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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6579)	8/3/2001 9:42:19 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Good Morning Maurice, (from my perspective of course :o) Don't get too excited now. I don't necessarily ascribe a lot of credence to every link I post, but I like to digest a lot of things and then sometimes, something magic happens and a balanced opinion comes out :o), and it was on CB's topic. I was a voracious reader of science fiction in my youth, and have seen many of those marvelous future possibilities come to pass already in my lifetime. I am quite convinced of mankind's ability to further its desires (be they good or bad) save some huge natural calamity as destroyed the dinosaurs. (then again if Bruce Willis is still around for the next asteroid we may yet survive that LOL) Sometimes they are good [if the repressive policies which cut China's population is considered good]. On a case by case basis some of the participants may think it as bad as the Final Solution. (but again Jay's 'just is' fits well here). There is NO shortage of aluminium or energy I also noticed your posts on this topic on the Drillers Thread. Don't know about aluminium, but I agree on the energy issue. We will have viable alternatives long before we exhaust fossil fuels. There really is no shortage on the near term (my lifetime or my children's for that matter). Note also that the likes of Shell and Texaco are changing their posture and transforming into 'energy' companies. Imagine an integrated oil company seriously backing research into safe hydrogen storage for fuel cells ! make all of human history look boringly biologically evolutionary This has always been the case with us humans, no ? We're just getting better at it. Picture a virus that doesn't rely on mutation and multiple generations to adapt. Let's just hope there's no big inoculation coming :o) Remember the cure for 30$ oil is 30$ oil and similarly the cure for human overpopulation is human overpopulation. *There is NO limit to growth* Article in Time puts an end to the earth in about 2 billion years, but my patio's not finished yet so I can't worry about that today LOL. Have a great weekend Maurice. regards Kastel aluminium SI needs alternative English language spell checkers ! It doesn't speak Canadian either.