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To: Ilaine who wrote (56066)	11/17/2004 1:40:35 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Respond to of 74559

Speaking of the Club of Rome, they actually did in the 60ies. No food for the next generation. We are two generatons further now, still worried about the same question.LOL. But, IMHO, we shouldn't push our luck too hard and start managing our Earth as a normal household. Normal = without credit cards. <g>

To: Ilaine who wrote (56066)	11/17/2004 6:14:47 PM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I agree. While I think we could probably use resources more efficiently we have to be wary of the fearmongers who would like the earth's resources kept intact like something to look at instead of using them to improve humanity's quality of life.

To: Ilaine who wrote (56066)	11/20/2004 3:10:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Hi CB. <people have been predicting that the world will run out of natural resources "soon" for as long as I've been able to read. But for some strange reason, they have to keep recalculating the date for "soon.".;^)> They have to recalculate because they don't include 6 billion kilograms of grey matter which is a huge resource, regenerating and improving rapidly with turbo-assist from Google, Skype, other stuff, and a billion web nodes. There's no shortage of energy, iron, carbon or anything else. We can fiddle with it and produce what we like. We need less and less to do more and more and there are many ways to do things. For example, to move, we don't all need dirty great SUVs burning a gallon a mile. Clever little personal transporters, superconductor magnetically levitated and propelled with electronic and photonic guidance systems would mean low transport costs, no traffic jams and not even a need to pay attention to the vehicle's movement. One could cerf cyberspace while 'driving', which would actually be flying. Mqurice