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   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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