I like Pete’s ideas too and I also heard this presentation in Orlando. I found the Oil analogy quite interesting but actually I would make a different twist on that line of discourse.

We have been threatened with oil shortage for 40 years. In reality there is none. There never will be. For our social, cultural, economic and technical appraisals change over time - whether that be by war, by discovery, by new technology or even legislation.

Those who push the oil arguments on scarcity do so out of self interest.

Panels are the same. Those who push communities and such impending doom on panels do so for the same reason as oil. Don’t get me wrong I am not saying that communities (or oil alternatives) are not invaluable and great things, but what I am saying is that they come from a certain direction and are hyped by some more than others according to their background. (For the record, I am selling ‘communities’ as well, so certainly not biased!)

That is why I found his argument interesting in the main because it was a direct analogy. And both are packaged nicely.

Same for ‘overpopulation’.

See you soon I hope….