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Re:Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Fiv... by kbart on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:45AM (#12889890)
Not good only for a small subset of people on global scale, good for the rest of humankind and future generations.
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Re:Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Fiv... by ThomPete on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:29AM (#12890296)
$3-4 trillion debt effect the entire humankind. Where are you going to get the money to fix the climate issues if the entire economy collapses?
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Re:Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Fiv... by pjc50 on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:00AM (#12890414)
Debt balances with assets across humanity - that number doesn't mean we owe $3trn to aliens.

Some of the $3trn shows up as assets in pension funds and SWFs, but much of it is hiding in the balance sheets of oligarchs and middle eastern monarchs.

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Re:Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Fiv... by SomewhatLikely on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:00PM (#12939126)
Not if the value of those assets declines, as when technology advances obsolete those assets.
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