Posted on 08/12/2010 3:05:50 PM PDT by B-Chan
Ever been to Seoul? I have. People live there pretty well.
It's crowded, yes. But the landmass of the earth is very very large. And most of it is empty for miles. Hundreds and thousands of miles.
I take it you don't like math.
The earth and all that was on it was given to us to husband and steward. If we do that well, terra could support over 100 times the population we have now.
Be fruitful. Multiply.
/johnny
Guy completely missed biotech ... hell look at food production 1950 to 2010 .... THAT will astound anyone if they think about it.
And the remaining land was left to farming, ranching, resource development and millions of acres of wildlife refuge.
If the Africans and the Indians are too damned poor to look after their lions and tigers and elephants, then why can't we?
And the liberals stupid enough to go into the refuge without the proper armaments would be duly recycled into the environment.
Win win.
I don't agree with your first sentence. To Watson, his prediction may have been logical, but he was totally wrong about the future of computing.
My point in telling this anecdote was that foretelling the future is fraught with folly, yet humans insist on littering half the news with speculation and predictions, most of which are utter garbage. (a) Why do we continue to do this? (b)Why do we believe these pundits and prophets? Probably the lure of fame, power or money....I can't see much else that would breed this behaviour or our willingness to listen.
Repeat after me....nobody knows what
Magazine died in the 80s.
That's only 40 people per acre. You could easily build small apartment buildings or condos to hold 40 on an acre with room to spare. Or put 80 per acre and leave an acre lot between, checkerboard style.
nobody knows what
Not much food, B-Chan. Sounds like an essay of a sophomore who got a B- for his work.
Taki needn't worry. If Obama gets his way (G-d forbid!) we'll all be living in caves soon enough.
"Conservative" and "Conservation" spring from the same Latin root: the Latin conservare, which means to actively preserve. I am not an environmentalist. I, like most of the conservatives of the past, believe that the natural environment is to be preserved and managed for the use of humans and for its own sake. This does not mean letting little kids die from malaria because DDT kills baby birds; it does mean using our reason and planning our cities and towns instead of just bulldozing the hell out of everything and paving it over.
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