You are quite right. Back a few years ago, Ohio accidentally shutdown all power on the east coast for a week. My wife works in neonatal intensive care and 9 months later the number of deliveries at her hospital more than doubled - almost tripled.
-Dave Walton On 10/26/05, Potter, Tom E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also believe that we fail to give television the proper credit for > population reduction (in the U.S. at least). Before television, there > were few other "entertainments" available for the evenings. ;) > > Thomas E. Potter > Telephone: (713) 215-2877 > Fax: (713) 215-2551 > Mobile: (832) 794-0536 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craig McCluskey > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:58 PM > To: Mercedes mailing list > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Terminal population > > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:17:39 -0500 "Potter, Tom E" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That was the theory of Thomas Malthus. The industrial revolution > > disrupted his theory as I remember from my studies (Specifically, > > mechanized farming allowed more food to be grown). That is the problem > > with any equation that we develop to determine population load, we > > cannot foresee what changes future technology will have on the > capacity > > of the Earth to sustain a population. > > > > http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html > > Yes, how wrong Malthus had it! > > In addition, we humans are limiting our population ourselves without > having to rely on any Malthusian causes. The world population will peak > out about mid-century and then drop because societies are not > reproducing > at replacement rate. This is already a big problem in Germany and Italy. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net >
