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Re:Palantir raises $680M by wbc on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:05AM (#10715812)
can you explain how oil enabled human pop to go from 1b to 7b?
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Re:Palantir raises $680M by mchaver on Friday December 11, 2015 @03:05AM (#10715943)
Not sure why you are getting down voted. It's a valid question.

Cheap, abundant energy makes in cheaper to produce and transport necessities for human life and allows us to invest more time into researching and improving the quality and availability of those necessities (food, clothing, housing, medicine, etc.).

Haven't read through all of this, but it seems to have some similar ideas. http://www.resilience.org/stories/2009-04-20/peak-people-int...

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Re:Palantir raises $680M by dnissley on Friday December 11, 2015 @07:33AM (#10716697)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
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Re:Palantir raises $680M by angry_octet on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:00PM (#10719068)
Industrial fertiliser and transport, plastics, energy, etc.
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