250 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:32:08 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49250 In reply to John.

Icelanders are tough people. They’re ‘Vikings’ who take shit from no one. They stood up to the International Banksters and kicked them out(and jailed some at the top).
If only Britain and America had had the ‘balls’ to do the same.

]]> By: Brian Harry, Australia https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49249 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:24:21 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49249 In reply to John.

Hot rocks technology works in Australia, unfortunately you need customers for the power and in central Australia customers are few and far between, but, ‘hope springs eternal’
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/geodynamics-sees-hope-for-hot-rocks-in-supporting-gas-development-48852

]]> By: John https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49248 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:34:10 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49248 In reply to Jen.

They are just too sensible in Iceland.
They let their banks fail, while Britain bailed them out.
Iceland also has had the wisdom to stay outside the EU.
I believe their social welfare and education system is superior to Britain.
We could learn a lot from Iceland – if only we had learning politicians.
Maybe Jeremy Corbyn will be more of a listening Prime Minister.

]]> By: John https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49247 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:41:33 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49247 In reply to tutisicecream.

Thank you for the link to the article, which I found most interesting.
I have passed the link on to others I know who I believe will also find it of interest.

]]> By: Jen https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49246 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:35:46 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49246 In reply to rtj1211.

I suppose Britain has missed an opportunity to negotiate with Iceland to build an undersea pipeline that could tap some of that country’s geothermal energy?

]]> By: tutisicecream https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49245 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:28:00 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49245 Interesting analysis of the current state of the world.
Globalisation was always a cipher for Financial Imperialism.
In reality it enabled the bankers’ financialised ponzi schemes to carry on unabated for decades longer. Unfortunately this return to orthodox feudalism hidden by the failure of economist to understand the classical economic model of debt outstripping production led us to the financial crisis of 2008. A crisis which is still unwinding. So now with waged labour declining and debt increasing a total collapse of the current system is inevitable unless the system is rebalanced.
Read Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson’s latest analysis:
http://michael-hudson.com/2016/08/finance-is-not-the-economy/

]]> By: John https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49244 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:30:11 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49244 In reply to rtj1211.

Some years ago, I seem to recall there being talk about something called hot rocks technology.
This involved pumping water down deep bore holes to where the temperature would be hot enough to heat the water and turn it into steam, which would then be used to generate electrical power.
This was supposed to take place in the west country, where the underlying rock structures are mainly granite.
Rather like fracking but without the attendant pollution.
Over the last few years, I have heard nothing further about this proposal.
Did anything come of this idea?
If “No”, I can only assume a cost-benefit analysis showed that it would take more energy to pump the water down and the steam up from the hot rocks to a generator and thus the idea was infeasible and unviable.
Is that the case? Does anyone know?

]]> By: rtj1211 https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/24/a-decade-of-evidence-demonstrates-the-dramatic-failure-of-globalisation/#comment-49243 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:02:16 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=27468#comment-49243 Costa Rica has a number of factors behind its ability to be almost entirely fuelled by sustainable energy:
An equatorial climate meaning that heating homes at night is less necessary than at higher latitudes.
A lack of heavy industry requiring major energy inputs.
A large number of volcanoes to provide geothermic energy.
Recent high rainfalls allowing generation of a lot of hydroelectric power.
The green nutters say that ‘climate change’ caused recent droughts in Costa Rica (which reduces the chance for hydroelectric power), providing no data as to whether Costa Rica had miraculously never suffered analogous droughts before 1950 (when climate change must have started since before then we humans didn’t defile the earth enough). I remain 100% convinced that the reason for this is that they haven’t looked for any data in case it shattered their carefully created narrative……
I admire what Costa Rica has done, but you couldn’t do what they do in Britain. We’ve already got lots and lots of hydropower. We don’t have any volcanoes. We’re doing our best to shut down all our heavy industry (aluminium smelting, steel production etc). But we still need plenty of other power stations because wind and solar aren’t going to do it.

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