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To: arun gera who wrote (68103)	8/26/2005 11:06:33 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Arun, Re: "empathy" As long as all the leadership in India and many other nations have the easy option of just dumping all their problems on the rest of the world then there will NEVER be any internal reform to improve the life of your people in India. Your elites there want to keep things in the state of semi-disaster to keep wages low and allow them to have many servants and to maintain the upper class high style of living. If poverty couldn't simply be exported to other places a revolution would result and reforms would occur, with the masses of the Indian people benefitting. As long as the present state of affairs is allowed to continue there is no incentive to reform your country. Slagle

To: arun gera who wrote (68103)	8/26/2005 3:39:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<>And places like the USA are the most at risk from such a deluge. For the most part India is already "full" and this tends to limit in bound migration.> What about 25 million people being added every year? More than the population of Australia. And what about the shift from rural to urban areas? That shift has already migrated over 100 million in one generation. > During our 1999 jaunt around southern India, I saw vast tracts of more or less empty land which could fit in another billion or three. Or course that wasn't empty land in the sense that nothing was happening there. It was used for crops and forests or something and there were always a few people here and there. But food can be grown easily and there's no shortage of food-growing locations. Europe used to pay people not to grow food and perhaps still does and the USA does similar stuff, or did. India is very far from full, though some of the trains I saw were heavily over-loaded and a few more trains on the lines would be convenient. These would best be superconductor levitated and magnetically propelled, electronically and photonically controlled individual transport vehicles travelling in semi vacuum tubes with photovoltaic panels on top, moving at something like 1000 kph with regenerative braking, running like spaghetti in 3D systems around Mumbai, to Bangalore, Cochin, Beijing and London. Mqurice