[fishhound]

The late comedian Sam Kinnesin used to say:
“we keep sending food to people on the desert, every year, the desert is sand, nothing grows there, it’s sand , thee’s no water, but we keep sending food there. Hey people in the desert... move! Move to where the food is .........you are living in a ....desert.”
I am parraphrasing but it still makes sense.

[djf]

Well, I don’t consider myself to be an envirowhacko.

But whether you are a socialist fanatic like Gore, or an arch conservative, we need to admit one thing.

Earth can only support some number (we don’t know that number yet) of people.

Even if we could grow an unlimited supply of food, soon we would be up to our eyeballs in chit, and that’s not a very exciting proposition.

We’ve been lucky (and intelligent) so far. And I hate social engineering as much as the next guy. But we are getting to the point that we HAVE to answer some serious questions about the future.

And they are hard questions.

[Myrddin]

GMTA. I didn't read far enough into the thread.