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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Wed, 10 May 2017 17:29:32 +0100   
   Norman Wells  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Good....   
      
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