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To: Brumar89 who wrote (6732)	2/9/2004 8:58:28 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

The real long-term answer has to be a more prosperous world. Gonna take awhile to get there but its the only solution. Under present technology, and under any technology that seems likely to develop in the next century, it's not possible for the whole world to even approach our standard of prosperity. There just aren't enough natural resources or energy sources, and the impacts on the globe of six billion people using resources at our rate would be devestating. Just getting clean water to every person on the globe in quantities to have indoor plumbing on tap would be a monumental task. So it's unlikely that in our or our children's or their children's lifetimes the prosperity of the rest of the world will get to the point where there won't be at least a billion people willing and able to work for very low wages. You're right, that would be the right answer. But it would also require us to substantially lower our standard of living and our expectations. And that's not going to happen easily. We're heading for a train wreck, but it's still a ways off, and in the meanwhile the dining car is open forward, the drinks in the parlor car are on ice, and we're all happily enjoying the ride on the way to the train wreck.