Re: [OT] Re: Opium
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:09:20 +0800
csj <csj@zapo.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:09:37 +0100,
> Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:39:31 -0600,
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] 1068831570.18037.32.camel@haggis.homelan>:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:22, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:56:11 -0600,
> > > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message
> > > > <[🔎] 1068785771.18039.9.camel@haggis.homelan>:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > as sharing a good life etc means mankind volonteers to back
> > > > off on breeding, capping the population at I guess 15B, and
> > > > easing it down to the long term sustainable 10B.
>
> This doesn't have to be the case if humanity expands to space.
> There are enough raw materials out there for 10T humans. (Just
> reading a sci-fi novel about asteroid mining.)
>
> > > It was tried in the PRC, which has the muscle and
> > > neighborhood spies to enforce it. Still, it didn't work.
>
> There's never been any self-limiting species. That's why we have
> pest control and wayward asteroids to keep the successes of
> evolution in check. If we as a species want to survive the next
> millenium we have to invest in space. No amount of birth control
> or social problem will solve the population explosion.
>
When you next look at an orange that's going mouldy, look more closely.
There are a number of colonies of microorganisms pulling off the
contract, not just one. A colony of bacteria is only capable of growing
to a certain size before it begins to kill itself off with its' own
effluent. In a very similar fashion to what we are doing to ourselves
now.
Also, man is the only species on the planet that goes in for wholesale
self-slaughter. Not even rats do that.
There are self-limiting species, alright.
They are the dumb ones.
Regards,
David.
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