Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

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>:

> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:58, David Palmer. wrote:
> [snip]
> > Until we mature enough as a species to assume the full
> > responsibility of
> 
> It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think
> it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were
> 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next
> 45 years.
  
..9B more is manageable, and easier if mankind shares its wealth.
20B more, would be a "handful" on this planet. This will not happen, 
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.

..carrying on like we do now on old fashion European combustion
technology and stolen oil, it'll peak at 8 to 12B and drop to 5 to .2B 
in the next 2 decades, or if Bush stays in power, in his next term, 
I'm guessing he and the RRR will try make their crusade nuclear, 
to avoid war crime trials and death row.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.