Keith Hudson wrote: > We are 'clearing the decks' so efficiently that epidemiologists tell us > with great certainty that a disease on the scale, and with the mortality, > of the Medieval Black Death is inevitable. One of these days one of the > megametrapolises of the modern world will be hit with a disease that's so > virulent that the rest of the world will impose a quarantine upon it and > watch while millions die in the hope that it won't spread to the other > great cities of the world. We need to start paying more attention to the > social structures in which we lived for the most part of our evolutionary > past and get back to something similar to those. Otherwise there's no > future for us.
Well, sounds like a good case _against_ the unlimited global "free" trade (of goods and people) advocated by Keith et al. -- because this will ensure that the virulent disease will simultaneously break out in many places around the globe... Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
