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

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (8942)	3/16/2001 6:03:05 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

To find the kind of human suffering that can really start to grow and get out of hand in so many places, because you wanted to believe in protecting and increasing industrial capacity and rely on unfettered consumer demand and expansion, seems rather an unwise position . What will cause enormous human suffering is if you succeed in stopping the increase of industrial capacity. You want to continue to risk & speculate more on the unfettered technological dreams...market expansion and not dealing with overpopulation ? Technological progress has raised the population we can support throughout human history. There is no reason to think that this is about to stop. Sure technology increases production capacity, but there are limits ... I suppose there are limits, the universe is only so big and it contains only so much energy, and you can't be more then 100% efficient (and practically you can't even reach 100%) so there is some limit, however our current level is closer to that of the primitive tribes of during the ice ages, then it is to any hard unbreachable limit. Tim