Stigweard is right but he understates it. I think.

China is catching up to us on energy consumption. There isn't enough fossil fuel to go around.

I suspect the Republican solution would be to bomb them back to a low-tech, bare subsistence level so we can have it all for ourselves, and keep profits up.

The Democrats, on the other hand, would prefer for the whole world to live naked in caves and eat lichen and mushrooms.

As usual in the US two-party system, both sides' approaches are useless.

Peter.