Are you starting to understand this, or should I get the crayons out? .... in other words and simple crayonic english: your argument holds no water no

systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops

Mr. Zeebub seeks idle hands for thought experiments

No, what we're seeing is the last stand of a vain and hollow politician who has just woken up

My teacher would grab us by the arms, shake us, and get right in our face and yell at us. I remember being so embarrassed after she did this. ...

a tendancy to find fault

The idled land may be left "chemfallow", where weeds are killed with Roundup ... with food riots on top of a shaky government, a cold war on one side