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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6545)	2/26/2001 11:57:29 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

An economic Ponzi scheme? Sure sounds like it. Keep building the pyramid and everyone wins. Except the people in the last tier.

To: TimF who wrote (6545)	2/26/2001 3:56:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

A few posts back you said The limitation is not space. It is food and energy. The amount of both that can be produced is increaseing faster then the growth of the world's population. Now surely you don't believe this can be kept up indefinitely, right? Or at least not indefinitely on this planet; if a practical means of interstellar travel is found, then it's almost indefinitely. But earth has limits. If population keeps growing, at some point you hit them. We're probably already there. I doubt there are enough resources to allow our standard of living to all 6 billion humans. And do you realize how fast population is growing? World population has to be estimated; every country doesn't have reliable censuses (censii?). At the beginning of this century world population was estimated at about 1 billion; now it is 6 billion. Six times in 100 years. How long do you think you can keep that up?