Egypt's Warning: Are you listening?

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13 points·KedarMhaswade··8 comments

Energy-constrained? Egypt? Only if you have an entrenched, hidebound investment sector that is uninterested in doing anything but seeking petroleum rent and ensuring the continuation of its own hold on power.

Mistaking "oil" for "energy" is rather short-sighted, isn't it?

Can you expand on that? I'm not familiar with Egypt's non-oil energy situation.

It's 97% sun-drenched desert. There's plenty of energy in Egypt, on average 12 hours a day.

Good point. Hopefully solar tech will get to the point where making use of that energy is worth the investment.

That particular site generates its following (and income) by stoking Malthusian fears. Underestimating technological and economic progress is to be expected.

No, nobody is listening. Try to convince a Tunisian 30 years ago, that if no economical and political changes are be done to save the country economy and stability, a disaster may happen and cost dearly to him, in the first place.

He may understand, but he is not interested. He won't move. The same is for people and the whole world working with this banking system. They may agree that the system is bankrupt and may fail them at any moment. But only few are bothered with it.

When the system collapse, they start complaining and protesting.

No I think it's more about the corrupt and oppressive regime.

The people weren't chanting "give us food"; they were chanting "The people want to oust the regime".

I think it culminated in that, but as with every revolution in history, the causes of these things are far more nuanced and complex than they tend to appear at first glance. The American Revolution was about far more than taxes on tea for example.

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