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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (200102)	9/5/2012 1:47:59 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541785

That's a bit of a shift from the gas tank image ...and interesting essay Like a lot of what passes for scientific discourse, I fear professor Smail may be using a bit of statistical voo-doo to create a case that may not emerge Speaking of gross population is a bit tough to wrap ones mind around Do they all get put into a butter and then spread evenly around the planet? Or will they be subject to more regional and local economic systems, that typically self regulate such phenomena as population by the expedient of inherent limitations on resources His numbers may well bear out, but at a local level

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (200102)	9/5/2012 1:52:47 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 541785

<<Between peak oil and climate change, I'm prepared to watch about 2 billion people starve. It won't be pretty, but we have pushed the planet beyond its carrying capacity. >. I think that is in the cards. Too few have been paying attention. Sort of like a one child China.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (200102)	9/5/2012 2:37:33 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 541785

" Global Population Reduction: Confronting the Inevitable" I've been pushing that forever. All of our biggest problems stem from just having too many people on the planet, which due to ubiquitous American TV, all want to live like Americans, the most rapacious people on earth. The math just doesn't work.