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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (6556)	8/3/2001 12:00:55 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

What . . . . is THAT . . . . Typeface???????? Why, oh why, oh why, do these papers use that bizzaro typeface? [Not directed at you.] It really slows my printer down. Interesting charts. Even on a log scale they are close to exponential. Don't know if you've noticed it, but here in the US we seem to have decided that we'd be better off with immigration of populations which have higher birth rates than the native population. I can't help but thinking that it's sort of slavery redux, only now we're importing Jose and Maria and their many children to take care of the geriatric baby boomers' Social Security payments.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (6556)	8/3/2001 2:07:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

nbi.dk That's a silly thing. They do the same old thing which Mucho moaned about - connect the dots from the past into the future. As China has shown with their population control over the past 20 years, spectacular things can and do happen when people decide to make them happen. Sometimes they are grotesque [Hitler's final solution]. Sometimes they are good [if the repressive policies which cut China's population is considered good]. There is NO limit to growth except that growth of some old technologies [horses for example] can't go on indefinitely. Usually, old technologies such as stone axes give way to new, not because we run out of stones, but because there are better ways of digging out a tree trunk to paddle from UK to NZ. We dig aluminium and make a Boeing 777. There is NO shortage of aluminium or energy. The universe is made of energy. Sure, humans have come to a cusp and there will be fantastic changes such as make all of human history look boringly biologically evolutionary. But that doesn't mean limits to growth. It means a paradigm shift. Paradigm shift happens. Mqurice