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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

My world turned upside down

May 25, 2008 24:00
1 min read

I am in a state of utter bewildered incomprehension. I don't understand how I can have read what I have just read. It is beyond my ken. It throws into chaos everything I thought I knew about the world.

It is this:

The boom/bust in oil and house prices is, quite simply, good news, whatever the tangential pain. It shows that the good ship Gaia, planet Earth, is traumatising its passengers into husbanding its scarce resources. Above all they must ration living space, for which the West has been appallingly greedy, and carbon fuel, of which the same is true.