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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (18068)	12/8/2007 12:46:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

C2, unfortunately for the apocryphal Mad Mullah, mere breeding doesn't guarantee conquest. Ants breed spectacularly well and are all over the world, but it's a stretch to say they rule the world. Of course they do within their own little sphere [unless an ant-eater happens upon them] but that's not what the Mad Mullah intends. He [and it's nice to be certain of gender for once] intends that they rule the human world completely. If there are 100 billion Moslems, they would still be unable to conquer China because the trek would be arduous and the soldiers at the border would cause mass extermination. They would certainly not be able to swim the Atlantic and take over the USA. Don't worry about those "sustainability" cliches [not enough people to support the retired and all that]: <I hereby issue a call for more children because the health and vigor of our Western economies and nations depends on it as only the less developed and the aggressively backward are growing or properly replacing their populations. > What's needed is not more people, but improved quality control. Which includes genetic engineering, or at least lots of genetic selection if not actual engineering. Eugenics is what's needed. To win horse races, breeders are not shy about using eugenics. To win human races, we need to get busy with eugenics too. We are busy with it [women doing quite a good job of rejecting nearly all the wayward DNA which crosses their path hoping for a piece of action in the next generation]. But we should be more busy and more scientific about it, so women can avoid having to guess so much. A LOT of bad DNA doesn't show up during normal mating rituals. Declining human populations are fine. If we end the century with only 1 billion humans, that won't be a big problem. Very few people alive now will be around then anyway, so it won't affect them. So when I write "we" I am being figurative. Mqurice