Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-25 Thread P!^VP 0!Z!^VP
On 24-Nov-06, at 12:00 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: The plethora of the world, its fecundity (potential for production of organism and information) is at its maximum. ~~~ 0!Z!^!P writes now: Pray it isn't so. D^

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-25 Thread P!^VP 0!Z!^VP
http://anagogues.blogspot.com/ D^

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-25 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Eric Yost wrote: it's not only over-population; it's also the gluttony of energy absorption that's occurring worldwide. But that's driven by population, isn't it? If world population were a tenth of what it is now, the "gluttony" would be similarly reduced, wouldn't it?

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-25 Thread chris mann
On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Eric Yost wrote: >>it's not only over-population; it's also the gluttony of energy absorption that's occurring worldwide. oh, you mean knowledge? which is why, of course the future is never how we imagine it.

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-25 Thread Eric Yost
>>it's not only over-population; it's also the gluttony of energy absorption that's occurring worldwide. But that's driven by population, isn't it? If world population were a tenth of what it is now, the "gluttony" would be similarly reduced, wouldn't it? Plus nature does heal itself, though

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-25 Thread Dirk Vekemans
personally, i eat mayonaise with my french fries instead of ketch-up, symbolically, i mean, sotospeak greetings, dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends http://www.vilt.net/nkdee .this is y sum of us _c[onsciously]hoose_ 2 not biologically reproduce. chunks, ][mez][ -- --LFG Curios

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-24 Thread Alan Sondheim
at's occurring worldwide. Year ago I taught a course in futurology; the two things that come to mind - this crisis _isn't_ like others; and there's really no technological fix. - Alan On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Eric Yost wrote: On the disaster of the future planet now ... You co

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-24 Thread mez breeze
On 11/25/06, Eric Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Finally, the disaster of the future planet is solely driven by the one factor people refuse to discuss: population. Human overpopulation drives pollution, resource depletion, damage to the biosphere, wars, famines, crowding of the poor in hypercit

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Yost
>>On the disaster of the future planet now ... You could be right. The sky COULD be falling. Of course the sky has fallen before. In the mid-14th century, the Black Death killed a quarter of the population in Europe. The Mongol Invasion was not a good time for thoughtful people

Re: On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-24 Thread P!^VP 0!Z!^VP
http://ana-uploads.blogspot.com/2006/11/toga-woof-good-forever-1214 -112406.html P!^VP

On the disaster of the future planet now

2006-11-24 Thread Alan Sondheim
On the disaster of the future planet now ..."If one person, sane to a degree, may be found willing and ready to sacrifice his life and the life of others, for his beliefs in the now and hereafter, the world is doomed." ..."And yet it is a commonplace among us that the swarm o