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   ld-protective-services   
   From: franciad@online.no   
      
   "David Leafgreen"  wrote in message   
   news:kETje.12199$z_.7439@attbi_s71...   
      
   > And to think that for a small fraction of our military budget, we could   
   > help the poor, and who knows, even make friends?   But we then rub up   
   > against the fact that to give the rest of the world the American standard   
   > of living, we would need two more earths, or stated another way, only   
   > about 2 billion people could have the American standard.   
      
      
   Baloney.   
      
   There is concensus that Earth can indefinately sustain only 80 million   
   people with the lifestyle of the Germans, which roughly translates to the   
   lifestyle of 40 million USAians. Which would mean 6 billion / 40 million =   
   one and a half thousand planet Earths needed if you want to give everyone   
   the same standard of living as the Yanks and survive it, as a species, or as   
   a planet.   
      
   Wake up.   
      
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