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

To: Neocon who wrote (60486)	10/1/2002 3:04:27 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Most of those things I enjoy and appreciate because I have always had them. Of course, with each generation that list changes. Kids today will ask "how do you think it would feel not to have a computer in your bedroom?" Well, of course, you and I didn't when we were growing up, and I had a very happy childhood -- happier, I think, than many of today's kids. When the life expectancy of the whole world was 50, that was the norm, and nobody worried about it. I two hundred years, it may be that people will ask "how do you think it would be not to fear death at 200?" So it's always a moving target. But you still haven't answered my key questions. If all 6 billion people in the world had life expectancies of 80 or 85 or 90 or 95, how would the globe cope?