From: Sean Kenny (seankenny@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 01:54:00 MDT
Greg Burch wrote:
> Sent: 29 September 2001 03:24
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Energy and "the Clash of Civilizations" -- a policy thought
> problem
>
>
> Assume that you are George W. Bush's senior science policy
> adivosor. (This
> means that you are NOT an anarcho-capitalist or even a
> libertarian -- try it
> as an exercise for fun.) Now assume that you have become convinced (which
> wouldn't be hard to do) that one of the most rigid constraints on
> US foreign
> policy is the industrialized world's dependence on Middle Eastern oil. In
> recent briefings you have become despondent over the intractable nature of
> the conflict between the Enlightenment cultural values you hold as a
> scientist and the Islamic revivalist movement that is the most dynamic
> political and social force throughout that region. You want to
> propose some
> means of decreasing the West's dependence on fossil fuels.
>
> Question: What would you propose?
I'd keep my mouth shut. Suggesting a decrease in the reliance on oil to the
"oil company" president! I want to keep my job.
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