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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (3330)	1/13/2006 6:38:03 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 219738

Is the world missing the Dodo bird? Saber toothed tiger? No! Why not? There are no elephants in Americas and we are doing nice, thank you. There are no polar bears in S. E. Asia and last time I was there I haven't heard them complaining. There are no Camels in Russia, Canada and Scandinavia and they are not making a fuss of it. All this hoopla about a Mammoth extinct doesn't make much sense. After all extinction is part of the scrip. For all those dinossaurs that have gone look how many birds we inherited. This is a 14.5 billion years old planet. We can;t expetc to freeze the state it is. It is a dynamic body with species coming and going. We, manking, are just another species. We are successful and lest enjoy without guilty our day in the Sun. If we have to finish off ourselves, so it will be. There are stil some 5 billion years of light in the Sun's life plenty timeto get new species. For instance an elephant? a mere 100.000 year to develop. Nothing to worry about.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (3330)	1/14/2006 12:35:19 AM
From: Crabbe	Respond to of 219738

I didn't mean to insinuate that human overpopulation is not a problem. Human overpopulation as compared to Soylent Green is not a problem. Farming advances mainly in gene insertion and better crops is just beginning. Solar Energy hasn't even started as an energy source even if Walgreens is installing solar in its stores and expects to supply over 20% of its energy nees. How much energy would be produced if 15% efficient plastic solar cells were used to roof the southern exposure of every roof in America. What if solar mirror generation projects were built in remote desert regions? oOn the scale of townships not acres. Producing hydrogen from water direct just using heat. While wind is not exactly solar wind farms are nearly as cheap as other power sources and the price is dropping, places like Nebraska and Kansas can grow both wheat and have wind generation at minimal loses to farm output. (400 sf out of each couple of acres. Neither food or energy are problems for a world of 6,000,000,000 people. Nor is metal and other natural resources, recycle. Besides the population is pretty much in stasis, given more affluence it will begin a preciptous decline. As an example of an affluent population Europe will lose approximately 86,000,000 people by 2050. Marice's bird flu may well decrease the worlds population by as much as a billion people.