Reason for and a critical question about 2012's 6.9% decline in nuclear production

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45. Why on earth would a smart guy like you have expected "this time" to be different?

You know about evolutionary biology, right? "A leopard cannot change its spots" and all that? What we see in our behavior is the human version of the leopard's spots. We can no more change our consumptive, growth-oriented group behavior through mere thought than a leopard can change its spots to stripes through an act of will.

Like most others here - no matter which energy dogma they support - you labor under the mistaken idea that our conscious thoughts can control our group behavior. They cannot. Group behavior is almost entirely driven by our evolved emotional responses. The only thing our consciousness does is to help us choose which acts of consumption and growth will yield the best results in terms of personal status, group cohesion, immediate physical security, and growth. Even most of those choices are made without any conscious intervention at all.

Do you blame lions for being lions? If not, why blame humans for being human, unless you too carry the delusion that our consciousness is somehow in control of events? If you do in fact believe that, you need to do some reading into the recent consciousness research that has been prompted by the development of evolutionary psychology over the last 25 years.