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   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   On 10/05/2017 17:13, burfordTjustice wrote:   
   > On Wed, 10 May 2017 15:35:09 +0100   
   > Norman Wells  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/05/2017 12:26, burfordTjustice wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 9 May 2017 22:07:59 +0100   
   >>> Norman Wells  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 09/05/2017 20:01, Roger Blake wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2017-05-09, Norman Wells  wrote:   
   >>>>>> You can scoff as much as you like, but it will happen.  The only   
   >>>>>> question is when.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not any time in the foreseeable future. The people making these   
   >>>>> predictions tend to fudge data to present the worst-case scenario   
   >>>>> and fail to take into account technological progress.  I do scoff   
   >>>>> and laugh quite a bit at the environmentalists, and for good   
   >>>>> reason.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> With respect to Steven Hawking, in the long run the earth   
   >>>>> certainly is doomed and it is probably a good idea to get off   
   >>>>> this rock. However unless we are hit by an asteroid or manage to   
   >>>>> touch off a world-wide atomic war I don't see anything likely to   
   >>>>> make the earth uninhabitable within 100 years.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Except that world population is increasing exponentially by about   
   >>>> 50% every 40 years.  And they're not making any more land or other   
   >>>> resources.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you think that's sustainable, think again.  We're much nearer   
   >>>> disaster tha n you think.   
   >>>   
   >>> You and those near to you could stop living, that would help some.   
   >>   
   >> No it wouldn't.  You see, you haven't understood the problem.  We're   
   >> OK at the moment and probably will be until after I die, which I'll   
   >> do in the normal course of events if it's all the same to you.   
   >>   
   >> World population was about 1 billion in 1800, about 5 billion in   
   >> 1980, 7 billion now, and forecast to be about 10 billion by 2050.  We   
   >> may be able to cope, just, in 2050.  Beyond that, we will have got   
   >> beyond any massive increases in agricultural productivity, and the   
   >> inevitable consequence is that we'll experience unconquerable mass   
   >> famines and deaths.   
   >>   
   >> All animal populations throughout history have gone the same way.   
   >> They expand and expand until they outrun their resources and then   
   >> they suffer massive and sudden population decline through death and   
   >> disease.  Humans are no different.  They will go the same way unless   
   >> and until there is a pretty immediate global curb on breeding, of   
   >> which there is no sign or any likelihood.   
   >>   
   >> Sorry, but life as we know it is doomed, and sooner than you think.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Blah Blah Blah...More fiddle wanting others to carry the water.   
      
   Sorry, I have no idea what point you're concealing behind your   
   nonsensical utterances.   
      
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