I guess this poor woman did not do well in freshman chemistry. The amount of Carbon on the Earth is almost constant. Radiant energy from the sun, or pressure and heat below the surface of the earth are ultimately responsible for converting  carbon from one compound to another. 

In other words ... don't worry until the sun runs out. (Sorry the Sun is not renewable).

Not only is there a static amount of resources available on Earth, but it's a well-known fact that the planet is shrinking (any liberal can tell you that).  I only wonder how long we have until we get to the point that it's the size of a tennis ball and we need to start pushing each other off until we get to "last man standing" (sexism intentional).

From where - other than ignorance - does she get these ideas?

While gaming the system does not necessarily have a political basis or view, the majority of those who do it do. They game the system (any system) because they find out they cannot be in the top tier. "It's not fair." So they lie, cheat, and steal. They "have a right" to do it because we all know that those who do excell do so by... lieing, cheating, and stealing. It can't possibly be that the top tier got there by effort and skill. Oh no, that would mean that these dips are not the elite they think they are. It would mean they are ordinary. Oh no, it cannot be so.

That's what you get from a generation and its spawn raised on me, me, me. Who's surprised by it? In my generation they were called spoiled brats. Today they're called Baby Boomers and their useless proginy.

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This isn't "soft socialism"; it's hard edged NeoMalthusianism.  Thomas Malthus originated this "shrinking pie" school of economics at the end of the Eighteenth Century, and today's enviros are its latest adherents.  There is a philosophical tie between the "shrinking pie" school and the "fixed pie" school of Marxism, though.

Reading through Warner's piece (up until the last two paragraphs), one could easily come to an alternate set of observations/conclusion:

1) Affirmative action and victimhood mentality creates either apathy or resentment among non-minorities

2) That resentment can create a sense of victimhood in those non-minorities

3) That sense of victimhood can be used to justify attempts to "game the system" which is seen as unfair to them

4) Maybe we should question the value of affirmative action programs or address the effects of victimhood mentality

Seems kinda obvious to me.

But no, I'm sure the reason for people's (I assume only non-minority people's) "miserliness of spirit" is "ignorance" and because they view life as a zero sum game.

Yeah Mark, this is one thing that really frustrurates me about Liberals. To them, there is a finite amount of resources and wealth that we must all share, and some of us are taking far too much of a share... or in most liberal terms, we're getting more than our fair share... so it is up to them, to violently take from us, the extra amount we have unfairly gained. The Liberal world view is that of the zero sum game, where if someone is rich, someone else must be poor, because there is only so much to go around. When people gain more money, someone else on the planet loses money.

Now of course, time and time again, this theory has been proven completely wrong. There are less poor on the globe now than 50 years ago, and there are a lot more millionaires and billionaires on the planet than only 25 years ago. Wealth has grown more than ten fold... yet... for some reason, they never see the pie as growing... or better yet, they don't beleive there can be other pies.

Just so we are on the same page when I use the term 'violently'. I believe that taxes are taken from us through threat of force. This is the violent redistribution of wealth that all Liberals support.

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