On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:56:11 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:58, David Palmer. wrote: > [snip] > > Until we mature enough as a species to assume the full > > responsibility of > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were > 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next > 45 years. ..9B more is manageable, and easier if mankind shares its wealth. 20B more, would be a "handful" on this planet. This will not happen, as sharing a good life etc means mankind volonteers to back off on breeding, capping the population at I guess 15B, and easing it down to the long term sustainable 10B. ..carrying on like we do now on old fashion European combustion technology and stolen oil, it'll peak at 8 to 12B and drop to 5 to .2B in the next 2 decades, or if Bush stays in power, in his next term, I'm guessing he and the RRR will try make their crusade nuclear, to avoid war crime trials and death row. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]