Reply #58: If humanity had abundant green, renewable, cheap or free energy, other resources

[Uncle Joe]

would lose their value as they would become cheaper to obtain, grow, produce, manufacture, harvest, mine, hunt or fish.

Virtually everything is tied to the cost of energy, including the dollar and the price of gold.

I'm not suggesting the motivation for waging war would be eliminated, but my logic dictates it would be greatly reduced.

I don't believe slaughtering or torturing people is easy or acceptable to the vast majority of people, that's why political leaders and the corporate media are so loath to expose it for what it is, at least when it hits close to home, we have no problem in seeing the splinter in other nation's eyes.

Fictional TV, ie; CSI will show dead bodies galore with every imaginable mutilation, but the corporate media and Cheney/Bush fought against showing anonymous flag draped coffins, not because of sensitivity to families but to avoid showing the true cost of war to the American People.

Before going to war against other nations and peoples; they must be demonized first and while some citizens; may see through the propaganda, they may still tacitly go along with the war, because they perceive it as a national interest.

I'm convinced many in the Republican Party knew Bush and Cheney were lying but they believed we needed the oil.

So if virtually everything drops in value and the vast majority don't normally want to wage war or slaughter other people, the impetus to wage war should be greatly reduced.