Keith and Chris, the prospect is truly frightening. I've spent some time in a huge, densely crowded slum in Sao Paulo and visited slums in other second and third world cities. If the kind of disease Keith poses began to spread, there is absolutely no way it could be stopped or confined. The infrastructure simply isn't there.
Ed Ed Weick 577 Melbourne Ave. Ottawa, ON, K2A 1W7 Canada Phone (613) 728 4630 Fax (613) 728 9382 > 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 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
