I tend to agree, Chuck, up to a point. But I think what we’re running up
against is sheer numbers. To this point, technology has allowed us to produce
more to sustain more people to the point where some of us now can see that the
way we’re doing it won’t sustain us forever. Without serious efforts at
population control globally, this problem is not going to go away. The better
our technology, the more people we’ll be able to sustain, until we finally,
inevitably, run into, what for lack of a better term, I call the Malthusian
Wall.
Alas, I truly believe something will intervene before that happens. Think Black
Death, only much swifter and more virulent.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mar 23, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'm an optimist and believe that technology will eventually provide us
> with plenty of clean and safe power, possibly in the form of thorium
> powered nuclear reactors or, better, something I can't even imagine
> today. But in order to get to the long term we have to survive the
> short term.
--
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