Khodorkovsky, big swinging dick for 2007

Misha's Letter from Siberia in the Economist

The year ahead will show which strategy the developed countries are going to choose to work their way out of their looming energy crisis.

1. Reindustrialisation based on a “new competitiveness” deriving from an energy-efficiency advantage over the industry of China and other developing countries.

2. New colonial wars—this time for energy resources.

3. New leadership: abandonment of the model of increasing material consumption in favour of improvement in the quality of life, an increase in the intellectual component of the consumer basket.

Hard to figure him out. As much money as he's got he must be some kind of a crook, esp. in Russia, and yet he's not kidding. But at the end of the day he's a typical Russian, Westerners cain't write this kind of stuff.

Except, of course, for evangelical Christians, who talk along the lines of point #3 all the time. Even as they live in McMansions and drive big fat SUVs. Some of them.